Sustainable Materials – Page 50

8nm cerium oxide as a fuel additive for fuel consumption and emissions reduction

Wakefield G., Gardener M., Oxonica Materials Ltd, UK

8nm cerium oxide is surface functionalised for diesel compatibility and added to fuel at a level of 5-8ppm. Static engine tests and large scale field trials show that engine fuel consumption is reduced by 5-8% [...]

Integrated Multistage Supercritical Technology to Produce High Quality Vegetable Oil and Biofuels

Anitescu G., Deshpande A., Rice P.A., Tavlarides L.L., Syracuse University, US

A multi-step integrated technology to produce high quality vegetable oils and biodiesel fuels is proposed, documented for technical and economic feasibility, and preliminarily designed. The first step of the integrated system consists of soybean oil [...]

Amorphous Diamond Solar Cells

Sung J.C., Sung M., Kan M-C, Hsiao T-J., Sung J.C., Sung M., Kinik Company, TW

Silicon based photo voltaic panels are the mainstream of solar cells. However, there are intrinsic limitations of such devices for replacing power plants. The low conversion efficiency (

Bacterial desulphurization of brown coals

Fecko P., Kusnierova M., Safarova M., Cablik V., VSB-TU Ostrava, CZ

The aim of this paper is the suitability of evaluation of bacterial leaching applied on the brown coals samples from mine CSA Most. The results of this work show that using clean bacterial cultures of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Energy and Fuels

Nanomolecular Gravitational Interactions Causing Incrased Probability of Birth Defects in Humans During Period from Conception to Early Fetus Formation

Vezzoli G.C., The Franklin Institute of Technology, US

It is found that small decreases in gravity that are caused by planet syzygy, full moon presence, and cosmogonic events of deep space can cause a sufficient change in gravitational interactions to affect the nucleons [...]

11-cis-Retinal Protonated Schiff Base: The effect of environment and solvent on the chromophore of rhodopsin

Entel P., Sugihara M., Buß V., Elstner M., Frauenheim Th., Gerhard-Mercator-Universität, DE

Recently the structure of rhodopsin was determined from the X-ray diffraction data extending to the resolution of 2.8 A. We have studied the effects of amino acids and of water using A density functional based [...]

Modeling of the Deformation of Living Cells Induced by Atomic Force Microscopy

Rudd R.E., McElfresh M., Baesu E., Balhorn R., Alleny M., Belak J., Lawrence Livermore National Lab., US

We describe finite element modeling of the deformation of living cells by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Cells are soft systems, susceptible to large deformations in the course of an AFM measurement. Often the local properties, [...]