Chemical engineering topic list of research papers
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A Pilot-Scale Study of Waste Vegetable Oil Transesterification with Alkaline and Acidic Catalysts
Abstract Biodiesel is a renewable diesel fuel produced from fats and oils. Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) is an important feedstock for biofuel production. WVOs availability as wastes from restaurants, workplace canteens and residential users and their...
2014 / Maurizio Carlini, Sonia Castellucci, Silvia Cocchi -
Novel Solvent–gas Contactor for CO2 Capture Cost Reductions
Abstract In order to reduce costs associated with CO2 capture from coal-fired utilities, further development is needed. Solvents suffer from high costs for supply and high energy needs for regeneration. The Neumann Systems Group technology is a...
2013 / B.M. Pavlish, J.J. Stanislowski, N.J. Fiala, J.P. Kay -
Investigating the potential for a self-sustaining slow pyrolysis system under varying operating conditions
Abstract This work aimed to investigate the impact of highest treatment temperature (HTT), heating rate, carrier gas flow rate and feedstock on the composition and energy content of pyrolysis gas to assess whether a self-sustained system could be...
2014 / Kyle Crombie, Ondřej Mašek -
Experimental Study on the Influence of Initial Pressure on Explosion of Methane-coal Dust Mixtures
Abstract Methane-coal dust explosion belongs to chemical explosion which always directly causes fire disasters. When it comes to coal mine, the gas explosion easily leads to extensive burning and forms large area stereo fire finally, due to the big...
2013 / Yuan Li, Hongli Xu, Xishi Wang -
Design Parameters Affecting the Commercial Post Combustion CO2 Capture Plants
Abstract A comprehensive design exercise for a 4,500 TPD CO2 capture plant is conducted based on coal flue gas streams at three recovery rates ranging between 80% and 90%. Three solvents (30wt% MEA, HTC formulated solvents RS-2™ and RS-1210) and...
2013 / Ahmed Aboudheir, Walid Elmoudir -
Double-diffusive natural convection and entropy generation in an enclosure of aspect ratio 4 with partial vertical heating and salting sources
Abstract Double-diffusive natural convection with entropy generation in a two-dimensional enclosure with partial vertical heating and salting sources for an aspect ratio Ar=4 is investigated in the current study. A numerical methodology based on the ...
2013 / Fakher Oueslati, Brahim Ben-Beya, Taieb Lili -
Effects of Temperature, Pressure, Preheating Time and Pressing Time on Rubber Seed Oil Extraction Using Hydraulic Press
Abstract Rubber seeds are side products of rubber trees. Rubber seeds contain 40-50% non-edible oil that can be used as industrial materials to produce variety of products such as linoleum, lubricant, cutting oil, alkyd resin, biodiesel, etc. To...
2014 / Herry Santoso, Iryanto, Maria Inggrid -
Biofuel Production in Ireland—An Approach to 2020 Targets with a Focus on Algal Biomass2013 / Fionnuala Murphy, Ger Devlin, Rory Deverell, Kevin McDonnell
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Solar Light Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction: General Considerations and Selected Bench-Mark Photocatalysts2014 / Ștefan Neațu, Juan Maciá-Agulló, Hermenegildo Garcia
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An Investigation of Biodiesel Production from Wastes of Seafood Restaurants2014 / Nour Sh. El-Gendy, A. Hamdy, Salem S. Abu Amr
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Study on Flow Instability Inside Multiple Parallel Pipes of Direct Steam Generation
Abstract Flow instability in parallel pipes is closely related with the application of direct steam generation (DSG) for parabolic trough solar power technology. Maldistribution of the flow rate may occur in heated parallel pipes with common inlet...
2015 / J. Zhou, S. Wang, L. Gao, L. Zhao, L. Pang -
Evaluating CO2 Capture Technologies for Retrofit in Cement Plant
Abstract The retrofitting of two different CO2 capture technologies to an existing cement plant has been evaluated technically. The two technologies considered are amine based post-combustion and oxy-combustion. These two technologies are chosen...
2014 / Anette Mathisen, Maria M. Skinnemoen, Lars O. Nord -
TiO 2 / SiO 2 Composite Films Immobilized on Foam Nickel Substrate for the Photocatalytic Degradation of Gaseous Acetaldehyde2008 / Hai Hu, Wenjun Xiao, Jian Yuan, Jianwei Shi, Wenfeng Shangguan
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Application of Different Extraction Methods for Investigation of Nonmetallic Inclusions and Clusters in Steels and Alloys2014 / Diana Janis, Ryo Inoue, Andrey Karasev, Pär G. Jönsson
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Study and Evaluation of Innovative Fuel Handling Systems for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors: Fuel Handling Route Optimization2014 / Franck Dechelette, Franck Morin, Guy Laffont, Gilles Rodriguez, Emmanuel Sanseigne, et al.
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Numerical Simulation and Experimental Research on Coal Ash Collecting and Grading System2014 / Yuanhua Xie, Xianjin Li, Liwei Wang, Hong Yu, Bing Bai, et al.
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Dielectric Relaxation Studies of 2-Butoxyethanol with Aniline and Substituted Anilines Using Time Domain Reflectometry2014 / P. Jeevanandham, S. Kumar, P. Periyasamy, A. C. Kumbharkhane
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Phytoremediation Potential of Vetiver System Technology for Improving the Quality of Palm Oil Mill Effluent2014 / Negisa Darajeh, Azni Idris, Paul Truong, Astimar Abdul Aziz, Rosenani Abu Bakar, et al.
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Characteristics, Process Parameters, and Inner Components of Anaerobic Bioreactors2014 / Awad Abdelgadir, Xiaoguang Chen, Jianshe Liu, Xuehui Xie, Jian Zhang, et al.
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Visualization by PIV of dynamic stall on a vertical axis wind turbine2008 / Carlos Simão Ferreira, Gijs van Kuik, Gerard van Bussel, Fulvio Scarano