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Towards sustainable methanol from industrial CO2 sources (2019)
Book Chapter
Douven, S., Benkoussas, H., Font-Palma, C., & Léonard, G. (2019). Towards sustainable methanol from industrial CO2 sources. In M. North, & P. Styring (Eds.), Carbon Dioxide Utilization : Volume 2 : Transformations (361-384). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110665147-019

This chapter discusses the opportunity of using CO2 from industrial sources to produce sustainable methanol. Some important industrial sectors that could be seen as potential sources of CO2 are reviewed: ammonia, steel, ethanol, ethylene, natural gas... Read More about Towards sustainable methanol from industrial CO2 sources.

Modular Solar System for Building Integration (2019)
Book Chapter
Ren, G., Zhu, Z., Sun, Y., & Zhao, X. (2019). Modular Solar System for Building Integration. In X. Zhao, & X. Ma (Eds.), Advanced Energy Efficiency Technologies for Solar Heating, Cooling and Power Generation (143-163). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17283-1_5

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Building integrated solar systems, which means components of solar thermal collectors and/or solar photovoltaics (PV) are completely integrated with building envelopes, can potentially provide additional functi... Read More about Modular Solar System for Building Integration.

Solar Thermoelectric Technologies for Power Generation (2019)
Book Chapter
Li, G., Ma, X., Shittu, S., & Zhao, X. (2019). Solar Thermoelectric Technologies for Power Generation. In X. Zhao, & X. Ma (Eds.), Advanced Energy Efficiency Technologies for Solar Heating, Cooling and Power Generation. Green Energy and Technology (341-371). Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17283-1_10

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Thermoelectric power generation (TEG) is the most effective process that can create electrical current from a thermal gradient directly, based on the Seebeck effect. Solar energy as renewable energy can provide... Read More about Solar Thermoelectric Technologies for Power Generation.

Understanding the Highly Dynamic Phenomena in Ultrasonic Melt Processing by Ultrafast Synchrotron X-ray Imaging (2019)
Book Chapter
Mi, J., Eskin, D., Connolley, T., & Fezzaa, K. (2019). Understanding the Highly Dynamic Phenomena in Ultrasonic Melt Processing by Ultrafast Synchrotron X-ray Imaging. In C. Chesonis (Ed.), Light Metals 2019 (1539-1544). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05864-7_194

In this paper, we present some highlighted findings from our recent research on real-time and in situ studies of the fundamentals of ultrasonic melt processing, including (1) ultrasonic bubble implosion, oscillation in liquid and semi-liquid (semi-so... Read More about Understanding the Highly Dynamic Phenomena in Ultrasonic Melt Processing by Ultrafast Synchrotron X-ray Imaging.

Synchrotron X-ray real-time studies of the nucleation and growth of intermetallic phases in solidification (2019)
Book Chapter
Mi, J. (2019). Synchrotron X-ray real-time studies of the nucleation and growth of intermetallic phases in solidification. In M. Tiryakioğlu, W. Griffiths, & M. Jolly (Eds.), Shape Casting : 7th International Symposium Celebrating Prof. John Campbell's 80th Birthday (65-71). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06034-3_6

In this paper, real-time, direct observation of the nucleation of primary Al 2 Cu phases on entrained oxide films during the solidification of an Al-35%Cu alloy, and the change of growth mode from planner to dendritic type structure of Al 3 Ni phases... Read More about Synchrotron X-ray real-time studies of the nucleation and growth of intermetallic phases in solidification.