Due to the increasing recognition of global climate change, the building and construction industries are under pressure to reduce carbon emissions. A central issue in striving towards reduced carbon emissions is the need for a practicable and meaningful yardstick for assessing and communicating...

Precise prediction of thermal processes is one of the major concerns in the field of heat transfer and within energy research communities. It has been proven that using LTE (local thermal equilibrium) conditions within a porous medium may give researchers erroneous data. From another point of...

Entropy generation, which is available exergy destruction, is an important subject in fields of energy management and thermal engineering. With the fast-growing rate of composite media applications in both industries and academic researches, it is necessary to study these media from the second...

Malaysia is a coastal country, with a long coastline in Peninsular Malaysia connecting the Strait of Malacca in the west and the South China Sea to the east. The Strait of Malacca is a well-known waterway allowing the continuous supply of oil by tankers from the Middle East to the Far East, such...

The need for renewable energy is a global demand due to both the economic factors and the environmental concerns. Malaysian government has been supportive on the research and development in the renewable energies. Renewable Energy Act (2011) and Sustainable Energy Development Authority Act...

In this paper, emulsion fuels from crude bio-oil and its molecular distillation fractions were prepared by single ultrasonic and ultrasonic-mechanical emulsification. The results showed that the emulsions from crude bio-oil and 0# diesel had the best stability, with a stability time of 31 days....

In the present paper, a five-column heat integrated methanol distillation scheme is proposed with the aid of process simulation and pinch analysis. Unlike the popular four-column (or 3 + 1 column) scheme, a medium-pressure column is added after the light ends column in this novel scheme. The...

This paper is a part of the report Business Development of the Overseas Chinese – The Case of Four East Asian Countries sponsored by the National Science Foundation of China. In past years, research on overseas Chinese business has risen all over the world. The overseas Chinese who amount to...

Dependence modeling plays a critical role in pricing and hedging multi-asset derivatives and managing risks with a portfolio of assets. With the emerge of structured products, it has attracted considerable interest in using multivariate Levy processes to model the joint dynamics of multiple...