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Screening of microalgae with potential for biodiesel production and nutrient removal from treated domestic sewage

Sydney, E.B.; da Silva, T.E.; Tokarski, A.; Novak, A.C.; … - In: Applied Energy 88 (2011) 10, pp. 3291-3294

This article reports the results of the screening of microalgae capable of removing nitrogen and phosphorus while … remove nitrogen and phosphorus as well its growth rate and biomass composition was determined. B. braunii LEM 14 showed the … wastewater, 79.63% of the nitrogen and phosphorus was removed after 14days of culture at 25°C. Biomass composition indicated an …

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Investigation of the prospect of energy self-sufficiency and technical performance of an integrated PEMFC (proton exchange membrane fuel cell), dairy farm and biogas plant system

Guan, Tingting; Alvfors, Per; Lindbergh, Göran - In: Applied Energy 130 (2014) C, pp. 685-691

A PEMFC fuelled with hydrogen is known for its high efficiency and low local emissions. However, the generation of …-CHP with a stack having an electrical efficiency of 40% generates 360MWh electricity and 680MWh heat per year, which is enough … to cover the energy demand of the whole system while the total efficiency of the PEMFC-CHP system is 82%. The integrated …

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Decomposition of energy-related GHG emissions in agriculture over 1995–2008 for European countries

Robaina-Alves, Margarita; Moutinho, Victor - In: Applied Energy 114 (2014) C, pp. 949-957

to the fossil fuels consumption (EF effect), (ii) the changes in fossil fuels consumption compared to the use of Nitrogen … in agriculture (FN effect), (iii) the change in use of Nitrogen in agriculture per ha of utilized agricultural area (NA … Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg respectively), which means that the use of Nitrogen per cultivated area is an important factor …

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Nitrogen conversion during rapid pyrolysis of coal and petroleum coke in a high-frequency furnace

Yuan, Shuai; Zhou, Zhi-jie; Li, Jun; Wang, Fu-chen - In: Applied Energy 92 (2012) C, pp. 854-859

induction coil heated and had a very small high-temperature zone, which could restrain secondary conversions of nitrogen … products. The effects of temperature and coal rank on conversions of fuel-N to primary nitrogen products (char-N, HCN–N, NH3–N …

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Geochemical impact of aquifer storage for impure CO2 containing O2 and N2: Tongliao field experiment

Wei, Ning; Li, Xiaochun; Wang, Yan; Zhu, Qianlin; Liu, … - In: Applied Energy 145 (2015) C, pp. 198-210

Impurities such as N2 and O2 can be co-injected with CO2 to cut the overall cost of carbon capture and geological storage by lowering the CO2 capture cost. However, only few field-scale studies have focused on the effect of these impurities, such as N2 and O2, with low solubility and a low...

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Analysis of the potential to recover energy and nutrient resources from cattle slaughterhouses in Australia by employing anaerobic digestion

Jensen, P.D.; Sullivan, T.; Carney, C.; Batstone, D.J. - In: Applied Energy 136 (2014) C, pp. 23-31

concentrated resource streams that contribute up to 75% of the methane potential, phosphorus and potassium loads, in only 20% of …

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Modeling the effect of climate change on U.S. state-level buildings energy demands in an integrated assessment framework

Zhou, Yuyu; Clarke, Leon; Eom, Jiyong; Kyle, Page; … - In: Applied Energy 113 (2014) C, pp. 1077-1088

Because long-term socioeconomic transformation and energy service expansion show large spatial heterogeneity, advanced understanding of climate change impact on buildings energy use at the sub-national level will offer useful insights into climate policy and regional energy system planning.

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Economic feasibility assessment of rice straw utilization for electricity generating through combustion in Thailand

Delivand, Mitra Kami; Barz, Mirko; Gheewala, Shabbir H.; … - In: Applied Energy 88 (2011) 11, pp. 3651-3658

supply, smaller scale power plants, i.e., 8 and 10MWe may be more practicable. A further sensitivity analysis is discussed in …

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An efficient optimization of well placement and control for a geothermal prospect under geological uncertainty

Chen, Mingjie; Tompson, Andrew F.B.; Mellors, Robert J.; … - In: Applied Energy 137 (2015) C, pp. 352-363

identified and ranked first by an efficient MARS-enabled total order sensitivity quantification, which is then used to assist … sensitivity analysis suggests that groundwater circulation through high permeable structures, rather than heat conduction through …

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An efficient Bayesian inversion of a geothermal prospect using a multivariate adaptive regression spline method

Chen, Mingjie; Tompson, Andrew F.B.; Mellors, Robert J.; … - In: Applied Energy 136 (2014) C, pp. 619-627

California in USA is used to illustrate the proposed framework and demonstrate the computational efficiency of MARS …-based Bayesian inversion. The developed MARS models are also used to efficiently drive calculation of Sobol’ total sensitivity … indices. Only top sensitive parameters are included in Bayesian inference to further improve the computational efficiency of …

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