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Distributed generation with a combustion engine prime mover is still widely used to supply electric power in a variety of applications. These applications range from backup power supply systems and combined wind-diesel generation to providing power in places where grid connection is either...
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Accurate power generation forecasting provides the basis of decision making for electric power industry development plans, energy conservation and environmental protection. Since the power generation time series are rarely purely linear or nonlinear, no single forecasting model can identify the...
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Accurate forecasting of fossil fuel energy consumption for power generation is important and fundamental for rational power energy planning in the electricity industry. The least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) is a powerful methodology for solving nonlinear forecasting issues with small...
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Rape-seed biodiesel is an interesting option to address the problem of decreasing availability of conventional fossil … standard diesel fuel and on three different blends of rape-seed biodiesel (20%-50%-100%). Performance, emissions and in …-cylinder pressure traces were measured at full load. It was found that the influence of rape-seed biodiesel in the fuel blend is not …
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Oil-accumulating microalgae have the potential to enable large-scale biodiesel production without competing for arable … commercial production of microalgal oil-derived biodiesel. However, under optimal growth conditions, large amounts of algal … for the production of biodiesel. …
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A supercritical methanol transesterification method was applied to produce biodiesel from the high-acid oil of soybean … soapstock. The fuel properties of biodiesel produced with various molar ratios of methanol to raw oil were analyzed and compared … compounds in the high-acid oil-biodiesel. The saturated fatty acid content of the high-acid oil increased significantly due to …
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advantages of microalgae biodiesel, high density cultivation of microalgae, high-lipid content microalgae selection and metabolic … biodiesel and future perspective of the technologies are also discussed. …
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Over the past few decades, biodiesel produced from oilseed crops and animal fat is receiving much attention as a … renewable and sustainable alternative for automobile engine fuels, and particularly petroleum diesel. However, current biodiesel … identify and develop sustainable biodiesel feedstocks which overcome the disadvantages of current ones. On the other hand …
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Biodiesel is obtained by the process of transesterification of vegetable oils and animal fats and crude glycerol is the … main by-product of the biodiesel manufacturing chain. As a result glycerol production has rapidly increased in the last … decades. This work focuses on the development and the validation of a process to convert biodiesel-derived glycerol into a …
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The transesterification reactions of four different vegetable oils (sunflower, rapeseed, olive oil and used frying oil) with ethanol, using sodium hydroxide as catalyst, were studied. The ester preparation involved a two-step transesterification reaction, followed by purification. The effects of...
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