From the perspective of system control, a smart and green building is a large-scale dynamic system with high complexity and a huge amount of information. Proper combination of the available information and effective control of the overall building system turns out to be a big challenge. In this...

Gasification based biomass co-firing was an attractive technology for biomass utilization. Compared to directly co-firing of biomass and coal, it might: (1) avoid feeding biomass into boiler, (2) reduce boiler fouling and corrosion problem, and (3) avoid altering ash characteristics. In this...

The province of Alberta, Canada hosts an estimated 170 billion barrels of crude bitumen reserves in the Athabasca, Cold Lake and Peace River deposits. These reserves are commercially recovered through surface mining or in situ recovery methods. Most of the produced bitumen is converted in...

In this paper, the heat transfer characteristics of porous material adopted in the receiver of a concentrated solar power (CSP) with different structure parameters are numerically investigated. The commercial software FLUENT and the user defined function program (UDF) are adopted to implement...