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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
79 Citations
5,201 Views
20 Pages

18 January 2021

In this study, a standalone hybrid wind turbine (WT)/photovoltaic (PV)/biomass/pump-hydro-storage energy system was designed and optimized based on technical, economic, and environmental parameters to provide the load demand with an objective functio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,145 Views
15 Pages

Design and Prototyping of Efficient LED Counter Beam Light with Free-Formed Surface for Meeting International Tunnel Lighting Standards

  • Hsing-Yuan Liao,
  • Sheng-Yen Chen,
  • Hien-Thanh Le,
  • Wei-Lun Gao,
  • Fu-Chun Chang,
  • Chan-Chuan Wen,
  • Yi-Chin Fang,
  • Chao-Hsien Chen,
  • Shun-Hsyung Chang and
  • Hsiao-Yi Lee

18 January 2021

An LED Counter Beam Light (CBL) with a free surface secondary lens is proposed to enhance the safety and efficiency of tunnels. The secondary lens was designed and produced to be mounted on a 50 W white-light LED array to generate the targeted counte...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,120 Views
11 Pages

Al-ZSM-5 Nanocrystal Catalysts Grown from Silicalite-1 Seeds for Methane Conversion

  • Hyun Su Kim,
  • Su Kyung Kang,
  • Haoxiang Zhang,
  • Elsa Tsegay Tikue,
  • Jin Hyung Lee and
  • Pyung Soo Lee

18 January 2021

This study evaluated Al-ZSM-5 nanocrystals grown from silicalite-1 seed crystals as catalysts for the methane dehydroaromatization (MDA) reaction. Silicalite-1 seed crystals sized between 30 and 40 nm were used to grow Al-ZSM-5 under various synthesi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,383 Views
29 Pages

Investigating the Asymmetric Effect of Economic Growth on Environmental Quality in the Next 11 Countries

  • Gideon Kwaku Minua Ampofo,
  • Jinhua Cheng,
  • Edwin Twum Ayimadu and
  • Daniel Akwasi Asante

18 January 2021

This study investigates the asymmetric cointegration and causal relationships between economic growth, carbon emissions, and energy consumption in the next eleven (11) countries over the period 1972–2013. The nonlinear autoregressive distribute...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,443 Views
24 Pages

Thermoelectric Generation with Impinging Nano-Jets

  • Fatih Selimefendigil,
  • Hakan F. Oztop and
  • Mikhail A. Sheremet

18 January 2021

In this study, thermoelectric generation with impinging hot and cold nanofluid jets is considered with computational fluid dynamics by using the finite element method. Highly conductive CNT particles are used in the water jets. Impacts of the Reynold...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,337 Views
13 Pages

18 January 2021

Increasing environmental demands influence the requirements for devices and materials used in the power industry. One example is a power transformer and an electro-insulating liquid used in it. In order to meet these requirements, electro-insulating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,860 Views
15 Pages

A DC Microgrid System for Powering Remote Areas

  • Tri Ardriani,
  • Pekik Argo Dahono,
  • Arwindra Rizqiawan,
  • Erna Garnia,
  • Pungky Dwi Sastya,
  • Ahmad Husnan Arofat and
  • Muhammad Ridwan

18 January 2021

DC microgrid has been gaining popularity as solution as a more efficient and simpler power system especially for remote areas, where the main grid has yet to be built. This paper proposes a DC microgrid system based on renewable energy sources that e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,168 Views
25 Pages

18 January 2021

The decentralized feed-ins from distributed energy resources (DER) represent a significant change in the manner in which the power grid is used. If this leads to high loads on electrical equipment, its aging can be accelerated. This applies in partic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,510 Views
22 Pages

18 January 2021

Due to the high complexity of detailed sector-coupling models, a perfect foresight optimization approach reaches complexity levels that either requires a reduction of covered time-steps or very long run-times. To mitigate these issues, a myopic appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,679 Views
27 Pages

Experimental Validation of a Reduced-Scale Rail Power Conditioner Based on Modular Multilevel Converter for AC Railway Power Grids

  • Mohamed Tanta,
  • Jose Cunha,
  • Luis A. M. Barros,
  • Vitor Monteiro,
  • José Gabriel Oliveira Pinto,
  • Antonio P. Martins and
  • Joao L. Afonso

18 January 2021

Rail power conditioner (RPC) has the ability to improve the power quality in AC railway power grids. This power conditioner can increase the loading capacity of traction substations, balance the active power between the feeder load sections, and comp...

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Energies - ISSN 1996-1073