Showing papers in "Energy Conversion and Management in 1992"

TL;DR: A preliminary technical and economic survey on the CO 2 injection system suggests favorable results as discussed by the authors, but more investigations are necessary for assessment of the effect of CO2 injection on groundwater environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the technical feasibility, limiting geological conditions and consequences of carbon dioxide storage in aquifers were investigated, the geochemical and enviromnmental aspects were considered and the underground storage capacity in the Netherlands for CO 2 was estimated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the results from an evaluation of the performance and cost of a natural gas fired sea water cooled combined cycle power plant with emissions control equipment (amine scrubbing) to achieve a 90% reduction in atmospheric discharge of carbon dioxide (CO2).

TL;DR: In this article, the feasibility of polymer membranes for the recovery of CO 2 from flue gases of a power plant is examined, and a computer program based on the cross flow permeation model for membranes, several parameters are optimized to obtain the lowest specific CO 2 mitigation costs.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive plume model was developed to simulate the dynamic, near-field behavior of CO2 released in the water column as either a buoyant liquid or vapor.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the Kerr-McGee/Lummus Crest appraoch for recovering CO2 from oxygen-containing gases, as well as discuss design aspects of a unit which recovers food-grade CO 2 from coal-fired boiler stack gases.

TL;DR: Carbon dioxide has been injected into oil reservoirs for the purpose of recovery of additional oil for the past two decades as mentioned in this paper, and the extent of the industry effort is discussed, and the current level of effort described.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose to use these brines to lock up carbon dioxide, while at the same time producing calcium carbonate, hydrochloric acid and a variety of other chemical-industrial commodities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the cylindrical latent heat storage system which has been considered here is a part of a domestic hot water system, and a theoretical model has been developed for such a system.

TL;DR: The Fluor Daniel ECONAMINE FG CO2 recovery process has many unique advantages and is used in commercial installations worldwide as mentioned in this paper and has been used in food and chemical process industries as well as in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) applications.

TL;DR: Pulverized coal combustion in an oxygen-enriched atmosphere with CO2/O2 mixtures is expected to be effective for improving combustion efficiency and for CO2 recovery from flue gas without the process of concentration as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the application of membrane technology in carbon dioxide removal for a number of different gasstreams, and two different types of membrane operations have been considered i.e. carbon dioxide extraction based on gas-absorption membranes making use of e.g. conventional amine technology and carbon dioxide separation membranes.

TL;DR: In this article, the technical feasibility and consequences of carbon dioxide disposal from coal-based, combined cycle power stations in small and large depleted gas fields in the Netherlands was investigated, and the overall thermal efficiency of the scheme is 33% vs 43% for a power station without CO 2 disposal.

TL;DR: In this paper, a water coexisting with liquid CO 2 in a 35-ml cell (at 3 °C, 343 atm) was sampled and introduced into a vibrating-tube type densitometer.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of these studies and outline the areas where cost and energy savings can be made, to allow the practical use of flue gas carbon dioxide recovery processes in the power plant.

TL;DR: The results indicated the feasibility of the HA-1 strain for mass cultivation using stack gases in a broad range of physically controllable conditions, including CO2 enriched air flow rate, temperature and pH value.

TL;DR: In this paper, a selective and effective conversion of CO2 to methanol by catalytic hydrogenation over promoted CuZnO catalyst has been studied, and the influence of contact time on the selectivity was also demonstrated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of each parameter which control carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) clathrate formation is made clear by the apparatus, whose design pressure is 9.8 MPa.

TL;DR: In this article, a seriesly-connected two-stage catalytic conversion of CO2 into gasoline was studied by one-pass operation using seriesly connected two-stage reactor.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed deep ocean carbonate chemistry and mixing, and estimated their relative importance for the prediction of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations resulting from deep ocean release, and predicted that disposal into the surface ocean (2000 year) atmospheric enrichment by a significant amount (∼50%)

TL;DR: In this article, the efficiency of four different designs of basin-type stills is analyzed and the results show that a higher ratio of condensation area (A c ) to evaporation area ( A e ) leads to a higher productivity, if not contradicted by another effect such as shading.

TL;DR: In this article, a thermal analysis of a double effect multi-wick solar still has been presented by incorporating design and climatic parameters, and analytical expressions for the temperatures of water and glass and thermal efficiency have also been derived.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed-integer program is developed for use in the optimization process of the combined heat and power (CHP) system of Malmo, Sweden, and a sensitivity analysis is elaborated in order to show how the optimal solution will vary due to changes in certain input data.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new scheme for electricity production based on coal gasificiation with recovery of CO2 was described for coal-to-coal power generation with a new type of gas turbine with CO2 as working fluid.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the economics of CO 2 disposal in an offshore depleted gas reservoir and for enhanced oil recovery for coal fired power stations by retrofitting a new process which recovers the CO 2 as a pure liquid by distillation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of new, steam-like turbines with elevated temperatures as in modern gas turbines gives the hope to compensate the efficiency decline caused by oxygen production, and preliminary evaluations of some power cycles are presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a transient analysis of solar concrete collectors used for providing domestic hot water is presented, which involves the solution of the two-dimensional time-dependent heat conduction equation with appropriate initial and boundary conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of a change in clearance between the blade tip and the fan casing on the overall performance of an axial flow fan is investigated, and the authors show that the tip clearance effects are dependent on the type of fan rotor, the size of the rotor, as well as the rotor type in which the fan is used.

TL;DR: In this article, the chemical absorption process was applied to CO 2 recovery from power plant flue gas and measures for improvement, including energy saving measures, were introduced, where the authors described the technical challenges in applying the chemical process to CO2 recovery.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated coal gasification power plants integrated with Gas Turbines or Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells (MCFC) without and with CO2-removal.