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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"energy industries"”.
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Data Driven Approaches to Model Building: Applications to Energy Industries
… and downstream (refining & chemicals) industries, namely (a) cementing of wells drilled for production of oil and gas from unconventional resources, such as shales; and (b) design of robust control-relevant models for oil refineries and chemical plants. Shale gas production from …
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Drivers and Barriers to the Development of Renewable Energy Industries in the Caribbean
… the reasons for the lack of renewable energy development in the Caribbean.The research method consisted of mainly a qualitative case study as well as a quantitative survey. The results suggest that the main factors affecting development of technology are the level of entrepreneurship, …
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A Review of Energy and Environmental Policy for Offshore Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminals
… amended the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 allowing energy industries to construct offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals. The industry friendly amendments weakened environmental regulations resulting in quick approval of several terminals that utilize environmentally damaging open-loop …
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Nanoengineered hierarchical advanced composites with nanofiber interlaminar reinforcement for enhanced laminate-level mechanical performance
… in the aerospace, transportation, defense, and energy industries. To date, composite materials, specifically advanced carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs), which are comprised of high specific stiffness and strength continuous carbon microfibers and lightweight, relatively compliant …
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New considerations for compact cyclotrons
… problems facing the defense, medical, and energy industries today. This thesis discusses three potential applications of compact cyclotrons: generation of ¹³ for medical imaging, active interrogation for counter-proliferation, and fast neutron imaging for Enhanced Stockpile Surveillance …
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USA vs CHINA; ENERGY SECURITY POLITICS Challenges of Peak-Oil and Climate Change
"Energy is a critical basis for state survival. This thesis aims at examining the different energy-security strategies of the USA and China and the political means necessary to implement clean-energy development beyond marginal results. The success of China’s lead in its devotion to clean-energy …
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Structural and mechanistic identification of heterogeneous catalysts
… and widespread use in the chemical and energy industries, understanding and improving heterogeneous catalysts is essential to advance their development and enable more sustainable processes. Atomically disperse or single atom catalysts have shown particular promise for their ability to …
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An analysis of the necessity and relevance of establishing a pipeline regulator in South Africa's Petroleum Industry
This thesis focuses on issues surrounding energy regulation, and specifically regulation of pipelines that carry petroleum products in South Africa. The introduction of a regulator for petroleum pipelines is part of an ongoing process taking center stage in the South African government's petroleum …
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Conversion of Switchgrass into Functional Carbon Materials and Food Emulsifiers
… products for food, pharmaceutical, and energy industries.
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A Neo-Gramscian Perspective on Varieties of Environmental Governance: Hegemonic Struggles in China’s Rare Earth Industry
… upstream supply chains of the high-tech and new-energy industries becomes one of the most thorny issues in China's environmental governance. With the critical reviews on the varieties of capitalism approach and the neo-Gramscian governance studies, the study proposes a neo-Gramscian perspective …
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Anticipated Impact of a Vibrant Wood-to-Energy Market on the U.S. South's Wood Supply Chain
Recent emphasis on producing energy from woody biomass has raised questions about the impact of a vibrant wood-to-energy market on the southern wood supply chain, which consists of forest landowners, forest industry mills, and harvesting contractors. This study utilized two surveys of southern wood …
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Extrusion Based Ceramic 3D Printing - Printer Development, Part Characterization, and Model-Based Systems Engineering Analysis
… used in aerospace, automotive, medical, and energy industries due to their unique combination of mechanical, thermal, and chemical properties. The objective of this thesis is to develop an extrusion based ceramic 3D printing process to digitally produce a casting mold. To achieve the …
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Coherence in nanostructured excitons
… revolutionize the medicine, communications, and energy industries, with applications utilizing nanotechnology beginning to appear. However, there are still fundamental questions about optoelectronic devices incorporating nanotechnology. In particular, how do nanometer-scale materials affect …
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Plant growth under photovoltaic arrays of varying transparencies – a study of plant response to light and shadow in agrivoltaic systems
… put on the interdependent systems in the food, energy, and water nexus, this document highlights the potential for systems-based solutions at the intersection of food cultivation, ecosystem services, and energy production in urban and rural environments. Agrivoltaics (APV) is a land-use model …
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Challenges to consumers practices toward renewable energy in household from a socio-technical perspective
Energy has always been a major source of human beings and has depended on it for survival and productive activities. Conventional energy sources (eg: fossil fuel) will cause pollution, and their use will degrade the environment but renewable energy is environmentally friendly. However, social …
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Application of manganese oxide minerals to treat acidic waters contaminated with vanadium
… being released from metallurgical and energy industries. Its high mobility and toxicity under acidic conditions challenge conventional remediation technologies, while its growing demand creates opportunities for selective recovery. This thesis investigated manganese(III/IV) oxides …
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A density functional theory study into the mechanism and reactivity in heterogeneous system
… in a wide range of the chemical, biological, and energy industries. Moreover, heterogeneous catalysis has also been applied to solving the problem of many aspects in our daily life, such as environmental enhancement, energy shortage, efficient synthesis. Just as its name implies, heterogeneous …
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Selective Ion Separations Using Shock Electrodialysis
… pollution. At the same time, the chemicals and energy industries face a number of difficult challenges in the selective extraction of high-value ionic species from dilute aqueous solutions. Important examples include the selective removal of trace pollutants, such as toxic heavy metal ions, from …
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Algorithms, analysis and software for the global optimization of two-stage stochastic programs
Optimization models in the chemical process industries often include uncertain model parameters due to uncertainties in market forces and the environment, use of reduced-order and surrogate process models, and difficulty in measuring parameters accurately. Optimal solutions to formulations that …
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Optimizing Adsorption Energies of Reaction Products and Intermediates on Metal/Metal Oxide Catalysts to Achieve High Activity and Tunable Selectivity in Solid-Gas Phase Reactions
… emerged as a critical process in chemical and energy industries for a sustainable future. It needs a catalyst to change the chemical reaction pathway and enables the reaction to happen under milder condition. Metal catalysts supported on the metal oxide or unsupported metal crystallites have …
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