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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"process heat"”.
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Solar Process Heat in the Food Industry – Methodological Analysis and Design of a Sustainable Process Heat Supply System in a Brewery and a Dairy
… reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions with heat recovery, but also with the integration of solar process heat. Energy efficiency must provide the context, or background, of such considerations, and is therefore a very important aspect of them. It is a complex task to design an efficient heat …
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Low-Concentrating, Stationary Solar Thermal Collectors for Process Heat Generation
… the development of a stationary, double-covered process heat flat-plate collector with a one-sided, segmented booster reflector (RefleC). This reflector approximates one branch of a compound parabolic concentrator (CPC). Optical meas-urement results of the collector components as well as …
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The potential of solar process heat for South Africa industry
… technologies for high temperature industrial processes in South Africa which makes a significant contribution to global Greenhouse Gas emissions and it whose electricity supply is under pressure. It is thus required to explore reliable technologies that can provide low-carbon renewable energy …
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Nuclear process heat and the paper industry- with special reference to New England
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Industrial Management, 1960
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A method for evaluating the potential of geothermal energy in industrial process heat applications
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1980
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Nuclear Design of Catalyzed-DD and DT Fusion Blankets For High-Temperature Process Heat Reduction
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Modeling of microreactors for clean dispatch of electricity and process heat in a campus setting
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Performance of Aluminium Lattice Structures: Interplay Between Additive Manufacturing Process, Heat Treatment Strategies, and Microstructural Control, for Room and High Temperature Applications
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Automated retrofit of heat exchanger networks
In a large industrial processing plant, a significant amount of process heat is generated using fossil fuels, contributing to New Zealand’s overall greenhouse gas emissions. While New Zealand’s renewable energy sources present potential alternatives to fossil fuels, reducing the process heat demand …
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Conceptual Structural Design of Core Components for a Horizontal, Compact HTGR
… potential in decarbonizing industrial process heat markets. Collaborators at MIT recently introduced the Horizontal, Compact HTGR (HC-HTGR), which expects to see a 20% reduction in overall cost with respect to vertical HTGRs. The horizontal re-orientation and modularization of the …
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Multi-Level process integration of heat pumps in a non-continuous processing site
Industrial process heat demands contribute significantly to New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions. With a global push towards decarbonization, including New Zealand’s Climate Change Response Amendment Act 2019, there is a need for methods and technologies that can be applied to replace industrial …
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Tritium retention in nuclear graphite, system-level transport, and management strategies for the fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactor
… coated-particle fuel to produce power or process heat. Compared to current water-cooled reactors, managing tritium release from a FHR is further complicated by the mobility of tritium at high temperatures and limited knowledge of interactions between tritium and nuclear graphite in the …
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Helium-Air mixing in simulated reactor cavities of Very High Temperature Reactors
… that promise to deliver high temperature process heat and efficient electricity for both industrial and commercial purposes. They have a high level of inherent passive safety making them a viable alternative to traditional water-cooled reactors. These helium gas-cooled reactors use …
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Macroscopic convection in the thin-film processor
… that macroscopic fluid convection in thin-film processors may be adequately represented by simple linear deterministic models. In addition, it examines the suggestion that the models themselves provide a useful tool in the search for a generalizable 'intrinsic' process heat transfer film …
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Investigation into the potential of industrial cogeneration in South Africa
… isadvantageous in industry where electricity and process heat can be produced with outstanding efficiency. It has been shown to offer sizable energy savings and cost advantages in a wide variety ofindustries around the world. Despite these attractive benefits SA‘s use of cogeneration …
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Sustainability within the polyester value chain
… environmental impact of manufacturing PET using process modelling and life cycle assessment. The work focused on ways of reducing the environmental impact of the polymer manufacture by using biomass instead of conventional fossil fuels, either as a raw material for producing ethylene glycol or …
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Enhanced geothermal energy and cogeneration : design, technology and economics
… century. One of the options at hand is mining heat from the earth's crust. The U.S. Department of Energy has supported research into Enhanced Geothermal Systems in Hot Dry Rock (HDR) since the mid seventies. Advances in drilling technology, reservoir management and power conversion cycles have …
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Thermal hydraulic design of a salt-cooled highly efficient environmentally friendly reactor
… are desirable in a reactor designed to provide process heat applications such as oil refinery needs of heat and electricity. The reactor uses the binary salt NaF-BeF₂ as the primary coolant, and uses U-Zr-H as fuel and to provide neutron moderation. Design options were studied under the …
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Thermal hydraulic design of a 2400 MW t̳h̳ direct supercritical CO₂-cooled fast reactor
… of high cycle efficiency and the provision of process heat for hydrogen production by thermochemical water cracking, these high temperatures present materials challenges which may prove difficult to overcome in the near future. By taking advantage of the low compressibility of CO2 near its …
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Study of biomass combustion characteristics for the development of a catalytic combustor/gasifier
… to biomass energy conversion for small-scale process heat-applications. The conversion process uses close-coupled catalytic. combustion to burn combustibles in effluent generated by primary combustion or gasification of biomass fuels. Computer control of primary and secondary air flow rates …
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