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Feasibility Study Toward Biogas Purification of H2S Impurities Using Wet and Dry Banana Leaves

by Huboyo Haryono Zaman Badrus Ramadan Bimastyaji Prasetijo Agung Wahyudi Rahmatia

Circular Economy and Bioeconomy

Biogas, an alternative technology that produces environmentally friendly fuels, usually contains impurities which may infer the performance of combustion. Hydrogen sulfide (H 2S) gas is one of the impurities in the biogas. This study’s objective is to assess the removal of hydrogen sulfide using...

Biogas air pollution removal +3 more
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Impact of alumina nanoparticles and lanthanum zirconate coating on the Performance, combustion and emission characteristics of diesel engine functioned with Terminalia cattappa seed oil

by Venkatesh Kumaragurubaran Bensam Raj Ramesh Kumar

Issue 6

Sustainable Energy

This study investigated the potential of biofuels as sustainable alternatives to petroleum based source in CI engines, through focus about biodiesel derived from Terminalia catappa seed oil. Specifically, it scrutinized the consequence of incorporating aluminum oxide into biodiesel plus implementing...

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A statistical prediction of thermal efficacy improvement and exhausts reduc-tion of CRDI engine energized with ternary blends using linear regression machine learning model

by Phani Deepthi A.N. J.Prabakaran A.P Sathiyagnanam Prasad Sanaka Srinivasa

Issue 6

Sustainable Energy

The intensifying environmental and energy-related issues have led to a significant surge in the need for discovering alternative fuel sources. Additionally, the labor and time involved in identifying the appropriate fuel for the engine being examined is considerable. In order to mitigate this...

Pedicel biodiesel n-butanol +3 more
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Optimization of Fuel Injection Timing and Pressure in CI Engines Using Waste Cooking Oil Biodiesel with Response Surface Methodology

by Saminathan Sathiskumar E.B. Priyanka Priyanka

Issue 6

Solid Waste Management

The global automotive industry is under mounting pressure to adopt highly efficient, low-emission engine technologies due to stringent regulations and increasing environmental awareness. In response, researchers are exploring alternative fuels, such as biodiesel, to enhance energy independence and...

Fuel injection timing Waste Cooking Oil +4 more
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Environmental emission characteristics of diesel engine performance using biodiesel by cotton and pumpkin seed

by Sivakumar A. Subbarayan M.R. Sankarapandian S. Seenivasan M.

Issue 5

Air pollution and health

The hunt for alternative fuels that may be utilized in place of conventional fuels is intensifying quickly since the availability of fossil fuels is dwindling daily. In this work, biodiesel derived from pumpkin and cotton seed oils is presented for use as diesel engine fuel. Related to diesel, the...

Biodiesel Cotton Seed Oil +2 more
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Harvesting of Dunaliella salina using electrocoagulation with helix electrode and producing HHO gas as promising Hydrogen fuel

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Mochamad Arief Budihardjo et al. View all

Issue 1

Environmental data analysis and modelling

Biofuels obtained from renewable sources are the only alternative in the global economy from a sustainable point of view. Microalgae have shown tremendous potential as a major source of biomass production that can be used as biofuels. At the same time, gas hydrogen is a non-polluting energy source...

Dunaliella salina Electrocoagulation +3 more
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A multi-variant approach to optimize process parameters of two-step pretreatment of high FFA Prosopis juliflora oil

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Raja K et al. View all

Issue 9

Air pollution and health

A feasible alternative fuel for diesel engines in recent days is biodiesel, which can be produced from both edible and inedible feedstock. When considering the economic and environmental aspects, there is a considerable academic interest among researchers in the transesterification of non-edible...

Prosopis juliflora. Acid esterification RSM +2 more
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Simultaneous degradation efficiency of C-MFCs for three pollutants in aquaculture wastewater

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Lu Hongsheng et al. View all

Issue 8

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Chlorella microbial fuel cells may be an alternative technology for wastewater treatment. Using microalgae and activated sludge as raw materials, a C-MFCs was established, and the effects of different nitrogen and phosphorus ratios in the influent on the electrochemical performance of C-MFCs and the...

C-MFCs nitrogen-phosphorus ratio +3 more
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Extraction, performance and emission characterization of diesel engine using waste lipolytic microorganism biodiesel

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M.Arunkumar et al. View all

Issue 7

Sustainable Energy

In this study, milk waste water will be extracted, transformed into Lipolytic microorganism’s biodiesel (LMD) using transesterification, and tested for appropriateness as an alternative, sustainable, renewable source for IC engines. The properties of the created blends of biodiesel were investigated...

Biodiesel milkwaste +3 more
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Investigational study of significance of Propanol addition in performance and emission distinctiveness of Compression Ignition engine fuelled through cotton seed oil blended with diesel

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Ravi. S et al. View all

Issue 7

Air pollution and health

Numerous alternative fuels such as biodiesel as well as alcohols have been commercialized in both the industrial and transportation sectors. Cottonseed oil and propanol piqued our curiosity in this context. Many researches has been conducted on a single cylinder four strokes diesel engine competent...

air quality Emission +3 more
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Recovery of bioethanol from food waste using Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Dr.S.MURUGAN et al. View all

Issue 3

Solid Waste Management

Excessive use of fossil fuels results in the rapid depletion of non-renewable fossil energy resources, a rise in fuel cost, and an uncontrolled emission of greenhouse gases which causes a severe threat to the environment. Bio-fuels are being scrutinized as substitutes for current high-pollutant...

Bioethanol Leftover Cooked Rice +3 more
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Performance and Emissions Parameters Optimization of Thermal Barrier Coated Engine Tested with Tamanu Blended Diesel Fuel: A Novel Emission Pollution-Preventive Approach

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Sureshbabu. Y et al. View all

Issue 3

Air pollution and health

Diesel engines cause major pollutants such as hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), and oxides of nitrogen (NOx). These emissions affect environmental systems and lead to global warming and climatic change effects. These pollutants also affect humans and lead to health problems like lung cancer...

Piston coating performance +3 more
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Physio-chemical evaluation and Co-combustion efficiency of different biomass waste fractions with indigenous coal blends for utilization as alternative fuel

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Sumaira Kanwal et al. View all

Issue 1

Solid Waste Management

Severe energy crisis and vilest economic conditions in Pakistan demand the country’s energy portfolio to be revised with increased reliance on indigenous energy resources. The perspective of utilization of abundantly available biomass waste fractions as a fuel alone and their co-combustion with two...

waste to energy Co-combustion +3 more
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Purification of Biogas From Tofu Waste using Zeolite and Activated Carbon (AC) as Adsorbent

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Mochamad Arief Budihardjo et al. View all

Issue 4

Solid Waste Management

Substitution of fossil fuel into alternative energy sources, such as biogas, needs to be applied to prevent various problems in the environment. Biogas purification can be an alternative technology to improve the quality of biogas, which increases the heat value by reducing CO2. Purification can be...

Adsorption Activated carbon +3 more
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Hybrid Phytoremediation: an Ultimate Bio-Solution for Leachate

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Atun RoyChoudhury et al. View all

Issue 2

In the recent era, utmost attention is paid towards exploring the alternative source of energies, being more specific green energies. In modern days, when growing energy scarcity is a hot topic and considered as a global threat, in that context a green technology capable of sustainably addressing...

Bioaccumulation Bio-fuel +6 more
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Evaluvation of Paper recycling Wastewater Treatment Accompanied by power generation using Microbial Fuel Cell

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M. Radha et al. View all

Issue 4

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

This study investigates the feasibility of using cathode catalyst (Iron phthalocyanine (FePc) combined multi walled carbon nano tubes (MWCNT) and compares the oxygen reduction rate under different conductivity of catholite solution (50 mM, 100mM) in double chamber Microbial Fuel Cell. Microbial fuel...

Iron phthalocyanine Multiwalled carbon Nano Tubes +2 more
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Investigation of the Diachronic Development of CO2 Emission Levels in Relation to Traffic Characteristics Along Major Road Axes During an Era of Recession: the Case of Greece

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Fotini Kehagia et al. View all

Issue 4

Air pollution and health

The problem of reducing CO2 emissions from transport, a major contributor to the greenhouse effect, has become a growing concern for the scientific community and various international committees monitoring climate change. Energy savings in the transport sector are a key factor towards rational...

CO2 Emissions Transport System +4 more
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Assessment of wind energy potential in East Azarbaijan province of Iran (Case Stady: Sahand station)

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Seyed Hossein Mirmousavi et al. View all

Issue 2

Sustainable Energy

Today's world requires a change in how the use of different types of energy. With declining reserves of fossil fuels for renewable energies is of course the best alternative. Among the renewable energy from the wind can be considered one of the best forms of energy can be introduced. Accordingly...

Iran Wind power +2 more
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Airplane materials compatibility with blends of fossil kerosene Jet A1 with biokerosenes from babassu, palm kernel and coconut oils

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David Bolonio Martín et al. View all

Issue 6

E2KW 2013

Currently there is a big interest to increase the sources of alternative fuels for aviation to get a reduction of their carbon footprint and the deep energetic dependence from fossil fuels of different countries. Although there are studies about how to produce this alternative fuel and if it...

Biokerosene compatibility +2 more
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Effect of alternative fuels on diesel low temperature combustion

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Juan José Hernández et al. View all

Issue 6

E2KW 2013

A set of experiments have been carried out in a heavy duty single cylinder engine using high EGR rates and different start of injection angles ( SOI). Three different fuels (conventional diesel fuel, a diesel-ethanol mixture (e-diesel) and a Fischer-Tropsch fuel (GTL)) have been tested in order to...

Alternative diesel fuels Low Temperature Combustion +1 more
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Use of alternative fuels obtained from renewable sources in Brayton cycles

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Escudero M., Jimenez A., Lopez I. and Rodriguez J.

Issue 2

General

Analysis and simulation of the behaviour of gas turbines for power generation using different nonconventional fuels obtained from different renewable sources are presented. Three biomass-tobiofuel processes are considered: anaerobic digestion of biomass (biogas), biomass gasification (synthesis gas)...

Renewable energy sources Bioenergy +4 more
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Emission estimates and air quality impacts from the use of alternative fuels by the Titan cement factory in Thessaloniki

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Moussiopoulos N., Banias G., Douros J. , Michailidou A.V. and Tsegas G.

Issue 2

General

Cement production is an energy-intensive process. Utilisation of fossil fuels is common practice in the cement industry around the world. Alternative fuel substitution rates increase every year. More specifically, 18 % of the fuel used by the European cement industry in 2006 consists of alternative...

alternative fuels cement industry +3 more
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Environmental and energy assessment of new vehicle technologies in the greater Athens area

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Xiouras C., Angelis-Dimakis A., Arampatzis G. and Assimacopoulos D.

Issue 2

General

The transport sector in Greece has the largest share in the final energy consumption and the resulting emissions are one of the main sources of atmospheric pollution. This situation is worse in the region of Attica, where nearly half of the country’s private cars circulate in an area equal to 3 % of...

Transport Sector Energy Savings +2 more
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