A chronic operational problem with circulating fluidized bed boilers is ash buildup or agglomeration that turns into slag, which forces frequent shutdowns for cleaning. Solving the problem is tricky, ...

While the economic benefits of urban agglomeration are well-documented, its environmental consequences remain theoretically underexplored. This study fills this gap by investigating how urban ...

Industrial agglomeration refers to the spatial concentration of related firms and sectors within a region, driven by factors such as economies of scale, shared infrastructure and knowledge spillovers.

Copper is present in ores in the form of carbonates, sulfates, silicates, oxides and hydroxides with the most common minerals being malachite, azurite, cuprite, chrysocolla and tenorite. Copper is ...

Can urban areas grow too much? The answer is subject to people’s lifestyle preference, based on where they want to live and what tradeoffs in time and money they’ll accept. But according to one theory ...

Fixed and sunk costs are widely accepted as important determinants of export behaviour. This column argues that such costs may be shared by agglomerated collections of firms, and presents evidence of ...

Ellison, Glenn, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr. "What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-064, July 2007. (NBER ...

Agglomeration's impact on product quality has received much less attention than its impact on productivity, despite the importance of quality as a precondition for economic development. This column ...

Agglomeration refers to the process of enlargement of particle sizes where fine powder particles are coupled to form large, permanent masses wherein original particles can still be identified. Such ...