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Coupling the biochemical and thermochemical biorefinery platforms to enhance energy and product recovery from Agave tequilana bagasse (2021)
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Rios-Del Toro, E. E., Chi, H., González-Álvarez, V., Méndez-Acosta, H. O., Arreola-Vargas, J., & Liu, H. (2021). Coupling the biochemical and thermochemical biorefinery platforms to enhance energy and product recovery from Agave tequilana bagasse. Applied Energy, 299, Article 117293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117293

The tequila industry is one of the pillar industries in many regions of Mexico, bringing wealth and economic development to rural areas. However, appropriate disposal and management of the tequila manufacturing residues such as the Agave tequilana ba... Read More about Coupling the biochemical and thermochemical biorefinery platforms to enhance energy and product recovery from Agave tequilana bagasse.

Energy and daylight performance of a smart window: Window integrated with thermotropic parallel slat-transparent insulation material (2021)
Journal Article
Sun, Y., Liu, X., Ming, Y., Liu, X., Mahon, D., Wilson, R., …Wu, Y. (2021). Energy and daylight performance of a smart window: Window integrated with thermotropic parallel slat-transparent insulation material. Applied Energy, 293, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116826

With the increasing awareness of building energy efficiency, indoor environment quality for human wellbeing and working efficiency, efforts have intensified in to inventing intelligent building components. This paper provides a first step in developi... Read More about Energy and daylight performance of a smart window: Window integrated with thermotropic parallel slat-transparent insulation material.

Experimental investigations on the chlorine-induced corrosion of HVOF thermal sprayed Stellite-6 and NiAl coatings with fluidised bed biomass/anthracite combustion systems (2020)
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Chi, H., Pans, M. A., Bai, M., Sun, C., Hussain, T., Sun, W., …Liu, H. (2021). Experimental investigations on the chlorine-induced corrosion of HVOF thermal sprayed Stellite-6 and NiAl coatings with fluidised bed biomass/anthracite combustion systems. Fuel, 288, Article 119607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2020.119607

Stellite-6 (Co-based) and NiAl coatings (Ni-based) were deposited via HVOF spraying onto 304 stainless steels and tested in a 20 kWth biomass fired bubbling fluidised bed (BFB) combustor for 20 hours and an industrial scale anthracite fired CFB boile... Read More about Experimental investigations on the chlorine-induced corrosion of HVOF thermal sprayed Stellite-6 and NiAl coatings with fluidised bed biomass/anthracite combustion systems.