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In developing countries, more than 1.5 million deaths are caused per year by air pollution resulting from the use of wood, dung, coal, and other traditional fuels used for household energy that is used by approximately 3 billion of the world's population. The unsustainable use of wood for fuel has negative impacts on both the local and global environment. Biogas technology, which produces methane...
Biodiesel as a renewable alternative fuel for petroleum based diesel fuel produces lower emissions of all types (CO, HC ...) except Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) when compared to the petroleum diesel fuel. Reducing Nitrogen Oxides produced from engines running on biodiesel is a challenging task to be able to meet the emission requirements. Knowledge of fuel blend could be very helpful for control and adaptation...
The modern medicine cannot be conceived without the latest news in engineering technology. One of the challenges is related to the novel energy source inside the human body that can be useful for implantable devices, as pacemakers or in vivo insulin micropumps or biosensors. In this paper, the biofuel properties of the glucose that is regulated within the endocrine pancreas, is analyzed in order to...
This paper explores the issue of sustainable energy from a multi-flux perspective, and has shown clearly that some of the choices being vigorously pursued today, such as bio-fuels, may have significant limits on scalability. While a Bio-Fueled World does not seem to be sustainable, an Inorganically Fueled World, seems to have the potential to be able to scale to meet global needs, without in any way...
Energy shortage, soaring oil prices, and climate change stimulate the research and development of alternative energy resources to sustain economic growth. Biofuels, such as biodiesel and biomass-based alcohol fuels, are examples of such alternatives. However, whether these energy alternatives can achieve commercial success highly depends on how sustainable they are. This paper reports an on-going...
This work represents a contribution to the field of sustainable electricity system design by using an optimization tool to specify the final mix composition, subject to the constraints of: emissions that are within the biocapacity of the region; a diverse and robust electricity supply system; and supply that at least meets current demand. The 25-country European Union (EU-25) is used as a case study...
Based on time-varying statistical data and emission factors, multiyear NMVOCs emission inventories from fossil fuel combustion, biofuel burning, and biomass open burning in China for 1980-2005 were presented by a bottom-up estimate. The contributions of fossil fuel, biofuel, and open burning are estimated as 35%, 50%, and 15%, respectively, in 2005. Spatial distribution of NMVOCs emission shows that...
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