Anaerobic digestion and gasification of seaweed

The potential of algal biomass as a source of liquid and gaseous biofuels is a highly topical theme, with over 70 years of sometimes intensive research and considerable financial investment. A wide range of unit operations can be combined to produce algal biofuel, but as yet there is no successful commercial system producing such biofuel. This suggests that there are major technical and engineering difficulties to be resolved before economically viable algal biofuel production can be achieved. Both gasification and anaerobic digestion have been suggested as promising methods for exploiting bioenergy from biomass, and two major projects have been funded in the UK on the gasification and anaerobic digestion of seaweed, MacroBioCrude and SeaGas. This chapter discusses the use of gasification and anaerobic digestion of seaweed for the production of biofuel

Performance analysis of a CDMA wireless local loop systems

In this paper, the capacity of the Code Division Multiple Access Wireless Local Loop (CDMA WLL) sysytem is analytically derived, and the capacity gain achieved in a CDMA WLL over a cellular mobile environment is calculated. The results show that the CDMA WLL system can support up to 36% more users than CDMA cellular mobile system. The paper also propose a new approach to increase the reverse lonk capacity of the CDMA WLL system, which synchronize the reverse link so that signals transmitted from different subscriber units within the same cell are time aligned at the base station )BS). A theoretical analysis of the potential capacity gain of reverse link synchronous CDMA WLL is presented

Editorial: the 26th international conference on computers and industrial engineering

Editorial on the 26th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering held in Melbourne, Australia, on the 15-17 December 1999