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Xiangzheng Deng, Jianzhi Han and Fang Yin
Bioenergy is currently regarded as a renewable energy source with a high growth potential. Forest-based biodiesel, with the significant advantage of not competing with grain production on cultivated land, has been considered as a promising substitute for...
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Jürgen Römer, Philipp Kautzmann, Michael Frey and Frank Gauterin
The energy demand of vehicles is influenced, not only by the drive systems, but also by a number of add-on systems. Electric vehicles must satisfy this energy demand completely from the battery. Hence, the use of power steering systems directly result in...
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Nuwong Chollacoop, Peerawat Saisirirat, Tuenjai Fukuda and Atsushi Fukuda
Ethanol is conventionally used as a blend with gasoline due to its similar properties, especially the octane number. However, ethanol has also been explored and used as a diesel substitute. While a low-blend of ethanol with diesel is possible with use of...
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Sukpyo Kang, Charles Chai and Seonguk Hong
The purpose of this study is to enable emergency recovery of damage caused by earthquakes in structures and prevent secondary damage by controlling progressive collapse. Although there have been many previous studies using reinforcing bars and meshes, th...
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Fengli Zhang, Dana M. Johnson and Jinjiang Wang
High dependence on imported oil has increased U.S. strategic vulnerability and prompted more research in the area of renewable energy production. Ethanol production from renewable woody biomass, which could be a substitute for gasoline, has seen increase...
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Guoqiang Zhang, Irfan Ahmed Khan, Amil Daraz, Abdul Basit and Muhammad Irshad Khan
In seaports, low-carbon energy systems and energy efficiency have become increasingly important as a result of the evolution of environmental and climate change challenges. In order to ensure the continued success of seaports, technological advancements ...
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Angel Darío González-Delgado, Janet B. García-Martínez and Andrés F. Barajas-Solano
Increasing energy needs have led to soaring fossil fuel consumption, which has caused several environmental problems. These environmental aspects along with the energy demand have motivated the search for new energy systems. In this context, biofuels suc...
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Janaina Camile Pasqual, Harry Alberto Bollmann, Christopher A. Scott, Thiago Edwiges and Thais Carlini Baptista
Water, energy, and food are essential elements for human life, but face constant pressure resulting from economic development, climate change, and other global processes. Predictions of rapid economic growth, increasing population, and urbanization in th...
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Ola Eriksson
Waste management and energy systems are often interlinked, either directly by waste-to-energy technologies, or indirectly as processes for recovery of resources?such as materials, oils, manure, or sludge?use energy in their processes or substitute conven...
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Lorenzo Graziani, Enrico Quagliarini, Marco D?Orazio, Stefano Lenci and Agnese Scalbi
The purpose of this work is to assess if traditionally used welded connectors for joining the two skins of reinforced concrete (RC) sandwich panels, used as structural walls and horizontal structural elements, can be substituted with bent ones. In this w...
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Gudina Terefe Tucho, Henri C. Moll, Anton J. M. Schoot Uiterkamp and Sanderine Nonhebel
Most households in rural developing countries depend on firewood from public forests or agricultural bio-wastes for cooking. Public forests, though, are declining due to an increasing population and inefficient use of wood. Use of agricultural wastes on ...
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Alex Rinaldi, Alberto Maria Merlo, Estefanía Hervás-Blasco, Emilio Navarro-Peris, José Miguel Coberán Salvador
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The new challenge in the reduction of CO2 emissions by heavy duty trucks is leading to a technological evolution in powertrain efficiency. Towards this objective, the EU has funded in the frame of the 7th framework program the project GASTONE: a collabor...
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Zhe Dong
Although there have been some severe nuclear accidents such as Three Mile Island (USA), Chernobyl (Ukraine) and Fukushima (Japan), nuclear fission energy is still a source of clean energy that can substitute for fossil fuels in a centralized way and in a...
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Zheng Su, Yuncheng Cao, Nengyou Wu and Yong He
Gas hydrates have been attracted a great deal of attention because of their potential as an energy substitute and the climate implications. Drilling and sampling research on the hydrate deposit in the Shenhu Area on the northern continental slope of the ...
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Piotr Jan Bielawski
The quality of company asset management is significantly dependent on the quality of a system for asset wear margin identification. A pipeline?machine subsystem may be an essential part of assets in many production companies. It is necessary to build mod...
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Neyda de la Caridad Om Tapanes, Donato Alexandre Gomes Aranda, Rodolfo Salazar Perez, Yordanka Reyes Cruz
Since the birth of the environmentalist movement, and, specially after the oil crisis in the 70s, alternative forms of energy have been discussed in order to substitute fossil fuels. One of these alternative fuels, Biodiesel, had its production...
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Neyda de la Caridad Om Tapanes, Donato Alexandre Gomes Aranda, Rodolfo Salazar Perez, Yordanka Reyes Cruz
Since the birth of the environmentalist movement, and, specially after the oil crisis in the 70s, alternative forms of energy have been discussed in order to substitute fossil fuels. One of these alternative fuels, Biodiesel, had its production...
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Suchandra Hazra, Prithvi Morampudi, John C. Prindle, Dhan Lord B. Fortela, Rafael Hernandez, Mark E. Zappi and Prashanth Buchireddy
Biomass is an excellent sustainable carbon neutral energy source, however its use as a coal/petroleum coke substitute in thermal applications poses several challenges. Several inherent properties of biomass including higher heating value (HHV), bulk dens...
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Harry Giles, Kyoung-Hee Kim
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Buildings are large consumers of energy. In the United States of America; they constitute over 33% of the total annual energy consumption, produce 35% of the total carbon dioxide emissions and attribute 40% of landfill wastes. The building industry is al...
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Thais Theomaris Grabowski, Juliana Martins Teixeira de Abreu Pietrobelli and Ramiro José Espinheira Martins
This study aimed to investigate the technical feasibility of replacing cement in mortar production with sludge generated in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), prepared using different treatments. The sludge used in the experiments was processed using f...
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