MAJOR CORPORATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY: EFFORTS IN REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT IN OIL EXPLORATION [PDF]
Engineering Heritage Journal, 2023 This comprehensive study embarked on a critical journey to scrutinize and evaluate the effectiveness of corporate environmental initiatives implemented in recent years, particularly focusing on the oil sector.
Adeyinka Alex Banso +6 more
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Osmotic Energy Conversion in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents [PDF]
, 2023 Selective ion transport through nanochannels plays a crucial role in osmotic energy conversion in cellular systems. We show that this cell-essential process occurs in a submarine hydrothermal vent (HV) precipitate derived from a serpentine-hosted ...
Kiyohiro, Adachi +16 more
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Miniaturized Salinity Gradient Energy Harvesting Devices
Molecules, 2021 Harvesting salinity gradient energy, also known as “osmotic energy” or “blue energy”, generated from the free energy mixing of seawater and fresh river water provides a renewable and sustainable alternative for circumventing the recent upsurge in global ...
Wei-Shan Hsu +3 more
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Modern Use of Water Produced by Purification of Municipal Wastewater: A Case Study
Energies, 2021 All the urban areas of developed countries have hydric distribution grids and sewage systems for collecting municipal wastewater to treatment plants. In this way, the municipal wastewater is purified from human excreta and other minor contaminants while ...
Giorgia Tomassi +2 more
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Techno-Economic Analysis towards Full-Scale Pressure Retarded Osmosis Plants
Energies, 2022 Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) is a power generation process that harnesses the salinity gradient between two water bodies of different salinities. Using high salinity water as a draw solution, this work assesses the techno-economic feasibility of the ...
Elizabeth I. Obode +4 more
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Sustainable Approaches to Incorporate Plant-Based Biomaterials in Power Generation
Solids, 2023 Biomass-derived materials have traditionally been used to generate electrical energy through the combustion of their organic components. However, within the past few years, certain common biomass compounds, especially plant-based products such as ...
Antonio Ruiz-Gonzalez +2 more
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Polymer-based membranes for promoting osmotic energy conversion
Giant, 2022 Membrane-based reverse electrodialysis is a promising technology for harvesting the osmotic energy to solve the increasingly severe energy problems. However, the osmotic power generation generally suffers from low power output for the poor performance of
Weipeng Chen +3 more
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Effects of osmotic and matric potential on radial growth and accumulation of endogenous reserves in three isolates of Pochonia chlamydosporia [PDF]
, 2009 For the first time, the effects of varying osmotic and matric potential on fungal radial growth and accumulation of polyols were studied in three isolates of Pochonia chlamydosporia.
Peteira, Belkis +9 more
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An integrated multidisciplinary approach to study the effects of copper and osmotic stress in fish [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel UniversitySince many estuarine zones are impacted by copper contamination, there is an on-going effort to develop Biotic Ligand Models (BLMs) predicting copper ...
De Polo, Anna
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Direct Osmotic Desalination Technique by Solar Energy [PDF]
International Journal of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, 2020 Over the last decade direct (forward) osmosis has attracted much attention in practical applications including artesian water desalination, green power generation, industrial water purification etc. In comparison with the traditional reverse osmosis process the separation is due to natural osmosis, providing lower energy cost for external pressure that
Atabek Yuldashev +2 more
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