Chemical engineering topic list of research papers
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Chemisorption power generation driven by low grade heat – Theoretical analysis and comparison with pumpless ORC
Abstract Sorption cycles have been extensively developed for waste heat recovery to deliver cooling, heating, and electricity. Chemisorption cycles using metallic salts as sorbents and ammonia as working fluid have been explored in this work for the ...
2016 / Huashan Bao, Zhiwei Ma, Anthony Paul Roskilly -
Effect of Thickener Particle Geometry and Concentration on the Grease EHL Film Thickness at Medium Speeds2016 / F. Cyriac, P. M. Lugt, R. Bosman, C. J. Padberg, C. H. Venner
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Analysis of thin film flow over a vertical oscillating belt with a second grade fluid
Abstract An analysis is performed to study the unsteady thin film flow of a second grade fluid over a vertical oscillating belt. The governing equation for velocity field with appropriate boundary conditions is solved analytically using Adomian...
2015 / Taza Gul, Saeed Islam, Rehan Ali Shah, Ilyas Khan, Sharidan Shafie, et al. -
Phycoremediation of Wastewater: Heavy Metal and Nutrient Removal Processes2015 / Anna Kwarciak-Kozłowska, Lucyna Sławik-Dembiczak, Bartłomiej Bańka
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Computational fluid dynamics modelling of biomass fast pyrolysis in fluidised bed reactors, focusing different kinetic schemes
Abstract The present work concerns with CFD modelling of biomass fast pyrolysis in a fluidised bed reactor. Initially, a study was conducted to understand the hydrodynamics of the fluidised bed reactor by investigating the particle density and size, ...
2016 / Panneerselvam Ranganathan, Sai Gu -
Design and Preliminary Operation of a Gasification Plant for Micro-CHP with Internal Combustion Engine and SOFC
Abstract A gasification plant was designed and built to test syngas production from biomass for electricity generation on microscale. The plant is mainly composed by a downdraft reactor, a gas cleaning section with a cyclone and a wet scrubber, a...
2015 / N. Moriconi, P. Laranci, M. D’Amico, P. Bartocci, B. D’Alessandro, et al. -
Char Oxidation of Torrefied Biomass at High Temperatures and High Heating Rates
Abstract The char oxidation of a torrefied biomass and its parent material was carried out in an isothermal plug flow reactor (IPFR), which is able to rapidly heat the biomass particles to a maximum temperature of 1400°C at a heating rate of 104 ...
2015 / Jun Li, Giorgio Bonvicini, Xiaolei Zhang, Weihong Yang, Leonardo Tognotti -
Performance of a vertical subsurface flow constructed wetland under different operational conditions
Abstract The performance of a vertical subsurface flow constructed wetland (VSSFCW) for sewage effluent treatment was studied in an eight month experiment under different operational conditions including: vegetation (the presence or absence of...
2015 / Sara G. Abdelhakeem, Samir A. Aboulroos, Mohamed M. Kamel -
Influence of MEA and piperazine additives on the desulfurization ability of MDEA aqueous for natural gas purification2016 / Shi Yunhai, Liang Shan, Li Wei, Luo Dong, Gatabazi Remy, et al.
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Melting heat transfer effects on stagnation point flow of micropolar fluid with variable dynamic viscosity and thermal conductivity at constant vortex viscosity
Abstract The two dimensional boundary layer flow of micropolar fluid towards stagnation point formed on a horizontal linearly stretching surface is investigated. Melting heat transfer at the surface, temperature and exponentially space dependent...
2015 / Sunday Kolawole Adegbie, Olubode Kolade Kọrikọ, Isaac Lare Animasaun -
Numerical Study of the Effects of Reflector on Performances of a MILD Furnace with Forward Flow Configuration
Abstract Two dimensional numerical simulations were conducted to study the performances of a mild furnace with forward flow configuration. A reflector for application in the furnace was proposed to reduce the CO and H2 emissions due to incomplete...
2015 / Bo Liu, Yuan-Hua Wang, Hong Xu -
Chemically reacting micropolar fluid flow and heat transfer between expanding or contracting walls with ion slip, Soret and Dufour effects
Abstract The aim of the present study is to investigate the Hall and ion slip currents on an incompressible free convective flow, heat and mass transfer of a micropolar fluid in a porous medium between expanding or contracting walls with chemical...
2016 / Odelu Ojjela, N. Naresh Kumar -
A Review of Life Cycle of Ethanol Produced from Biosyngas2013 / Poritosh Roy, Animesh Dutta
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Experimental Study on the Performance of RT 25 to be Used as Ambient Energy Storage
Abstract The proposed experimental work intends to analyse the thermal performance of a TES unit incorporated into a ventilation system under different working conditions. The influences of the air inlet temperature and velocity on the air outlet...
2015 / Muriel Iten, Shuli Liu -
Effect of radiator position and mass flux on the dryer room heat transfer rate
Abstract A room radiator as usually used in cold countries, is actually able to be used as a heat source to dry goods, especially in the rainy season where the sun seldom shines due to much rain and cloud. Experiments to investigate effects of...
2016 / M. Mirmanto, E.D. Sulistyowati, I.D.K. Okariawan -
On the Development of an Efficient Regenerative Compressor
Abstract Regenerative compressors are attractive machines used in several industrial processes. Their main characteristic is the highly three-dimensional development of the flow. Consequently, usual approach for axial or centrifugal compressors...
2015 / D. Griffini, S. Salvadori, M. Carnevale, A. Cappelletti, L. Ottanelli, et al. -
Effect of Turbulence and Roughness on Coupled Porous-Medium/Free-Flow Exchange Processes2016 / Thomas Fetzer, Kathleen M. Smits, Rainer Helmig
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Experimental investigation of the impact of elastic turbulence on heat transfer in a serpentine channel
Abstract The characteristics of convective heat transfer and fluid flow within a square cross-section serpentine channel are experimentally studied for two groups of polymeric viscoelastic fluids, shear-thinning and constant-viscosity Boger...
2016 / Waleed M. Abed, Richard D. Whalley, David J.C. Dennis, Robert J. Poole -
Sugarcane straw as a feedstock for xylitol production by Candida guilliermondii FTI 200372016 / Andrés Felipe Hernández-Pérez, Priscila Vaz de Arruda, Maria das Graças de Almeida Felipe
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Study of the Turbulent Flow Structure around a Standard Rushton Impeller2014 / Bohuš Kysela, Jiří Konfršt, Ivan Fořt, Michal Kotek, Zdeněk Chára