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Since currency is a means of exchange, it forms a standard of value. Modern economics uses the function of currency as a “general standard of value” and describes the economic processes in the terms of value by the quantity of money. The most...
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Dan Fernandes, Song Wang, Qiang Xu, Russel Buss and Daniel Chen
The Allam cycle is the latest advancement in power generation technologies with a high cycle efficiency, zero NOx emission, and carbon dioxide available at pipeline specification for sequestration and utilization. The Allam cycle plant is a semi-closed, ...
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Waste heat that is available in the flue gas of power plant stacks is a potential source of useful thermal power. In reclaiming and utilizing this waste heat without compromising plant efficiency, stacks usually need to be equipped with forced-draught fa...
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Gianpiero Evola, Vincenzo Costanzo and Luigi Marletta
The performance of space heating and cooling systems in buildings is usually measured by applying the first law of thermodynamics, which makes it possible to quantify the energy losses of the single components and to measure their energy conversion effic...
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Veera Gnaneswar Gude
Desalination of sea or brackish water sources to provide clean water supplies has now become a feasible option around the world. Escalating global populations have caused the surge of desalination applications. Desalination processes are energy intensive...
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Forrest Meggers, Luca Baldini and Hansjürg Leibundgut
Ground heat is a renewable resource that is readily available for buildings in cool climates, but its relatively low temperature requires the use of a heat pump to extract it for heating. We developed a system that uses low temperature ground heat direct...
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