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Solar thermochemical processing offers production of many fuels and commodities via reduced emission footprint. Although solar reactor design and flow configuration play a key role in process efficiency, use of the right catalyst further enhances the overall efficiency. Solar cracking of methane...
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efficiencies are explained and the need to apply exergy analysis is illustrated. The copper–chlorine thermochemical cycle is … become commercial, and improved efficiencies are expected to be obtained with advanced methodologies like exergy analysis …
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In this paper, energy and exergy analyses of the geothermal-based hydrogen production via thermochemical water … decomposition using a new, four-step copper–chlorine (Cu–Cl) cycle are conducted, and the respective cycle energy and exergy … geothermal power plant itself. As a result, overall energy and exergy efficiencies of the cycle are found to be 21.67% and 19 …
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) of a dual-fuel diesel engine (H2 (hydrogen)–diesel) using exergy analysis. The maximum available work increased with H2 …
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Possibly one of the most significant advantages that hydrogen may have as a fuel is its potential for increased second-law efficiency, due to fundamental differences in the mechanism of entropy generation during combustion with respect to the usual hydrocarbon-based fuels. A computational...
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Exergy analysis has been shown to be an efficient tool for understanding and improvement of industrial processes. In … the present study, exergy analysis has been used to examine the energy consumption of an existing Steam Methane Reforming …
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components. The analyzed installation has been evaluated from the energy and exergy points of view by calculation of energy … utilization factor and relative exergy losses occurring in main components of the system. Such an approach enables determination … of the contribution of each component to the total system irreversibility. The results indicate that the highest exergy …
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This paper presents the exergy analysis results for the production of several biofuels, i.e., SNG (synthetic natural … performance is analyzed by means of the 1st Law of Thermodynamics. The main exergy losses account for the gasification section …
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gasifying agent. The maximum destruction of exergy, in quantitative term, is found to be in the gasifier due to the irreversible … chemical reactions occurring there. However, in terms of percentage of exergy input, the highest exergy destruction and exergy …
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