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Sebastian Hagel and Fokko Schütt
Locally sourced agricultural residues are a promising feedstock for the production of reinforcement fibers for wastepaper-based packaging papers. An eco-friendly high yield process to generate fibers from wheat straw using high pressure steam and sodium ...
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Lorenzo Tieghi, Giovanni Delibra, Johan van der Spuy and Alessandro Corsini
Air-cooled condensers (ACCs) are commonly found in power plants working with concentrated solar power or in steam power plants operated in regions with limited water availability. In ACCs, the flow of air is driven toward the heat exchangers by axial fan...
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Daekun Kim
To reduce air pollution worldwide, regulations on exhaust gas emissions from ships are becoming increasingly stringent. One fuel that is being considered as an alternative to replace the heavy fuel oil used in existing ship engines and thereby reduce har...
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Naotaka Itano, So Yoon Lee and Ai Serizawa
Al alloys possess excellent physical and mechanical properties, such as low density, high specific strength, and good ductility. However, their low corrosion resistance limits their use in corrosive environments. The steam coating process has attracted c...
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Peyman Alizadeh, Tim Dumonceaux, Lope G. Tabil, Edmund Mupondwa, Majid Soleimani and Duncan Cree
The current study explores steam explosion pre-treatment of wood sawdust to develop high-quality biofuel pellets. In order to determine optimized conditions (temperature and residence time) for steam-treated biomass, seven test responses were chosen, inc...
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Arne Seitz, Markus Nickl, Florian Troeltsch and Kathrin Ebner
A fuel cell?gas turbine hybrid propulsion concept is introduced and initially assessed. The concept uses the water mass flow produced by a hydrogen fuel cell in order to improve the efficiency and power output of the gas turbine engine through burner ste...
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Zhigang Wu, Xue Deng, Lifen Li, Xuedong Xi, Meifen Tian, Liping Yu and Bengang Zhang
Understanding the interfacial changes of wood during heat treatment can facilitate the improvement of the bonding and coating processes of heat-treated wood. Steam was used as the medium to modify Pinus massoniana wood through heat treatment at 160, 180,...
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Yong-Beom Lee, Ji-Min Lee, Do-Haeng Hur, Jong-Hyeon Lee and Soon-Hyeok Jeon
Ethanolamine (ETA) is widely used to control the pH value in the secondary water of pressurized water reactors. However, it is necessary to consider other advanced amines which can replace ETA due to its serious human hazards and environmental treatment ...
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Fokion Kaldis, Denise Cysneiros, James Day, Kimon-Andreas G. Karatzas and Afroditi Chatzifragkou
Wheat straw (WS) is considered a favourable substrate for biogas production. However, due to its rigid structure and high carbon to nitrogen (C/N ratio), its biodegradability during anaerobic digestion (AD) is usually low. In the present study, the effec...
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Hugo Sakamoto, Flávia M. Ronquim, Marcelo Martins Seckler and Luiz Kulay
This study aims to evaluate the environmental and energy effects of the reuse of 1.0 m³ of water in a cooling tower obtained from an oil refinery effluent. An arrangement comprising reverse osmosis (RO), evaporation (EV), and crystallization (CR) wa...
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