Materials and processes for CO2 capture and utilisation are an essential part of a holistic approach toward a sustainable energy future. CO2 and energy are tightly intertwined as energy produced from fossil fuel combustion always generates CO2. A major environmental concern, CO2 could also become an invaluable resource for making carbon-based materials and chemicals, and a means to store energy...

majority of models in location literature are based on assumptions such as point demand, absence of competitors, as well as monopoly in location, products, and services. however in real-world applications, these assumptions are not well-matched with reality. in this study, a new mixed integer nonlinear programming model based on weighted goal programming approach is proposed to maximize the cap...

The carbon dioxide (CO2) separation can be enhanced by using modified materials like a deep eutectic solvent (DES) mesoporous silica SBA-15 in polymeric support i.e polysulfone via mixed matrix membranes (MMMs). pure and DES are potential candidates for the CO2 capturing their combination has not been reported yet. In this work, fresh was synthesized combining equal concentrations of Decanoic a...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Lack of simple and repeatable tests hampers gastric emptying studies in rats. The aim of this study was to adapt the (14)C-octanoate solid gastric emptying breath test for application in rats, and to validate it against radioscintigraphic method. METHODS After ingestion of a meal containing 3 mCi (99m)Tc and 2 µCi (14)C-octanoate, 23 male Wistar rats were placed on a gamma cam...

Computational techniques are used to optimize the design of an integrated energy park consisting of a coal-fired power plant, a CO2 capture system, and an auxiliary natural gas combined cycle plant. Emphasis is placed on the design of heat integration in the combined cycle system, as this heat constitutes most of the energy required for temperature-swing CO2 capture. The facility is constrained...

In this work, two simple processes for carbon dioxide (CO2) such as capture and utilization have been combined to form a whole systems approach to carbon capture and utilization (CCU). The first stage utilizes a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) system, which offers many benefits over current amine technologies. It was found that high selectivity can be achieved with rapid adsorption/desorption t...

We compared four existing process-based stand-level models of varying complexity (physiological principles in predicting growth, photosynthesis and evapotranspiration, biogeochemical cycles, and stand to ecosystem carbon and evapotranspiration simulator) and a new nested model with 4 years of eddy-covariance-measured water vapor (LE) and CO2 (Fc) fluxes at a maturing loblolly pine forest. The n...

Direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO2 and H2O, a process that mimics natural photosynthesis, is of fundamental and practical interest. In natural photosynthesis, CO2 is first reduced to common biochemical building blocks using solar energy, which are subsequently used for the synthesis of the complex mixture of molecular products that form biomass. Here we report an ...

[1] Geostatistical inverse modeling has been shown to be a viable alternative to synthesis Bayesian methods for estimating global continental-scale CO2 fluxes. This study extends the geostatistical approach to take advantage of spatially and temporally varying auxiliary data sets related to CO2 flux processes, which allow the inversion to capture more grid-scale flux variability and better cons...

The brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latrielle), can be a serious residential pest due to its unique ability, among ticks, to complete its lifecycle indoors. A single engorged and fertilized female tick can oviposit around 4,000 eggs, allowing indoor establishment to be rapid and easy to miss in early-stage infestations. Acaricide treatment is currently the primary method of control, b...