Abstract:Energy use in Indonesia's steel industry accounts for about 20-35% of total production costs. Consequently, energy end-use efficiency is a crucial measure that is used to reduce energy intensity and decrease production costs. This article aims to investigate the relationships among different barriers to energy efficiency improvement (EEI), using a framework with the following six constructs: government policy, the financial-economic factor, the managerial-organizational factor, the technological factor, workforce, and quality and type of feedstock and fuel used. The data were collected from steel firm practitioners in Indonesia, using a questionnaire to test our framework. The results demonstrate that the applied framework was applicable. We find that EEI is moderately influenced by all constructs but that the managerial-organizational factor has the greatest direct effect on improvements and is the most significant factor.
Abstract. Vegetables are categorized as a perishable product, which is a product with short lifespan thus requires proper handling and planning to reduce losses caused by the short lifespan. In order to reduce the losses, coordination among the players in the supply chain is required. On the other hand, the decision in the supply chain of vegetables and other farming products in the traditional market of developing country is independent among the players. This research is conducted by using System Dynamic Simulation method to develop model and scenario by coordinating the supply quantity amongst players in the supply chain. The scenarios are developed based on newsboy inventory model. This study aims to compare scenarios combining tiers involved in coordination program. The result shows that coordination in supply chain increases total supply chain profit, although there will always be players who experienced decrements in profit. The scenario of coordination among the farmer, the distributor, and the wholesaler resulted in the highest increase in total supply chain profit compared to other coordination scenarios, with an increased value of 10.49%.
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Static magnetic field (SMF) application in water electrolysis increases hydrogen production. However, the effect of the dynamic magnetic field (DMF) in water electrolysis is rarely studied. This study utilizes DMF to increase hydrogen production in water electrolysis. DMF was generated by rotating a plate‐shaped magnet. As a result, DMF produces 23.1 mL H2, which almost doubled the 12.1 mL H2 of SMF. DMF increases the chance of hydrogen formation by weakening the covalent bond, hydrogen bond, and increase the ion transfer mobility as a result of additional magnetic field strength. This phenomenon consistent with the Faraday's law where fluctuating magnetic field generates an electromotive force that increases electric current density. The high electric current density alters hydroxide ion mobility as the interchanging magnetic force field by DMF increases the ions collision chance. The additional magnetic force by DMF has aligned more water molecules than DMF. Consequently, more water molecule dipoles are exposed during electrolysis. Hence, DMF eases the water‐splitting process by shaking the water molecules, which continuously aligns the dipole and also energizes the water molecules. The energized water with higher kinetic energy is easier to split as the required ionization energy has reduced. This happens as the result of the spin‐pair magnetic energy conversion that is stimulated by external magnetic field. The increase in rotational speed of magnetic rods does not significantly increase hydrogen evolution reaction and lower the electrolysis efficiency. This indicates the presence of DMF is more important for water electrolysis performance than the rotational speed of DMF. Conclusively, DMF enhances hydrogen evolution reaction by an increase in water kinetic energy and increase in ion transfer chance through dipole exposition.
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