The production of liquid biofuels to blend with gasoline is of worldwide importance to secure the energy supply while reducing the use of fossil fuels, supporting the development of rural technology with knowledge-based jobs and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Today, engineering for plant construction is accessible and new processes using agricultural residues and municipal solid wastes have reached a good degree of maturity and high conversion yields (almost 90% of polysaccharides are converted into monosaccharides ready for fermentation). For the complete success of the 2G technology, it is still necessary to overcome a number of limitations that prevent a first-of-a-kind plant from operating at nominal capacity. We also claim that the triumph of 2G technology requires the development of favourable logistics to guarantee biomass supply and make all actors (farmers, investors, industrial entrepreneurs, government, others) aware that success relies on agreement advances. The growth of ethanol production for 2020 seems to be secured with a number of 2G plants, but public/private investments are still necessary to enable 2G technology to move on ahead from its very early stages to a more mature consolidated technology.
Waste and By-Products in Cement-Based Materials: Innovative Sustainable Materials for a Circular Economy covers various recycled materials, by-products and wastes that are suitable for the manufacture of materials within the spectrum of so-called cement-based materials (CBM). Sections cover wastes for replacement of aggregates in CBM, focus on the application of wastes for the replacement of clinker and mineral additions in the manufacture of binders, discuss the optimization process surrounding the manufacture of recycled concrete and mortars, multi-recycling, advanced radiological studies, optimization of self-compacting concrete, rheology properties, corrosion prevention, and more. Final sections includes a review of real-scale applications that have been made in recent years of cement-based materials in roads, railway superstructures, buildings and civil works, among others, as well as a proposal of new regulations to promote the use of waste in the manufacture of CBM
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The objectives of this research were to describe the existing listening-speaking materials used in English for Nursing subject in nursing academy and to find out the feasibility of the developed listening-speaking materials for English for Nursing subject. This research belongs to Research and Development (R&D) study. The steps consisted of needs analysis, designing prototype, developing prototype, expert judgment, and try out. The data were gained through questionnaires, observation, and interviews. The results of this research were listening-speaking materials for nursing academy students with following characteristics: 1) it was developed based on students' needs, 2) it was developed based on TBLT, 3) it contained tasks that enabled the students to learn and practise the language they need in their workplace, especially listening and speaking skills. The draft then was evaluated by ELT and subject experts. The appropriateness of materials was shown in the terms of materials, presentation, illustration, language, and graphic appropriateness. It achieved a final mean score of 3.81, which was in the range of 3.25 < x ≤ 4. After that, the material was tried-out to validate the feasibility. Finally, this material for nursing academy students is expected to meet the students' needs in increasing their listening and speaking skills.
Depleting conventional fuel reserves has prompted the demand for the exploration of renewable resources. Biomass is a widely available renewable resource that can be valorized to produce fuels, chemicals, and materials. Among all the fractions of biomass, lignin has been underutilized. Due to its complex structure, recalcitrant nature, and heterogeneity, its valorization is relatively challenging. This review focuses on the utilization of lignin for the preparation of composite materials and their application in the field of photocatalysis and photovoltaics. Lignin can be used as a photocatalyst support for its potential application in photodegradation of contaminants. The interaction between the components in hybrid photocatalysts plays a significant role in determining the photocatalytic performance. The application of lignin as a photocatalyst support tends to control the size of the particles and allows uniform distribution of the particles that influence the characteristics of the photocatalyst. Lignin as a semiconductive polymer dopant for photoanodes in photovoltaic cells can improve the photoconversion efficiency of the cell. Recent success in the development of lignosulfonates dopant for hole transport materials in photovoltaics will pave the way for further research in lignin-based high-performance organic electronic devices. ; This publication is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 711859 and from the financial resources for science in the years 2017–2021 awarded for the implementation of an international co-financed project. Prof. Dr. J.C. Colmenares and Dr. V. Nair are very grateful for the partial support from the National Science Centre in Poland within Sonata Bis Project No. 2015/18/E/ST5/00306. Roger Gläser gratefully acknowledges support from the Leipzig Graduate School of Natural Sciences: Building with Molecules and Nano-objects as well as from the Research Academy Leipzig.
Depleting conventional fuel reserves has prompted the demand for the exploration of renewable resources. Biomass is a widely available renewable resource that can be valorized to produce fuels, chemicals, and materials. Among all the fractions of biomass, lignin has been underutilized. Due to its complex structure, recalcitrant nature, and heterogeneity, its valorization is relatively challenging. This review focuses on the utilization of lignin for the preparation of composite materials and their application in the field of photocatalysis and photovoltaics. Lignin can be used as a photocatalyst support for its potential application in photodegradation of contaminants. The interaction between the components in hybrid photocatalysts plays a significant role in determining the photocatalytic performance. The application of lignin as a photocatalyst support tends to control the size of the particles and allows uniform distribution of the particles that influence the characteristics of the photocatalyst. Lignin as a semiconductive polymer dopant for photoanodes in photovoltaic cells can improve the photoconversion efficiency of the cell. Recent success in the development of lignosulfonates dopant for hole transport materials in photovoltaics will pave the way for further research in lignin-based high-performance organic electronic devices. ; This publication is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 711859 and from the financial resources for science in the years 2017–2021 awarded for the implementation of an international co-financed project. Prof. Dr. J.C. Colmenares and Dr. V. Nair are very grateful for the partial support from the National Science Centre in Poland within Sonata Bis Project No. 2015/18/E/ST5/00306. Roger Gläser gratefully acknowledges support from the Leipzig Graduate School of Natural Sciences: Building with Molecules and Nano-objects as well as from the Research Academy Leipzig.
2011/2012 ; Fossil energy sources are non-renewable being an irreplaceable endowment produced from millennia of biological and geological processes, which means that on the human time-scale they cannot be naturally regenerated and are only available in a finite amount on earth. Scientific and technological data concerning renewable fuels are exponentially growing and in parallel the governments are more and more attracted by these more sustainable energy sources. Overall, solar energy is the most abundant and easily available renewable resource which, however, has its own problems such as neither constantly available nor distributed equally over the surface of the globe. Hydrogen and various bio-fuels, such as bio-ethanol, biodiesel or biogas, have the potentiality to store the solar energy, playing a crucial role in the development of future renewable energy strategies. Nevertheless, as a general comment, it is very difficult and expensive to harness enough power from them to match the effectiveness of non-renewable resources. Thus, it is a big challenge to develop new and high efficient approach to improve the efficiency in production and use of these renewable resources. Nanotechnology is a key area that can help solving this issue. In fact, by using the tools offered by nanotechnology, it is possible to obtain tailored nanostructured catalytic materials that show remarkably better performance than that currently achievable even with state-of- the-art materials. The fields of catalysis, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis and photoelectron- catalysis are all examples of where nanotechnology is deeply impacting on current science, and in particular in energy related applications. The main focus of this PhD thesis is on nanotechnology applied to material science to enhance the performances of various on two important energy-related processes: namely the Fuel Cells (especially the Direct Alcohol Fuel Cell - DAFC) and the hydrogen production process. The H2 production processes include the electrochemical H2 production approach (the water electrolysis technique) and the photocatalytical H2 production approach (the photocatalytic decomposition of water into H2 technique). In the both the energy conversion processes, TiO2 nanotube arrays (TNTA) architectures were used as substrates and the Palladium (Pd) nanoparticles (NPs) were used as supported nanocatalysts. Therefore the most important results in this thesis are the design, realization, functional testing and characterization of supported Pd nanocatalysts on various TiO2 substrates with tailored and well-defined structures, in addition their use for energy-related applications, which are organized as follows: In the Chapter 1, the general principles of the fuel cells technique; the electrolysis technique; the TNTA substrate architecture and the principles of photocatalytic processes for H2 production are outlined or described in details. In addition, the development status and the preparation strategies of catalysts for the alcohol electrochemical oxidation are introduced in this chapter. In the chapter 2, an overview of the main characterization techniques is reported, all of which have been used in this thesis, in order to study the reactivity and the morphological and chemical properties of the samples. The aim of the present chapter is not that of providing exhaustive information about all the techniques. Rather, it is expected to furnish to the reader the main elements to better appreciate the results obtained and described in the following chapters of this thesis. Since the catalytic performance of the nanocatalysts can be finely turned by their shape, which determines surface atomic arrangement and coordination. In the chapter 3,we report a novel method of metal NPs modification, denoted as Electrochemical Milling and Faceting (ECMF), by which large supported Pd NPs (35 nm) of low-index facets supported on TNTA substrate can be milled into many small NPs (7 nm) with some HIF or high density of step atoms. By this approach, the catalytic activity of supported Pd NPs was enhanced by an order of magnitude to the ethanol electrooxidation, and was even 3 times higher than the highest value reported so far. This new approach to the synthesis of HIF-Pd NPs allows one to control metal loading, particle size and surface structure, independently from each other. Furthermore, in a practical catalytic system, such as the DAFC; the electrolysis system and the photocatalytical H2 production system, the electrochemical activity of the supported catalysts is not the only one parameter which needs to be concerned about, the other parameters for the whole test system's establishment such as the selection and preparation of the substrate material also need to the carefully optimize. In the chapter 4, a new type of Ti network substrate with the TNTA on top was prepared and introduced into the DAFC test system and also used in the electrolysis and photocatalytical H2 production process. This kind of substrate solved the typical problems of the DAFC such as the fuel solution diffusion limitation and the stability of the as supported catalysts drop during the large current density discharge. It was also proved to be a good choice as the substrate for the Photocatalytic decomposition of alkaline ethanol aqueous into H2, which showed good performances of the H2 photochatalytic evolution. Chapter 5 is the conclusion of my PhD thesis. The results clearly demonstrate the novelty and the advantage of the present approach for the obtainment of active and stable electrochemical catalysts for the DAFC and the electrolysis system, and also represent an important step forward in the exploration of new active nanosystems for the conversion of solar light into storable chemical energy. All the findings greatly contributed to the development of catalytic materials for energy-related applications. ; XXV Ciclo ; 1983
