While voluminous research has focused on the impact of host country institutions on foreign entrants, the rise of outward internationalization of firms from emerging economies is challenging this research stream. Limited work has been done to investigate a crucial question: How do home country...

A solid superacid catalyst was evaluated for the production of fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) from acid oil containing about 60 wt.% free fatty acids. It was demonstrated that /ZrO2-TiO2/La3+ was an effective catalyst for simultaneous transesterification and esterification. The optimization...

A new type of solid superacid catalyst with the composition of /ZrO2-TiO2 loaded with lanthanum was prepared by precipitation and impregnation. The catalytic performance for the synthesis of fatty acid methyl ester from fatty acid and methanol was investigated. The influences of preparation...

Direct conversion of biomass-derived syngas (bio-syngas) to dimethyl ether (DME) at pilot-scale (100t/a) was carried out via pyrolysis/gasification of corncob. The yield rate of raw bio-syngas was 40–45Nm3/h with less than 20mg/Nm3 of tar content when the feedrate of dried corncob was...

Based on data from geographical information system (GIS) and daily commuting origin destination (OD) matrices, we estimated the distribution of traffic flow in the San Francisco road network and studied Braess’s paradox in a large-scale transportation network with realistic travel demand. We...

According to the topological structure of wind-storage-load complementation microgrids, this paper proposes a method for energy coordinative optimization which focuses on improvement of the economic benefits of microgrids in the prediction framework. First of all, the external characteristic...

Details about the movement of trucks on postal express lines are investigated to improve the performances of mail distribution. A mixed driving pattern of trucks is introduced to minimize the transportation cost of a postal express line network with a service level requirement. We formulate this...