PtAl 2 -dispersed (Ni,Pt)Al coating and (Ni,Pt)Al coating have been prepared simultaneously with an intermediate Pt content at the surface before low-activity high-temperature aluminizing process. Hot corrosion and cyclic oxidation performance of these two Pt-modified coatings are investigated...

This paper looks at carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the point of view of production theory and proposes a new total factor CO2 emissions performance index. This is done using directional distance function followed by stochastic frontier analysis techniques in order to estimate the index....

Air preheater is one of key elements in today’s energy-saving technology. Its performance deeply depends on the underlying configuration for heat transfer. In this paper, the pressure drop and heat transfer characteristics of a high-efficiency plate-fin structure used in an air preheater are...

This paper examines the causal relationships between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption and real economic output using panel cointegration and panel vector error correction modeling techniques based on the panel data for 28 provinces in China over the period 1995-2007. Our empirical...