Green and Sustainable Chemistry for Energy Application

A special issue of Clean Technologies (ISSN 2571-8797).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2023) | Viewed by 3184

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Institute of Future Environment and School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), 4001 Brisbane, Australia
Interests: chemistry; materials; energy conversion and storage; renewable energy; anaerobic fermentation and digestion
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Department of Energy and Materials Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, Seoul 100-715, Korea
Interests: nanoscience; supercapacitor; hybrid nanomaterials; electrocatalyst

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Dear Colleagues,

The world faces the significant growth of severe challenges in resources, energy, and the environment. Scientists across the world are encouraged to work with one another to address global issues in the sustainable energy development of human society. The Special Issue “Green and Sustainable Chemistry for Energy Applications” mainly focuses on environmentally friendly solutions for sustainable chemistry materials and green processes with the aim of energy conversion and storage. It also provides an excellent opportunity to present cutting-edge work on all aspects of chemistry, material science, and the environmental sciences.

We welcome submissions of original research and reviews in the field of Green and Sustainable Chemistry for Energy Applications for this Special Issue of Clean Technologies journal.

Dr. Hong Duc Pham
Dr. Deepak Dubal
Dr. Nilesh Chodankar
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • green chemistry
  • biomass waste
  • sustainable chemistry
  • waste valorization
  • green solvent
  • electrochemical energy storage
  • electrocatalysis (OER, HER, and ORR)
  • solar cells
  • renewable energy

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Reduced Mechanism for Combustion of Ammonia and Natural Gas Mixtures
by Aniket R. Khade, Vijaya D. Damodara and Daniel H. Chen
Clean Technol. 2023, 5(2), 484-496; https://doi.org/10.3390/cleantechnol5020025 - 12 Apr 2023
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A fuel mixture of ammonia and natural gas as a low-carbon alternative for future power generation and transportation is an attractive option. In this work, a 50-species reduced mechanism, NH3NG, suitable for computational fluid dynamics simulations (CFD), is developed for ammonia–natural [...] Read more.
A fuel mixture of ammonia and natural gas as a low-carbon alternative for future power generation and transportation is an attractive option. In this work, a 50-species reduced mechanism, NH3NG, suitable for computational fluid dynamics simulations (CFD), is developed for ammonia–natural gas cofiring while addressing important emission issues, such as the formation of nitrogen oxides (NOx), soot, carbon monoxide, and unburnt methane/ammonia. The adoption of reduced mechanisms is imperative not only for saving computer storage and running time but also for numerical convergence for practical applications. The NH3NG reduced mechanism can predict soot emission because it includes soot precursor species. Further, it can handle heavier components in natural gas, such as ethane and propane. The absolute error is 5% for predicting NOx and CO emissions compared to the full Modified Konnov mechanism. Validation with key performance parameters (ignition delay, laminar flame speed, adiabatic temperature, and NOx and CO emissions) indicates that the predictions of the reduced mechanism NH3NG are in good agreement with published experimental data. The average prediction error of 13% for ignition delay is within typical experimental data uncertainties of 10–20%. The predicted adiabatic temperatures are within 1 °C. For laminar flame speed, the R2 between prediction and data is 0.985. NH3NG over-predicts NOx and CO emissions, similar to all other literature methods, but the NOx predictions are closer to the experimental data. Full article
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