Empowering Field Operators in Manufacturing: a Prospective Towards Industry 5.0

In manufacturing systems, field operators represent a key bottleneck for operational efficiency to secure production systems' productivity, quality, and resilience. Through their direct engagement with production resources, they obtain a genuine understanding of the course operations on the manufacturing floor. The effective leverage of this knowledge within a digital framework that embraces human intelligence is a crucial value for the emerging Industry 5.0. In this article, we envision the...

Gasification tests at a bench scale bubbling fluidized bed plant for syngas production: Evaluation of primary methods for gas cleaning and conditioning

An advanced gasification process aiming at highly efficient and cost-effective CHP production via SOFC is being developed. Due to the demanding technical specifications of commercial SOFCs about the content of organic and inorganic contaminants, the use of both primary and secondary methods for gas conditioning was considered. The present work concerns the results collected to evaluate the effectiveness of in-bed additives under the gasification conditions of S/B 0.5, ER 0.25, Tgasif. 850 °C....

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Increasing the use of electrical non-combustible and combustible renewables: the effects on air pollution

The paper aims investigates the impact of the introduction of electrical non-combustible and combustible renewables on the reduction of emissions, expressed at disaggregated level. The effect of electrical renewables is estimated by means of fixed and random effects of a panel data of twenty-eight European Union countries analysed for the period 1995-2015. The results confirm that electrical renewables play a strategic role in abating pollutant emissions in European countries. For each enviro...