Showing papers in "Fuel and Energy Abstracts in 1997"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors modify the often used Divisia index decomposition method by replacing the arithmetic mean weight function by a logarithmic one, which can be shown to give perfect decomposition with no residual.

TL;DR: In this article, a model with a set of Cournot firms, a collection of competitive fringe participants and an explicit representation of the electrical network illustrates the possible strategic interactions, where a generator would exercise market power by increasing its production in order to block transmission of a disproportionate amount of competing generation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive test run was carried out in several biomass combustion plants equipped with different combustion technologies and using various biomass fuels (wood chips, bark, straw and cereals).

TL;DR: In this article, coal seam gases from the Permian Sydney and Bowen basins, Australia, were characterized by methane/ethane ratios greater than or equal to 1000, and showed that microbial reduction of CO2 rather than traditional thermogenic reactions is mainly responsible for gas composition.

TL;DR: A review of state-of-the-art lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment in preparation for enzymatic digestion, with emphasis on lignosic-to-ethanol production is presented in this article.

TL;DR: The integration of coal gasification with combined cycle for power generation (IGCC) had the inherent characteristic of gas cleanup and waste minimization, which made this system environmentally preferable as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a reduced nickel catalyst and sodium carbonate as a promoter was used for cellulose and wood (Japanese oak) gasification in the presence of water at a temperature of 350 °C and pressure of 17 MPa.

TL;DR: In this paper, the carbonylation of methanol using a sodium methoxide catalyst was studied in the temperature range of 60-110℃ and pressure range of 2.0-4.0Mpa in a mechanically agitated reactor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Stuttgart University investigates the performance of in-furnace DeNOx technologies with regard to their NOx reduction efficiency using an electrically heated bench-scale test facility to evaluate the effect of different process parameters independently.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hybrid cycle/integrated district HVAC system is proposed for geothermal district heating systems, which is shown to achieve 677 GBtu (714 TJ) total annual heat output.

TL;DR: In the past two years, a number of new process technologies that convert coal-derived syngas to liquid fuels have been demonstrated at DOE's Alternative Fuels Development Unit (AFDU), located at Laporte, Texas as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impacts of changes in coal qualities on the performances of gasification processes and coal fired power plants were investigated and the most suitable coal for IGCC in Korea was selected.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of atmospheric air pollution on some hematological and plasma parameters, activity, and food and water consumption in Apodemus sylvaticus (wood mouse) and Mus musculus (mouse) were studied.