To achieve the net-zero emissions targets, the global share of renewable energy is rapidly increasing. The high penetration of intermittent and variable renewable power necessitates that coal-fired power plants enhanc...
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With the increasing penetration of renewable power, flexible power sources are urgently required by the power grid to balance the supply and demand sides. Therefore, the operational flexibility of subcritical coal-fir...
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Direct Numerical Simulations have been carried out to study the forced convection heat transfer of flow through fixed prolate particles for a variety of aspect ratios ar={5/4,5/3,5/1}with Reynolds number(Re)up to *** ...
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Direct Numerical Simulations have been carried out to study the forced convection heat transfer of flow through fixed prolate particles for a variety of aspect ratios ar={5/4,5/3,5/1}with Reynolds number(Re)up to *** variations of the solid volume fraction c={0.1,0.2,0.3}with four Hermans orientation factors S={−0.5,0,0.5,1}are *** has been found that changes in S cause prominent variations in the Nusselt *** general,Nusselt number increases with the decrease of *** all three aspect ratios,the Nusselt number remains a linear function of S at different c and ***,it is concluded that,for heat transfer from prolate muti-particle system,the effects of orientations cannot be ignored.A new correlation for Nusselt number has been developed for arrays of prolate particles using the simulation data as a function of Re,c,S and ar.
Supercritical water fluidized bed(SCWFB)is a promising reactor to gasify biomass or *** optimization design is closely related to wall-to-bed heat transfer,where particle convective heat transfer plays an important **...
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Supercritical water fluidized bed(SCWFB)is a promising reactor to gasify biomass or *** optimization design is closely related to wall-to-bed heat transfer,where particle convective heat transfer plays an important *** paper evaluates the particle convective heat transfer coefficient(h_(pc))at the wall in SCWFB using the single particle *** critical parameters in the single particle model which is difficult to get experimentally are obtained by the computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method(CFD-DEM).The contact statistics related to particle-to-wall heat transfer,such as contact number and contact distance,are also *** results show that particle residence time(τ),as the key parameter to evaluate h_(pc),is found to decrease with rising velocity,while increase with larger thermal boundary layer thickness.τfollows a gamma function initially adopted in the gas-solid fluidized bed,making it possible to evaluate h_(pc) in SCWFB by a simplified single particle *** theoretical predicted h_(pc) tends to increase with rising thermal gradient thickness at a lower velocity(1.5 U_(mf)),while first decreases and then increases at higher velocity(1.75 and 2 U_(mf)).h_(pc) occupies 30%-57%of the overall wall-to-bed heat transfer coefficient for a particle diameter of 0.25 *** results are helpful to predict the overall wall-to-bed heat transfer coefficient in SCWFB combined with a reasonable fluid convective heat transfer model from a theoretical perspective.
Estimation of the radiological consequences including the calculation of radiation doses to the exposed population requires numerical evaluation of atmospheric radioactive releases from nuclear facilities under accide...
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NiFe-based electrocatalysts will experience dynamical surface reconstruction during oxygen evolution reaction(OER)process,and the derived metal(oxy)hydroxide hybrids on the surface have been considered as the actual a...
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NiFe-based electrocatalysts will experience dynamical surface reconstruction during oxygen evolution reaction(OER)process,and the derived metal(oxy)hydroxide hybrids on the surface have been considered as the actual active species for *** efforts have been dedicated to understanding the surface reconstruction,but there is rare research on recognizing the origin of improved performance derived from anion species of ***,the OER electrocatalytic characteristics were tuned with different anions in NiFe-based catalyst,using NiFe-based oxides/nitride/sulfide/selenides/phosphides(NiFeX,X=O,N,S,Se,and P)as the model *** combination of X-ray photoelectronic spectroscopy,electrochemical tests,operando spectroscopic characterizations,and density functional theory(DFT)calculations,reveals that anion with lower electronegativity in NiFe-based catalyst leads to higher conductivity and delayed valence transition of Ni sites,as well as optimized adsorption behavior towards oxygen intermediates,contributing to enhanced OER ***,NiFeP electrocatalyst demonstrates an ultralow overpotential of 265 mV at 20 mA·cm−2 for OER,as well as long-term *** work not only offers further insights into the effect of anionic electronegativity on the intrinsic OER electrocatalytic properties of NiFe-based electrocatalyst but also provides guide to design efficient non-noble metal-based electrocatalysts for water oxidation.
Ethylene tar is a prospective precursor for preparing carbonaceous materials,which is regarded as a representative soft carbon material after ***,the introduction of oxygen can influence the morphology of the final ca...
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Ethylene tar is a prospective precursor for preparing carbonaceous materials,which is regarded as a representative soft carbon material after ***,the introduction of oxygen can influence the morphology of the final carbonaceous *** the introduction of oxygen,dealkylation and dehydrogenation will be promoted and the molecules can be linked more *** the subsequent carbonization,the biphenyl structures caused by the deoxygenation via the elimination of CO_(2),as well as the reserved aromatic ether bonds,can facilitate the strong cross-linking,which will restrain the movement of the carbon layers and the formation of the graphitic *** the graphitization treatment at 2800℃,the oxidized pitch can lead to short-range ordered and long-range unordered structures,while the sample without oxidation can result in long-range ordered graphitic *** can be proved that a simple oxidation-carbonization treatment can transform ethylene tar into hard carbon structures.
Lithium-gas batteries(LGBs)have garnered significant attention due to their impressive high-energy densities and unique gas conversion ***,the practical application of LGBs faces substantial challenges,including slugg...
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Lithium-gas batteries(LGBs)have garnered significant attention due to their impressive high-energy densities and unique gas conversion ***,the practical application of LGBs faces substantial challenges,including sluggish gas conversion kinetics inducing in low-rate performance and high overpotential,along with limited electrochemical reversibility leading to poor cycle *** imperative task is to develop gas electrodes with remarkable catalytic activity,abundant active sites,and exceptional electrochemical ***,a versatile and well-established technique for fabricating fibrous nanomaterials,has been extensively explored in LGB *** this work,we emphasize the critical structure-property for ideal gas electrodes and summarize the advancement of employing electrospun nanofibers(NFs)for performance enhancement in *** elucidating the fundamental principles of LGBs and the electrospinning technique,we focus on the systematic design of electrospun NF-based gas electrodes regarding optimal structural fabrication,catalyst handling and activation,and catalytic site optimization,as well as considerations for large-scale *** demonstrated principles and regulations for electrode design are expected to inspire broad applications in catalyst-based energy applications.
Highly selective production of value-added multicarbon(C^(2+))products via electrochemical CO_(2) reduction reaction(eCO_(2)RR)on polycrystalline copper(Cu)remains ***,the facile surface modification using poly(α-eth...
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Highly selective production of value-added multicarbon(C^(2+))products via electrochemical CO_(2) reduction reaction(eCO_(2)RR)on polycrystalline copper(Cu)remains ***,the facile surface modification using poly(α-ethyl cyanoacrylate)(PECA)is presented to greatly enhance the C^(2+)selectivity for eCO_(2)RR over polycrystalline Cu,with Faradaic efficiency(FE)towards C^(2+)products increased from30.1%for the Cu electrode to 72.6%for the obtained Cu-PECA electrode at-1.1 V *** hydrogen electrode(RHE).Given the well-determined FEs towards C^(2+)products,the partial current densities for C^(2+)production could be estimated to be-145.4 mA cm~(-2)for the Cu-PECA electrode at-0.9 V *** in a homemade flow ***-situ spectral characterizations and theoretical calculations reveal that PECA featured with electron-accepting-C≡N and-COOR groups decorated onto the Cu electrode could inhibit the adsorption of^(*)H intermediates and stabilize the^(*)CO intermediates,given the redistributed interfacial electron density and the raised energy level of d-band center(E_(d))of Cu active sites,thus facilitating the C-C coupling and then the C^(2+)selective *** study is believed to be guidable to the modification of electrocatalysts and electrodes with polymers to steer the surface adsorption behaviors of reaction intermediates to realize practical eCO_(2)RR towards value-added C^(2+)products with high activity and selectivity.
There are currently no reports about clusters in the supercritical water circulating fluidized bed(SCWCFB).Simulations were conducted to investigate the numbers,diameters,aspect ratios,circularity,and orientation angl...
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There are currently no reports about clusters in the supercritical water circulating fluidized bed(SCWCFB).Simulations were conducted to investigate the numbers,diameters,aspect ratios,circularity,and orientation angles of cluster in the riser of SCWCFB via two-fluid model across different flow velocities,solid circulation rates,pressures,and *** results show that cluster numbers are mainly between 10 and 80 per *** are more at the bottom but less at the top,and more near the wall but less at the *** diameters are mainly between 0.2 and 0.5 times the bed *** are large at the bottom but small at the top,and large at the center but small near the *** aspect ratios are mainly between 0 and 1,indicating that most clusters have shorter width than their ***-like clusters are more likely to appear near the walls,and clusters at the center of the riser are more likely to be *** circularity is mainly between 0.2 and 0.4,suggesting that the shapes of clusters are far from the *** absolute values of cluster orientation angles are mainly between 75°and 90°,indicating that most clusters move in the vertical *** fluid velocities may facilitate cluster coalescence.
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