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The Sustainable Value methodology was used to compare and rank eight combinations of waste biomass types conversion technologies on a common assessment basis produce energy, energy vectors advanced biofuels. studied included agricultural agro-industrial residues, slurries effluents, pulp paper mill sludge, piggery effluents organic fractions municipal solid waste, biodiesel by (trans)esterifica...

Abstract Exact knowledge of natural gas composition is essential in custody transfer to determine the energy content delivery. However, for liquefied (LNG), a reliable determination difficult. Here, we describe design laboratory‐scale reference liquefier that enables validation and calibration optical spectroscopy sensors by providing them with sample metrologically traceable composition. Hence...

Liquefaction is one of the most intriguing aspects of human tuberculosis. It is a major cause of the transition from the infection to active disease (tuberculosis, TB) as well as the transmission of M. tuberculosis to other persons. This paper reviews the natural history of liquefaction in humans from a pathological and radiological point of view and discusses how the experimental models availa...

To further clarify reasons for formation of condensed residues during the last stage of wood liquefaction in the medium of polyhydric alcohols and sulfuric acid catalyst, the weight loss behaviors and thermal reaction kinetics of condensed residues were studied by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Simultaneously, chemical methods were used to analyze the contents of lignin, cellulose, and holoc...

An empirical, energy-based methodology for liquefaction hazard assessment and microzonation mapping is presented. The approach is probabilistic, considers the uncertainty in the liquefaction criterion, and is applicable to most earthquake-induced liquefaction analyses. The examples illustrated are for water-saturated sands at level ground. The energy of ground shaking is estimated from the Four...

This paper describes a construction and characteristics of a coal-gas-burning high e ciency power plant which emits no carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into the atmosphere. In the plant, CO 2 gas and superheated steam are used as the main and sub working uid, respectively, of a closed dual uid gas turbine power generation system. It is assumed that a coal gas whose principal compositions are CO, H 2 , CO...

This paper presents prediction of liquefaction potential of soils by neuro-fuzzy models evaluated using Idriss and Boulanger method. In order to address the collective knowledge built up in conventional liquefaction method, an alternative Takagi-Sugeno-Kang reliant neuro-fuzzy model has been developed. Neuro-fuzzy is one of the artificial intelligence approaches that can be classified by machin...

A predictive framework for flow liquefaction instabilities in sands is presented. A general criterion for liquefaction, based purely on the laws of physics, is presented and adapted to the important case of radial loading (e.g. triaxial, simple shear) using the Cambridge p9–q plane. Three important contributions are made in the paper. First, the instability concept is unified, and it is shown t...