Potential of energy-saving

EVALUATION OF POTENTIALS OF ENERGY SAVING AND CO2 EMISSION REDUCTION... 

The SOLARSTORE system is developed to improve the efficiency of traditional solar heating system. The size of hardware equipment and the amount of the reactive compounds are directed by the potential of energy savings that can be achieved by the system. The functional unit in this study is per GJ of energy provided by SOLARSTORE system. 

In the United States various studies have assessed the potential for energy efficiency improvement in industi y. One study has assessed the technologies for various sectors and found potential economic energy savings of 7 to 13 percent over the busitiess-as-usual trends (Brown et al., 1998) between 1990 and 2010. Technologies like the ones described above (see Table 2) are important in achieving these potentials. 

As an example, the annual production of 20,000 t/a coffee with activated carbon caffeine separation involves the loss of more than 200 t of caffeine, since this potential by-product is destroyed during the thermal regeneration of the adsorbent. The questions of energy-saving and of the economic recovery of CO2 are also of interest for large-scale plants which already exist or which are still to be designed. 

Liquid membrane separation combines the solvent extraction and stripping processes (re-extraction) in a single step. The great potential for energy saving, low capital and operating cost, and the possibility to use expensive extractants, due to the small amounts of the membrane phase, make SLMs an area deserving special attention. 

EDLC consists of two porous polarizable electrodes. The process of energy saving in EDLC is based on charge separation on two electrodes with a sufficiently high difference of potentials between them. The electric charge of EDLC is determined by... 

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