Two power plant schemes that reduce CO2 emission and employ natural gas reforming were analyzed and discussed. The first one integrates natural gas reforming technology for efficiency improvement with an oxy-fuel combined power system (OXYF-REF), with water as the main work fluid. The reforming heat is obtained from the available turbine exhaust heat, and the produced syngas is used as fuel wit...

INTRODUCTION A diving rebreather currently nearing release incorporates an infra-red CO2 analyser at the end of the exhale hose and uses the expired gas CO2 measurement made at this position to detect hypercapnia. This configuration may allow exhaled anatomic and mouthpiece dead space gas to mix with alveolar gas in the exhale hose thus falsely lowering the CO2 measurement, especially at low ti...

Due to increasing interest in indoor air quality and demand controlled ventilation in buildings aiming at energy and cost saving, as well as health and comfort aspects, the objective of our work has been the development of a reliable, low cost tool for demand ventilation control. Based on a single microelectromechanical (MEMS) metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) gas sensor VOC detection as close as...

Plant gas exchange is a key process shaping global hydrological and carbon cycles and is often characterized by plant water use efficiency (WUE - the ratio of CO2 gain to water vapor loss). Plant fossil record suggests that plant adaptation to changing atmospheric CO2 involved correlated evolution of stomata density (d) and size (s), and related maximal aperture, amax . We interpreted the fossi...

Membrane gas separation for carbon capture has traditionally been focused on high pressure applications, such as pre-combustion capture and natural gas sweetening. Recently a membrane-cryogenic combined process has been shown to be cost competitive for post-combustion capture from coal fired power stations. Here, the membrane-cryogenic combined process is investigated for application to post-co...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas that is customarily released to the environment during the usage of fossil fuels, including electric power generation. With the projected increase in consumption and demand for fossil fuels, CO2 emissions will correspondingly increase in the absence of any capture/sequestration strategy. In view that CO2 is a greenhouse gas with the potential to contribu...

in this study, bimodal meso-porous silica (uvm-7) synthesized and fabricated amino silane modified supports were characterized by powder x-ray diffraction (xrd), n2 adsorption/desorption, transmission electron microscope (tem), elemental analysis and titration. capacity of co2 capture on modified bimodal pore structure silica at 70°c was calculated using breakthrough curves; and it was found th...