4 research outputs found
Regional Clusters, Similarities, and Changes in Turkey's Wood Production: A Comparative Analysis Using K-Means and Ward's Clustering Methods
ESTIMATION OF GLOBAL WOOD PELLET PRODUCTION AS A RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE BY ARIMA METHOD
ESTIMATION OF GLOBAL WOOD PELLET PRODUCTION AS A RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE BY ARIMA METHOD
Due to the adverse effects of fossil fuels on the environment and
failing to meet increasing energy demand, the importance of renewable
energy resources have increased even more. For this reason, starting
from the fact that the need for energy will be even higher in the
future, it is important that the current status and the possible future
production of the renewable energy resources should be studied and
considered carefully by the related parties. For this purpose, the
current status of wood pellet production, which is one of the renewable
energy resources in the world, was studied and a forecast was made in
this study. World pellet production between the years of 2017 and 2026
was forecasted by ARIMA (Box-Jenkins) method. Although the forecast
results, as expected, indicate that production will increase over time,
it is predicted that these production quantities will not be adequate to
meet the energy demand
Cellulose nanofibrils and nano-scaled titanium dioxide-reinforced biopolymer nanocomposites: Selecting the best nanocomposites with multicriteria decision-making methods
The aim of the paper is to determine the effects of nano fillers such as
cellulose nanofibrils and nano-scaled titanium dioxide on some
properties of polyhydroxybutyrate and polylactic acid biopolymers; it
also determined the selection of biopolymer nanocomposites with the
optimum properties by using multicriteria decision-making methods such
as multi-attribute utility theory, simple additive weighting, and
weighted aggregated sum product assessment. Test results showed that the
mechanical properties of the biopolymer nanocomposites generally
increased with the addition of the cellulose nanofibrils and nano-scaled
titanium dioxide. However, the addition of nano-scaled titanium dioxide
decreased the tensile modulus. The addition of the cellulose nanofibrils
had a higher effect on the tensile and flexure modulus of elasticity
than the addition of the nano-scaled titanium dioxide. Thermal
properties were generally found to improve with the addition of the
cellulose nanofibrils and nano-scaled titanium dioxide. Melting
temperature (T-m) generally decreased with the addition of the nano
fillers. The scanning electron microscopic images showed that the nano
fillers were dispersed as white dots in the biopolymer matrix. After
accelerated weathering and decay test, outdoor performance of the
biopolymer nanocomposites was found to be improved with the addition of
the nano fillers. Multicriteria decision-making methods were conducted
to determine the biopolymer nanocomposites having the optimum
properties, and all the methods showed that the best biopolymer
nanocomposites was polylactic acid with 1\% cellulose nanofibrils