To address energy security and climate-change concerns, substitutes are needed for petroleum-based transportation fuels. In addition to electricity natural gas, biofuels emerging as an important class of substitutes. The promotion is mainly driven by the perspective oil depletion, concerns about security, global warming. However, results published in past few decades present conflicting picture...

Abstract In the development of all‐solid‐state lithium batteries (ASSLB), progress is made with solid‐state electrolytes; however, challenges regarding compatibility and stability still exist solid electrodes. These issues result in a low battery capacity short cycle life, which limit commercial application ASSLBs. This review summarizes recent research on electrodes ASSLBs including solid–soli...

this study investigated different concepts for natural-gas-fired power plants with the co2capture, and compared them based on the net plant efficiency and emission of co2. the cycles were based ona six oxy-fuel, one post-combustion and two pre-combustion capture concept. this paper presented theresults of an environmental evaluation performed by the application of the life cycle analysis (lca) ...

Previous Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Costing (LCC) studies on urban drainage systems only included construction materials in the system inventories. The present study aims to suggest an LCA LCC method that for first time, considers inventories from four main phases life cycle impact assessment, including extraction of aggregates production blocks, transportation, construction, civil work fi...

The compatibility of nuclear materials in contact with Generation IV reactor coolants such as lead‑bismuth eutectic (LBE) still requires experimental justification. One the key mechanical properties is fatigue life, both for design and life extension programmes.In this work, characteristics surface cracks austenitic stainless steel 316 L was analysed after low cycle tests at 350 °C three differ...

Respiratory monitoring systems are required to supply CT scanners with information on the patient's breathing during the acquisition of a respiration-correlated computer tomography (RCCT), also referred to as 4D CT. The information a respiratory monitoring system has to provide to the CT scanner depends on the specific scanner. The purpose of this study is to compare two different respiratory m...