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Process Design and Economic Assessment of Biomass-Based Hydrogen Production Processes
The development of hydrogen energy is in progress as one of the key paths for achieving net-zero and carbon–neutral society. Significant attention is currently being paid to pathways for biomass-based hydrogen...
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Process Integration and Design of Amino Acid Purification Processes for Energy Savings: An Industrial Case Study
Energy minimization study is applied to an amino acids downstream process for L-methionine production currently in operation and energy-saving options that can be implemented in practice are systematically ide...
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Analytic Method for the Design and Analysis of Geothermal Energy-Integrated Space Heating and Cooling Systems
Novel analytic modeling and design method is proposed for the analysis of geothermal-integrated energy systems which provide space heating and cooling. Rather than building a complex optimization framework, an...
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Process modeling and design of reverse osmosis membrane system for seawater desalination
Reverse osmosis desalination membranes can be utilized to purify seawater creating clean water. To meet purity requirements multiple membrane modules are typically required and the configuration should be chos...
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Influence of the sorption pressure and K2CO3 loading of a MgO-based sorbent for application to the SEWGS process
MgO-based sorbents were prepared by impregnation with K2CO3 at different loadings. This study examined the CO2 absorption and regeneration properties of MgO-based sorbents at various pressures. The CO2 capture ca...
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Graphene/carbon nanotubes-supported Ziegler-Natta catalysts for in situ synthesis of mechanically strong, thermally and electrically conductive trans-polyisoprene nanocomposite
Facile ball milling process is introduced here to prepare an efficient rGO/CNT/MgCl2 supported Ti-based Ziegler-Natta catalyst, for in situ polymerization of isoprene and simultaneous production of rGO/CNT based ...
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A design procedure for heat-integrated distillation column sequencing of natural gas liquid fractionation processes
The separation of NGL (natural gas liquids) in gas processing is energy-intensive, requiring systematic process design and optimization to reduce energy consumption and to identify cost-effective solutions for...
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Design of a dividing wall column for fractionation of biodiesel
This study presents an efficient design method for DWC which can fractionate palm methyl esters (PME, biodiesel) into three more valuable product groups: a mixture of methyl laurate and methyl myristate as lig...
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A real-time model based on least squares support vector machines and output bias update for the prediction of NO x emission from coal-fired power plant
The accurate and reliable real-time estimation of NOx emission is indispensable for the implementation of successful control and optimization of NOx emission from a coal-fired power plant. We apply a real-time...
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Analysis of hybrid membrane and chemical absorption systems for CO2 capture
Amine-based absorption of CO2 is currently the industry standard technology for capturing CO2 emitted from power plants, refineries and other large chemical plants. However, more recently there have been a number...
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Formation of bio-based elastomer from styrene-butadiene copolymer and epoxidized soybean oil
Styrene-butadiene copolymers and epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) were used to synthesize bio-elastomers. The reaction occurred via a living anionic polymerization using n-butyllithium as initiator and cyclohexane as...
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Design and optimization of industrial power systems for natural gas processing
This paper presents a novel design methodology for power systems. A superstructure-based modelling technique has been applied to identify the cost-effective match between available power generation equipment a...
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Measuring mercury ion concentration with a carbon nano tube paste electrode using the cyclic voltammetry method
A simply prepared carbon nano tube paste electrode (CNTPE) was utilized for monitoring mercury ion concentration using the cyclic voltammetry (CV) method and the square wave anodic strip** voltammetric (SWAS...
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Selective oxidation of H2S to ammonium thiosulfate and elemental sulfur using mixtures of V-Bi-O and Sb2O4
The selective oxidation of hydrogen sulfide in the presence of excess water and ammonia was investigated by using vanadium-bismuth based mixed oxide catalysts. Synergistic effect on catalytic activity was obse...