Due to increasing demands for fossil fuels in recent years, Taiwan needs alternative energy to diversify its energy supply. In this regards, renewable energy such as landfill gas (LFG) has become o...

Sustainable development was defined by the Brundtland Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (United Nations, 1987, p. 43) as "meet[ing] the needs of the present without comp...

Origin of Coalbed MethaneCoalbed methane (CBM), or coalbed natural gas, is an unconventional natural gas in coal that formed as: (1) thermogenic gas in high rank coals (bituminous to anthracite) th...

Energy Efficiency and Management in Processing Facilities Moderator: Lijun Wang, Ph.D., P.E., C.E.M.Processing facilities in the food, chemical and energy industries are usually energy-intensive. E...

Renewable Energy Systems and ModelsThis Topic page provides information on:- Energy System Analysis tools for the design of Renewable Energy Systems- Studies of large-scale integration of fluctuati...

The Fluidized State and Its Early Application When a gas or a liquid passes upward through a packed bed of granular particles, its motion creates friction against the particles, tending to lift the...

A membrane reactor is a device that combines a membrane and a chemical reactor, i.e. combines in a single piece of equipment what usually is made in the industry in two different pieces. This combi...

The origin and continuation of mankind is based on water. Water is one of the most abundant resources on earth, covering three???fourths of the planet's surface. However, about ninety- seven percen...

Artificial intelligence systems are widely accepted as a technology offering an alternative way to tackle complex and ill-defined problems. They can learn from examples, are fault tolerant in the s...

One of the most important aspects in developing fuel cell design is computational modelling concept which makes possible to investigate complex geometries and different situations by consuming less...

Solar energy collectors are special kind of heat exchangers that transform solar radiation energy to internal energy of the transport medium. The major component of any solar system is the solar co...

One of the key concerns in the safe disposal of high level nuclear waste is the possibility for radionuclides to leach out of a waste form, breach the repositories multi-barrier system and enter th...

The proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is one today's most promising clean energy technologies in the search to overcome both the energy reserve crisis and environmental pollution. PEMFC te...

The social cost of carbon is the damage done by emitting an additional unit of carbon dioxide. It is typically expressed in US dollar per metric tonne of carbon. If the social cost of carbon is eva...

Ventilation and indoor air quality Abdeen Mustafa Omer 17 Juniper Court, Forest Road West, Nottingham NG7 4EU, UKAbstract: The move towards a de-carbonised world, driven partly by climate science a...

Sodium tetrahydroborate (borohydride) NaBH4 is a common, well known chemical because very largely used as reducing agent in e.g. organic chemistry. It has been discovered in the 1950s and one of it...

Bioeconomics and sustainable development is a title that covers the interactions of the natural environment with the economic process under the target of sustainable development. The concept of the...

Today, although energy demand forecasting is one of the most common policy tools used by the decision makers around the world, the ratio of energy production to consumption (RPC) becomes a more imp...

The potential theory has been long developed to solve problems related to gravitational force excerted on one mass by another as well as the magnetoelectric field induced by distributive electric c...

Definitions. According to the American biodiesel standard ASTM D6751, biodiesel "is a fuel comprised of mono???alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or animal fats, des...

A heat exchanger is usually referred to as a micro heat exchanger (??HX) if the smallest dimension of the channels is at the micrometer scale, for example from 10 ??m to 1 mm. Beside the channel si...

The application of fuel cells to portable electronics is mainly for provision of an uninterrupted power source with a high energy density for today's power-hungry portable electronics in order to r...

The problem of storing hydrogen safely and effectively is one of the major technological barriers currently preventing the widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier and the subsequent tr...

Biodiesel is an alternative renewable source for diesel substitution, it is produce by transesterification of vegetable oils or animal fats with an alcohol (normally methanol) in the presence of a ...

Hydrogen gas is a high energy ( 122 KJ/g) clean fuel which can be used for many different purposes. Hydrogen can be produced by steam reforming of hydrocarbons and coal gasification. Hydrogen produ...

Coal petrology (or coal petrography) is the study of the organic and inorganic constituents of coal and their transformation via metamorphism. Coal petrology is applied to the studies of the deposi...

Power generation from hydro resource is said to have huge potential; both at mega and small level. The layout of hydro power plant is site specific, thus constituting hydraulic structures and mecha...

The free-piston engine is a linear, 'crankless' combustion engine, in which the piston motion is not controlled by a crankshaft but is a result of the interaction of forces from the combustion cyli...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) based force measurements can be applied biophysically and clinically to the field of molecular recognition as well as to the evaluation of dynamic parameters (e.g., un...

In the literature, several methods are being used to evaluate the contribution of wind energy conversion systems in a broader power-generating system. However, not all of them guarantee accurate re...

The main research lines concentrate in the following aspects:Modeling and simulation of: Bubbling fluidized bedsCirculating fluidized bedsUpdraft moving bedsDowndraft moving bedApplication of above...

Some of the disadvantages of adsorption refrigeration such as long adsorption-desorption time and small refrigeration capacity per unit mass of adsorbent have become obstacles in its ability to com...