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How assistive technologies can aim the mathematical learning process of people with print disabilities
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Indicazioni termodinamiche e petrologico sperimentali sull'origine ed evoluzione dei magmi potassici dell'Italia centrale.
No full textSteam reforming of biofuels for the production of hydrogen-rich gas
No full textThe scientific community recognizes hydrogen as a potential future replacement for fossil fuels that may satisfy world energy demand. Hydrogen-fuelled energy systems prove to be cleaner, more reliable and efficient, with beneficial effects on energy and environmental security. Hydrogen fuel obtained via steam reforming of biofuels could be valuable as a clean energy carrier based on renewable energy sources. In this chapter, key issues relating to steam reforming of biofuels for hydrogen production are discussed in relation to different feedstocks: liquid and solid biofuels and natural gas. The distinctions between existing reforming technologies and newly developed ones are discussed, along with improvements involving membranes. © 2014 Woodhead Publishing Limited All rights reserved
Techno-economic assessment of bio-syngas production for methanol synthesis: A focus on the water–gas shift and carbon capture sections
Full text linkThe biomass-to-methanol process may play an important role in introducing renewables in the industry chain for chemical and fuel production. Gasification is a thermochemical process to produce syngas from biomass, but additional steps are requested to obtain a syngas composition suitable for methanol synthesis. The aim of this work is to perform a computer-aided process simulation to produce methanol starting from a syngas produced by oxygen–steam biomass gasification, whose details are reported in the literature. Syngas from biomass gasification was compressed to 80 bar, which may be considered an optimal pressure for methanol synthesis. The simulation was mainly focused on the water–gas shift/carbon capture sections requested to obtain a syngas with a (H2 − CO2)/(CO + CO2) molar ratio of about 2, which is optimal for methanol synthesis. Both capital and operating costs were calculated as a function of the CO conversion in the water–gas shift (WGS) step and CO2 absorption level in the carbon capture (CC) unit (by Selexol® process). The obtained results show the optimal CO conversion is 40% with CO2 capture from the syngas equal to 95%. The effect of the WGS conversion level on methanol production cost was also assessed. For the optimal case, a methanol production cost equal to 0.540 €/kg was calculated
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