... that the algal biofuel industry faces, i.e., low productivity and energy intensive harvesting and drying, which result in prohibitively high costs. The proposed idea is to have an integrated “conveyor belt” system floating on the water surface powered by windmills or a hybrid energy source. The conveyor belt...

...Hakan Ertu¨rk; Ofodike A. Ezekoye; John R. Howell The boundary condition design of a three-dimensional furnace that heats an object moving along a conveyor belt of an assembly line is considered. A furnace of this type can be used by the manufacturing industry for applications such as industrial...