Impact of asset intensity and other energy-associated CO emissions drivers in the Nigerian manufacturing sector: A firm-level decomposition (LMDI) analysis.

The study considered the impacts of asset intensity and other energy-associated emissions drivers in the Nigerian manufacturing sector from 2010 to 2020. The Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) was used to explore the driving factors of emissions: asset intensity, economic output, economic structure, energy intensity, energy mix, and carbon emission coefficient. From the results, the emissions decreased from 7.

Advanced exergoenvironmental and thermo-sustainability evaluation of cement plant, splitting the environmental impact into endogenous and exogenous parts: a case study.

The paper presents an advanced exergoenvironmental and thermo-sustainability analysis of a dry process, 5-million-ton capacity cement plant with real-time operational data. The analysis was based on component-wise modelling by separating the exergy destruction (ED) into endogenous, exogenous, avoidable and unavoidable parts for the two production lines, L1 and L2. The result shows an exergy efficiency ([Formula: see text]) of 55.

Drying kinetics and thermo-economic analysis of drying hot water blanched ginger rhizomes in a hybrid composite solar dryer with heat exchanger.

This research aimed to examine the need of adding hot water blanching pre-treatment on the drying of ginger rhizomes using a hybrid solar-dryer with paraffin liquid as thermal storage infused into a copper tube to form a compact heat exchanger. Blanching duration quickened the drying rate of the ginger rhizomes and the average drying rate for blanching at 90 s, 60 s, 30 s and un-blanched ginger varied between 0.0147 kg/h to 0.