The techno-economic evaluation of four novel integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants fuelled with low rank lignite coal with CO2 capture facility has been investigated using ECLIPSE process simulator. The performance of the proposed plants was compared with two conventional IGCC plants with and without CO2 capture. The proposed plants include an advanced CO2 capturing process based on the Absorption Enhanced Reforming (AER) reaction and the regeneration of sorbent materials avoiding the need for sulphur removal component, shift reactor and/or a high temperature gas cleaning process. The results show that the proposed CO2 capture plants efficiencies were 18.5–21% higher than the conventional IGCC CO2 capture plant. For the proposed plants, the CO2 capture efficiencies were found to be within 95.8–97%. The CO2 capture efficiency for the conventional IGCC plant was 87.7%. The specific investment costs for the proposed plants were between 1207 and 1479 €/kWe and 1620 €/kWe and 1134 €/kWe for the conventional plants with and without CO2 capture respectively. Overall the proposed IGCC plants are cleaner, more efficient and produce electricity at cheaper price than the conventional IGCC process. 相似文献
Novel vanadium oxide based catalyst derived from the open-framework solid, [Co3V18O42(H2O)12(XO4)]·24 H2O (X = V, S) (1) catalyses oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene. Catalyst activity was evaluated in the temperature range 250–400 °C with varying gas hourly space velocity (GHSV). At 350 °C and GHSV of 9786 h?1 and at 1.3% propane conversion the selectivity to propylene was 36.8%. The major products obtained were propylene and COx (CO2 and CO). The ratio of the propylene to COx depended directly on the catalytic sites present. Thus, as the amount of the catalyst was decreased, the conversion decreased with an increase in the propylene selectivity and a decrease in the selectivity to carbon oxides—COx. The catalyst has been characterized by temperature programmed reduction and diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS). 相似文献
The effects of different parameters such as time, concentration, pH and temperature, on metal ion retention properties of the polymer have been investigated. Metal ion adsorption kinetics, isotherms and thermodynamics have been studied. A plausible mechanism for mercury ion retention has been suggested. Mercuric ion has been isolated quantitatively from various synthetic mixture containing metal ions (Ni2+, Cd2+, Pb2+ and Zn2+). 相似文献
The work presented here is an experimental investigation of the critical flashing flow of initially subcooled water through circumferential slits in pipes. The study provides first hand information about the prediction of leak flow rates in piping and pressure vessels retaining high temperature and high pressure. The dedicated experimental facility loop simulates the thermal hydraulic condition of Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR). The critical flow characteristics found for varying leakage cross sections at different stagnation pressure and different degree of subcooling has been demonstrated in this paper. A marked decrease in mass flux has been found as subcooling decreases for a fixed stagnation pressure. More observation has revealed that the tighter slits or openings with very short duct as small as 0.8 cm flow length have different flow behavior than greater opening dimensions or with longer flow channels or that for nozzles. The critical flow has been seen to occur at higher pressure differentials along the flaws and prominent changes in the flow rate is reported to occur with varying dimensional parameters of the slit or cracks. 相似文献
In general, the purposes of this paper are to elucidate the crucial importance of durability and service lifetime prediction (SLP) for electrochromic windows (ECWs) and to present an outline for developing a SLP methodology for ECWs. The specific objectives are (a) to illustrate the generic nature of SLP for several types of solar energy conversion or energy conservation devices, (b) to summarize the major durability issues associated with ECWs, (c) to justify using SLP in the triad of cost, performance, and durability rather than just durability, (d) to define and explain the seven major elements that constitute a generic SLP methodology, (e) to provide background for implementing the SLP methodology for ECWs, including the complexity of the potential degradation mechanisms, and (f) to provide an outline of studies using ECWs for improving the durability of ECW materials and predicting a service lifetime for ECWs using the SLP methodology outlined in objective (d). Our major conclusions are that substantial R&Dis necessary to understand the factors that limit ECW durability, and that it is possible to predict the service lifetime of ECWs. 相似文献
Estimation of terrestrial water budget at global and regional scales are essential for efficient agricultural water management, flood predictions, and, hydrological modeling. In hydrological modeling, it is a challenging task to quantify the major hydrological components like runoff, evapotranspiration (ET), and total water storage (TWS) due to improper and limited availability of detailed meteorological datasets. Furthermore, there has been no consensus to answer a-decade-long critical question that a less data-intensive models can be an alternate to robust data-intensive models in data scarce conditions. This study aims at multi-model approach over the single models usage for representing the hydrological behaviour in the Kangsabati River Basin (KRB), India. It is done by applying the standard model selection criteria over various hydrological models. Two hydrological models are selected, a semi- distributed model, Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC-3 L), and a conceptually lumped model, Identification of unit Hydrograph and Component flows from Rainfall, Evapotranspiration and Streamflow (IHACRES). Both models were calibrated against the observed daily discharge at the KRB outlet for the period of 2001–2006 and validated for 2008–2010. The results show that both VIC-3 L and IHACRES produce reasonable runoff estimates at daily and monthly time scale in the KRB. The ET estimates show that VIC-3 L and IHACRES captured the seasonal variations with the percent change of 0.4% and 6.6% respectively. As IHACRES is simpler, parsimonious, fewer parameters, and better performances, it can be useful for hydrological modeling in data-scarce regions.
Enormous progress has been made in recent years on a number of photovoltaic materials and devices in terms of conversion efficiencies. Efficiencies in the range of 18%–24% have been achieved in traditional silicon-based devices fabricated from both multicrystalline and single-crystal materials. Ultrahigh-efficiency (>30%) photovoltaic (PV) cells have been fabricated from gallium arsenide (GaAs) and its ternary alloys like gallium indium phosphide (GaInP2). The high-efficiency GaAs-based solar cells are being produced on a commercial scale, particularly for space applications. Major advances in efficiency have also been made on various thin-film solar cells based on amorphous silicon (aSi:H), copper gallium indium diselenide (CIGS), and cadmium telluride materials. This paper gives a brief overview of the recent progress in PV cell efficiencies based on these materials and devices. 相似文献
A method has been outlined for the calculation of the pressure gradient that can exist within the reacted shell when a spherical
pellet reacts with a gas and undergoes a transport controlled topochemical reaction. It is known that pressure gradients can
arise because of Knudsen flow existing in the reacted shell with small pores and the reactant gas having a different diffusivity
than that of the product gas. The phenomena can be represented by a boundary value problem involving a set of partial differential
equations with a moving boundary, incorporating time and positional dependence of diffusivities of the reactant and product
gases. In the present work, the resulting equations have been solved numerically. A study has been made of the influence of
the relevant parameters like total and Knudsen diffusivity ratios of the reactant and product gases, the porosity to tortuosity
ratio of the reacted shell, the Biot modulus, the equilibrium constant of the reaction and the viscous flow parameter on the
pressure build up inside the reacted shell. 相似文献