Laboratory measurements of the effects of steam injection on the electrical conductivity of sands can aid in the interpretation of electrical surveys used to monitor subsurface steam-injection projects. The effect of variations in injected steam quality was measured in the experiments presented here. The injection of low-quality steam, boiled from a 0.01 mol/L NaCl solution, into clean sand sat...

A combined steam-gas plant with in-cycle steam gasification of coal and hot gas purification is considered as a promising technology for increasing the efficiency energy production simultaneous reduction in environmental impact. To intensify steam-air gasification, mechanical activation fuel used; it consists high-stress grinding mill-disintegrator. The supply to gasifier allows an increase rea...

The effect of clay content on the electrical response of steamflooded geologic material is studied using a combination of laboratory experiments and numerical simulations. The presence of clay can increase the conductivity of a steam zone by providing a surface conduction path that is enhanced strongly by temperature increases. Clay also increases the residual water saturation in a steam zone, ...

Most electric power is produced by steam turbines. This is because the steam cycle is well suited to the conversion of heat to work and steam turbines can be built in a wide range of capacities up to about 1500 MW. Steam turbines are basically very simple having fixed blades to accelerate the steam and moving blades to absorb the resulting kinetic energy. The moving blades are mounted on a rota...

In this study, heterogeneous biomass-based activated carbon-supported metal oxide catalysts were prepared and tested for lactic acid production from glucose in aqueous solution. Activated carbons produced hydrolysis lignin by chemical (ZnCl2) or steam activation modified with a nitric treatment Sn, Al, Cr chlorides to obtain carbon-based catalysts. The modification of the carbon support togethe...

This study presents the effects of different activation methods to produce activated carbon from hydrolysis lignin. Pretreatment feedstock with common mineral acids (HCL, HNO3, and H3PO4), steam rates for physical activation, chemical activating agents (ZnCl2, Na2CO3, KOH) were investigated. The pretreated biomass was carbonized in one-stage process surface characteristics, such as total pore v...

The objective of this research was to determine the effectiveness of using pecan and almond shell-based granular activated carbons (GACs) in the adsorption of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of health concern and known toxic compounds (such as bromo-dichloromethane, benzene, carbon tetrachloride, 1,1,1-trichloromethane, chloroform, and 1,1-dichloromethane) compared to the adsorption efficienc...

Steam-induced vibration is a kind of self-excited vibration which is one of the most important issues affecting the operation reliability of steam turbines. A lot of actual cases of steam-induced vibration of steam turbine were collected in this work. And steam-induced vibration fault was statistical and classified by fault reason, happened time, occurrence load and fault severity. The statisti...

Four different varieties of class F fly ashes, collected from different sources from the state of West Bengal (India) were mixed with lime in 9 : 1 wt ratio, followed by compaction of the mixes. The compacts were subjected to steam curing to develop an optimum strength by the reaction between fly ash and lime. The steam cured compacts were heated at different elevated temperatures and free lime...