Establishing industrial community energy systems: Simulating the role of institutional designs and societal attributes

The importance of decreasing industrial CO2 footprints has become evident, as also highlighted in COP26. As such, the transition to renewable energy in the industrial sector is essential to meet the targets. To this aim, establishing industrial community energy systems (InCES) where industries collectively invest in a shared energy system is an...

Collaborative Renewable Energy Generation among Industries: The Role of Social Identity, Awareness and Institutional Design

Like many other sectors, climate change strategies have put various restrictions on industry, the most prominent one being caps on CO₂ and other energy-related emissions. At the same time, and especially in many developing economies, the industry struggles with an increasing gap between the fast development of the sector and...

Industrial community energy systems: Simulating the role of financial incentives and societal attributes

Considering that the industrial sector consumes almost one-third of the energy demand globally, it is an urgent call to reduce the carbon footprints in this sector. Among different approaches to meet this goal, such as the employment of carbon capture technologies and increasing energy efficiency within industries, transitioning to renewable...

Can industries be parties in collective action? Community energy in an Iranian industrial zone

The industrial sector plays a huge role in creating economic growth. While energy is vital for industries to thrive, various factors are undermining the availability of energy including phasing out of fossil fuels, CO2 emission caps and, the large gap between the fast developments of industrial clusters and the energy supply, especially in...

Modelling the interaction between policies and international trade flows for liquid biofuels: an agent-based modelling approach

World biofuel production and trade have grown exponentially in the last decade. Nevertheless, the interaction between the markets for oilseeds (food/feed/bioenergy) and liquid vegetable oil-based biofuels is overwhelmingly complex and thus not well understood. In this study, we developed a spatially explicit agent-based model to provide...

Exploring the emergence of a biojet fuel supply chain in Brazil: An agent-based modeling approach

The aviation industry accounts for more than 2% of global CO ₂ emissions. Biojet fuel is expected to make an essential contribution to the decarbonization of the aviation sector. Brazil is seen as a key player in developing sustainable aviation biofuels owing to its long-standing experience with biofuels. Nevertheless, a clear...

Exploring policy options to spur the expansion of ethanol production and consumption in Brazil: An agent-based modeling approach

The Brazilian government aims to increase the share of biofuels in the energy mix to around 18% by 2030, which implies an increase of ethanol production from currently 27 bln liters to over 50 bln liters per year. Biofuel policies play an important role in ethanol production, consumption, and investment in processing capacity. Nevertheless, a...

A complementary understanding of residential energy demand, consumption and services

This chapter explores potential ways to implement, and benefits for policymaking of, the complementary use of two different types of modelling for analysing residential energy consumption and ethnographic research. The more traditional approach of techno-economic modelling is considered alongside agent-based modelling that incorporates both...

Exploring path dependence, policy interactions, and actor behavior in the German biodiesel supply chain

Biofuel production is not cost competitive and thus requires governmental intervention. The effect of the institutional framework on the development of the biofuel sector is not yet well understood. This paper aims to analyze how biofuel production and production capacity could have evolved in Germany in the period 1992–2014. The effects of...

A conceptual framework for the analysis of the effect of institutions on biofuel supply chains

The economic performance of biofuels supply chains depends on the interaction of technical characteristics as technological pathways and logistics, and social structures as actor behavior, their interactions and institutions. Traditional approaches focus on the technical problems only. Little attention has been paid to the institutional...

Towards Intelligently - Sustainable Cities? From Intelligent and Knowledge City Programmes to the Achievement of Urban Sustainability

In the quest for achieving sustainable cities, Intelligent and Knowledge City Programmes (ICPs and KCPs) represent cost-efficient strategies for improving the overall performance of urban systems, especially when compared with the costs of physical restructuring and/or retrofitting projects. However, even though nobody argues on the desirability...

Ecosteden in China: Droom of werkelijkheid?

De beeldvorming rond stedelijke ontwikkeling en milieukwaliteit in China kent twee gezichten: een waarin de luchtkwaliteit in de grote steden onhoudbaar dreigt te worden. En een waarin massaal wordt geïnvesteerd in technologie voor duurzame energie en ecosteden. Maar wat zijn tot op heden de ervaringen met ecosteden in China eigenlijk? En hoe...

Challenges for process system engineering in infrastructure operation and control

The need for improving the operation and control of infrastructure systems has created a demand on optimization methods applicable in the area of complex sociotechnical systems operated by a multitude of actors in a setting of decentralized decision making. This paper briefly presents main classes of optimization models applied in PSE system...

The infrastructure playing field in 2030: Proceedings of the first annual symposium, Noordwijk, November 19, 1998

The influence of additives on the crystallization of gypsum

Adsorption of phosphonates on gypsum crystals

The absorption of phosphonate inhibitors at the crystal surface of gypsum has been determined from the decrease in phosphonate concentration of the bulk solution. The phosphonate was therefore oxidized to orthophosphate and spectrophotometrically determined as a molybdovanadophosphoric acid complex. The adsorption isotherms of AMDP at pH 5 and...

Fabrieksvoorontwerp van het Hemi-Di-Hemihydraat fosforzuur proces

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