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Experimental study of SO2 emissions and desulfurization of oxy-coal combustion in a 30 kWth pressurized fluidized bed combustor (2019)
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Pang, L., Shao, Y., Zhong, W., & Liu, H. (2020). Experimental study of SO2 emissions and desulfurization of oxy-coal combustion in a 30 kWth pressurized fluidized bed combustor. Fuel, 264, Article 116795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.116795

Pressurized oxy-fuel combustion (POFC) has attracted wide attention due to its potentials of high efficiency and low cost in CO2 capture. Compared with numerical simulation and system analysis, there are few experimental studies about POFC. In order... Read More about Experimental study of SO2 emissions and desulfurization of oxy-coal combustion in a 30 kWth pressurized fluidized bed combustor.

Experimental study of NOx emissions in a 30 kWth pressurized oxy-coal fluidized bed combustor (2019)
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Pang, L., Shao, Y., Zhong, W., Gong, Z., & Liu, H. (2020). Experimental study of NOx emissions in a 30 kWth pressurized oxy-coal fluidized bed combustor. Energy, 194, Article 116756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.116756

© 2019 As one of the most promising carbon capture technologies for coal-fired power plants, oxy-coal combustion has attracted wide interests during the last two decades. In comparison to atmospheric oxy-fuel combustion, pressurized oxy-fuel combusti... Read More about Experimental study of NOx emissions in a 30 kWth pressurized oxy-coal fluidized bed combustor.

Mesocellular silica foam supported polyamine adsorbents for dry CO2 scrubbing: Performance of single versus blended polyamines for impregnation (2019)
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Liu, X., Zhou, K., Farndon, M., Meier, E., Stevens, L., Liu, H., & Sun, C. (2019). Mesocellular silica foam supported polyamine adsorbents for dry CO2 scrubbing: Performance of single versus blended polyamines for impregnation. Applied Energy, 255, Article 113643. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113643

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Siliceous foams with three-dimensional mesoporous structures were synthesised and used to prepare polyethyleneimine (PEI) and tetraethylenepentamine (TEPA)-functionalised sorbent materials for CO2 capture, with a particular focus... Read More about Mesocellular silica foam supported polyamine adsorbents for dry CO2 scrubbing: Performance of single versus blended polyamines for impregnation.

Assessment of biomass energy potential for SRC willow woodchips in a pilot scale bubbling fluidized bed gasifier (2019)
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Ul Hai, I., Sher, F., Yaqoob, A., & Liu, H. (2019). Assessment of biomass energy potential for SRC willow woodchips in a pilot scale bubbling fluidized bed gasifier. Fuel, 258, Article 116143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.116143

The current study investigates the short rotation coppice (SRC) gasification in a bubbling fluidized bed gasifier (BFBG) with air as gasifying medium. The thermochemical processes during combustion were studied to get better control over the air gasi... Read More about Assessment of biomass energy potential for SRC willow woodchips in a pilot scale bubbling fluidized bed gasifier.

Experimental investigation of tar arresting techniques and their evaluation for product syngas cleaning from bubbling fluidized bed gasifier (2019)
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Hai, I. U., Sher, F., Zarren, G., & Liu, H. (2019). Experimental investigation of tar arresting techniques and their evaluation for product syngas cleaning from bubbling fluidized bed gasifier. Journal of Cleaner Production, 240, Article 118239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118239

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Hazardous waste products along with the syngas produced from biomass gasification are one of the major problems of today world. Tar and other solid contaminants removal from syngas are necessary as it is widely used for the produc... Read More about Experimental investigation of tar arresting techniques and their evaluation for product syngas cleaning from bubbling fluidized bed gasifier.

Investigation of elemental mercury removal from coal-fired flue gas over MIL101-Cr (2019)
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Dong, L., Huang, Y., Liu, L., Liu, C., Xu, L., Zha, J., Chen, H., & Liu, H. (2019). Investigation of elemental mercury removal from coal-fired flue gas over MIL101-Cr. Energy and Fuels, 33(9), 8864-8875. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b01355

In this work, the MIL101-Cr sorbent with a large BET surface area was prepared and used to remove Hg0 from the simulated coal-fired boiler flue gas. The chemical and physical properties of the prepared sorbent were characterized by X-ray diffraction... Read More about Investigation of elemental mercury removal from coal-fired flue gas over MIL101-Cr.

Magnetic γ-Fe2O3-Loaded Attapulgite Sorbent for Hg0 Removal in Coal-Fired Flue Gas (2019)
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Dong, L., Huang, Y., Chen, H., Liu, L., Liu, C., Xu, L., Zha, J., Wang, Y., & Liu, H. (2019). Magnetic γ-Fe2O3-Loaded Attapulgite Sorbent for Hg0 Removal in Coal-Fired Flue Gas. Energy and Fuels, 33(8), 7522-7533. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b01136

A magnetically recoverable composite mercury removal sorbent was produced by introducing magnetic γ-Fe2O3 into attapulgite (ATT) (xFe1ATT) via the co-precipitation method and used to remove Hg0 in the simulated coal-fired power plant flue gas. The as... Read More about Magnetic γ-Fe2O3-Loaded Attapulgite Sorbent for Hg0 Removal in Coal-Fired Flue Gas.

Chemical Characteristics of Ash Formed from the Combustion of Shoe Manufacturing Waste in a 2.5 MWth Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor (2019)
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Niu, M., Liu, C., Wang, X., Huang, Y., Dong, L., Duan, L., Xu, L., Wang, Y., Sun, C., & Liu, H. (2020). Chemical Characteristics of Ash Formed from the Combustion of Shoe Manufacturing Waste in a 2.5 MWth Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor. Waste and Biomass Valorization, 11, 4551–4560. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-019-00733-7

© 2019, Springer Nature B.V. Abstract: The ash formation behaviour and associated compositional characteristics of the combustion of shoe manufacturing waste (SMW) in a 2.5MWth pilot-scale circulating fluidized bed combustor (CFBC) were investigated... Read More about Chemical Characteristics of Ash Formed from the Combustion of Shoe Manufacturing Waste in a 2.5 MWth Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor.

Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems (2019)
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Sun, Y., Liu, D., Flor, J.-F., Shank, K., Baig, H., Wilson, R., Liu, H., Sundaram, S., Mallick, T. K., & Wu, Y. (2020). Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems. Renewable Energy, 145, 153-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.05.061

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Integrating photovoltaics into windows provides the possibility of including an additional function of energy production to a conventional building fenestration component. There is no doubt that electrical power can be generated o... Read More about Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems.

Development of a 1000 W organic Rankine cycle micro-turbine-generator using polymeric structural materials and its performance test with compressed air (2019)
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Hernandez-Carrillo, I., Wood, C., & Liu, H. (2019). Development of a 1000 W organic Rankine cycle micro-turbine-generator using polymeric structural materials and its performance test with compressed air. Energy Conversion and Management, 190, 105-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.03.092

This paper presents the experimental advances on the implementation of structural polymeric materials in a micro-turbine-generator for an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) and through testing provides an insight of its performance. The aim is to create awa... Read More about Development of a 1000 W organic Rankine cycle micro-turbine-generator using polymeric structural materials and its performance test with compressed air.

Mechanisms of Toluene Removal in Relation to the Main Components of Biosyngas in a Catalytic Nonthermal Plasma Process (2019)
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Xu, B., Xie, J., Yin, X., Liu, H., Sun, C., & Wu, C. (2019). Mechanisms of Toluene Removal in Relation to the Main Components of Biosyngas in a Catalytic Nonthermal Plasma Process. Energy and Fuels, 33(5), 4287-4301. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b00273

In this study, a packed-bed dielectric barrier discharge reactor was built for the removal of biomass gasification tar. Two kinds of packing materials, glass pellets and a Ni/γ-Al2O3 catalyst, were employed for the plasma-alone process and the plasma... Read More about Mechanisms of Toluene Removal in Relation to the Main Components of Biosyngas in a Catalytic Nonthermal Plasma Process.

Continuous testing of silica-PEI adsorbents in a lab.-scale twin bubbling fluidized-bed system (2019)
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Kim, J.-Y., Woo, J.-M., Jo, S.-H., Lee, S.-Y., Moon, J.-H., Kim, H., Yi, C.-K., Lee, H., Snape, C. E., Stevens, L., Sun, C., Liu, H., Liu, J., & Park, Y. C. (2019). Continuous testing of silica-PEI adsorbents in a lab.-scale twin bubbling fluidized-bed system. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 82, 184-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.01.007

In this study, a lab.-scale twin bubbling fluidized-bed system (TBS) has been used continuously to test the performance for CO2 adsorption of silica-PEI (S.PEI) adsorbents, containing 40 wt.% of PEI, which were supplied by the University of Nottingha... Read More about Continuous testing of silica-PEI adsorbents in a lab.-scale twin bubbling fluidized-bed system.

An experimental investigation of oxy-coal combustion in a 15 kWth pressurized fluidized bed combustor (2018)
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Pang, L., Shao, Y., Zhong, W., Liu, H., & Jiang, P. (2018). An experimental investigation of oxy-coal combustion in a 15 kWth pressurized fluidized bed combustor. Energy and Fuels, 33(3), 1694-1703. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.8b02654

Pressurized oxy-coal combustion is considered as a promising carbon capture technology due to its potential of high efficiency and low cost in CO2 capture. However, experimental investigations of oxy-coal combustion under pressurized conditions are f... Read More about An experimental investigation of oxy-coal combustion in a 15 kWth pressurized fluidized bed combustor.

An investigation of lime addition to fuel as a countermeasure to bed agglomeration for the combustion of non-woody biomass fuels in a 20kWth bubbling fluidised bed combustor (2018)
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Chi, H., Pans, M. A., Sun, C., & Liu, H. (2019). An investigation of lime addition to fuel as a countermeasure to bed agglomeration for the combustion of non-woody biomass fuels in a 20kWth bubbling fluidised bed combustor. Fuel, 240, 349-361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2018.11.122

The unique fuel flexibility of fluidised bed system facilitates the combustion of low quality solid fuels such as agricultural residues, but may suffer from serious bed agglomeration problems especially when operating at the high end of the typical f... Read More about An investigation of lime addition to fuel as a countermeasure to bed agglomeration for the combustion of non-woody biomass fuels in a 20kWth bubbling fluidised bed combustor.

Developing hierarchically ultra-micro/mesoporous biocarbons for highly selective carbon dioxide adsorption (2018)
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Liu, X., Sun, C., Liu, H., Herng Tan, W., Wang, W., & Snape, C. (2019). Developing hierarchically ultra-micro/mesoporous biocarbons for highly selective carbon dioxide adsorption. Chemical Engineering Journal, 361, 199-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2018.11.062

Activated carbons represent one of the important categories of the adsorbent materials for CO2 capture currently under development. However, the low adsorption capacity and selectivity at low CO2 partial pressure or relatively high flue gas temperatu... Read More about Developing hierarchically ultra-micro/mesoporous biocarbons for highly selective carbon dioxide adsorption.

Synthesis and functionalisation of spherical meso-, hybrid meso/macro- and macro-porous cellular silica foam materials with regulated pore sizes for CO2 capture (2018)
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Sun, Y., Liu, X., Sun, C., Meng, Y., Al-Sarraf, W., Foo, K. Z., Stevens, L., Wang, W., & Liu, H. (2018). Synthesis and functionalisation of spherical meso-, hybrid meso/macro- and macro-porous cellular silica foam materials with regulated pore sizes for CO2 capture. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018(46), 23587-23601. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8TA06224B

A variety of meso, meso/macro and macro-structured siliceous cellular foam (SCFs) materials have been tailor-designed and fabricated from using a modified microemulsion templating methodology with trimethyl benzene (TMB) as the pore expander and Plu... Read More about Synthesis and functionalisation of spherical meso-, hybrid meso/macro- and macro-porous cellular silica foam materials with regulated pore sizes for CO2 capture.

Experimental investigation on the coal combustion in a pressurized fluidized bed (2018)
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Pang, L., Shao, Y., Zhong, W., & Liu, H. (2018). Experimental investigation on the coal combustion in a pressurized fluidized bed. Energy, 165(B), 1119-1128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.09.198

Pressurized oxy-coal combustion is considered as one of the most promising carbon capture technologies in terms of high carbon capture efficiency and low cost. However, practical operational experience with pressurized coal combustion in a fluidized... Read More about Experimental investigation on the coal combustion in a pressurized fluidized bed.

Integrated semi-transparent cadmium telluride photovoltaic glazing into windows: energy and daylight performance for different architecture designs (2018)
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Sun, Y., Shanks, K., Baig, H., Zhang, W., Hao, X., Li, Y., He, B., Wilson, R., Liu, H., Sundaram, S., Zhang, J., Xie, L., Mallick, T., & Wu, Y. (2018). Integrated semi-transparent cadmium telluride photovoltaic glazing into windows: energy and daylight performance for different architecture designs. Applied Energy, 231, 972-984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.09.133

When integrating photovoltaics into building windows, the photovoltaic glazing modules inhibit the function that glass performs, with the additional function of energy production. Semi-transparent Photovoltaic (STPV) glazing will absorb part of the s... Read More about Integrated semi-transparent cadmium telluride photovoltaic glazing into windows: energy and daylight performance for different architecture designs.

Removal of toluene as a biomass tar surrogate in a catalytic nonthermal plasma process (2018)
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Xu, B., Xie, J., Zhan, H., Yin, X., Wu, C., & Liu, H. (2018). Removal of toluene as a biomass tar surrogate in a catalytic nonthermal plasma process. Energy and Fuels, 32(10), 10709-10719. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.8b02444

In this study, a packed-bed dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor was developed to investigate the removal of biomass tar in a fuel gas atmosphere. Toluene was used as the tar surrogate, and the catalyst used was a Nickel-based catalyst (Ni/γ-Al... Read More about Removal of toluene as a biomass tar surrogate in a catalytic nonthermal plasma process.

A review of the applications of phase change materials in cooling, heating and power generation in different temperature ranges (2018)
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Du, K., Calautit, J. K., Wang, Z., Wu, Y., & Liu, H. (2018). A review of the applications of phase change materials in cooling, heating and power generation in different temperature ranges. Applied Energy, 220, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.03.005

Latent heat thermal energy storage is an attractive technique as it can provide higher energy storage density than conventional heat energy storage systems and has the capability to store heat of fusion at a constant (or a near constant) temperature... Read More about A review of the applications of phase change materials in cooling, heating and power generation in different temperature ranges.