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Integrated water resource management through water reuse network design for clean production technology: State of the art
This article considers new and existing technologies for water reuse networks for water and wastewater minimization. For the systematic design of water reuse networks, the theory of the water pinch methodology...
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Development of a new automatic system for fault tree analysis for chemical process industries
The main purpose of this study was to develop a computer automated tool for fault tree analysis (FTA) in order to minimize the flaws of manual FTA. The automated FTA system developed in this study consists of ...
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Development of a risk assessment program for chemical terrorism
The study focuses on assessing the security risk of the terrorism in the chemical industry. This research modifies conventional risk assessment methods for including terrorism and sabotage scenarios. The objec...
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Effect of hydrogen partial pressure on a polymer electrolyte fuel cell performance
We first investigated the effect of partial pressure of hydrogen (H2) on the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) by controlling the ratio of hydrogen and nitrogen (N2). The cell performance with...
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An optimization-based planning of investment strategies for a renewable energy supply system from biomass utilization
A strategic investment plan to establish renewable energy source (RES) systems plays an important role in various decision-making processes, from a stakeholder in business purposes to a policy maker for public...
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Feasibility study and benefit analysis of biomass-derived energy production strategies with a MILP (mixed-integer linear programming) model: Application to Jeju Island, Korea
We developed a new approach to analyze the feasibility and benefits of biomass utilization strategies for energy production. To achieve this goal, we first generated a biomass-to-energy network which consists ...
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Techno-economic evaluation of gas separation processes for long-term operation of CO2 injected enhanced coalbed methane (ECBM)
Energy source diversification through development of coalbed methane (CBM) resources is one of the key strategies to make a country less dependent on simple energy resources (e.g., crude oil, natural gas, nucl...
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Quantitative risk assessment of an amine-based CO2 capture process
This study presents a risk assessment study on an amine-based CO2 capture process. Based on the critical risks identified by a hazard and operability study (HAZOP) conducted in our previous work, we performed det...