Volatile oil price and growing emphasis on environmental conservation have stimulated the development and utilisation of biomass as a vital source of renewable energy. In reducing the global dependency on fossil fuels, rice husk and rice straw which are the widely abundant agricultural wastes...

The application of Process Integration using the Pinch Analysis technique has been recently extended to the design of hybrid power systems to determine the maximum power recovery and the battery storage capacity. The graphical and the numerical Power Pinch Analysis (PoPA) tools provide designers...

Pinch Analysis is a well-established methodology of Process Integration for designing optimal networks for recovery and conservation of resources such as heat, mass, water, carbon, gas, properties and solid materials for more than four decades. However its application to power systems analysis...

A problem when exploiting renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar radiation, is their fluctuating availability. In the presented work, the Heat Integration methodology for batch processes based on Time Slices has been extended to cover the integration of solar thermal energy, thus...

This paper presents a MCO (multi-criteria optimisation) of regional biomass supply chains for the conversion of biomass to energy through the simultaneous maximisation of economic performance and minimisation of the environmental and social FPs (footprints). The energy supply-chain model...

The paper deals with an extension of Total Site Integration to Locally Integrated Energy Sectors producing more realistic utility and heat recovery targets. Process Heat Integration (based on Pinch Analysis) aims to minimise the amount of energy mostly used in industrial processes. It is still...

In the new education and technology era, there are many challenges for Engineering education in the field of energy especially to enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning process via structured multimedia. The universities across Europe are currently adopting the new Bologna...

Pressure drop is an important consideration in Total Site Heat Integration (TSHI). This is due to the typically large distances between the different plants and the flow across plant elevations and equipment, including heat exchangers. Failure to consider pressure drop during utility targeting...

Ineffective waste management that involves dumping of waste in landfills may degrade valuable land resources and emit methane gas (CH4), a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2). The incineration of waste also emits polluted chemicals such as dioxin and particle. Therefore, from a...

The IBS (Integrated Biomass Solar) town is a concept which encourages local community to utilize biomass waste comprehensively with strong ties between community and local stakeholders. This paper discusses an IBS model and solution for an electrically self-sufficient eco-village with and...