Energy & Sustainability – Page 204

Extracting unburnt coal from black coal fly ash

Kusnierova M., Fecko P., Slovac Academy of Science, SK

Black-coal fly ash from Kosice Power Plant in Slovakia contains between 22 and 25 % of unburnt coal, which is , strictly speaking, a useful component. Studying optimal separation methods of unburnt coal from the [...]

Nano-structures materials for Energy Direct Conversion and Fuel Breeding

Popa-Simil L., LAVM Llc., US

The new developments in nano-structures and high-energy superconductors open the road for better nuclear energy. A new family of new nuclear fuels as well as energy harvesting blankets to be used as active shielding in [...]

Energy balance development in a cogeneration with biogas for H2 production by catalytic reforming

Hernández Rosales I.P., Fernández Madrigal A., García Serrano L., UNAM, MX

The main object of this research was carry out technically a mass and energy balances in an energy cogeneration plant with cattle excrement gas a fuel composed by biogas + natural gas. This fuel was [...]

Cleantech: Energy and Fuels

Novel Technologies

Catching Mr. Big with the Small – ‘To Infinitesimal and Beyond”

Eastwood I., Authentix, US

In some parts of the world, the tax revenue from fuels is a big incentive for criminal syndicates to smuggle fuel and launder markers that are used to designate low tax fuels. These activities cost [...]

Nanotechnology – Disruptive Technologies for Electric Utility Systems. Challenges and Opportunities

Stringer J., Richman R.H., Izambard, US

Within the next 25 years, the electric power utility system in the U.S. will face a number of serious challenges. These will include issues related to diminishing supplies and increasing costs of fossil fuels, the [...]

Nano-Hetero Structure for direct energy conversion

Popa-Simil L., LAVM, Inc., US

The direct conversion of nuclear energy becomes possible in hetero-nanostructures. To convert the kinetic energy of the fission product into electricity it has to be created a nanostructure formed from a repetitive conductor-insulator structure generically [...]

Synthesis and characterization of a highly cross linked PEGME and PEG for solid electrolyte and its application in dye-sensitized solar cells

Shaheer Akhtar M., Chun J-M, Lee H-C, Kim K-J, Yang O-B, Chnonbuk National University, KR

The replacement of liquid electrolyte in dye sensitized solar cells by gel and solid electrolyte is one approach towards the improvement of properties of electrolyte such as leakage and evaporation of liquid to operate for [...]

Dye-sensitized solar cell using a TiO2 nanocrystalline film electrode prepared by solution combustion synthesis

Wang C.M., Chungb S.L., National Cheng Kung University, TW

The nanocrystalline anatase TiO2 films were prepared and characterized in connection with their application to dye-sensitized solar cells. Solution combustion synthesis of TiO2 nanocrystalline film is based on hydrolysis, nitrated, and combustion reaction. The solution [...]