Ankur Kapil

TL;DR: In this article, a new design methodology has been developed to systematically evaluate the economic benefit of integration of low grade heat with local district heating (DH) networks, and the optimization framework developed identifies economically acceptable distance for the over-the-fence heat recovery from the industrial site to local community, subject to economic parameters and engineering constraints.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new method has been developed to estimate cogeneration potential of site utility systems by a combination of bottom-up and top-down procedures, which allows systematic optimization of steam levels in the design of site utilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, three elementary reaction mechanisms Eley-Rideal (ER), Langmuir-Hinshelwood-Hougen-Watson (LHHW), and Hattori with assumptions, such as quasi-steady state conditions for the surface species and methanol adsorption, and surface reactions as the rate-determining steps were applied to predict the catalyst surface coverage and the bulk concentration using a multiscale simulation framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multiscale simulation and characterization framework has been developed for sorption enhanced reaction processes with heterogeneous multifunctional catalysts with sorption properties, where a unified framework is developed that integrates continuum model at bulk scale with the diffusion-reaction-sorption model at particle porous scale in a fixed-bed reactor.

TL;DR: In this paper, fixed bed sorption enhanced reactors (SER) and simulated moving bed reactors (SMBR) were used for the production of high purity biodiesel (fatty acid methyl ester, FAME) using esterification reactions between fatty acids (FA) in used oils and methanol.