Fossil Fuels

Today, there is no excuse for not getting five years or more on the run length of refinery preheat exchangers without the need for cleaning. Among the many tools available for fouling mitigation of preheat exchangers, the most overlooked ones involve determining and eliminating the cause. Almost...

Carbon dioxide emissions from conventional coal-fired power plants constitute the majority CO 2 emissions in the U.S. Mitigation of CO 2 by chemical conversion provides an alternative method to reduce the CO 2 emissions from coal gasification process with the benefit of eliminating energy-intensive...

One-step deposition of photocatalytically active TiO 2 films via wire-to-plate dielectric barrier discharge plasma at atmospheric pressure Lan-Bo Di, Xiao-Song Li and Ai-Min Zhu * Laboratory of Plasma Physical Chemistry, DalianUniversity of Technology, Dalian 116024, China * Corresponding author. E...

Classical MPC has been leveraged to improve control on a nonlinear unsteady-state system, batch alcohol fermentation. The controller uses a hybrid model with fundamental reaction equations along with empirical process data-based modeling. More than thirty lines of batch quality control have been...