Solar thermal fuel production from solar heat is considered an innovative technology for the utilization of solar energy. The process of solar-heat-driven hydrocarbon fuel reformation is a promising approach for solar thermal fuel production. Here, perspectives on the use of solar heat at approximately 673–723...
The fly ash from municipal sewage sludge (MSS) incineration contains abundant phosphorus and can be used as phosphate fertilizer. However, fly ash also contains arsenic that is extremely poisonous to the environment. The toxicity of arsenic significantly depends on its speciation: As (III) is much more toxic th...
The suitable bed material is important to inhibit ash-related problems including agglomeration and slagging in furnace and fouling on tail heated surfaces during coal gasification in fluidized bed. For newfound high-alkali vast-reserve Zhundong coal in China, the selection of bed material in fluidized bed shoul...
More and more fixed geometry structures are being manufactured to enhance the boiling heat transfer (BHT). However, they usually perform well at a special heat load and don’t always have good BHT properties. Applying shape memory alloy (SMA) material to change the geometry is a new solution to achieve optimal ...
A cogeneration system for simultaneously producing synthetic natural gas (SNG) and electric power from municipal solid waste (MSW) is developed. This process provides a disposal method for MSW that is environmentally sustainable and uses as an alternative energy source. Rather than converting all of the synthes...
The compressed air storage connects charging and discharging process and plays a significant role on performance of Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) system. In this paper, a thermodynamic model of A-CAES system was developed in Matlab Simulink software, and a dynamic compressed air storage model...
Circulating fluidized bed (CFB) with low operating temperatures may become an appropriate solution to the utilization of high-Na Zhundong coal. In this paper, one kind of Zhundong coal with 3.92% Na2O in coal ash was used as fuel, and its slagging and fouling characteristics at different air equivalence ratios ...
The discrete velocity direction model is an approximate method to the Boltzmann equation. A developed molecular collision operator for the model is presented in this paper. Under the new operator, the discrete directions of molecules are adjustable, namely, both the number and the angles of discrete directions ...
Supercritical pressure CO2 was employed to investigate the improvement of a cross-flow heat exchanger with variable properties in the present work. The whole heat exchanger was uniformly divided into M×N heat exchange units, and the matrix analysis indicated that the total heat load of the heat exchange matrix...
Three-dimensional full-loop simulation of a high-density circulating fluidized bed (HDCFB) is conducted using the multiphase particle-in-cell (MP-PIC) method. The computational results are in good agreement with the experimental data of pressure distribution and solids circulation rate under different aeration ...