Monday, April 20, 2009
“spin battery”, a battery that is "charged" by applying a large magnetic field to nano-magnets in magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). This technology is basically store energy in magnets and potentially lead to creation of computer hard drives with no moving parts and new battery for power cars. A team lead by Physicist Stewart E. Barnes and and his collaborators.Read more in here
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Friday, February 13, 2009

Energy has became one the daily need for human and society. This has lead to many research and developments programs to find and explore new energy sources. Solar cell is one of the product to convert solar (light) energy into electricity and nowadays this technology has been applied in many area i.e. power for satellite, power for parking machine, etc.
Further research and improvement has lead to a new technology called Thermo photovoltaics, invented by Researcher in MIT,. This technology converts heat into light and then into electricity.
Solar Cell : Light --> Electric
Thermophotovaltaics : Heat -->Light --> Electricity
Overall maximum theoretical conversion efficiency of a conventional solar cell is about 30 percent, or 41 percent if the sunlight is first concentrated using a mirror or lens as solar cell selectively convert certain color efficiently. Thermo photovoltaic will concentrate light to heat -up material, then this material will emits light with wavelengths that allow solar cell to convert efficiently. Overall maximum theoretical conversion efficiency of Thermo photovoltaic can be increased upto 85 percent.
This believe to be excellence choice for oil and gas industry as there are many facilities emitting hot waste gases such as gas turbine generator, compressor turbine, fire heater, etc. Besides, this may also great for the car exhaust gas.
Read more in Better Thermal Photovoltaics.
MTPV
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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There are minimum power driven equipment in subsea installation as subsea power generation is still under research level. One of the recent development is to convert the seawater current into power with a special device, named VIVACE (Vortex-Induced Vibrations for Aquatic Clean Energy). VIVACE is utilizing a fluid movement phenomena called vortex-induced vibrations (VIV).Fluid flow around a rounded or cylinder-shaped object, vortices or eddies will form on opposite sides of the rounded or cylinder-shaped object. As alternating vortices form above and below the rounded or cylinder-shaped object, exerting force perpendicular by the flow will drive the rounded or cylinder-shaped object to move. As the rounded or cylinder-shaped object cylinder is attach to a springs, counter force would cause it oscillates and convert mechanical energy to electricity. This technology is being commercialized by Vortex Hydro Energy and a paper on "VIVACE - A new concept in generation of clean and renewable energy from fluid flow" is published in Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering.
Below are some demonstrations clips...
VIVACE converter model operating in the Low-turbulence Free Surface Re-circulating Water Tunnel
Flow Speed: 1.6 knots (0.823 m/s)
Lab picture sequence generated by Williamson
This technology could be considered in subsea power generation and possibly leads to employment of motor driven equipment in subsea installation.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) the week of Aug. 18, the team describes assembling and successfully testing two of the three key components of a battery. A complete battery is on its way.
"To our knowledge, this is the first instance in which microcontact printing has been used to fabricate and position microbattery electrodes and the first use of virus-based assembly in such a process," wrote MIT professors Paula T. Hammond, Angela M. Belcher, Yet-Ming Chiang and colleagues. Read more in MIT Tech Talk.
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Monday, November 17, 2008
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
The good news is short carbon nanotube may not pose similar cancer risk than long, thin carbon nanotubes.
Read more in
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
- Institute of Nanotechnology [IoN] - UK, http://www.nano.org.uk
- VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH [VDI-TZ] - Germany, http://www.vditz.de
- Commissariat à l'énergie atomique [CEA] – France, http://www.cea.fr
- Institute of Occupational Medicine [IOM], http://www.iom-world.org
- Malsch TechnoValuation [MTV] – Netherlands, http://www.malsch.demon.nl
- triple innova [triple innova] - Germany, http://ti.triple-innova.de
/index_en.php - Spinverse [Spinverse] – Finland, http://www.spinverse.com
- Bax & Willems Consulting Venturing [B&W] – Spain, http://www.bwcv.es
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [RIVM] – Netherlands, http://www.rivm.nl
- Technical University of Darmstadt [TUD] – Germany, http://www.philosophie.tu
-darmstadt.de - AIRI/Nanotec IT [AIRI] – Italy, http://www.nanotec.it
- Nano and Micro Technology Consulting [NMTC] – Germanyhttp://www.nmtc.de
- Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs und Forschungsanstalt [EMPA] – Switzerland, http://www.empa.ch
- Nanoethics Centre, University of Aarhus [AU] – Denmark, http://www.teo.au.dk
- UNU-MERIT [MERIT] - Netherlands, http://www.merit.unu.edu/
- Technology Centre AS CR [TCASCR] – Czech Republic, http://www.tc.cz
Labels: NanoTech, Technology
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Break-through in Nano Technology by Professor Zhong Lin, Wang Nano Technology research group has caught global interests on his new findings. This new finding have been published and reported worldwide. Part of those are :
Fox News
CCTV
Hoping that great works by Professor Wang will provide his research group win the grants offer by E.On in Euro 6 Million Supporting Nanotechnology.
Labels: NanoTech, Technology
Friday, April 18, 2008
Those of you conducting research and development in nanotechnology, this could be a great news to you...
E.ON has allocated 6 million euros in research and development funding to NanoTech research and development groups around the world. If your research and development group is focusing on the application of nanotechnology to energy areas like carbon capture and storage, energy storage, and power transmission, your group may consider...
Projects to be considered (but not limited to) :
- Efficiency improvements for renewable energy technologies
- Further developments in Carbon Capture and Storage
- Power lines capable of carrying significantly greater loads
- Hydrogen and natural gas storage
- Efficient, large-scale electricity storage solutions
- End-use efficiency improvements
- Micro fuel cells for portable power applications
- Advancements in the transport sector e.g. Electric Vehicles
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
When we watch combat movie, sometime we noticed that the solder in the movie wear a "power shirt" which able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field. Now this no long a story. But it is true story...Again this one of the break-through in nano technology ...Related Topic
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Stanford researchers led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, known as Li-ion that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices.
Read details in Nanowire battery can hold 10 times the charge of existing lithium-ion battery.
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Nanowerk, one of the leading nanotechnology and nanosciences portal. Its Editor content is one the feature area to inform readers on what’s hot and new from around the globe. The content extended from introduction to nanoscience, understanding current developments, and advanced reviews of leading-edge nanotechnology research. On average 70-100 news articles published every week.Recommended Utility :
Nanomaterial Database™ available in Nanowerk is a powerful, free tool for the nanotechnology community to research nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles or quantum dots from over 120 suppliers worldwide. If you are nanotechnology researcher or engineers, this is a must visit portal.
If you are new comer in nanotechnology and would like to have quick understanding of nanotechnology, there is a 27-page introduction section, complete with a Carbon Nanotube 101 available HERE...
Watch an introduction to nanotechnology, starting with Richrd Feynman's classic talk in December 1959 "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom - An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics."
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Nano technology is getting important nowadays. Special characteristic of nano material such as high thermal conductivity, high electrical conductivity, high strength, etc would definitely will bring a great revolution in material selection and change the way we doing things.
There is a great detail introduction and substantial links to other websites related to nano-technology in here.
Let see simple presentation by Dr. Julie MacPHERSON, a researcher intended to find the way to produce nano-carbon in most affordable cost.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Today wanna to bring to you a well known Heat Exchanger supplier, HEATRIC, which is specialise in Diffusion-bonded heat exchangers...

See the benefits...
Diffusion-bonded heat exchangers are four to six times smaller than conventional shell and tube heat exchangers of the equivalent duty.
See what HEATRIC offer to public...
Heat Exchangers for the Next Generation of Nuclear Reactors
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
"Alfa Laval is the leading manufacturer of plate heat exchangers in the world. We provide you with compact, modern solutions with the highest thermal efficiency."...read more...
Alfa Laval Plate technology - A detailed look at plate heat exchange (PHE) technology from Alfa Laval
Designing Plate-and-Frame Heat Exchanger - FREE article from ALFA LAVAL...
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Monday, May 28, 2007
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Labels: Education, General, Learning, Teaching, Technology, Training
Saturday, May 26, 2007
By the way, if you know some good site related to Chemical & Process Engineering, (as you know, i am focusing on distillation recently) do recommend to me...i will crawl the website thoroughly...and let inform our lovely Chemical & Process Engineers...
- ProMax from BR&E - Renowed Process Simulator in Gas Treating Industry
- Optimized Gas Treating, Inc. (OGT) - Experts in CO2-Amine
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Labels: Absorption, Air Pollution Control, Amine, Column, Design, Distillation, Global warming, Modelling, Packed Column, Packing, Process simulation, Tail Gas Treatment, Technology, Tower internals
Friday, May 25, 2007
Above efforts will reduce CO2 release into atmosphere. However, recycling CO2 will increase quantity of CO2 in oil and result serious corrosion problem. Hence it needs to be removed from the flashed gas (from unstabilised oil). CO2 removal technology using amine absorption has been used for many years. Recently i found a website (OGT) where the founders, Ralph Weiland and Jack Dingman are those experts in this technology.
Optimized Gas Treating, Inc. (OGT) was established in 1992 by Ralph Weiland and Jack Dingman for the single purpose of providing a commercial version of a Windows-based software package for simulating acid gas removal with aqueous alkanolamines that uses a fundamental mass and heat transfer rate approach to column modeling. ProTreat™ is the culmination of more than 30 years of research in gas treating supported by government and industry in both academic and commercial environments. ProTreat is our sole product. Consequently, it receives our undivided attention in maintaining and enhancing its capabilities so that it remains the premier software package for gas treating with amines. OGT’s principals are recognized world experts in most aspects of gas treating — they offer a total of nearly 60 years of relevant experience.
Some FREE articles offered by OGT :
Labels: Absorption, Amine, Column, Distillation, Equilibrium, Extraction, Global warming, Modelling, Packed Column, Packing, Process simulation, Software, Technology, Tower internals
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

GTC is a proprietary licensed technology to processing industries from naphtha processing to terephthalic acid purification. Success built around production of chemicals and the refining of petroleum worldwide. Notion applied to production of dimethyl terephthalate (DMT), aromatics recovery, replacing LLE with ED, technologies for paraxylene production and fuel gas desulphurization.
GTC offers some FREE articles for download...
Labels: Column, Debottlenecking, Desulphurization, Distillation, Extraction, Technology




