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Nanoparticle technology for heavy oil in-situ upgrading and recovery enhancement: Opportunities and challenges
Hashemi, Rohallah; Nassar, Nashaat N.; Pereira Almao, Pedro - In: Applied Energy 133 (2014) C, pp. 374-387
With more than 170 billion barrels of estimated oil sands reserves in Canada, Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world. However, more than 80% of oil sand’s reserves are located deep underground and could not be accessed by surface mining. Nonetheless, a number of in-situ...
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Nanomodification of the electrodes in microbial fuel cell: Impact of nanoparticle density on electricity production and microbial community
Alatraktchi, Fatima AlZahra’a; Zhang, Yifeng; … - In: Applied Energy 116 (2014) C, pp. 216-222
The nano-decoration of electrode with nanoparticles is one effective way to enhance power output of microbial fuel … cells (MFCs). However, the amount of nanoparticles used for decoration has not been optimized yet, and how it affects the … microbial community is still unknown. In this study, different densities of gold (Au) nanoparticles were sputtered on carbon …
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Increasing the solar cell power output by coating with transition metal-oxide nanorods
Kuznetsov, I.A.; Greenfield, M.J.; Mehta, Y.U.; … - In: Applied Energy 88 (2011) 11, pp. 4218-4221
without inducing the photovoltaic effect. Transition metal-oxide nanoparticles, an inexpensive product of a process called …
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