This paper examines the determinants of carbon price in Hubei carbon market using VECM model. Six factors from three dimensions (international carbon price, energy price and exchange rate) are taken into account, both cointegration test and impulse…
Investors pay more and more attention to the issue of climate change information disclosure of listed companies. Whether the company can effectively deal with the impact of climate change on its own operations and make reasonable information…
The emergence of natural gas as an abundant, inexpensive fuel in the U.S. raises the possibility that expanding natural gas infrastructure could enable a transition to other low carbon fuels. We assess how California's existing fuels policies…
Carbon capture, utilization and storage technology (CCUS) is considered to be one of the most important technical pathways for greenhouse gas emission reduction. CO2 pipeline transportation technology in China started late, with more CO2 pipeline…
There are currently several studies about the necessity of increasing access to sustainable electricity for isolated communities or in remote areas using alternative energy sources. There are about 212 energy grid isolated systems in Brazil, mainly…
The injection of green hydrogen into the natural gas grid is a way to decarbonize the gas sector and build an economic transport route for the large-scale delivery of hydrogen. The suitability of the natural gas infrastructure for this purpose…
Hydrogen energy is an important energy carrier for China to achieve the target of "carbon emission peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060", while the lack of motivation for infrastructure development is a critical factor in restricting…
Biodiesel has emerged as a viable alternative to mineral diesel in the transport sector to replace fossil fuels partially. However, long-term compatibility with engine hardware must be evaluated to ensure a smooth transition. Long-term material…
Emissions in the transport sector are a rising source of China's carbon emissions. Curbing carbon emissions in the transport sector will be important for China to achieve its carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. To better understand the…
The petrochemical industry has received considerable attention from many sectors in our society. Petroleum spill has been frequently reported due to the lack of appropriate protocols during exploration, refining, transportation, and storage. An…
Catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) is an advanced controlled process of biomass thermal decomposition designed to produce high volumes of ready-to-use transportation biofuels or to provide improved quality bio-oil for subsequent refining or upgrading.…
We investigate the impact of domestic fuel prices, and other drivers, including population and economic activity on transport CO2 emissions using Saudi Arabia as a case study. We find statistically significant long-run relationships between the…
The Cleaner Production audit is a comprehensive method that aims to realize Cleaner Production throughout the life cycle industrial process of petroleum refining. The audit simultaneously measures the environmental impacts of the refinery, its…
Carbon emission has been widely studied in transportation research in general, yet research on carbon emission specifically in hazardous material transportation remains surprisingly limited. This study presents a multi-objective model for locating…
Natural gas consumption gradually rises in all sectors for being a relatively economical and clean fuel compared to other substitutes. In a step towards adopting environmentally friendly fuel and to save foreign exchange, as the domestic gas reserves…
The need to deploy an alternative transport fuel other than petroleum in Tanzania is based on the increasing cost, perpetual scarceness of petroleum and excessive road emissions. The compressed natural gas (CNG) economic and environmental assessment…
Efficient cleanup of viscous crude oil spill is a worldwide challenge due to its sluggish flowability at room temperature. Conventional oil remediation methods using physical absorbers, skimmers, and vacuum technologies either demonstrate low…
As a result of particular locations of large-scale energy producers and increases in energy demand, transporting energy has become one of the key challenges of energy supply. For a long-distance ocean transportation, transfer of energy carriers via…
With a number of pathways presented for the decarbonization of the transportation sector, alternative types of technologies such as hydrogen and natural gas vehicles may be beneficial to different categories of vehicle for reducing transportation"s…
Vanadium sesquioxide (V2O3) is a promising electrode material for lithium-ion batteries and beyond, yet it encounters structural and cyclic instability issues. Although advances have been made with diverse material combination prototypes, the…
N-doping can endow carbon materials with high electrochemical activity. Besides the widely validated sp2-hybridized nitrogen doping, sp-hybridized nitrogen (sp-N) atoms are also expected to be new active sites. However, both sp-N atoms and cyano (CN)…
Natural gas as a clean, low-carbon energy will play an important role in the world's low-carbon energy transformation. In this paper, research on the elasticity of natural gas demand is surveyed, and it is found that the price and income elasticities…
The hard/soft CoFe2O4/(NiSc0.03Fe1.97O4)x (0 x 5) or simply (CFO-xNFSO) nanocrystals (NCs) were synthesized through solgel auto-combustion technique. The structural and magnetic properties of the ferrite composite NCs were explored in detail. The…
The hierarchically porous hollowcarbon spheres (HPHCSs) are synthesized by activating the hollowcarbon spheres (HCSs) derived from the template-directing method using SiO2 spheres and waste tire pyrolysis oil (WTPO) as templates and carbon precursor,…
Few-layered MoSe2 nanosheets are significant for energy storage due to more active edges and improved conductivity. Herein, the cavity confinement effect of structure-defected UiO-66-NH2 is applied to host H3PMo12O40 units, which can be transformed…
Multi-component hollow structures with attractive physicochemical properties, often show superior electrochemical performance in alkali-ion batteries. Herein, a template-directed strategy is proposed for synthesis of multi-component hollow nanosphere…
To drive the next 'technical revolution' towards commercialization, we must develop sustainable energy materials, procedures, and technologies. The demand for electrical energy is unlikely to diminish over the next 50 years, and how different…
Among hydrogen storage materials, Li-Mg-B-H system has attracted a lot of attention due to the simple hydrogen desorption pathway and high theoretical hydrogen storage capacity, but it still faces the disadvantages of high hydrogen desorption…
This study presents an evaluation framework for the techno-economic-environmental (TEE) performance of the integrated multi-vector energy networks (IMVENs) including geothermal energy. Geothermal energy storage (GES) offers huge potential for both…
The rationally structural engineering is an efficient strategy to improve the comprehensive performance of potassium-ion storage anode materials. In this paper, a hybrid with hollow FeS2 nanoparticles anchored into the 3D carbon skeleton (labeled as…
Layered MoSe2 with a large interlayer has been regarded as an attractive host for larger-sized Na+/K+ ions. Nevertheless, serious volume effects and aggregation trends upon cycling are still great challenges for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) and…
3D carbon-based materials with multiscale hierarchy are promising electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion applications, but the synthesis in an efficient and large-scale way is still a great challenge. Herein, a carbon…
Asphaltenes are unique molecules whose abundance and structure control physicochemical properties of petroleum. The structural appearance of asphaltenes (island versus archipelago architecture) is dependent upon the sample type and petroleum source,…
Alloy-type anode materials exhibit great promise in alkali metal ion batteries (AMIBs), due to their high theoretical capacities and appropriate operation voltages. Nevertheless, their applications are severely obstructed by large volume expansion…
Context. Carbon fractionation has been studied from a theoretical point of view with different models of time-dependent chemistry, including both isotope-selective photodissociation and lowerature isotopic exchange reactions. Aims. Recent chemical…
Although condensate oils are neither well defined nor have a known chemical composition, they are considered by the petroleum industry to be good candidates for the dilution of heavy crude oil as this generates a blend with a lower viscosity. This…
In this study, pyrolysis experiments were conducted with a saturate-rich Tertiary source rock-derived oil from the South China Sea basin using a fixed-volume pressure vessel at temperatures from 350 to 425 C for 24 h (0.92-1.85% Easy R0) to…
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), with their advantages of high specific capacity, long cycling life and eco-friendliness, have been widely used in many fields. Dwindling reserves, however, limit their further development. Sharing similar chemical…
Abstract: The effect of ultrasound and kind of petroleum resins on the composition of the dispersion medium (raffinates) recovered from a 6 wt % solution of petroleum wax in decane as a result of precipitate formation was studied. Irrespective of the…
Deployment of bioenergy with CO2 capture and storage (BECCS) is projected to be crucial in reducing the United States CO2 emissions intensity. In this paper, we utilize a spatially explicit costing model to evaluate how regional biophysical factors…
Oligocene deep syn-rift lakes in the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam, represent exceptional paleoenvironmental archives, but their use for unravelling the regional paleoclimatic development has been hindered by poor dating. Here we present a high-resolution…
In this work, Huadian oil shale was extracted by water at 350, 365, and 385 C with a time series (2-100 h) under a closed system to better investigate the carbon isotope fractionation character and its use in predicting the oil recovery rate (ORR).…
Lignin-derived hard carbon (HC) has great potential as energy storage materials. However, it is difficult to obtain desired electrochemical performances by direct carbonization of lignin. Herein, we demonstrate a pre-oxidation strategy to enhance the…
Rational design and sustainable preparation of high-performance carbonaceous electrode materials are important to the practical application of supercapacitors. In this work, a cost-effective synthesis strategy for nitrogen and oxygen co-doped porous…
Soft carbon materials are considered as promising anodes for potassium-ion batteries (KIBs) due to their low cost, ease of available, excellent electronic conductivity and tunable interlayer distance. However, they still exhibit unsatisfying…
BACKGROUND: The high frequency and wide distribution of oil spills pose serious threats to the marine environmental ecosystem and human health. Microbial degradation is considered to be the most applicable means to process oil spills. Carbon isotope…
Stable carbon and hydrogen isotope ratios of individual n-alkanes and acyclic isoprenoids are important tools in petroleum geochemistry. However, the analysis requires baseline separation and peak profiles using gas chromatographyisotope ratio mass…
In this research, four different crude oils from Tatarstan oil fields with wide range of API gravities (from 16.6 to 32.5 API) were used for hydrogen and carbon nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (H NMR and C NMR) determinations. The hydrogen…