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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.

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.

Fly ash-derived MCM-41 as a low-cost silica support for polyethyleneimine in post-combustion CO2 capture (2017)
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Panek, R., Wdowin, M., Franus, W., Czarna, D., Stevens, L., Deng, H., …Snape, C. E. (2017). Fly ash-derived MCM-41 as a low-cost silica support for polyethyleneimine in post-combustion CO2 capture. Journal of Co2 Utilization, 22, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2017.09.015

The mesoporous silicate molecular sieve, MCM-41, has been synthesized from pulverized coal fly ash (PFA), where the silicate filtrate used is a by-product from hydrothermal zeolite production. Rice husk ash was also used for comparison but fusion wit... Read More about Fly ash-derived MCM-41 as a low-cost silica support for polyethyleneimine in post-combustion CO2 capture.

Emergy analysis for transportation fuels produced from corn stover in China (2017)
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Liu, C., Huang, Y., Wang, X., Tai, Y., Liu, L., Sun, C., & Liu, H. (2018). Emergy analysis for transportation fuels produced from corn stover in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.306

In order to provide more useful information for the decision makers in China to implement sustainable energy policies and to identify which region in China is most suitable to build the biofuel production plants for fast pyrolysis and hydroprocessing... Read More about Emergy analysis for transportation fuels produced from corn stover in China.

Potassium and Zeolitic Structure Modified Ultra-microporous Adsorbent Materials from a Renewable Feedstock with Favorable Surface Chemistry for CO2 Capture (2017)
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Liu, X., Sun, Y., Liu, J., Sun, C., Liu, H., Xue, Q., …Snape, C. (2017). Potassium and Zeolitic Structure Modified Ultra-microporous Adsorbent Materials from a Renewable Feedstock with Favorable Surface Chemistry for CO2 Capture. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9(32), 26826-26839. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b06665

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Novel hierarchically structured microporous biocarbons with exceptionally high capacities for CO2 capture have been synthesized from the abundant agricultural waste of rice husk (RH), using a facile methodology that... Read More about Potassium and Zeolitic Structure Modified Ultra-microporous Adsorbent Materials from a Renewable Feedstock with Favorable Surface Chemistry for CO2 Capture.

Ultrasonic and hydrothermal mediated synthesis routes for functionalized Mg-Al LDH: Comparison study on surface morphology, basic site strength, cyclic sorption efficiency and effectiveness (2017)
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Ezeh, C. I., Tomatis, M., Yang, X., He, J., & Sun, C. (2018). Ultrasonic and hydrothermal mediated synthesis routes for functionalized Mg-Al LDH: Comparison study on surface morphology, basic site strength, cyclic sorption efficiency and effectiveness. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 40(Part A), 341-352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2017.07.013

© 2017 Amine functionalized layered double hydroxide (LDHs) adsorbents prepared using three different routes: co-precipitation, sono-chemical and ultrasonic-assisted high pressure hydrothermal. The prepared adsorbent samples were characterized using... Read More about Ultrasonic and hydrothermal mediated synthesis routes for functionalized Mg-Al LDH: Comparison study on surface morphology, basic site strength, cyclic sorption efficiency and effectiveness.

Further Improvement of Fluidized Bed Models by Incorporating Zone Method with Aspen Plus Interface (2017)
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Hu, Y., Wang, J., Tan, C., Sun, C., & Liu, H. (2017). Further Improvement of Fluidized Bed Models by Incorporating Zone Method with Aspen Plus Interface. Energy Procedia, 105, 1895-1901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.556

While providing a fast and accurate tool of simulating fluidized beds, the major limitation of classical zero-dimensional ideal reactor models used in process simulators, such as models built into commercial software (e.g. Aspen Plus®), has been the... Read More about Further Improvement of Fluidized Bed Models by Incorporating Zone Method with Aspen Plus Interface.

Microwave-induced activation of additional active edge sites on the MoS₂ surface for enhanced Hgᴼ capture (2017)
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Zhao, H., Mu, X., Yang, G., Zheng, C., Sun, C., Gao, X., & Wu, T. (2017). Microwave-induced activation of additional active edge sites on the MoS₂ surface for enhanced Hgᴼ capture. Applied Surface Science, 420, 439-445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.05.161

In recent years, significant effort has been made in the development of novel materials for the removal of mercury from coal-derived flue gas. In this research, microwave irradiation was adopted to induce the creation of additional active sites on th... Read More about Microwave-induced activation of additional active edge sites on the MoS₂ surface for enhanced Hgᴼ capture.