scholarship, (3) younger plants can have a higher reduction of commercial lifetime and be retired earlier which is due to higher relative debt burden and higher financing costs during the early years of operations, and (4) also equity values increase in most cases, making a strong case for ...
The lens of socio-technical lock-in is highly relevant to Japan. As many industrialised nations are actively reducing reliance on coal, Japan has attracted much attention in scholarship and international media following the extensive upgrading and expansion of its CFPP fleet after the Fukushima nuclea...
At a global scale, Australia has the largest N footprint both in the food and energy sectors among the nine countries where the N footprint has been calculated using the N-Calculator model (Fig. 1a,Supplementary Table 1). Australia’s food N footprint is the largest because it has the h...
Secondary minerals can play an important role in controlling the mobility and transport of contaminants. In circumneutral pH, precipitation of Fe secondary minerals leads to co-precipitation of other metals (Abongwa et al.,2020; Bowell & Bruce,1995). When the pH of the solution increases, othe...
These projects employ different methods for reforming COG or CO2 to H2-enriched gas to be utilized as the reducing agent in the BF. Due to the limited reduction in CO2 emissions achieved by injection of H2-enriched reducing gas to the BF and recycling top gas, the prototype would allow ...
(2022SX-TD010), Research Project Supported by Shanxi Scholarship Council of China (2020-044), Distinguished Youth Funds of National Natural Science Foundation of China (51925402), Tencent Foundation or XPLORER PRIZE, Shanxi Science and Technology Major Project Funds (20201102004) and Open Funds of ...
Such analysis is informed by previous scholarship. The primary control factors require data collection via drilling and pumping testing, and the data was not easy to obtain and scattered. To acquire more consistent and dependable information from the limited data, spatial interpolation was applied, ...
The self-adaptive gradient-based thresholding (SAGBT) method is a simple non-interactive coal fire detection approach involving segmentation and a threshold identification algorithm that adapts to the spatial distribution of thermal features over a lands
Indeed, overburden and acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining contaminate fertile soils and induce unproductive wastelands, as shown in Australia [3], Bangladesh [4], China [5,6], India [2,7] and Vietnam [8]. Open-pit coal mining involves excavation of the earthly bound ore, a ...
Therefore, the nighttime thermal infrared images can decrease the impact of differential solar heating and differences in topography and land cover, such as bare soil and desert [39]. However, because of the limited availability of nighttime ASTER data in the Wuda Coalfield, we have used five ...