Earth and related environmental sciences topic list of research papers
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HyUnder – Hydrogen Underground Storage at Large Scale: Case Study Spain
Abstract Hydrogen as an energy carrier is understood as a system capable of storing energy for a later use in a controlled manner. Surplus electricity from renewable energy serves for green hydrogen generation via electrolysis. Once produced, the...
2015 / J. Simon, A.M. Ferriz, L.C. Correas -
Energy loss minimization through peak shaving using energy storage
Summary This paper presents an optimal placement methodology of energy storage to improve energy loss minimization through peak shaving in the presence of renewable distributed generation. Storage sizing is modelled by considering the load profile...
2016 / Vaiju Kalkhambkar, Rajesh Kumar, Rohit Bhakar -
Evaluation of a membrane biological reactor for reclaiming water, alkalinity, salts, phosphorus, and protein contained in a high-strength aquacultural wastewater
Abstract The capacity of a membrane biological reactor to provide nitrification, denitrification, and enhanced biological phosphorus removal of a high-strength aquaculture backwash flow (control condition), or the same flow amended with 100mg/L of...
2010 / Mark J. Sharrer, Kata Rishel, Steven T. Summerfelt -
An overview of the Wabamun Area CO2 Sequestration Project (WASP)
Abstract Large stationary CO2 emitters are located in central Alberta with cumulative annual emissions in the order of 30 Mt CO2. This includes four coal-fired power plants in the Wabamun Lake area, southwest of Edmonton with emissions between 3 to...
2009 / David Keith, Rob Lavoie -
Potential of a Hybrid Wind-Diesel-Compressed air system for Nordic Remote Canadian Areas
Abstract In Canada, off-grid power production is significant, with more than 200,000 people living in about 300 remote communities scattered across Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and other islands. Most of these isolated sites rely on...
2011 / H. Ibrahim, R. Younès, A. Ilinca, D. Ramdenee, M. Dimitrova, et al. -
Integration and findings from the EU-China COACH project
Abstract The COACH project was an EU-China collaboration funded by the EU’s FP7 R&D programme to assess the potential for a CCS demonstration project in China. The Jing-Jin-Ji Region of North-Eastern China is a major...
2011 / Tony Espie, Juitian Zhang -
Storage Capacity Assessment in Japan: Comparative Evaluation of CO2 aquifer storage capacities across regions
Abstract To construct an investigation guideline, RITE estimated storage capacities of CO2 in deep saline aquifers in sedimentary rocks inland and offshore Japan. This paper proposes a method to quantitatively and qualitatively assess geological...
2009 / Toyokazu Ogawa, Takumi Shidahara, Shigetaka Nakanishi, Takashi Yamamoto, Kazuyuki Yoneyama, et al. -
Atmospheric chemistry of 2-aminoethanol (MEA)
Abstract The atmospheric photo-oxidation of 2-aminoethanol (MEA, NH2CH2CH2OH) was studied at the European Photochemical Reactor, EUPHORE, in Valencia (Spain). The experiments were carried out under different atmospherically relevant NOx conditions....
2011 / Claus Jørgen Nielsen, Barbara D’Anna, Christian Dye, Martin Graus, Matthias Karl, et al. -
The EU Geocapacity Project—Saline aquifers storage capacity in Group South countries
Abstract The EU Geocapacity Project aims to obtain an estimation of the potential capacity of CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers, depleted hydrocarbon fields and coal beds in Europe. Prior to this project, the availability of data to calculate the...
2009 / R. Martínez, I. Suárez, M.A. Zapatero, B. Saftic, I. Kolenkovic, et al. -
Seismic Monitoring and Verification for the CO2CRC Otway Basin Project, Part 2: acquisition and analysis of borehole seismic data
Abstract The Otway Project conducted under the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) is the first of its kind, where CO2 is injected into a depleted gas reservoir. The use of depleted fields for CO2 storage...
2009 / M. Urosevic, A.J. Campbell, L. Dahlhaus, A. Gendrin, W.S. Leaney, et al. -
The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership: developing CO2 sequestration opportunities for the central interior of North America
Abstract The Plains CO2 (PCOR) Reduction Partnership is demonstrating the efficacy of CO2 sequestration in the central interior of North America through regional characterization and multiple validation and demonstration activities. Four CO2...
2009 / Edward N. Steadman, Wesley D. Peck, Steven A. Smith, James A. Sorensen, Barry W. Botnen, et al. -
Analytical models for determining pressure change in an overlying aquifer due to leakage
Abstract Various methodologies are proposed to reduce CO2 emissions that are believed to be the main drivers of the climate change. CO2 capture and storage in deep underground formations is one of the promising methods that allow reducing the...
2011 / Mehdi Zeidouni, Mehran Pooladi-Darvish, David W. Keith -
Carbon dioxide microbubble injection–Enhanced dissolution in geological sequestration
Abstract CO2 microbubble injection is a novel technology for geological sequestration. Currently most of CO2 geological sequestration projects are focused on large-scale emission sources, while there is a practical need to inject CO2 from small- to...
2011 / Ziqiu Xue, Tatsuya Yamada, Toshifumi Matsuoka, Hiromichi Kameyama, Susumu Nishio -
Study on Mitigation Strategies of Methane Emission from Rice Paddies in the Implementation of Ecological Agriculture
Abstract Mitigation of methane emission plays a very important role in carbon mitigation. A model which simulates the whole process of methane emissions can be developed based on research on the methane emission mechanism. According to this model,...
2011 / ZHAO Xiaohong, He Jia, CAO Junxin -
IODP Expedition 317: Exploring the Record of Sea-Level Change off New Zealand2011 / Craig.S. Fulthorpe, Koichi Hoyanagi, Peter Blum
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PMK-2, the First Integral Thermal-Hydraulics Tests for the Safety Evaluation of VVER-440/213 Nuclear Power Plants2011 / Gy. Ézsöl, L. Perneczky, L. Szabados, I. Tóth
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Phanerozoic environments of black shale deposition and the Wilson Cycle2012 / J. Trabucho-Alexandre, W. W. Hay, P. L. de Boer
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Volcanic ash detection and retrievals using MODIS data by means of neural networks2011 / M. Picchiani, M. Chini, S. Corradini, L. Merucci, P. Sellitto, et al.
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Detection of Non-Amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genomic DNA Using Piezoelectric DNA-Based Biosensors2010 / Thongchai Kaewphinit, Somchai Santiwatanakul, Chamras Promptmas, Kosum Chansiri
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Eddy covariance flux measurements of ammonia by high temperature chemical ionisation mass spectrometry2011 / J. Sintermann, C. Spirig, A. Jordan, U. Kuhn, C. Ammann, et al.