Search Results - "Tester, Jefferson W"

Hydrothermal carbonization of anaerobic digestate and manure from a dairy farm on energy recovery and the fate of nutrients by Belete, Yonas Zeslase, Mau, Vivian, Yahav Spitzer, Reut, Posmanik, Roy, Jassby, David, Iddya, Arpita, Kassem, Nazih, Tester, Jefferson W., Gross, Amit

“…[Display omitted] •Raw and anaerobically digested manure were hydrothermally carbonized.•Using whey for HTC increased the net energy gain and available…”
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Inert and Adsorptive Tracer Tests for Field Measurement of Flow‐Wetted Surface Area by Hawkins, Adam J., Becker, Matthew W., Tester, Jefferson W.

“…Field tests in a discrete rock fracture validated a combined inert/adsorbing tracer test method to estimate the contact area between fluids circulating through…”
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Kinetic Evidence of the Maillard Reaction in Hydrothermal Biomass Processing: Glucose−Glycine Interactions in High-Temperature, High-Pressure Water by Peterson, Andrew A, Lachance, Russell P, Tester, Jefferson W

“…Kinetic and mechanistic evidence is presented of the occurrence of a Maillard-type reaction under conditions of interest to hydrothermal biomass processing…”
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Characterization of the solid products from hydrothermal liquefaction of waste feedstocks from food and agricultural industries by Cantero-Tubilla, Borja, Cantero, Danilo A., Martinez, Celia M., Tester, Jefferson W., Walker, Larry P., Posmanik, Roy

“…[Display omitted] •Eight waste feedstocks were hydrothermally converted to oil and hydro-char.•Hydro-char characterization provides information of chemical…”
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Cost analysis of oil, gas, and geothermal well drilling by Lukawski, Maciej Z., Anderson, Brian J., Augustine, Chad, Capuano, Louis E., Beckers, Koenraad F., Livesay, Bill, Tester, Jefferson W.

“…This paper evaluates current and historical drilling and completion costs of oil and gas wells and compares them with geothermal wells costs. As a starting…”
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Predictive Inverse Model for Advective Heat Transfer in a Short‐Circuited Fracture: Dimensional Analysis, Machine Learning, and Field Demonstration by Hawkins, Adam J., Fox, Don B., Koch, Donald L., Becker, Matthew W., Tester, Jefferson W.

“…Identifying fluid flow maldistribution in planar geometries is a well‐established problem in subsurface science/engineering. Of particular importance to the…”
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Measurement and simulation of heat exchange in fractured bedrock using inert and thermally degrading tracers by Hawkins, Adam J., Fox, Don B., Becker, Matthew W., Tester, Jefferson W.

“…Multicomponent groundwater tracer tests were conducted in a well‐characterized field site in Altona, NY using inert carbon‐cored nanoparticles and a thermally…”
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High-solids biphasic CO₂-H₂O pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass by Luterbacher, Jeremy S, Tester, Jefferson W, Walker, Larry P

“…A high pressure (200 bar) CO₂-H₂O process was developed for pretreating lignocellulosic biomass at high-solid contents, while minimizing chemical inputs…”
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Properties of Inhibitors of Methane Hydrate Formation via Molecular Dynamics Simulations by Anderson, Brian J, Tester, Jefferson W, Borghi, Gian Paolo, Trout, Bernhardt L

“…Within the framework of a proposed two-step mechanism for hydrate inhibition, the energy of binding of four inhibitor molecules (PEO, PVP, PVCap, and VIMA) to…”
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Isobaric Heat Capacity Measurements of Supercritical R1234yf by Lukawski, Maciej Z, Ishmael, Mitchell P.E, Tester, Jefferson W

“…R1234yf (2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene) is a low global warming potential (GWP) replacement for R134a, a fluid commonly used as a refrigerant in domestic and…”
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Path Sampling Calculation of Methane Diffusivity in Natural Gas Hydrates from a Water-Vacancy Assisted Mechanism by Peters, Baron, Zimmermann, Nils E. R, Beckham, Gregg T, Tester, Jefferson W, Trout, Bernhardt L

“…Increased interest in natural gas hydrate formation and decomposition, coupled with experimental difficulties in diffusion measurements, makes estimating…”
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Barriers and enablers to geothermal district heating system development in the United States by Thorsteinsson, Hildigunnur H., Tester, Jefferson W.

“…According to the US Energy Information Administration, space and hot water heating represented about 20% of total US energy demand in 2006. Given that most of…”
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Moving toward a framework for electricity and heat equivalence in energy systems analysis by Kassem, Nazih, Galantino, Christopher R., Tester, Jefferson W., Anderson, C. Lindsay, Moore, Michal C.

“…Sustaining, maintaining, and upgrading the electricity grid, while meeting decarbonization goals is a challenge facing policymakers, regulators, grid…”
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Flame synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes by Height, Murray J., Howard, Jack B., Tester, Jefferson W., Vander Sande, John B.

“…Flames offer potential for synthesis of carbon nanotubes in large quantities at significantly lower cost than that of other methods currently available. This…”
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Impact of enhanced geothermal systems on US energy supply in the twenty-first century by Tester, Jefferson W, Anderson, Brian J, Batchelor, Anthony S, Blackwell, David D, DiPippo, Ronald, Drake, Elisabeth M, Garnish, John, Livesay, Bill, Moore, Michal C, Nichols, Kenneth, Petty, Susan, Nafi Toksoz, M, Veatch, Ralph W, Baria, Roy, Augustine, Chad, Murphy, Enda, Negraru, Petru, Richards, Maria

“…Recent national focus on the value of increasing US supplies of indigenous renewable energy underscores the need for re-evaluating all alternatives,…”
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Combining anaerobic digestion and hydrothermal liquefaction in the conversion of dairy waste into energy: A techno economic model for New York state by Kassem, Nazih, Sills, Deborah, Posmanik, Roy, Blair, Calum, Tester, Jefferson W.

“…[Display omitted] •Using a retail electricity price yielded an NPV of $1.5 billion for 260,000 cows in NY State.•The hybrid AD/HTL system produces 607 million…”
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A practical approach to predict soil temperature variations for geothermal (ground) heat exchangers applications by Ozgener, Onder, Ozgener, Leyla, Tester, Jefferson W.

“…The paper aims at improving a model predicting daily soil temperatures depending on depth and time. The thermal behavior of the ground (near the surface) as a…”
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Normal-phase dynamic imaging of supercritical-water salt precipitation using neutron radiography by Peterson, Andrew A., Vontobel, Peter, Vogel, Frédéric, Tester, Jefferson W.

“…Although neutron radiography has been effectively used to dynamically image the separation of salts from supercritical water, earlier approaches have relied on…”
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Coupling hydrothermal liquefaction and anaerobic digestion for energy valorization from model biomass feedstocks by Posmanik, Roy, Labatut, Rodrigo A., Kim, Andrew H., Usack, Joseph G., Tester, Jefferson W., Angenent, Largus T.

“…[Display omitted] •Anaerobic digestion was tested as a complementary step to hydrothermal conversion.•Hydrothermal liquefaction (200–350°C) of model feed…”
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Ultrasonic cavitation for disruption of microalgae by Greenly, Justin M., Tester, Jefferson W.

“…•We study ultrasonic cell disruption as a processing step that fractionates microalgae.•A range of species types with different sizes and cell wall…”
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