Separating isopropanol from its diluted solutions via a process of integrating gas stripping and vapor permeation

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (31) ◽  
pp. 24031-24037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Guan ◽  
Song Hu ◽  
Ying Wang ◽  
Peiyong Qin ◽  
M. Nazmul Karim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gas Stripping ◽  
Vapor Permeation

The novel process, integrated gas stripping and vapor permeation, is environmental, energy-efficient and highly selective for isopropanol recovery.

scholarly journals The Energy-Efficient Processing of Fine Materials by the Micropyretic Synthesis Route

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. P. Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Processing Time ◽  
Combustion Temperature ◽  
Processing Parameters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Diffusion Controlled ◽  
Efficient Processing ◽  
The One ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
Diffusion Controlled Reaction

Energy-efficient processing of TiB compound with nanowhiskers by micropyretic synthesis is investigated in this paper. Micropyretic synthesis not only offers shorter processing time but also excludes the requirement for high-temperature sintering and it is considered as the one of the novel energy-saving processing techniques. Experimental study and numerical simulation are both carried out to investigate the correlation of the processing parameters on the microstructures of the micropyretically synthesized products. The diffusion-controlled reaction mechanism is proposed in this study. It is noted that nanosize TiB whiskers only occurred when the combustion temperature is lower than the melting point of TiB but higher than the extinguished temperature. The results generated in the numerical calculation can be used as a helpful reference to select the proper route of processing nanosize materials. The Arrhenius-type plot of size and temperature is used to calculate the activation energy of TiB reaction. In addition to verifying the accuracy of the experimental measures, the reaction temperature for producing the micropyretically synthesized products with nanofeatures can be predicted.

scholarly journals Combined Vapor Permeation and Continuous Solid-State Distillation for Energy-Efficient Bioethanol Production

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 2266
Author(s):  
Hongshen Li ◽  
Hongrui Liu ◽  
Yufang Li ◽  
Jilin Nan ◽  
Chen Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Separation Performance ◽  
Flow Sheet ◽  
Bioethanol Production ◽  
Permeate Flux ◽  
Rectification Column ◽  
Vapor Permeation ◽  
Wide Range

Extracting ethanol by steam directly from fermented solid-state bagasse is an emerging technology of energy-efficient bioethanol production. With continuous solid-state distillation (CSSD) approach, the vapor with more than 25 wt% ethanol flows out of the column. Conventionally, the vapor was concentrated to azeotrope by rectification column, which contributes most of the energy consumption in ethanol production. As an alternative, a process integrating CSSD and vapor permeation (VP) membrane separation was tested. In light of existing industrial application of NaA zeolite hydrophilic membrane for dehydration, the prospect of replacing rectification operation with hydrophobic membrane for ethanol enriching was mainly analyzed in this paper. The separation performance of a commercial PDMS/PVDF membrane in a wide range of ethanol–water-vapor binary mixture was evaluated in the experiment. The correlation of the separation factor and permeate flux at different transmembrane driving force was measured. The mass and energy flow sheet of proposed VP case and rectification case were estimated respectively with process simulation software based on experimental data. Techno-economic analysis on both cases was performed. The results demonstrated that the additional VP membrane cost was higher than the rectification column, but a lower utilities cost was required for VP. The discount payback period of supplementary cost for VP case was determined as 1.81 years compared with the membrane service lifetime of 3 years, indicating that the hybrid CSSD-VP process was more cost effective and energy efficient.

scholarly journals Luminescent Electrochromic Devices for Smart Windows of Energy-Efficient Buildings

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Fernandes ◽  
Vânia Freitas ◽  
Sónia Pereira ◽  
Rita Leones ◽  
Maria Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Average Molecular Weight ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Electrochromic Devices ◽  
Lithium Triflate ◽  
Smart Windows ◽  
Energy Efficient Buildings ◽  
Nir Emission

To address the challenges of the next generation of smart windows for energy-efficient buildings, new electrochromic devices (ECDs) are introduced. These include indium molybdenum oxide (IMO), a conducting oxide transparent in the near-infrared (NIR) region, and a NIR-emitting electrolyte. The novel electrolytes are based on a sol-gel-derived di-urethane cross-linked siloxane-based host structure, including short chains of poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL(530) (where 530 represents the average molecular weight in g mol−1). This hybrid framework was doped with a combination of either, lithium triflate (LiTrif) and erbium triflate (ErTrif3), or LiTrif and bisaquatris (thenoyltrifluoroacetonate) erbium (III) ([Er(tta)3(H2O)2]). The ECD@LiTrif-[Er(tta)3(H2O)2] device presents a typical Er3+ NIR emission around 1550 nm. The figures of merit of these devices are high cycling stability, good reversibility, and unusually high coloration efficiency (CE = ΔOD/ΔQ, where Q is the inserted/de-inserted charge density). CE values of −8824/+6569 cm2 C−1 and −8243/+5200 cm2 C−1 were achieved at 555 nm on the 400th cycle, for ECD@LiTrif-ErTrif3 and ECD@LiTrif-[Er(tta)3(H2O)2], respectively.

A Novel Design and Implementation of a Lightweight Energy-Efficient Robotic Fish

2015 ◽  
Vol 719-720 ◽  
pp. 298-305
Author(s):  
Qin Yan ◽  
Wen Shang ◽  
Jun Zhong ◽  
Qi Xin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Performance Study ◽  
Kinematic Parameters ◽  
Magnetomotive Force ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Low Energy Consumption ◽  
Novel Design

Inspired by the astonishing ability of the fish, more and more researchers devote themselves to improving the performance of the underwater robotic propeller. In this paper, a novel design and a preliminary performance study of a lightweight robofish are presented. Firstly, the principle of the actuator by magnetomotive force is introduced. Secondly, the implementation of the biomimetic robofish is investigated. Finally, several expriments are conducted to explore the energy consumption of the magnetomoive force actuator and the affection of the kinematic parameters on the velocity. The experimental results reveal that the novel biomimetic robofish driven by magnetomotive force has a low energy consumption and shows good performance in swimming.

Energy-Efficient and Area-Saving Asymmetric Capacitor Switching Scheme for SAR ADCs

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (07) ◽  
pp. 1850109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongzhi Liang ◽  
Ruixue Ding ◽  
Shubin Liu ◽  
Zhangming Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Matlab Simulation ◽  
Switching Scheme ◽  
Analog To Digital ◽  
Capacitor Switching ◽  
Differential Nonlinearity ◽  
Capacitor Mismatch ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Asymmetric Capacitor

An asymmetric architecture and energy-efficient capacitor switching scheme for successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADC) are proposed. The novel architecture achieves 81.25% reduction in capacitor area over the convention SAR. With the third reference voltage VCM and split-MSB switching procedure, the proposed switching scheme achieves 99.01% less switching energy over the convention SAR. Besides the significant energy saving, this asymmetric capacitor architecture also obtains a good performance in nonlinearity simulation. Based on the Matlab simulation for capacitor mismatch, the maximum differential nonlinearity and maximum integral nonlinearity of the proposed scheme are 0.166LSB and 0.122LSB, respectively.

scholarly journals Low-Noise Design of Medium-Range Aircraft for Energy Efficient Aviation

Aerospace ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Vincent Domogalla ◽  
Lothar Bertsch ◽  
Martin Plohr ◽  
Eike Stumpf ◽  
Zoltán S. Spakovszky
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Pressure Ratio ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Exposure Level ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sound Exposure ◽  
Fuel Burn ◽  
Noise Shielding ◽  
Speed Performance ◽  
Low Noise Design

Promising low-noise aircraft architectures have been identified over the last few years at DLR. A set of DLR aircraft concepts was selected for further assessment in the context of sustainable and energy-efficient aviation and was established at the TU Braunschweig in 2019, the Cluster of Excellence for Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Aviation (SE2A). Specific Top-Level aircraft requirements were defined by the cluster and the selected DLR aircraft designs were improved with focus on aircraft noise, emissions, and contrail generation. The presented paper specifically addresses the reduction of aviation noise with focus on noise shielding and modifications to the flight performance. This article presents the state of the art of the simulation process at DLR and demonstrates that the novel aircraft concepts can reduce the noise impact by up to 50% in terms of sound exposure level isocontour area while reducing the fuel burn by 6%, respective to a conventional aircraft for the same mission. The study shows that a tube-wing architecture with a top-mounted, forward-swept wing and low fan pressure ratio propulsors installed above the fuselage at the wing junction can yield significant noise shielding at improved low-speed performance and reduce critical fuel burn and emissions.

scholarly journals A novel energy efficient virtual machine configuration and migration technique

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 2391
Author(s):  
L Srinivasa Rao ◽  
I Raviprakash Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Virtual Machine Migration ◽  
Machine Configuration ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Migration Technique

The recent growth in the data centre usage and the higher cost of managing virtual machines clearly demands focused research in reducing the cost of managing and migrating virtual machines. The cost of virtual machine management majorly includes the energy cost, thus the best available virtual machine management and migration techniques must have the lowest energy consumption. The management of virtual machine is solely dependent on the number of applications running on that virtual machine, where there is a very little scope for researchers to improve the energy. The second parameter is migration in order to balance the load, where a number of researches are been carried out to reduce the energy consumption. This work addresses the issue of energy consumption during virtual machine migration and proposes a novel virtual machine migration technique with improvement of energy consumption. The novel algorithm is been proposed in two enhancements as VM selection and VM migration, which demonstrates over 47% reduction in energy consumption.  

scholarly journals Enabling accurate range free localization for mo-bile sensor networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kiruba J. ◽  
Rajesh T.
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Sequential Monte Carlo ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sampling Efficiency ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Localization Algorithm ◽  
Position Information ◽  
Localization Accuracy

The Existing localization algorithm was Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) method for mobile sensor networks. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient algorithm called novel localization, which can achieve high localization in a better way. In existing algorithm, high Localization is achieved by getting more number of beacon nodes as input which improves the computational cost and decreases the sampling efficiency to a higher rate. But in the Proposed algorithm, we achieve high Localization accuracy with less number of beacon nodes itself thus the computational cost will be less and the sampling efficiency will be high. Our algorithm uses the approximate calculated position information of sensor nodes to increase the localization accuracy. The existing algorithms doesn’t have high localization accuracy when nodes move very fast, so we have propose a new algorithm, novel localization which is executed based on spped of nodes. The novel algorithm improves the Localization accuracy also when the node move fast. 

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