This paper is focused on modularized concrete sensible thermal energy storage systems with thermal oil as heat transfer fluid; the thermal storage systems have been conceived to be integrated into a concentrated solar power plant. This work is mainly focused on the effect of the modules’ arrangement on the overall performance of the thermal energy storage system. Series and parallel arrangements are

The development of the industrial steam heating system has made power and thermal system more closely linked. Accordingly, the use of the steam network’s energy storage capability to improve the rapid load change capacity of thermal plants has become a new topic. The industrial steam heating system (ISHS) contains a large number of pipes and heat exchange equipment. The key is to understand the energy

Recovery of the industrial waste heat is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly approach for the energy supply in cities. The industrial waste heat supply chain is a typical multi-objective closed-loop system that aims at optimizing both the economic and environmental benefits through proper operations during supply, purchase, distribution, and consumption. Different from conventional waste

The quality of output temperature is one of the key parameters for the reliability of water heating system. In this work a simulation work was done to regulate the output temperature in a novel water heating system using solid graphite as thermal energy storage medium. The effects of water tank on the quality of output temperature was considered. Two different strategies were thus considered: (i) single

Waste heat recovery (WHR) has been widely recognized as an effective and sustainable source of energy supply. However, conventional WHR requires a huge initial investment in equipment and infrastructures for recovered heat distribution. This study incorporates a newly emerged mobile WHR supply chain, which yields to significantly lower distribution cost and investigates the cost optimization of all

In this paper, an energy level analysis model of oil transfer station system is established, which is divided into oil transfer station subsystem and pipeline network subsystem. From the perspective of the level of energy, the system is evaluated and optimized by virtue of using energy level analysis method and combining with the ”three box” analysis model. Moreover, the energy level evaluation indexes

In the study presented in this paper, the deterioration in the performance of an industrial gas turbine during the operation design point was simulated by using the thermodynamic principle and a multi feedforward artificial neural networks (MFANN) system. Initially the thermodynamic model was constructed using the components performance map technique, that entailed calculating the operating point which

Carbonate formations, which are usually naturally fractured, are good candidates for acid fracturing. Natural fractures have a significant impact on the execution and outcomes of acid fracture design. The interaction of hydraulics with natural fractures can be complex and is rarely considered in acid fracture modeling. This study provides an integrated approach where natural fractures are considered

As a clean and highly valuable renewable energy, wind energy has gradually become an important branch of energy technology. By means of measurement methods, the wind characteristics, energy applications for distributed wind energy source (DWES) in six sites in Henduan Mountains and economic evaluation are investigated. According to the results, the wind characteristics including wind speed and wind

This paper examines the impact of oil price on economic growth in seven low-income oil-importing sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, namely Ethiopia, Gambia, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. Using panel-Auto Regressive Distributive Lag (panel-ARDL), we examined the impact of oil price on economic growth in the short and long run. The results show that oil price does not have a significant

This research paper reports the implementation of short-term scheduling of hydro-thermal power plants by using an artificial bee colony algorithm. Short-term hydro-thermal scheduling is a type of economic dispatch problem in which thermal power plants are dispatched at the optimized operating point to reduce the fuel cost and to achieve in parallel the maximum cost-benefit from hydel power plants.

Sustainable energy transition is generally understood as a concept of developing robust, effective and efficient energy sectors in a particular country or region without compromising the present and future socio-environmental security. In view of this, several countries have made remarkable efforts towards achieving this all-important objective in compliance with modern energy needs and supply requirements

This study aims to identify potential hydropower sites and calculate the theoretical potential hydropower capacity based on watershed modelling of the Mindanao River Basin (MRB) in the Philippines for the sustainable development of a previously unstudied region. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was applied to delineate the watershed of the MRB and simulate the river discharges with inputs

Photovoltaic thermal (PVT) modules convert solar energy into electricity and heat. Unlike that of normal photovoltaic modules, the nominal operating cell temperature (NOCT) of PVT modules, which is used to evaluate the temperature and electrical power output, is unknown because it depends on the mass flow rate and inlet temperature of the working fluid in the module. In this paper, a new method for

The role of renewable and fossil fuel energy consumption on environmental sustainability remains inconclusive due to varied economic and technological structure. This study provides new insight by assessing the nexus between the utilization of two energy categories — renewable and conventional, environmental quality and economic growth embodying capital, trade openness and government expenditure. A

This study examined the impact of credit received on rural household clean cooking energy consumption. The study pays more attention to clean energies, such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene. Due to the endogenous issue of credit, we employed an instrumental variable approach (IV-Probit and IV-Tobit). We analyzed the survey data collected from four regions, Savannah, Bono East, Eastern

In this work, the catalytic upgrading of a bio-oil model compound via esterification with ethanol was studied using 12-tungstosilicic acid as the catalyst. The response surface method was used to investigate and optimize the process variables, which include the ethanol to acid molar ratio, catalyst loading, reaction temperature, and reaction time for maximum conversion of the organic acid for esterification

Purpose of this paper is to compare the performance of an alkali metal thermal electric converter (AMTEC) and thermoelectric generator (TEG) as a subsystem for utilizing rejected heat from the molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC). AMTEC and TEG have various advantages such as; higher power density, no maintenance needed, silent and generally lower cost. Therefore, they have good potential to utilize waste

Cold start is one of the most problematic combustion phases for diesel engines. During this phase, a large proportion of pollutants are produced within the cylinder due to misfiring and incomplete combustion due to the low engine temperatures. Furthermore, exhaust after-treatment devices work inefficiently since their minimum operation temperatures cannot be reached. In addition to this, at temperatures

Since China’s reform and opening up, the urban economy has substantially developed, and the nation’s urbanization process has advanced to gradually enter a “new normal” phase. In this process, China’s population and industries continue to inundate its cities, and environmental pollution has become a critical problem. This study uses panel data spanning 1998 to 2015 from 29 Chinese provinces and a comprehensive

The demand for renewable energy is steadily increasing due to rapid population growth and economic development worldwide. An additional reason is that fossil fuel reserves are limited, and this situation results in their non-uniform availability globally. Furthermore, the attitudes of the society, energy policies and technology choices are constantly changing. Thus, renewable energy resources are now

In present time the power demand increases more rapidly in the power generation and transmission and distribution system sectors. For maintaining the power system stability and steady state operation of power systems causes from disturbance, faults and suddenly changing of the load, voltage instability, voltage swell, voltage sag, harmonics, and change in frequency, stability is the most important

The energy needs of Pakistan have increased many folds in recent years due to improved lifestyle, ever-increasing population, and economic development. Biomass energy has emerged as a promising renewable energy source and has an enormous potential to fulfill the energy requirements of the country. This paper aims to assess the current situation and future projections of electricity generation by using

This paper reports on the different engineering, social and financial challenges behind the building and deploying electric energy monitoring and eco-feedback technology in real-world scenarios, which despite being relevant to the research community are seldom reported in the literature. The objectives of this paper are two-fold: First, discuss the technical and social constraints of real-world deployments

The development of clean and sustainable energy around the world has become a necessity as a result of the negative effect energy generated from fossil fuel have on the environment. Ghana intends to add nuclear power to its generation mix by 2029. This paper uses the SWOT analysis tool to assess the internal strengths and weaknesses as well as the external opportunities and threats in the country relative

In this study, thermal interface material is used in photovoltaic–thermoelectric coupling device to enhance the utilization of solar energy. An operating system including cooling equipment is established. The output performance evolutions of PV–TE coupling device are carried out based on thermal contact resistance under different experimental conditions. The PV–TE coupling devices combine with monocrystalline

This work investigates the performance of a conventional steam power plant retrofitted with a solar-assisted regenerative system using Parabolic Trough Solar Collectors (PTC). The solar collectors were used to compensate for the effect of removing Low-Pressure (LP) turbine extractions without changing other elements of a 300 MW power plant unit during peak load operations. The steam power plant, located

This paper presents a novel optimal real-time controller for inverter-based distributed generation units in an islanded microgrid. With respect to the fact that the microgrid has a completely nonlinear structure and its dynamics is constantly changing, the linear controllers with constant and inflexible coefficients cannot maintain proper response in a wide range of operation conditions. Hence, an

In this paper, retrofitting of a hydroxy (HHO) cell which is coupled to a gasoline engine is performed by investigating the effects of electrodes’ shape and distances and the impacts of improvement technologies ultrasonic waves, DC pulsed power with various frequencies and magnetic field on the cell’s bubble pumping efficiency and rate of HHO gas production. Subsequently, an energy analysis was performed

This article presents a non-conventional design approach of high order passive filters incorporated with distributed energy grid integration systems based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) as one of multi-objective evolutionary search algorithms. Two topologies of passive grid filters (third order passive damped LCL-filter and trap filter) are chosen as case studies. The presented grid filter design

Distributed Generation based on Photovoltaic (PV-DG) injected in the power system is considered a highly promising solution due to the advantage of clean energy use. However, the investigation of the optimal PV-DG allocation (site and size) is a significant task for power system requirements and assessment of PV potentials. Recent research works on PV-DG allocation are reviewed from two viewpoints;

In the present work, the characteristics of spray combustion an airblast atomizer with an innovative design were experimentally investigated. The flame was stabilized in a water-cooled combustor using air swirler. A test rig was manufactured to investigate the different operating conditions — which include the atomizing Air to Liquid fuel mass Ratio (ALR) of 5, 6, 7 and 8 and the elevated Atomizing

With the remarkable growth of natural gas consumption and the development of renewable energy worldwide in recent years, the penetration capacity of gas-fired generators and uncertain renewable energy has significantly become larger, which poses a great challenge to the reliable and economic operation of the gas–electricity interconnected system. This paper proposes an interval optimization based coordination

Nowadays in India the renewable energy sources are continuum growing to accommodate the current demands of energy. Therefore, for an effective use of this energy, a careful and critical analysis is required. As per literature review, India was reported having a massive potential as superpower source in terms of wind energy In the present research, an effort has been carried out to explore various decision

Photovoltaic farms in Malaysia are being developed tremendously as a form of supporting fossil fuel setbacks in Malaysia power generation. An important parameter of the PV installation is the power (Watts) accumulated over sunlight retrieval. Considerable losses may arise from the conversion, where the efficiency is typically 15% to 23%, with the remainder becoming losses in the form of accumulated

The distributed photovoltaic power generation is an important way to make use of solar energy in cities. China issues a series of policies to support the development of distributed photovoltaics in law, electricity price, grid connection standard, project management, financial support and so on. However, there are still some defects in policies and market mechanism. China creates a competitive market

Horizontal well based thermal recovery processes have been widely applied to recover the heavy oil resources all over the world. But, the flow behavior of hot fluids along a horizontal wellbore is still unclear. In this paper, a scaled cylindrical wellbore model is designed to experimentally simulate the steam injection process using horizontal well. Based on this model, a set of experiments are firstly

This paper presents an energy and exergy co-optimization method of integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) based on Fuzzy Supervisory Predictive Control (FSPC). Firstly, a green IGCC process is proposed which contains three principle couplings: air separation unit (ASU), heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) and CO2 capture/storage unit (CCS). From law of thermodynamics, using substance thermophysical

Buildings generate a significant amount of waste that has considerable impacts on environment and energy flow. This study aims to investigate the waste capacity of the selected district and its effect on the environment within the current waste management policy via Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology based on the two indicators; global warming potential and energy flow. The district has 82 buildings

The telecommunication industry is the technology of communication among humankind. One problem for this industry is to provide the required energy for its towers in the remote rural areas in the absence of the grid. This objection causes dependency of this industry to the diesel generators and battery banks as backup resources. Despite not being resilient and the effect of environment for the power

This research focuses on the diesel and diesel/oil mixed fuel combustion particles as the research object and analyzes the characteristics of the two kinds of fuel oil under different parameters. The characteristics of the combustion particulate matter in the DPF discharge of the two fuels before and after carrying out TEM imaging of the sample particles were studied. The TEM image was obtained, and

One of the best ways to optimally consuming fossil fuel thermal energy is to utilize combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP) systems. In such systems, by recycling heat wasted from hot gases simultaneously generating power, heat, and refrigeration from combustion, as well as water and cooling oil in electricity production systems, the overall system energy utilization efficiency can be increased

In this paper, a new multi-objective technique has been proposed for optimal analysis of three different candidate heat pump solutions including the vapor compression cycle (VCC), trans-critical R744 cycle, and Peltier device to determine which one gives the best configuration and better performance on a hybrid heat pump and fuel cell-based micro-CHP system. Here, a sunflower optimization algorithm

Grid integration remains one of the key challenges related to the worldwide expansion of distributed renewable energy systems. This paper presents innovative measures for increasing the hosting capacity of distribution grids with a focus on the medium-voltage grid, based on representative interviews with leading large-scale distribution system operators (DSOs) from Germany. For grid optimization, DSOs

Steel is the inevitable material for the infrastructure and has the strategic importance for the growth of the country. Iron and steel making industry is one of the most energy-intensive industries, with 5% of the worlds total energy consumption. Therefore, it is required to develop suitable and efficient energy management during various processing in steel plants. Both academic and industrial research

In this article, our goal is to improve the estimation of the parameters of solar photovoltaic models, we propose a method based on Simulated Annealing (SA) Optimization, the proposed algorithm takes into account the uncertainties of measurements. This algorithm consists of three steps such as the extraction of the parameters in a conventional manner, then the determination of the uncertainties of

With the depletion of the conventional energy sources, measures are being taken to create an alternate energy sources for the future. Energy harvesting from different sources are one of the better steps taken in this direction. Mechanical energy harvesting from the waste mechanical source is gaining profound investigation. Here, a nanohybrid of poly(vinylidene fluoride) and lead zirconia titanate (PZT)

A growing number of major natural gas markets in the world have adopted the gas-on-gas competition, or are in the phase of transition to this price formation mechanism. In this situation, China has also started to reform the pricing mechanism by establishing gas trading centers in Shanghai and Chongqing, providing platforms for sellers and buyers to complete the competition-based transactions, marking

Today, the security of energy has become one of the primary concerns of all the countries around the world due to the limited energy sources, increasing population, energy prices fluctuations and limitations in energy supply. Japan is considered as one of the largest energy consumers and energy importers throughout the world which almost 96% of its primary energy supply in national level relies on

Solar energy is vast, abundant, cost free, green renewable source of energy. Due to the aforementioned qualities, the world is today researching and exploring the most feasibly optimized way of harnessing this energy and solar tracking system is a result of this quest. This paper begins with a brief introduction to the solar PV cells and the materials used in their construction. It also discusses the

The plan to shift towards renewable energy has recently become the central part of the energy policy on the power system in South Korea. The sudden shift towards renewable energy has raised questions regarding the reliability and flexibility of the power system. This paper proposes a research framework to evaluate the new policy in South Korea from various aspects using three simulation models in a

Electric Vehicles (EVs), accompanied with the use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES), are the solution for the decarbonization of the transport sector and are undoubtedly on the rise. Although EVs have been in the limelight over the last decade, little effort has been made towards the proper use of the vehicle’s battery. Therefore, a better understanding of Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, since they

In this paper, the effect of Partial Shading Condition (PSC) on various solar photovoltaic (PV) array topologies has been studied extensively. PSC reduces the maximum power of a PV array and produces multiple Maximum Power Points (MPPs) in the PV characteristics. A novel PV array configuration, named as the Odd Even Configuration (OEC) has been proposed to mitigate the effects of PSC under a diagonally

In this article the research results of application of back-to-back HVDC system in the Tomsk electric power system are presented. Historically, power transmission between the South to the North parts of the Tomsk electric power system is realized via the long double-circuit 220 kV overhead transmission line. However, due to electrical load increasing and growing complexity of the grid, as well as the

Improving the efficiency and sustainability of water treatment technologies is crucial to reduce energy consumption and environmental pollution. Solar-driven devices have the potential to supply off-grid areas with freshwater through a sustainable approach. Passive desalination driven by solar thermal energy has the additional advantage to require only inexpensive materials and easily maintainable

Operation optimization is a critical issue in the management of the multi-source large-scale urban centralized heating system (UCHS). A major challenge is to deal with the complex topological structure of its heating network. We investigate the operation enhancement of UCHS from the view of network splitting. We carry out the network splitting analysis of UCHS by establishing its heating network model