Pre-drying of lignite before feeding to the boiler is a potential way to increase the net efficiency of lignite-fired power plants. Lignite pre-drying is, however, a high energy consumption process with a high risk of spontaneous ignition. If the lignite is dried at low temperature, the...

The pre-drying technology is expected to play an important role in the next generation of brown coal power plants. The integration of the fluidised bed drying system with internal heat utilization (WTA technology) is estimated to bring an efficiency increase of up to 6 percentage points in...

Strategic management has long been the capstone course for business majors at most colleges and universities globally. As originally designed, the capstone course sought to teach students an array of skills and tools needed to actually perform strategic planning, primarily through integration...

This study explores how firms manage the entire life cycle of innovation projects based on the framework of harvesting and planting innovation. While harvesting innovation seeks new products in the expectation of financial performance in the short term, planting innovation pursues creating value...