scholarly journals High-efficient and Low-cost H2 Production by Solar-driven Photo-thermo-reforming of Methanol with CuO Catalyst

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
DongHui Li ◽  
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Jie Sun ◽  
Rong Ma ◽  
JinJia Wei ◽  
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Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianyun Peng ◽  
Junrong Hou ◽  
Yuying Mi ◽  
Jiaqiang Sun ◽  
Gaocan Qi ◽  
...  

Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) for H2 production is essential for future renewable and clean energy technology. Screening energy-saving, low-cost, and highly active catalysts efficiently, however, is still a grand...


2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 381-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. CHU ◽  
H. B. ZHU ◽  
Z. A. WANG ◽  
Z. Q. BIAN ◽  
Z. SUN ◽  
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Single-phase CuInSe 2 films were grown by high vapor selenization of CuIn alloy precursors within a partially closed graphite box. The CuIn precursors were prepared using Cu x In y alloy targets with different composition rates under low vacuum level by a homemade sputtering system. The Cu and In composition rates of the used targets are 11:9, 10:10, and 9:11, respectively. The metallic precursor films were selenized using a two-step temperature profile, i.e. at 250°C and 400–500°C, respectively. The influence of the temperature at the second selenization step on the quality of the CIS absorbing layers was investigated. The CIS films were characterized by X-ray diffractometry, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray analysis, and Raman spectroscopy. The deposited CIS absorbers selenized at a high temperature of 500°C for 30 min exhibited a single-phase chalcopyrite structure with a preferential orientation in the (112) direction. These layers display uniform, large, and densely packed crystals with a grain size of about 3–5 μm. Cadmium sulfide buffer layer was manufactured by chemical bath deposition method. Bilayers ZnO / ZnO : Al were prepared by RF magnetron sputtering deposition. CIS solar cells with an efficiency of about 6.5% were produced without antireflective films. The method to fabricate CIS solar cells by a combination of the low vacuum sputtering deposition and the graphite box selenization process has provided a simple control process and shown a promising potential for developing high efficient and low-cost CuInSe 2 solar cells.


2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhangli Liu ◽  
Jiaxing Xu ◽  
Min Xu ◽  
Caifeng Huang ◽  
Ruzhu Wang ◽  
...  

AbstractThermally driven water-based sorption refrigeration is considered a promising strategy to realize near-zero-carbon cooling applications by addressing the urgent global climate challenge caused by conventional chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants. However, developing cost-effective and high-performance water-sorption porous materials driven by low-temperature thermal energy is still a significant challenge. Here, we propose a zeolite-like aluminophosphate with SFO topology (EMM-8) for water-sorption-driven refrigeration. The EMM-8 is characterized by 12-membered ring channels with large accessible pore volume and exhibits high water uptake of 0.28 g·g−1 at P/P0 = 0.2, low-temperature regeneration of 65 °C, fast adsorption kinetics, remarkable hydrothermal stability, and scalable fabrication. Importantly, the water-sorption-based chiller with EMM-8 shows the potential of achieving a record coefficient of performance (COP) of 0.85 at an ultralow-driven temperature of 63 °C. The working performance makes EMM-8 a practical alternative to realize high-efficient ultra-low-temperature-driven refrigeration.


2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 6994-7004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengdong Wang ◽  
Songlin Zhang ◽  
Mingxun Zheng ◽  
Ruoyu Shu ◽  
Shengxu Gu ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 2727-2735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Song ◽  
Pan Yang ◽  
Jingchuan Wang ◽  
Xiaochong Zhao ◽  
Yuanlin Zhou ◽  
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NiFe nano-catalysts modified by the dopant of Pd were reducted on UiO-66 by NaBH4, which have been used as a low cost and high efficient catalyst with outstanding activity and durability for hydrogen generation from the decomposition of hydrazine hydrate.


2012 ◽  
Vol 246-247 ◽  
pp. 279-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Qing Liu ◽  
Bing Qi Chen ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Tao Zha

A high efficient method is provided to count the number of kernels in an ear corn. PC camera captured a sequence of images around an ear corn using a simple device. The Otsu's algorithm was applied for background segmentation. An object processing area was obtained after contour extraction. The x-direction cumulative histogram was used to extract every row of the ear corn. The y-direction cumulative histogram was used to detect the number of corn kernels in a row. The number of rows was got by matching the edge of the current ear row with the first one. The time of detecting kernels for an ear corn was below 2 minutes and the average accuracy was about 95% in experiment. It shows that this method can detect the quantity of kernels directly in an ear corn quickly and effectively using a low-cost device.


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