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Developed for the automotive industry, where the rapid detection of the partial pressure of oxygen is critical to controlling the air-fuel ratio in modern electronic fuel injection systems, this new-type semiconductor resistance sensor of...
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This technology provides an elegant, efficient and cost effective way to measure absolute position in one or two dimensions using a new Point Coupled Linear Transformer (PCLT).
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Nanotechnology-based, hybrid nanocrystal inorganic thin-film photovoltaics combine the best features of solar cells constructed from bulk thin-film silicon and from polymer solar cells.
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AIST has developed a thin film technology that can reduce the consumption of raw selenium below one-tenth of the conventional standard when manufacturing non-silicon-based CIGS thin-film solar cells.
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A food grade, organic compliant, non toxic, non allergenic, non hazardous and completely biodegradable anti-microbial product has been developed that also acts as natural food safe preservative.
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is an important industrial gas, which is widely used in more than 29 industrial applications.
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A new method has been developed to provide a significant improvement to the processing of fish through a unique gas treatment method, resulting in a reduction in treatment time and an enhanced penetration of fish with the treatment gas.
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This new patented technology enables the integration of passive components into the printed circuit board (PCB).
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The use of solar panels to generate electricity is becoming more and more attractive due to increased costs of mineral oil and more awareness of environmental impact of conventional energy sources.
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This technology features a uniquely designed suction head that eliminates problems typically experienced in alluvial diamond mining, mud, sewerage pumping or dredging operations.
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In oil field tests over 18 months, Direct Current Electrical Stimulation has shown up to a 10X increase in oil production for deep, heavy oil.
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The Cutcher Wind Turbine Generator is a cost effective tool that provides low and no cost power by utilizing tall structures such as rural and urban homes, as well as businesses and buildings.
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The Power Router is a patented next generation power factor conditioning device that specifically addresses the issue of power loss that occurs when converting from AC to DC power.
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The Continuously Operational Biological Reactor (COB) is the new innovation in animal manure management.
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The Environment Purification Materials team of AIST's Synergy Materials Research Center (Japan) has successfully developed and tested significantly improved electrochemical reactors for the selective elimination of nitrogen oxides (NOx) i...
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The present technology describes the method for the production of the zeolite membrane.
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In this technology, methods of solidifying low-boiling-point hydrocarbon and gaseous hydrocarbons are proposed.
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The present invention proposes a process for the production of a hydrogen gas from water wit reduced costs.
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The present invention relates to the manufacturing process of a high-temperature ceramics-based composite material, which features excellent heat and oxidation resistance and frictional properties.
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The rapid expansion of the Internet and the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth are fostering significant growth in the global cable and wiring market.
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The present invention shows the superconductive magnetic levitation transportation system with high-efficiency and large-capacity utilizing potential energy as the drive source, which performs short to long distance transportation of carg...
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The present invention relates to a method of separating and recovering CO.sub.2 from combustion exhausted gas.
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Decomposing reaction of methanol generates reformed gas (endothermic reform reaction) and synthesizing reaction of reformed gas produces methanol (exothermic reform reaction).
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Rapid solidification rate (RSR) technology enables production of fine-grained (nanometer-scale) and amorphous metals with uniform chemistry.
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This highly efficient device for recycling heat from hot water waste has a simple design, compact size and weight, and reclaims about 30 percent of the heat that would otherwise go down the household or industrial drain with used hot water.
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AIST proposes a method using hydrogen-occluded alloy for recovering power from waste heat.
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A method and apparatus for providing a steam boiler/combuster and gasifier that uses a primary dirty fuel, such as waste materials, or high-polluting fossil fuels, and a secondary low-polluting fuel, such as biomass fuels for co-generatio...
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The invention is an apparatus for controlling the amount of solar energy and heat transferred into and out of a building or other structure through a glazed opening using a system of pneumatically actuated, reflective shutters.
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ZYW has patented technology for the production of unlimited quantities of electrically charged liquids and aerosols.
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Rhodia phosphate ester technology is highly versatile and the wide range of products covers a broad set of functionalities: wetting, solubilization, anti-corrosion, dispersion, emulsification, extreme pressure load carrying, and anti-wear.
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This technology relates to a deodorizing lamp and method for the production of the lamp.
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Over the past several decades there has been a proliferation of medical diagnostic and treatment devices that involve the use of x-rays, beta rays, gamma rays and radioactive isotopes.
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Wind energy is a renewable energy source that is completely environmentally friendly as it does not create harmful by-products or pollutants.
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A carbon-based counter electrode enhances the operation and durability of electrochromic windows (ECWs), especially against UV radiation that would be encountered in automobile or architectural applications.
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In today's modern heating appliance market, attractive design and the ability of the appliance to heat up fast are critical for the commercial success of a product.
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This technology enables the use of dramatically less expensive flooded screw compressors instead of precision fit dry compressors.
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This advanced technology product and process has been fully developed in 1999 by DSM and Smurfit Kappa Packaging to produce consistent, robust high energy fuel pellets from mixed and municipal waste.
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A modular mono-polar direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) cartridge and stack design, offering flexible assembly, is described.
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Methods for joining and sealing the flow field plate to the gas diffusion layer or the coolant plate of a fuel cell structure are described.
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A wide range of applications requiring carbon black of exceptional dispersibility can benefit from this unique surface treatment for carbon black particles.
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The shadow mask is eliminated by replacing it with an electronic control system that guides the electron beams over the correct phosphor lines.
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We have satisfied the contradicting requirements to simultaneously achieve high-precision transfer while reducing manufacturing cycle time.
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This technology provides an apparatus and technique for recording multiple complex holographic images on photopolymeric films.
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A process is now available for manufacture of holographic optical elements, a specialized class of surface relief holograms.
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Honeywell's improved, nonwoven battery separator promotes fluid flow through use of a new type of tri-lobal, hollow fiber.
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Application of this high speed folding technology can provide increased profits from efficiency-based cost reductions and improved product quality, and potentially reduced capital investment for new systems because of its compact size; un...
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This patented technology improves efficiency and throughput to equipment suppliers and end users alike who spray or extrude fluids of all types through nozzles; utilizing ultrasonic energy in a unique nozzle configuration, end users gain ...
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Honeywell has developed a low cost, state-of the-art, noncontact fluid seal or oil seal which eliminate output shaft seal leakage and maintain optimum lubrication at very high rotational speeds.
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Honeywell offers an innovative load driver circuit which achieves both high efficiency and fault tolerance.
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Maintaining a uniform web is a significant challenge in the manufacture of stretchable materials.
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Gel-type electrolytes generally have high conductivity, and our solid polymer electrolyte features top-level ionic conductivity and elasticity or viscoelasticity .
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Carbon anodes based on our carbon materials can be used for lithium ion secondary batteries, providing them with high energy densities and excellent cycle characteristics and making them capable of large-current charge and discharge.
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The Torrizo Electromagnetic Accelerator Rail Gun 6000 (TEMAG 6000) is a new innovation in rail gun technology.
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Licensees of this sodium manufacturing cell technology will enjoy higher current efficiencies (~4%), 30% lower calcium chloride fed to each cell, and labor force reduction of ~30% relative to standard DowĘs cell operation.
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The Freeway Power Generator is an innovative tool utilized in converting the motion of moving vehicles in generating useful amounts of energy.
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New innovative RealStream salt-in-crude analyzer offers real-time online salt content measurement in crude oil without moving parts, sampling systems or chemicals.
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DuPont has successfully developed a less complex, lower cost electrochromatic (EC) technology for controllable light transmission in automotive and architectural safety glazing applications.
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Proposed is a novel synthetic inorganic porous material having a chemical composition of the general formula [(SiO2)8 ?(MO2/3)a ?(OH)2/3a+b ]b- ?b/c(Ac+), in which M is an ion of a divalent metal, e.g., Mg, A is a cation of an alkali meta...
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Low cost smart monitoring system installation on an aerosol can or other sealed metal containers.
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This system uses existing dedicated and interactive TV cable communications, computers, the Internet for detecting conditions, meters, and alarms and when needed reporting to the appropriate agencies.
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This technology recovers hydrogen from process product and by-product streams utilizing Cd-exchanged rho zeolites.
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Traditional fossil fuels, such as coal and crude oil, are non-renewable energy sources that generate harmful pollutants.
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An improved thermal energy storage system and a process for thermal energy storage and transfer are disclosed.
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Besides batteries, one promising method to store solar energy, while at the same time overcoming the energy storage limitation of renewable energy sources (RES), is to convert the solar energy of photovoltaics directly to hydrogen, which ...
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Plant material, vegetation, or agricultural waste used as a fuel or energy source, or simply biomass, is one of the recently discovered renewable energy sources.
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Water soluble nylons offer environmentally friendly coating solutions with no volatile solvents.
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As electronic systems shape an ever increasing segment of our everyday lives, innovations relating to their performance and monitoring become increasingly important.
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Spanish-based researchers have developed two models that facilitate the application of Drag Reducing Agents in pipelines, helping make oil transport cheaper.
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UK-based AOS Technology has come up with an inexpensive way to convert linear sensors into two-dimensional gas imaging systems.
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PipelineStudio® is a flexible robust software for simulation of fluid hydraulics in oil pipelines, particularly for planning and designing injection of flow improvers.
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The gas industry requires safe, rapid and accurate means of detecting leaks of natural gas.
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The AESOP project investigated the influence of two Drag Reducing Agents (DRAs) on characteristics and properties of fuels, with the aim of using them more widely to improve the efficiency of oil pipeline networks.
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Diesel engines, despite their superior fuel economy, durability and driveability characteristics, emit higher levels of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matters emissions than gasoline engines.
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Due to the related environmental and economic advantages, newly advanced diesel engines have become very popular for further exploitation in automobiles.
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The easy detection and location of gas leaks offers increased benefits not only to the gas industry, but also to society as well.
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Aiming at preserving resources, such as fossil fuels and reducing the environmentally unfriendly emissions, the use of CO2-neutral fuels including biomass for power generation has been extensively explored.
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The EU's AESOP project aimed to formulate guidelines and techniques associated with the use of flow-improvers in the European oil transportation network in order to improve efficiency and reduce losses.
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In meeting future legislative needs on cleaner automotive technologies, a newly adapted valve actuation system offers improved operational efficiency in diesel engines.
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Leakage from gas mains networks is an important issue that receives significant attention from the gas industry worldwide.
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The combustion of biomass can now be successfully tested with the development of a non-spherical particle combustion model, NSPCM.
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The introduction of long polymer chains as flow improvers or drag reducers in oil pipeline networks has an increased potential for great reductions in energy consumption.
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Addressing technological and market issues concerning biomass, the BIOCOGEN project collected and analysed information about biomass Cogeneration Heating Plants (CHP) in Europe.
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The measurement and detection of gases is required for a number of industries in order to ensure effective and safe working environments.
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Natural gas offers a great alternative to fossil-based fuels given its environmentally friendly profile.
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Fuels containing 'short-cycle carbon' have the potential to reduce the overall emission of CO2 into the atmosphere.
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Due to safety, environmental and financial reasons, gas leaks need to be early and quickly detected, as well as, effectively reduced.
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In spite of global concerns regarding levels of oil production and prices, there are still significant losses associated with oil transportation worldwide.
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Utility companies looking to train field operatives will find a new packet of training materials including footage of actual leaks very valuable.
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As environmental and financial concerns render the use of fossil fuels increasingly controversial, new options are explored to cover the heating and power requirements of European populations.
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A new web-based dissemination system for BioFlam results has been established.
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The preparation of secondary fuels for the energy industry is an important step in reducing toxic emissions and in making the entire process more efficient.
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Reflecting environmental and societal concerns, the EU is focusing on the evaluation of biomass-based energy systems as an alternative to fossil fuels.
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By taking a closer look at individual particle properties, we can gain insight into which biomass fuels are more appropriate for combustion in today's power plants.
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One of the key parameters for the realisation of energy projects is the participation and involvement of local authorities, such as national governments and municipalities.
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A floodlight capable of continuing to offer illumination even after the first filament breaks down has been invented.
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The ever changing socio-political, economic, regulatory, workforce and technological environments impose new needs on the management of nuclear power plants.
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A new sensor that measures fireside corrosion rates has been developed and demonstrated in power plant boilers.
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The problems associated with CO2 emissions have instigated an investigation of control methods and processes involving the use of thermal utilisation of secondary fuels recovered from waste materials.
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The use of non-conventional fuels in coal-fired boilers has resulted in significant changes in deposit chemistry of furnace and convective section surfaces.
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Waste disposal and the availability of cleaner energy sources are two major issues facing Europe and the rest of the world.
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Corrosion is a problem in industry wherever oxidising environments are present.
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The large variety and non-uniformity of organic contaminants found in biomass gasification systems makes their systematic measurement a difficult task and is damaging for the systems.
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Co-fired coal boilers are expected to be the most promising "alternative" energy source of the near future.
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Fireside walls of coal fired utility boilers are subject to corrosion during combustion at standard temperatures, but in order to reduce nitrous oxide emissions, combustion temperatures have to increase.
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Catalysts eliminate pollutants before they enter and contaminate our environment.
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Cofiring power plants can be both more economical and less polluting than traditional power plants.
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The appropriate design of solar power plants is one of the driving forces for the further development and wide use of green energy, especially in Mediterranean countries.
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Increasing the feasibility and attractiveness of green electricity is paramount to ensuring a sustainable future.
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Fibre optic technology is not something one would normally associate with geological research.
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One of the problems associated with unplanned furnace shutdowns is due to the formation of ash deposition and furnace corrosion as a result of the chemicals released by the gases.
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There is still hope for the development of cost-effective green power.
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Adapting solar energy to boost the efficiency of current gas operated turbines sounds like something out of a science fiction magazine.
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Corrosion is a major concern for many industries, primarily where it threatens performance, functionality or safety such as in the shipping industry, petroleum storage and boilers.
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Whereas commercial biomass energy production is considered an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional energy production, it still does not make commercial sense.
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Seismic technology has helped oil and gas field operators to determine more accurately reservoir properties, enhance production, increase recovery and reduce the costs of finding and developing oil reserves.
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Though well over 100 million kilometers away, the sun could be the earth's best energy resource.
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The increasing need for cleaner energy production such as biomass gasification has led to the search of low-cost, simple, reliable and high performance gas cleaning systems.
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A Norwegian research institute has been addressing the performance in hydrocarbon reservoirs seeking to improve the production efficiency of oil and gas extraction.
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The geological structures of significant European oil reserves make conventional seismic exploration difficult.
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Improving reservoir knowledge and management in oil fields is recognised as being an important factor to increasing total yield.
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Two software tools have been recently adapted and optimised for layout and performance calculation of solar-hybrid systems.
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Oil transportation companies are in need of improving their efficiency and capabilities.
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Wind turbines are highly advanced works of engineering.
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With shrinking natural resources, performing sensitivity tests to identify and quantify sources of model uncertainty is helping scientists to better exploit the world's limited oil reserves.
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We are having to go deeper and deeper into the ocean to find oil.
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Being able to predict when and where mineral scaling will occur in an oil well gives well operators a distinct advantage in combating this common phenomenon.
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Chemical engineers normally encounter, in oil and gas production systems, the flow of a three-phase mixture, in wells and pipelines.
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The need to reduce nitrogen dioxide emissions is not solely aimed at the automobile industry, but also includes the aerospace and maritime industry.
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The emerging needs for a new market-based environment for energy power supply have imposed new demands for restructuring the current infrastructure.
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An EC funded project has extensively studied the evaporation kinetics of multi-component droplets in order to provide better insight on liquid fuel behaviour in internal combustion engines.
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A British company has recently investigated a late phase source term phenomena programme, which aimed at quantifying nuclear fission product and core material released from molten corium.
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A nuclear vessel reactor project conducted within the Fifth Framework Programme aimed to address the unresolved safety issues pertaining to melt vessel interaction phases for the in-vessel progressions of severe accidents.
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Prior to May 1st 2004 when the ten new member countries joined the EU, the progress made in the field of Joint Implementation (JI) had been hampered by a lack of member consensus.
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A total of seven partners have joined forces to establish simulation models for direct injection gasoline engines that have low hydrocarbon emissions.
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Engineers are constantly trying to evaluate new ways of analysing and testing the combustion process in automobile engines.
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With the current restructuring of the European electricity industry into a market-based environment, the vulnerability of the European Power System (EPS) is expected to increase.
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The current commitment of European car manufacturers is to realise carbon-dioxide emissions of just 120 grams per kilometre.
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Within the wind turbine industry and its certification authorities, it is not clear just how much confidence they have with analysis codes for calculating dynamic loads and energy yields.
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Using laser technology, a Danish research institute has developed a laser anemometer for the control and performance testing of wind turbines.
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The large industrial needs for both heat and electricity makes Cogeneration of Heat and Power (CHP) technologies particularly attractive.
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A German company has designed and developed an innovative hub for wind turbines, made entirely from composite structures and is approximately 50 percent lighter than comparative steel components.
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Lightweight structures are the most common applications for continuous-fibre reinforced composite materials because the materials they use often involve a thickness of no more than a few millimetres.
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Alternative sources of energy such as wave technology are steadily becoming increasingly important sources of electrical supply worldwide.
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Maximising efficiencies whilst minimising cost and weight are the constant challenges facing designers of the 21st century.
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The Laboratoire National des Champs Magnetiques Pulses (LNCMP) in Toulouse, France, accommodates Europe's most powerful electro-magnet capable of generating 80 Tesla (T) in a 15 millimeter bore.
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The size of magnets is generally determined by the availability of the huge energy sources; thus the larger the energy source the bigger the magnet.
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Researchers revealed that large concentrations of alkali metals, CI and S in straw are largely responsible for biomass operational problems.
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The commercial aspects of photovoltaic generated electricity have been exploited for many years with varying degrees of success.
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Since the development of biomass as an alternative form of fuel, science has endeavoured to make it cleaner, more viable and of course, cheaper to use.
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Portable electronic devices are becoming increasingly power hungry.
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In line with the Kyoto objectives, an EC funded project primarily focused on the extensive investigation of biomass in terms of chemical composition and combustion conditions.
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A EU funded research project tests geostrophic winds with the use of radiosonde data derived from coastal stations to forecast sea surface and temperature conditions.
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A German institute has developed a novel disposal method whereby harmful contaminants such as polythene and polypropylene can be used for steel production electrical supply.
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Modern energy needs are considerable to say the least, and while government establishes severe controls and performance values, the production of power facilities must also consider cost-effectiveness, competitive levels as system perform...
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Extensive studies on improving nuclear reactors have led to many advancements in their design, operation, safety and cost-efficiency.
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Heating and ventilating buildings is no easy matter when optimising energy consumption is involved.
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An EC-funded project studied in detail the complex behaviour of iodine in a nuclear reactor containment in case of a severe accident and developed a set of reliable models and codes.
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Significant advances in nuclear safety have originated from the transfer of the results and information obtained during scaled experiments to the real reactor conditions.
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Managing nuclear reactors could be made easier by finding from Eurocore, (European Group for the Analysis of Corium Recovery Concepts), a European group that has highlighted areas of melt stabilisation for further research and development.
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Several reactor safety research organisations came together to save valuable experimental data from being lost forever.
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Aimed at exploiting cleaner energy systems fueled by biomass, an EC funded EESD project generated a dynamic on-line model for assessing heat transfer in boilers.
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VVER-440 nuclear reactors generate electricity in several of the newly admitted European Union Member States.
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The process of hydraulic fracturing in the extraction of oil and natural gas is a technique that is over 500 years old.
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Combined heat and energy plants are a step in the right direction for a sustainable future.
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The biggest concern over the use of nuclear energy remains the danger of accidental release of radioactive material into the environment.
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A complete analysis of the current state of Material Test Reactors in Europe led to the call for the immediate construction of at least one new reactor.
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Alternative fuels must be cost competitive with traditional fuels in order to ensure widespread adoption, which is necessary for their benefits to be realised.
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Optimal implementation of Severe Accident Management (SAM) procedures can help reduce the impact of nuclear accidents and prevent catastrophes like Chernobyl.
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In recent years variable-speed electrical machines have evolved considerably, and this is largely to do with the technological advances for modern power plants.
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