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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., …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 ?-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., …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 ?-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., …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., Shank, K., Baig, H., Wilson, R., …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/?-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., Woo, J., Jo, S., Lee, S., Moon, J., Kim, H., …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 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.

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.

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., …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., …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.

Studies on combustion behaviours of single biomass particles using a visualization method (2017)
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Shan, L., Kong, M., Bennet, T. D., Sarroza, A. C., Eastwick, C., Sun, D., …Liu, H. (2018). Studies on combustion behaviours of single biomass particles using a visualization method. Biomass and Bioenergy, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2017.12.008

Combustion behaviours of single particles (125–150 μm) of eucalyptus, pine and olive residue were investigated by means of a transparent visual drop-tube furnace, electrically heated to 1073 K, and a high-speed camera coupling with a long distance mi... Read More about Studies on combustion behaviours of single biomass particles using a visualization method.

Oxy-fuel combustion study of biomass fuels in a 20 kWth fluidized bed combustor (2017)
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Sher, F., Pans, M. A., Sun, C., Snape, C. E., & Liu, H. (2018). Oxy-fuel combustion study of biomass fuels in a 20 kWth fluidized bed combustor. Fuel, 215, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2017.11.039

Oxy-fuel combustion is one of the promising carbon capture technologies considered to be suitable for future commercial applications with stationary combustion plants. Although more and more biomass and waste are now being burned in stationary combus... Read More about Oxy-fuel combustion study of biomass fuels in a 20 kWth fluidized bed combustor.

Catalytic and non-catalytic synergistic effects and their individual contributions to improved combustion performance of coal/biomass blends (2017)
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Oladejo, J. M., Adegbite, S., Liu, H., & Wu, T. (2018). Catalytic and non-catalytic synergistic effects and their individual contributions to improved combustion performance of coal/biomass blends. Applied Energy, 211, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.11.052

This study focuses on the synergistic properties of three types of coal when co-fired with oat straw at different blending ratios. The results demonstrated non-additive interaction between oat straw and coal samples. The catalytic effect of oat straw... Read More about Catalytic and non-catalytic synergistic effects and their individual contributions to improved combustion performance of coal/biomass blends.

High density and super ultra-microporous-activated carbon macrospheres with high volumetric capacity for CO2 capture (2017)
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Liu, J., Liu, X., Sun, Y., Sun, C., Liu, H., Stevens, L. A., …Snape, C. E. (in press). High density and super ultra-microporous-activated carbon macrospheres with high volumetric capacity for CO2 capture. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.201700115

Activated carbon (AC) spheres with a diameter of 1.0–2.0 mm are synthesized from coal tar pitch for postcombustion carbon capture. The as-prepared AC macrospheres after KOH activation are found to possess extraordinarily developed microporosity of wh... Read More about High density and super ultra-microporous-activated carbon macrospheres with high volumetric capacity for CO2 capture.

Experimental investigation of woody and non-woody biomass combustion in a bubbling fluidised bed combustor focusing on gaseous emissions and temperature profiles (2017)
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Sher, F., Pans, M. A., Afilaka, D. T., Sun, C., & Liu, H. (2017). Experimental investigation of woody and non-woody biomass combustion in a bubbling fluidised bed combustor focusing on gaseous emissions and temperature profiles. Energy, 141, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.11.118

Air staging is a well-known effective method to control NOx emissions from solid fuel combustion boilers. However, further research is still needed to clarify the effect of air staging at different injection locations on the gaseous emissions of Flui... Read More about Experimental investigation of woody and non-woody biomass combustion in a bubbling fluidised bed combustor focusing on gaseous emissions and temperature profiles.