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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Clean technologies"”.
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Application of scalable and inexpensive modification on carbon in clean technologies
Carbon can be a game-changing material to meet the global challenges in freshwater production and renewable conversion and storage devices due to their versatile nature. However, its hydrophobic characteristics, poor stability, low electrical conductivity, and small number of active sites limit its …
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Valorization of residues generated in the production of olive oil through clean technologies
El objetivo general de esta Tesis Doctoral es la valorización de los residuos de almazara en términos de extracción de aceite de orujo de oliva y recuperación de compuestos bioactivos mediante tecnologías limpias y emergentes, con posterior encapsulación de los biocompuestos recuperados en …
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On creating cleantech confluences : best practices and partnerships to mobilize multiple sources of private capital into early-stage clean technologies
… or $1.3 trillion per year in new and mature clean technologies. Currently, only about $0.3 trillion of investment goes to clean technology a year and the majority of that funding goes to mature, proven technologies. There is an investment gap in clean technologies, and the gap is especially …
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Environmental Performance of Copper Slag and Barshot as Abrasives
… in terms of productivity (in terms of area cleaned- ft2/hr), consumption and or used-abrasive generation rate (of the abrasive- ton/2000ft2; lb/ft2) and particulate emissions (mg/ft2; mg/lb; lb/lb; lb/kg; lb/ton). This would help in evaluating the clean technologies for dry abrasive blasting …
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Product Variety, Innovation and Growth
… products, process and product innovations, and clean technologies at the firm level for public and private firms. Furthermore, we propose methods of aggregating these measures at the industry and economy level. We use the newly proposed measures in applications ranging from firm value in …
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Regulating China's State Enterprises: Environmental Policy as a Bargaining Game
… from the regulator. Finally, the application of clean technologies in loss-making enterprises proves difficult because of the great informational asymmetries involved.
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A Neo-Gramscian Perspective on Varieties of Environmental Governance: Hegemonic Struggles in China’s Rare Earth Industry
… Although rare earths are indispensable to myriad clean technologies, mining and processing rare earth ores cause heavy pollution. As the world's largest supplier, China's rare earth industry has developed at huge environmental cost. Environmental pollution in the upstream supply chains of the …
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ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: TECHNICAL PROGRESS, POPULATION DYNAMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
… the environment (switching from polluting to clean technologies such an e ffect can crucially change).
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International Trade, the Environment and Natural Resources
… rise through a larger and older car fleet. Clean technologies curb global emissions but require as inputs rare earth elements (REEs), which pollute the local environment. China, the major producer of REEs, has been challenged at the WTO for its export restriction on REEs and has proposed to …
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Engineering Mechanocaloric Effects and Tunable Thermal Conductivity in Amorphous Elastic Polymer Fibers
Energy-efficient clean technologies for active heating/cooling and passive thermal regulation are in high demand for applications spanning different scales, from city planning and building heating/cooling to wearable and portable devices to miniature electronics. To advance relevant technologies …
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Accelerating bus electrification : enabling a sustainable transition to low carbon transportation systems
… models, and have historically commercialized clean technologies that enabled deployment in the rest of the heavy duty vehicle sector. This thesis seeks to understand what factors hinder or enable transit agencies to go beyond initial pilots to largely or wholly electrify their fleets, with the …
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STUDY OF BIOGASIFICATION OF COAL TO METHANE FOR EX SITU AND IN SITU APPLICATIONS
… energy market in a short while. Thus, better and clean technologies, rather than combustion, need to be developed to utilize coal for generating valuables for the society. Specific for this study, coal bioconversion was investigated for the purpose of producing methane from coal. The first part of …
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Recovery and use of ammonia from coke-making processes
… gas emissions urge for a development of clean technologies to transition energy sector to a carbon-neutral future. Approximately 80 % of the global energy is produced by burning oil, coal and natural gas. Coal is the most consumed energy source globally, mainly used in China (25538 TWh), …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de una planta generadora de electricidad de 120 MW por medio de concentradores solares cilíndricos parabólicos
… by favorable legislation. It is looking to give clean energies, more importance in the energetic matrix. Since the year 2010, the Supervisor Entity for Investment in Energy and Mining (OSINERGMIN) is organizing public auctions to give a 20-year contract for renewable energies only. This assures a …
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Plan estratégico de transición para el reemplazo de vehículos convencionales a vehículos con tecnologías limpias en la flota oficial de entidades públicas en Colombia
Actualmente en Colombia, el 98% de la energía utilizada para transporte corresponde a derivados del petróleo, lo cual convierte a este sector en el responsable del 20% del total de emisiones de Gases de Efecto Invernadero (GEI) en el país, además de aportar con una gran cantidad de otros gases …