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Energies, Volume 14, Issue 2

January-2 2021 - 264 articles

Cover Story: In this work, the findings of different 2030 scenarios, considering various socio-economic and techno-economic determinants of possible future energy system development, identify numerous modification and reduction potentials of the electricity demand due to societal commitment and energy community penetration. View this paper
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Articles (264)

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,512 Views
27 Pages

Polish Energy Transition 2040: Energy Mix Optimization Using Grey Wolf Optimizer

  • Damian Hasterok,
  • Rui Castro,
  • Marcin Landrat,
  • Krzysztof Pikoń,
  • Markus Doepfert and
  • Hugo Morais

19 January 2021

Poland is facing demanding challenges to achieve a sustainable energy mix in the near future. Crucial and tough decisions must be made about the direction of the national energy economy, safety, and environmental impact. Considering the electricity a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,870 Views
24 Pages

19 January 2021

The heating and cooling industry underpins everything we do, e.g., manufacturing, commercial and residential applications. Many of these applications invariably use mechanical refrigeration technologies, consequently contributing significantly to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,297 Views
12 Pages

Designing of Dynamic Spectrum Shifting in Terms of Non-Local Space-Fractional Mechanics

  • Krzysztof Szajek,
  • Wojciech Sumelka,
  • Krzysztof Bekus and
  • Tomasz Blaszczyk

19 January 2021

In this paper, the applicability of the space-fractional non-local formulation (sFCM) to design 1D material bodies with a specific dynamic eigenvalue spectrum is discussed. Such a formulated problem is based on the proper spatial distribution of mate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,756 Views
12 Pages

19 January 2021

Anaerobic digestion process can be improved in combination with bioelectrochemical systems in order to recover energy and resources from digestates. An electromethanogenic microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) coupled to an ammonia recovery system based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,509 Views
27 Pages

Hybridizing Lead–Acid Batteries with Supercapacitors: A Methodology

  • Xi Luo,
  • Jorge Varela Barreras,
  • Clementine L. Chambon,
  • Billy Wu and
  • Efstratios Batzelis

19 January 2021

Hybridizing a lead–acid battery energy storage system (ESS) with supercapacitors is a promising solution to cope with the increased battery degradation in standalone microgrids that suffer from irregular electricity profiles. There are many stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,046 Views
20 Pages

19 January 2021

This paper presents an experimentally validated, dynamic model of a hybrid liquid desiccant system. For this purpose, we developed new components for the air-solution contactors, which are of the non-adiabatic falling-film type with horizontal tubes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,455 Views
16 Pages

Quasi-Z-Source Inverter-Based Photovoltaic Power System Modeling for Grid Stability Studies

  • Lluís Monjo,
  • Luis Sainz,
  • Juan José Mesas and
  • Joaquín Pedra

19 January 2021

Quasi-Z-source inverters (qZSIs) are becoming a powerful power conversion technology in photovoltaic (PV) power systems because they allow energy power conversion in a single stage operation. However, they can cause system resonances and reduce syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,873 Views
17 Pages

19 January 2021

This research mainly studies the factors influencing the efficiency of energy utilization. Firstly, by calculating Moran’sI and local indicators of spatial association (LISA) of energy efficiency of regions in mainland China, we found that ener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,702 Views
25 Pages

19 January 2021

The technological innovation in the field of lighting and the need to reduce energy consumption connected to public lighting are leading many municipalities to undertake the renewal of public lighting systems, by replacing the existing luminaires wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,274 Views
25 Pages

19 January 2021

Starting with the problem of connecting the photovoltaic (PV) system to the main grid, this article presents the control of a grid-connected PV system using fractional-order (FO) sliding mode control (SMC) and FO-synergetic controllers. The article p...

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Energies - ISSN 1996-1073