11-04-2013 | Schiermeier, Quirin;, Nature, 2013

Wild weather can send greenhouse gases spiralling Nature 496, 7444 (2013). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/496147a Author: Quirin Schiermeier Researchers get to grips with effects of heat, drought and storms on carbon ...

more

04-03-2013 | Strazza, Carlo ; Del Borghi, Adriana ; Gallo, Michela, Energies, 2013

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a very innovative and promising solution for greenhouse gases (GHG) reduction, i.e., capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) at its source and storing it indefinitely to avoid its release to the atmosphere. This paper investigates a set of key issues in the ...

more

01-03-2013 | Messagie, Maarten ; Boureima, Fayçal ; Mertens, Jan ; Sanfelix, Javier ; Macharis, Cathy ; Mierlo, Joeri Van, Energies, 2013

Producing electricity from waste gas is an after treatment for waste gas while recovering the energy content. This paper addresses the methodology to calculate the effect that waste gas energy recovery has on lowering the impact of climate change. Greenhouse gases are emitted while burning ...

more

21-02-2013 | Amato, Ivan;, Nature, 2013

Green cement: Concrete solutions Nature 494, 7437 (2013). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/494300a Author: Ivan Amato Cement manufacturing is a major source of greenhouse gases. But cutting emissions means mastering one ...

more

07-02-2013 | Wang, Ning-Yi ; Shih, Chun-Hao ; Chiueh, Pei-Te ; Huang, Yu-Fong, Energies, 2013

Carbonization is a newly developed process that converts sewage sludge to biocoal, a type of solid biomass that can partially substitute for coal during power generation. This study presents an assessment of the environmental effects of various sewage sludge treatment processes, including ...

more

14-01-2013 | Caldeira-Pires, Armando ; da Luz, Sandra Maria; Palma-Rojas, Silvia ; Rodrigues, Thiago Oliveira; Silverio, Vanessa ..., Energies, 2013

Biofuels have been extensively explored and applied in the Brazilian market. In Brazil, ethanol and biodiesel are produced on an industrial scale. Ethanol is commercialized and used in engines in both the hydrated form (96% °GL) and the anhydrous form, mixed with gasoline at a proportion ...

more

06-12-2012 | Tollefson, Jeff;, Nature, 2012

Megacities move to track emissions Nature 492, 7427 (2012). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/492020a Author: Jeff Tollefson Scientists monitor greenhouse gases in urban areas as a first step to gauging success of ...

more

20-10-2012 | Jennifer B. Dunn, Steffen Mueller, Michael Wang, Jeongwoo Han, Biotechnology Letters, 2012

Enzymes and yeast are important ingredients in the production of ethanol, yet the energy consumption and emissions associated with their production are often excluded from life-cycle analyses of ethanol. We provide new estimates for the energy consumed and greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted ...

more

17-09-2012 | Fracaro, Guilherme ; Vakkilainen, Esa ; Hamaguchi, Marcelo ; Melegari de Souza, Samuel Nelson, Energies, 2012

Industrial energy efficiency has received increasing attention in many countries because of its importance in the pursuit of energy supply security, increased economic competitiveness and in the mitigation of greenhouse gases emissions. This paper aimed to evaluate the energy consumption ...

more

04-09-2012 | John M. Wallace; Qiang Fu; Brian V. Smoliak; Pu Lin; Celeste M. Johanson, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue, 2012

A suite of the historical simulations run with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4) models forced by greenhouse gases, aerosols, stratospheric ozone depletion, and volcanic eruptions and a second suite of simulations forced by increasing CO2 ...

more