2026 February-2 - 246 articles
Urban freight and service operations represent a critical challenge for cities, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, congestion, and competition for curb space. In addition to parcel deliveries, many service trips combine transport with installa...
Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) are widely used in various fields due to their high efficiency and power density. To further enhance reliability and reduce cost and volume, sensorless control techniques have been extensively investigated...
Current research on the participation of inverter-based air conditioners in demand response often prioritizes system performance during regulation periods yet frequently overlooks the prolonged high indoor temperatures that follow. Furthermore, overs...
Broken rotor bar faults (BRBFs) in induction motors (IMs) present significant challenges in industrial applications, particularly due to the need for large labeled datasets and fast processing. This study addresses these issues by leveraging transfer...
In this study, we investigated the optimization of a wind farm layout on complex mountainous terrain in Yeongdeok, South Korea, with varying hub heights. Specifically, the energy performance of mixing two commonly used commercial models with differen...
The invasive aquatic plant Myriophyllum aquaticum represents both an ecological threat and a wet biomass disposal challenge. This study investigates hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) as a strategy for its valorisation into energy-dense hydrochar. A De...
The increasing share of photovoltaic (PV) generation in building energy systems highlights the importance of understanding not only the magnitude but also the temporal structure of energy mismatch between PV production and building demand. This study...
This paper presents new techniques for electric machine diagnostics that combine advanced signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI)-based techniques using magnetic flux measurements acquired under various operating conditions. Developing an...
Maize silage can play a key role in policies aimed at stabilising local energy systems, as it constitutes a critical renewable feedstock for European biogas plants. By providing a dense and predictable source of chemical energy, it supports balance a...
The increasing integration of electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energy sources has accelerated the adoption of DC microgrids, where maintaining voltage stability and effective power sharing remains a critical challenge. Hybrid energy storage syst...
This study investigates the potential adoption of blockchain technology within the Indonesian electricity sector to address key challenges in digital infrastructure. Blockchain technology has the potential to address the challenges by facilitating im...
Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generators (PMSGs) have acquired a pivotal role in recent years, owing to their high-power density, high efficiency, and ability to operate in direct-drive configurations. Despite these advantages, such machines are susce...
Under the “dual carbon” goals, the large-scale integration of distributed photovoltaics (DPVs) presents a challenge for the flexibility supply–demand mismatch in distribution systems. To address the issue of accurately matching flex...
Natural gas pipeline networks are subject to supply instability due to random fluctuations. Current forecasting methodologies often suffer from limited accuracy, inadequate uncertainty quantification, and poor integration with dynamic network evaluat...
The increasing penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) has been reducing system inertia and intensifying frequency stability challenges. Hence, various grid demands have been imposed on grid-connected systems, e.g., requiring the provision of...
The transition toward carbon-neutral energy systems has revived interest in nuclear technologies, particularly small and micro modular reactors (SMRs and MMRs) as flexible, safe and efficient alternatives to conventional large-scale power plans. In t...
This paper presents a minimally intrusive experimental methodology for identifying and modeling power losses in the electric powertrain of a battery electric vehicle, including the inverter, electric motor and speed reducer. Measurements are performe...
This research aims to establish design guidelines for a cantilever triple-layer piezoelectric harvester (CTLPH) with tip mass and tip excitation, operating under resonance conditions. The guideline is derived by combining constitutive equations with...
AC battery systems (ACBSs) based on multilevel converters (MLCs) have gained considerable attention in recent times for the provision of grid services due to high-power (HP) and high-energy (HE) capabilities. In a hybrid ACBS, multiple low-voltage po...
Rapid energy planning in cities needs decision-support tools that can change based on the supply of renewable resources and the needs of stakeholders. This paper introduces an innovative adaptive decision-support framework that integrates Long Short-...
Pulse thyristors are extensively utilized in pulsed plasma discharge applications. In this study, a pulse switch prototype is built using two parallel valve groups, each consisting of seven series-connected thyristors. Each thyristor is equipped with...
Agriculture and food systems are among the world’s greatest energy consumers and emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs), highlighting the importance of energy-efficient strategies that maintain a balance between productivity and sustainability. Th...
Large-scale advanced energy systems, including fusion devices, high-power plasma sources, and accelerator-driven energy platforms, increasingly depend on real-time, hardware-level data processing for diagnostics, control, and protection. In such inst...
Global efforts to mitigate climate change and reduce reliance on fossil fuels have intensified interest in sustainable, urban-compatible wind energy technologies. Conventional wind turbines, however, remain limited in densely populated environments d...
Urban heat islands (UHIs) increase the cooling load and reduce the performance of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems; thus, the co-benefits of integrating bio-solar green roofs require quantification and real-world demonstration to encourage the uptak...
The rapid proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs), including photovoltaics, wind power, battery energy storage, and electric vehicles, has transformed traditional power systems into highly decentralized and data-rich environments. Virtua...
The increasing size and complexity of wind turbines have intensified the need for reliable real-time condition monitoring and health assessment. However, conventional numerical models often involve high computational demand, limiting their applicabil...
With the increasing demand for energy given by the effects of extreme weathers in the last years, the need to expand the access to renewable energy such as green hydrogen has become a priority in current research. However, one of the main challenges...
This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies in Saudi Arabia, focusing on municipal solid waste (MSW) across various cities, in alignment with Saudi Vision 2030. Saudi Arabia generates approximately 16 million...
Carbon dioxide injection is one of the most advanced and commercially proven methods of enhanced hydrocarbon recovery, and CO2 injection has been shown to be very effective in conventional oil reservoirs and is gaining attention in gas, unconventiona...
Accurate forecasting of aggregated demand response (DR) potential is critical for load aggregators, yet remains challenging under severe data scarcity and domain shift conditions. This paper proposes a domain-adaptive transfer learning framework base...
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a key component of syngas and an important intermediate in the chemical, metallurgical, heavy, and food industries. Although mainly associated with thermochemical processes, CO can also be generated during composting, offering...
Service continuity in power systems represents one of the key factors in designing the network architecture, in selecting the protection devices and in programming the maintenance operations. Standard strategies have to face a new issue represented b...
There is a strong demand for buried sensor networks in industries including mining, agriculture, geothermal energy, and oil/gas. However, the integration of these sensors is bottle-necked by the need for electric power which cannot be delivered by co...
The placement of generation and storage stations (GSSs) in distribution grids has been extensively investigated. Most traditional methods are applicable to rural or homogeneous environments and do not account for external restrictions on generation p...
To support the integration of high shares of renewable energy and enhance the operational flexibility of thermal power systems, thermosyphon have been considered as promising high-efficiency heat transfer components for thermal energy storage applica...
Solar cell installations are most often located in places where there is abundant open space. It is however more difficult to place solar cells in urban environments due to space constraints and suboptimal light conditions. One potential solution is...
Non-thermal plasma is a promising technology for odor abatement from agricultural and domestic waste. However, its widespread application is often limited by the inherent trade-off between energy efficiency and processing capacity in conventional rea...
This study presents the electrochemical characterization of a novel, binder-free, plasma-treated aluminum/carbon electrode (“Surge”) using lithium metal half-cells. The low operating potential near 0 V vs. Li/Li+ enables the investigation...
Hydrogen energy is acknowledged as being the cleanest energy source. As hydrogen fuel cell technology advances, the development of low-cost, high-quality hydrogen purification technologies has grown increasingly critical. Targeting the separation of...
Partial discharge (PD) signals in gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) exhibit complex characteristics, and single-modal feature recognition methods face limitations in achieving satisfactory diagnostic accuracy due to incomplete fault information represen...
Battery-electric residential storage systems can increase the self-consumption of photovoltaic (PV) generation; however, economical sizing typically requires a high-resolution time series of PV production and household load behind the meter. In pract...
The uncertainty and enormous potential of wave energy have drawn attention and research efforts on predicting offshore wave behavior to aid wave energy harvesting. The movement of offshore waves generates huge amounts of available renewable energy an...
This paper presents a comprehensive power system transition-planning model positioned between conventional generation and transmission expansion planning (GTEP) formulations and broader macro-energy system (MES) tools. Existing planning models are ty...
The power industry has undergone significant recent changes due to the growing demand for a cleaner and more sustainable energy mix. In this context, the Brazilian government began encouraging distributed generation (DG), making photovoltaic generati...
European bioeconomy policies stress the need for responsible, efficient feedstock use and timely, comprehensive data on ecosystems and bioeconomic activities. This paper addresses the data gap by: (i) providing holistic county-level (sub-NUTS3) bioma...
Oil prices have always been considered critical determinants of economic stability and food security in oil-dependent economies. Several studies have examined the existence, direction, strength, and predictability of the relationship between oil pric...
Although Afghanistan’s contribution to global and regional greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is minimal, it remains among the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Rising temperatures and decreasing precipitation have signifi...
One of the ways to decarbonize cities and to enhance grid stability is to convert existing buildings into prosumers equipped with power plants able to supply electrical and thermal energy. The simulation of such multi-energy systems permits the analy...
This paper investigates summertime indoor overheating in naturally ventilated public buildings located in a cool temperate Baltic climate, where buildings are traditionally designed for heating-dominated conditions. The study is based on long-term fi...
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