scholarly journals Probing the interaction of Rh, Co and bimetallic Rh–Co nanoparticles with the CeO2 support: catalytic materials for alternative energy generation

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (40) ◽  
pp. 27154-27166 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Varga ◽  
P. Pusztai ◽  
L. Óvári ◽  
A. Oszkó ◽  
A. Erdőhelyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Transfer ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Energy Generation ◽  
Catalytic Materials ◽  
Co Nanoparticles

Significant Rh agglomerization occurs and oxygen transfer from ceria to Rh takes place. Co induces the formation of smaller crystallites of ceria. Strong dissolution of Co is experienced.

Material Innovations in Alternative Energy - Collaboration, Systems and Opportunities

2008 ◽  
Vol 380 ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
David W. Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Energy Demand ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Demand Curve ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Energy Generation ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Generation Capacity ◽  
Market Needs

In today’s global market system innovation is the driver for economic development and wealth creation. Developing a competitive advantage now requires a business culture of rapid innovation, collaborative strategies, a systematic methodology, and a culture of concurrent change. This is the reality in today’s innovation economy and particularly relative to developing alternative energy systems and materials. With the ever-increasing requirements for energy in a growing economy and the political, environmental, and resource constraints prevalent in today’s world, new, more efficient energy systems are mandatory. The U.S. has experienced inadequate energy generation capacity in key geographic regions further emphasizing the need to enhance our energy generation capacity through a multitude of energy sources. A viable capacity additive to this supply and demand dilemma is the development of alternative energy sources such as fuel cells, photovoltaics, and wind. To achieve this capacity additive will require significant advancement in key engineering materials combined with innovation stimulants to leap-frog the current performance and cost barriers for competitive energy producing alternatives. The energy demand curve experienced globally over the past few years illustrates unmet market needs where opportunity exists to develop innovative key materials to enable the projected growth for renewable and biomass markets. To accelerate advanced materials to market in the energy arena requires a system of enabling innovation combined with the development of a collaborative approach to optimize available resources. Collaborative partnerships between multiple companies incorporating technology, market/distribution, and financial investors are essential to optimize innovation and successful commercialization of technology. Higher value disruptive innovations meet new market needs while pushing a company to new technology and/or capability requirements. Competitive success for innovative technology increasingly depends on speed to market and speed to profits.

Framework for the use of landscaping waste for alternative energy generation

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Heinicke
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Energy Generation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Input Material ◽  
Biogas Plants ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Required Quality ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – Against the background of alternative sources for feeding biogas plants, this paper aims to consider a utilization of landscaping waste as alternative to common crops. Design/methodology/approach – In consideration of survey data, a robust framework is proposed based on characterizations of source and sink to meet the requirements of both sides reliably. Depending on available data and further surveys, a level of detail approach of a biomass supply chain is conducted in this regard. Findings – In this context, different types of landscaping waste suitable for both biogas generation and incineration were defined. With respect to the sporadically minor quantities of landscaping waste, minor capacity load in terms of transportation is one crucial factor within an entire concept of logistics. Practical implications – Due to the arising cost function, possibilities and needs of utilizing landscaping waste for alternative energy generation in biogas plants and incineration plants are drawn. Originality/value – Moreover, economic and technological challenges concerning a utilization of landscaping waste in biogas plants are systematically revealed. Thus, technological processes in biogas plants were considered from a managerial point of view. The characteristics of rotting biomass in terms of its shelf life are considered additionally to ensure the required quality of input material particularly for the process of biogas generation.

scholarly journals Development and Analysis of Combinational Pico-Energy Generation Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 388-392
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Energy Generation ◽  
Resource Needs ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Energy Assets

Alternative energy is extracted via unlimited resources. Appropriate practice of energy assets is a great debate heading these times. It is extremely significant to determine of which resource needs to be employed and for what reason. Number of points just like cleanness, expense, steadiness, effectiveness and so geographical impacts needs to be considered. Because of India getting the world’s 4th leading emitter of Carbon Dioxide, it is vital to figure out what precisely the India's exhausts are presently as well as, just where these may be advancing. Considering India’s early on level of monetary evolution, poor per-capita exhausts and so its significant populace, certainly, there is distinctive probability to get its exhausts to boost. Hence, certainly, there is a requirement of option to lessen this carbon foot printing as per Kyoto protocol. Hence, this paper presents the methodology to lower the carbon foot printing by means of combinational Pico-energy generation.

Analyzing the Strategies for Controlling a Hybrid Energy Complex Based on Renewable Energy Source

Vestnik MEI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Aleksey A. Miroshnichenko ◽  
◽  
Evgeniy V. Solomin ◽  
Evgeniy M. Gordievsky ◽  
Askar Z. Kulganatov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Energy Generation ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Hybrid Energy ◽  
Battery Charge ◽  
Charge Discharge

One of the priority objectives faced by the Russian electric power industry is supplying power to decentralized areas. These areas include the regions of the Far North and the Far East, which are characterized by remoteness from the unified energy system, low population density in vast territories, weak transport links, and undeveloped industry. In view of these features, it can be concluded that it is economically unprofitable to connect such consumers to the unified energy system. The use of renewable energy sources is the most promising solution to this problem. This, in particular, was noted by the President of Russia V.V. Putin during the “Russian Energy Week”: ‘Wind power, of course holds promise as a method for solving the problem of supplying electricity to the population, but it would be more correct to talk about the integrated use of alternative energy sources....’ Recently, the idea of using hybrid energy generation systems has become a priority issue in considering the electrification of isolated regions. Calculations have shown that such systems are more reliable and economically profitable in comparison with the generation of energy from only one of the sources. The use of combined energy generation systems is dictated by several factors, the main of which is that individual sources of renewable energy are variable in nature, which entails difficulties in ensuring uninterrupted power supply. Such problems do not arise in the case of using hybrid systems. The possibility of using a load distribution control strategy for a hybrid system consisting of photovoltaic panels, a diesel generator, and storage batteries, and operating according to a specified load schedule with the known battery charge/discharge cycles is considered. It is pointed out that the HOMER software package is a suitable tool for carrying out an optimization analysis regarding the technical, economic, and environmental factors of the proposed systems, taking into account the load variation pattern, battery charge/discharge cycles and distributed load. By using this software, it is possible to select the most optimal control strategy for combined power supply systems that allows, along with improving their reliability, better efficiency and longer service life to be obtained.

scholarly journals PYROLYSIS OF BIOMASS AS A SUITABLE ALTERNATIVE TO FOSSIL FUEL ENERGY IN NIGERIA: AN OVERVIEW

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Adeoye A.O ◽  
Quadri R.O. ◽  
Lawal O. S.
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Agricultural Waste ◽  
Energy Generation ◽  
Good Source ◽  
Suitable Alternative ◽  
Pyrolysis Of Biomass ◽  
Fossil Fuel Energy

Environmental problems associated with fossil fuel were highlighted to see the need for alternative energy in Nigeria. This review identified the various types of pyrolysis and their major products that make them fit as a suitable alternative energy source. It described pyrolysis as a means of converting waste to wealth and as a good source of energy generation thereby reducing reliance on fossil fuel. It proffers low-cost solutions for energy generation. The study as a whole contributed to the sustainability of the environment and removal of agricultural waste that constitute nuisance to Nigeria physical environment.

scholarly journals APPROACHES TO THE DEPLOYMENT OF SMART ENERGY NETWORKS

2019 ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
I. Vakulenko ◽  
S. Kolosok ◽  
S. Pryimenko ◽  
Iu. Matvieieva
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grids ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Energy Generation ◽  
Energy System ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Limited Area ◽  
Iterative Approach ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Energy Networks ◽  
Energy Technologies

The article discusses two fundamentally different approaches to deploying smart, environmentally friendly energy networks. The key aspects of the formation of a market and administrative mechanism for stimulating the development of alternative energy and transformation of the traditional energy model with the systematic application of the principle of distributed energy generation are identified. The European Union's experience in developing an adaptive energy system combining traditional energy technologies and innovative developments aimed at improving the efficiency of energy system operation and integrating disparate energy systems of individual countries belonging to the European Union into a single pan-european energy system was used to achieve the objectives of the study, which entails widespread use of "smart" energy technologies that will allow not only to form an effective model of energy generation, and power consumption, and promote the development of the concept of "smart" cities, ensuring compliance with the necessary conditions for the use of power as a basic element of innovative development of society and the acceleration of technological progress. The article identifies two fundamental approaches to large-scale development of the energy system using smart energy networks: iterative approach and project approach. The iterative approach is to develop the energy system as a whole, with the gradual introduction of energy innovations, which creates corresponding iterations. Accordingly, this approach is characterized by the presence of separate logically ordered stages, where the next stage is possible only after the previous one is completed. The project approach is to implement local high-tech projects with the use of smart grids in a limited area and then integrate disparate projects into a single energy system. Keywords: "smart" grids, energy, energy strategy, distributed power generation.

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