scholarly journals Effect of laser fluence, nanoparticle concentration and total energy input per cell on photoporation of cells

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1667-1677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefany Y. Holguin ◽  
Naresh N. Thadhani ◽  
Mark R. Prausnitz
Keyword(s):  
Total Energy ◽  
Laser Fluence ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
Nanoparticle Concentration ◽  
Total Energy Input

scholarly journals Comparison of energy inputs and energy efficiency for maize in a long-term tillage experiment under Pannonian climate conditions

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (No. 5) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Gerhard Moitzi ◽  
Reinhard W. Neugschwandtner ◽  
Hans-Peter Kaul ◽  
Helmut Wagentristl
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Total Energy ◽  
Fuel Consumption ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
Conservation Tillage ◽  
Energy Output ◽  
No Tillage ◽  
Tillage Systems ◽  
Total Energy Input

Sustainable crop production requires an efficient usage of fossil energy. This six-year study on a silt loam soil (chernozem) analysed the energy efficiency of four tillage systems (mouldboard plough 25–30 cm, deep conservation tillage 35 cm, shallow conservation tillage 8–10 cm, no-tillage). Fuel consumption, total energy input (made up of both direct and indirect input), grain of maize yield, energy output, net-energy output, energy intensity and energy use efficiency were considered. The input rates of fertiliser, herbicides and seeds were set constant; measured values of fuel consumption were used for all tillage operations. Total fuel consumption for maize (Zea mays L.) production was 81.6, 81.5, 69.5 and 53.2 L/ha for the four tillage systems. Between 60% and 64% of the total energy input (17.0–17.4 GJ/ha) was indirect energy (seeds, fertiliser, herbicides, machinery). The share of fertiliser energy of the total energy input was 36% on average across all tillage treatments. Grain drying was the second highest energy consumer with about 22%. Grain yield and energy output were mainly determined by the year. The tillage effect on yield and energy efficiency was smaller than the growing year effect. Over all six years, maize produced in the no-tillage system reached the highest energy efficiency.  

scholarly journals Methods for the recovery of nutrients and energy from swine manure. 1. Biogas.

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
L. Boersma ◽  
E. Gasper ◽  
J.E. Oldfield ◽  
P.R. Cheeke
Keyword(s):  
Total Energy ◽  
Production System ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
Biogas Production ◽  
Swine Manure ◽  
Pig Manure ◽  
Pig Production ◽  
Energy Value ◽  
Total Energy Input

The recovery of nutrients from pig manure (300 l/day discharged by 100 pigs) during digestion for biogas production amounted to 1435 kg N, 350 kg P and 490 kg K per year. When spread on the 15.26 ha of land required to grow the corn and soybean for the pig ration, each hectare would receive 94 kg N, 23 kg P and 32 kg K per year. The energy value of the recovered fertilizer represents 4.4% of the total energy input of the pig production system. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

scholarly journals Numerical Simulation of Particle Breakage of Granular Assemblies in Discrete Element Analyses

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Zhang ◽  
Chi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Total Energy ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
Axial Strain ◽  
Failure Process ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Confining Pressure ◽  
Discrete Element ◽  
Particle Breakage ◽  
Biaxial Tests ◽  
Total Energy Input

This paper presents numerical simulations of high-pressure biaxial tests on breakable granular soils with the discrete element method. The 2D setting is more economic in terms of computational cost, which allows simulation with a larger number of particles with a wider size distribution. The results of breakable and unbreakable agglomerates show that particle breakage has a significant influence on the macro- and micromechanical behaviors of the assembly. Higher confining pressure and larger axial strain result in the variation of particle grading and agglomerate numbers. The evolution of bond breakage during shearing makes it possible to trace the failure process and breakage mechanism at the microlevel. The breakage energy is found to account for a small fraction of total energy input compared with friction energy. A hyperbolic correlation between relative particle breakage and total energy input per unit volume was established regardless of the influence of confining pressure.

scholarly journals Energy Efficiency of Continuous Rye, Rotational Rye and Barley in Different Fertilization Systems in a Long-Term Field Experiment

Agronomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Gerhard Moitzi ◽  
Reinhard W. Neugschwandtner ◽  
Hans-Peter Kaul ◽  
Helmut Wagentristl
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Total Energy ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Energy Output ◽  
Winter Rye ◽  
Net Energy ◽  
Energy Productivity ◽  
Total Energy Input ◽  
Use Efficiency

A goal in sustainable agriculture is to use fossil energy more efficiently in crop production. This 60-year-old experiment on a silt loam chernozem investigated effects of fertilization (unfertilized control, mineral fertilizer (NPK) and farmyard manure (FYM)) and rotation (continuous winter rye (CR), winter rye in rotation (RR), spring barley in rotation (SB) on diesel fuel consumption, total energy input (made of both direct and indirect inputs), crop yield, energy output, net-energy output, energy intensity, energy productivity and energy use efficiency. The input rates of fertilizer, herbicides and seeds were set constant during the experiment. Soil tillage was done with a moldboard plough with subsequent combined seedbed preparation and seeding. The mean calculated total energy input was highest in NPK with 11.28 GJ ha−1 and lowest in the unfertilized control with 5.00 GJ ha−1. Total energy input for FYM was intermediate with 6.30 GJ ha−1. With energetic consideration of NPK nutrients in FYM the total energy input increased to the level of NPK. The share of the fertilizer energy on the total energy input was 49% for NPK. Fertilization with FYM and NPK increased yield and energy output considerably, especially of CR and SB which attained about doubled values. Crop rotation also increased the yield and energy output, especially of unfertilized rye, which attained values increased by about 75%. Fertilization with FYM resulted in the highest energy efficiency as the net-energy output, the energy productivity and the energy use efficiency were higher but the energy intensity was lower compared to unfertilized controls and NPK. When the nutrients in FYM were also energetically considered, the energy efficiency parameters of FYM decreased to the level of the NPK treatment. Crop rotation increased the energy efficiency of winter rye compared to the monoculture.

Energy input-output analysis of guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) and lupin (Lupinus albus L.) production in Turkey

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osman Gokdogan ◽  
Seyithan Seydosoglu ◽  
Kagan Kokten ◽  
Aydin Sukru Bengu ◽  
Mehmet Firat Baran
Keyword(s):  
Total Energy ◽  
Specific Energy ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
Energy Output ◽  
Net Energy ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Energy Usage ◽  
Energy Productivity ◽  
Total Energy Input ◽  
Usage Efficiency

The aim of this research is to compose an energy input-output of guar and lupin production during the production season of 2015 in Bingol province of Turkey. The energy input in guar and lupin production have been computed as 14 619.97 MJ ha-1 and 23 486.73 MJ ha-1, respectively. The energy output in guar and lupin production have been calculated as 43 767.21 MJ ha-1 and 16 554.41 MJ ha-1, respectively. Energy usage efficiency, specific energy, energy productivity and net energy in guar production have been calculated as 2.99, 6.42 MJ kg-1, 0.16 kg MJ-1 and 29 147.24 MJ ha-1, respectively. Energy usage efficiency, specific energy, energy productivity and net energy in lupin production have been calculated as 0.70, 31.95 MJ kg-1, 0.04 kg MJ-1 and -6932.32 MJ ha-1, respectively. The total energy input used up in guar production could be classified as 51.31 % direct, 48.69 % indirect, 22.24 % renewable and 77.76 % non-renewable. The total energy input used up in lupin production could be classified as 31.35 % direct, 68.65 % indirect, 33.68 % renewable and 66.32 % non-renewable.

scholarly journals Calculation of solar-energy inputs into melt ponds

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 188-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor A. Podgorny
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Total Energy ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
Spectral Band ◽  
Radiative Energy ◽  
Illumination Condition ◽  
Melt Ponds ◽  
Energy Inputs ◽  
Total Energy Input ◽  
Bottom Albedo

The emphasis of this paper is on the partitioning of solar energy in an open plane-parallel melt pond with a Lambertian bottom. Spectral radiative-energy fluxes into the meltwater and underlying ice ocean layers are calculated analytically as a function of pond-bottom spectral albedo, pond depth and illumination condition Albedo of the pond bottom is reconstructed from data on pond albedo and depth. Results of calculations are presented for melt ponds of comparatively high and comparatively low reflectivity for a broad range of pond depths and for various illumination conditions. In the 350–700 nm spectral band, spectrally averaged pond albedo and solar-energy inputs are a function of pond-bottom albedo, pond depth and illumination condition. In the 700–2400 nm spectral band, the partitioning of solar energy in melt ponds depends on pond depth and illumination condition only. The effect of uncertainty in specifying pond-bottom albedo on total energy input into the water layer is relatively small compared to that on spectrally averaged pond albedo and total energy input into the ice-ocean layer.

The Hydraulics of Final Settling Tanks

1991 ◽  
Vol 23 (4-6) ◽  
pp. 1037-1046 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Krebs
Keyword(s):  
Flow Field ◽  
Velocity Distribution ◽  
Total Energy ◽  
Computer Simulations ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
Forward Flow ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Uniform Velocity ◽  
Total Energy Input ◽  
Major Criterion

An analysis of the flow field in final settling tanks is presented. Computer simulations and hydraulic model tests have succeeded in demonstrating the forward flow near the bottom and the resulting backward flow at the surface, as well as in finding their cause. A reduction of the total energy input and consequently a more uniform velocity distribution were achieved by an inflow which is situated relatively low in the tank. By means of energy considerations a major criterion was found to position the inlet baffle. The positive effects of angle bars after the inflow and of a dividing wall in the tank itself to the flow field are explained.

scholarly journals Meta-Analysis on Energy-Use Patterns of Cropping Systems in Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3868
Author(s):  
Morteza Zangeneh ◽  
Narges Banaeian ◽  
Sean Clark
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Total Energy ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Total Energy Input ◽  
Environmental Emissions

We present a meta-analysis of energy-consumption and environmental-emissions patterns in Iranian cropping systems using data collected from articles published between 2008 and 2018 for 21 different crops. The results show that the crops consuming the most energy per hectare are tomato, sugarcane, cucumber and alfalfa, while sunflower consumed the least. The average total energy input for all crops in Iran during the study period was 48,029 MJ ha−1. Our analysis revealed that potato has the highest potential to reduce energy consumption and that electricity and fertilizer inputs have the most potential for energy savings in cropping systems. Not all studies reviewed addressed the factors that create energy consumption patterns and environmental emissions. Therefore, eight indicators were modeled in this meta-analysis, which include Total Energy Input, Energy Productivity, Energy Use Efficiency, Net Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Technical Efficiency, Pure Technical Efficiency and Scale Efficiency. The effects of region (which was analyzed in terms of climate), year and crop or product type on these eight indicators were modeled using meta-regression and the nonparametric Kruskal–Wallis test. To create a comprehensive picture and roadmap for future research, the process of the agricultural-systems analysis cycle is discussed. This review and meta-analysis can be used as a guide to provide useful information to researchers working on the energy dynamics of agricultural systems, especially in Iran, and in making their choices of crop types and regions in need of study.

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