Advanced Materials & Manufacturing – Page 310

Greening and Growing the Grid: Utility-Scale Solar 101

Alcombright D., SOLON Corporation, US

With the growth of renewable portfolio standards, rising electricity rates and increasing peak load demands, U.S. utilities are seeking new solutions to meet their renewable energy needs. Scalability, cost and reliability have been the primary [...]

Solar & Photovoltaics

Polymer Nanocomposites: Structure, synthesis

Sharma A., Sharma R., Sharma A., Sharma R., Nanotechnology Lab, IN

Nanotechnology may restructure the technological applications such as semiconductors, inorganic as well as organic materials, energy storage, and biotechnology. It integrates chemistry, physics, materials science, and biology to design and create new material properties of [...]

Polymer Nanocomposites: Characterization, Applications

Sharma A., Sharma R., Sharma A., Sharma R., Sharma A., Sharma R., AKG College of Engineering, IN

Organic polymeric composite materials are useful in applications sucgh as light emitting diodes, electrochromic displays, smart windows, and field transistors, electromagnetic interference shielding devices, energy storage products such as batteries, super capacitors and fuel cells. [...]

Integrated, Renewable Distributed Generation w/ Storage

Olson D., P&E Automation, Inc., US

Case study of a successful integrated renewable distributed generation project for demand response at a large U.S. aerospace manufacturer site.Project incorporated wind, pump-storage hydro, waste compressed air storage power generators and utility company interfaces.

New model of seven layers in PEMFC

Rakhshanpouri S., Rowshanzamir S., School of Chemical Engineering, IR

This model is an isothermal, isobar, one-dimensional and steady-state model for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell with a 117 Nafion membrane that considers seven-layer of fuel cell. In former years, Springer and colleagues presented the [...]

High Performance Solid Polymer Electrolyte Membranes Prepared from Polyether Ether Ketone Composites

Wu G.M., Hsu I.C., Lin S.J., Chang Gung University, TW

High performance solid polymer electrolyte membranes (SPEM) were prepared from polyether ether ketone (PEEK) with high mechanical strength and thermal stability. The sulfonation reaction improved membrane hydrophilicity and water absorbility, and thus increased ionic conductivity [...]

Utilization the heat accumulator in large heating system

Bujalski W., Badyda K., Milewski J., Warchol M., Warsaw University of Technology, PL

Cogeneration is currently one of the cheapest ways to generate electricity. The European Union promotes systems for combined heat and power generation. In Europe in general – and Poland in particular – there are numerous [...]

Identification of Battery Models for Enhanced Battery Management

Sitterly M., Wang L.Y., Wayne State University, US

A large-scale battery system consists of hundreds even thousands battery cells, which have different characteristics even when they are new, and change with time and operating conditions due to aging, operational conditions, and chemical property [...]

Performance Improvement of Fuel Cell using Platinum Functionalized Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Liu D., Liu J., Goenaga G., Liu D., Liu J., Texas A&M University-Kingsville, US

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are the energy conversion devices with ultrahigh efficiency, zero emission, and high flexibility of the fuel supplies. This study has optimized growth variables of the aligned carbon nanotubes (ACNT) [...]