Re-Esterification of Rapeseed Oil
An article on the Polish website ekoenergia.pl titled ‘Rozwój biopaliw – efektywniejsze rolnictwo cz.2’ by Prof. Dr. Włodzimierz Kotowski shows the following Sankey diagram. [See image gallery at...
View ArticleEnergy Flow in Open Rack Vaporiser
The scientific paper ‘A Sankey Framework for Energy and Exergy Flows’ by Kamalakannan Soundararajan, Hiang Kwee Ho, Bin Su (Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore) features these...
View ArticleMisc Sankey Diagrams Uncommented 11
Still sitting on my hard disk are numerous Sankey diagrams I have yet to describe and post them here. The ‘Miscellaneous (Mostly) Uncommented’ series is a way to get them out to you. A Sankey diagram...
View ArticleSankey Diagram of Sugar Production
An interesting Sankey diagram of sugar production can be found on p. 23 and p. 24 of the 2002 report ‘Möglichkeiten der Wertschöpfungssteigerung durch Abfallvermeidung (biogener Reststoffe) und...
View ArticleCombining Sankey Diagram and Pie Chart
Here is a good example of how Sankey diagram and pie chart are used side-by-side. In fact, the Sankey diagram picks up one particular piece of information that is already in the Sankey diagram. This is...
View ArticleProcess Sankey: Pressure Water Scrubbing
A Sankey diagram of O2 contamination during pressure water scrubbing from a paper on ‘Oxygen Removal during Biogas Upgrading using iron-based Adsorbents’ by Toni Raabe of DBI – Gastechnologisches...
View ArticleDesalination by RO Process Retrofit, Sankey
Removal of salt from seawater (desalination) is used to produce drinking water and water for irrigation in the Canary Islands, Spain. This is an energy intensive process. The article ‘La importancia de...
View ArticleAmmonia production technologies compared
A comparison of different Ammonia production technologies is made in a post on ‘Comparative studies of ammonia production, combining renewable hydrogen with Haber-Bosch’ by Trevor Brown on the Ammonia...
View ArticleTriVersa biorefinery process
Javier Dufuor on the madrid+d Energía y Sostenibilidad blog reports about a novel lignocellulose biorefinery process developed by Prof. James A. Dumesic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This...
View ArticleChemicals from Lignocellulosic Biomass
One of the research topics in the research group of Prof. Christos T. Maravelias at University of Wisconsin – Madison is ‘Renewable Chemicals from Lignocellulosic Biomass’. One line of research is into...
View ArticleWWTP Flowsheet
Another Sankey diagram from a waste water treatment plant (WWTP). This one shows concentrations (of organic matter?) in dissolved and adsorbed phases in grams per day. Actual volume streams are not...
View ArticleRapeseed Production
From the museum of Sankey diagrams, here is a black&white classic. This Sankey process diagram for rapeseed oil production is taken from the year 2002 dissertation ‘Simultane Öl- und...
View ArticleMisc Sankey Diagrams Uncommented 25
Just a quick Friday afternoon post in order not to let this week slip past without a post. This is a sample from the latest e!Sankey demo version. The Sankey diagram represents energy flows in a...
View ArticleSankey Diagram for Air Compressor
A comment from a reader pointed me to this Sankey diagram for energy flows in an air compressor system. It can be found as a sample on the web page of VHK Research Engineers. VHK uses Sankey diagrams...
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