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The Concept of Clean Technology

  • Clift, Roland
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.34-46
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    • 1995
  • Clean Technology goes beyond Clean-UP (or "End of PiPe) Technologies to include Pollution prevention, waste minimisation, and cleaner production. However, the concept of Clean Technology goes deeper than changes in technology, to ways in which human needs can be satisfied sustainably. In other words, Clean Technology, concentrates on delivering a human benefit rather than making a product. Introducing cleaner technology may therefore involve new commercial relationships as well as new technological practices. In some economic sectors, this involves leasing or providing a service rather than selling a product. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an important tool in Clean Technology. LCA involves determining all the resources used and all the wastes and emissions produced in providing the human benefit. Use of LCA ensures that improved environmental performance in one part of the Life Cycle is not achieved merely at the expense of more environmental damage elsewhere. Going beyond LCA, the concepts of Life Cycle Design and "metabolised" use of materials are approaches to obtain maximum benefit from materials as they pass through the human economy. "Closed-loop" use can be a component of clean technology. Looking beyond simple re-use and recycling, a material may pass through a "cascade of uses". typically a series of applications with progressively lower performance specifications. Closed-loop use necessarily involves a change in commercial practice, because the material or product must be recovered after use.

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Development of Treatment Process for Residual Coal from Biosolubilization

  • Rifella, Archi;Shaur, Ahmad;Chun, Dong Hyuk;Kim, Sangdo;Rhim, Young Joon;Yoo, Jiho;Choi, Hokyung;Lim, Jeonghwan;Lee, Sihyun;Rhee, Youngwoo
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.119-126
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    • 2018
  • This study introduced a treatment process that was developed to treat Indonesian low-rank coal with high-ash content, which has the same characteristics as residual coal from the biosolubilization process. The treatment process includes separation of ash, solid-liquid separation, pelletizing, and drying. To reduce the ash content, flotation was performed using 4-methyl-2-pentanol (MIBC) as frother, and kerosene, waste oil, and cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL) as collectors. The increasing amount of collector had an effect on combustible coal recovery and ash reduction. After flotation, a filter press, extruder, and an oven drier were used to make a dried coal pellet. Then another coal pellet was made using asphalt as a binder. The compressive strength and friability of the coal pellets were tested and compared.

Environmental Sensing Technology with Nanotechnology for the Clean Technology (청정공정구현을 위한 나노기술기반 환경 센싱 기술의 개발)

  • Kim, Younghun;Yi, Jongheop
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.75-81
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    • 2005
  • With a development of nanotechonlogy, the concept of environmental technology has been changed from end-of-pipe to green or clean technology. Nanoscience or nanotechnology involves studying and working with matter on a nano-scale. In this article, we introduced the necessity for the development of environmental sensing/monitoring technologies with nanotechnologies for the clean technology.

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Reduce on the Cost of Photovoltaic Power Generation for Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells by Double Printing of Ag/Cu Front Contact Layer

  • Peng, Zhuoyin;Liu, Zhou;Chen, Jianlin;Liao, Lida;Chen, Jian;Li, Cong;Li, Wei
    • Electronic Materials Letters
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.718-724
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    • 2018
  • With the development of photovoltaic industry, the cost of photovoltaic power generation has become the significant issue. And the metallization process has decided the cost of original materials and photovoltaic efficiency of the solar cells. Nowadays, double printing process has been introduced instead of one-step printing process for front contact of polycrystalline silicon solar cells, which can effectively improve the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of silicon solar cells. Here, the relative cheap Cu paste has replaced the expensive Ag paste to form Ag/Cu composite front contact of silicon solar cells. The photovoltaic performance and the cost of photovoltaic power generation have been investigated. With the optimization on structure and height of Cu finger layer for Ag/Cu composite double-printed front contact, the silicon solar cells have exhibited a photovoltaic conversion efficiency of 18.41%, which has reduced 3.42 cent per Watt for the cost of photovoltaic power generation.

JAXA TechCLEAN Project

  • Futamura, Hisao;Hayashi, Shigeru
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.628-637
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    • 2008
  • The JAXA's TechCLEAN project(2003-present) is summarized, with the interim technical achievements. TechCLEAN is collateral program with the NEDO engine project to accelerate R&D work of small passenger aircraft engine as well as to develop innovative environment technologies applicable to the future improvements. In the project NOx reduction, CO2 reduction and noise reduction are targeted. Component level researches and system demonstrator validation are planned with test facility renovation and demonstration base engines.

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