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Energies, Volume 3, Issue 11

November 2010 - 7 articles

Cover Story: Microalgae have long been utilized as food and feed, and, more recently, fuel. When microalgae was adapted for fuel production, it was necessary to ensure that the energy required to do this was not more than what was produced. In this article, the Energy Profit Ratio (EPR) was used as the parameter for these calculations. The EPR is the ratio between energy produced and energy consumed with the aim to work out whether the energy required is lower, equal to, or higher than the energy produced. This was a case study in a pilot project located in Minamisoma City in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan. View this paper
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Articles (7)

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
15,586 Views
10 Pages

22 November 2010

Hybrid power systems, formed by combining high-energy-density batteries and high-power-density ultracapacitors in appropriate ways, provide high-performance and high-efficiency power systems for electric vehicle applications. This paper first establi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,239 Views
15 Pages

15 November 2010

The ability to predict with some accuracy a given solid rocket motor’s performance before undertaking one or several costly experimental test firings is important. On the numerical prediction side, as various component models evolve, their incorporat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
300 Citations
17,781 Views
16 Pages

15 November 2010

Fast pyrolysis of poplar wood followed with catalytic cracking of the pyrolysis vapors was performed using analytical pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS). The catalysts applied in this study were nano MgO, CaO, TiO2, Fe2O3, NiO...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
19,161 Views
49 Pages

10 November 2010

Providing a historical overview of 50 years of fusion research, a review of the fundamentals and concepts of fusion and research efforts towards the implementation of a steady state tokamak reactor is presented. In 1990, a steady-state tokamak reacto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,535 Views
13 Pages

Electrostatic Discharge Current Linear Approach and Circuit Design Method

  • Pavlos K. Katsivelis,
  • Georgios P. Fotis,
  • Ioannis F. Gonos,
  • Tryfon G. Koussiouris and
  • Ioannis A. Stathopulos

8 November 2010

The Electrostatic Discharge phenomenon is a great threat to all electronic devices and ICs. An electric charge passing rapidly from a charged body to another can seriously harm the last one. However, there is a lack in a linear mathematical approach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,764 Views
7 Pages

A Photovoltaic Device Using an Electrolyte Containing Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

  • Arash Takshi,
  • John D.W. Madden,
  • Ali Mahmoudzadeh,
  • Rafael Saer and
  • J. Thomas Beatty

28 October 2010

The performance of bio-photovoltaic devices with a monolayer of the immobilized photosynthetic reaction center (RC) is generally low because of weak light absorption and poor charge transfer between the RC and the electrode. In this paper, a new bio-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,431 Views
17 Pages

Performance Analysis of a Double-effect Adsorption Refrigeration Cycle with a Silica Gel/Water Working Pair

  • Marlinda,
  • Aep Saepul Uyun,
  • Takahiko Miyazaki,
  • Yuki Ueda and
  • Atsushi Akisawa

26 October 2010

A numerical investigation of the double-effect adsorption refrigeration cycle is examined in this manuscript. The proposed cycle is based on the cascading adsorption cycle, where condensation heat that is produced in the top cycle is utilized as the...

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Energies - ISSN 1996-1073