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Effect of tubular heater structures on the thermal behaviors of waxy crude oil
Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2023 In this paper, we research the temperature field, flow field and melting law of gelled crude oil with different diameters, locations and inclination angles of heating tube by numerical simulation method.
Hang Dong +3 more
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Resource Use in the Production and Consumption System—The MIPS Approach
Resources, 2014 The concept Material Input per Service Unit (MIPS) was developed 20 years ago as a measure for the overall natural resource use of products and services.
Christa Liedtke +6 more
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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth：Evidence from 5 Asian Countries [PDF]
, 2013 2013-09-30This paper investigates the causal relationship between nuclear energy consumption, renewable energy and oil consumption, natural gas consumption, coal consumption and economic growth for 5 Asian countries: China, India, Japan, Pakistan and ...
DONG, Weijia, WU, Jingyi, LV, Xin
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Entropy, 2019 This paper presents a thermodynamic vision of the depletion of mineral resources. It demonstrates how raw materials can be better assessed using exergy, based on thermodynamic rarity, which considers scarcity in the crust and energy requirements for ...
Antonio Valero, Alicia Valero
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Frontiers in Sustainability, 2023 To date, the circular economy has fallen short of its promise to reduce our resource demand and transform our production and consumption system. One key problem is the lack of understanding that highly promising strategies such as refuse, rethink, and ...
Pauline Suski +4 more
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Energy consumption characteristics of turn-mill machining [PDF]
, 2017 Reducing the energy consumption of manufacturing processes and machine tools can considerably affect the environmental and economic impact of industrial activities. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, many scholars have focused on modeling the energy
Ünver, Hakkı Özgür +2 more
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Environmental Impacts of Promoting New Public Transport Systems in Urban Mobility: A Case Study
Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2017 Urban mobility is highly dependent on private vehicles causing pollution, traffic congestion and traffic accidents. The tram has become one of the most relevant public transport modes in those cities which need to reduce the private vehicle dependency ...
Abel Ortego +2 more
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Thermodynamic Rarity and the Loss of Mineral Wealth
Energies, 2015 The second law of thermodynamics and, specifically, exergy analysis have been traditionally used for the assessment and optimization of energy systems. Nevertheless, as shown in this paper, exergy could also constitute a powerful tool for the evaluation ...
Antonio Valero, Alicia Valero
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Carbon Capture Science & Technology, 2022 Capturing CO2 from the post-combustion flue gas through temperature swing adsorption (TSA) has been considered as an effective solution to reduce carbon emissions.
Kailong Wu +5 more
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Energy Storage and Saving, 2023 Geothermal power plants (GPP) with high non condensable gases (NCG) content geothermal fluid have shown to be environmental impacting relating to their energy production, which could be critical if no corrective actions are achieved. The GPP of Kizildere
María Dolores Mainar-Toledo +6 more
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