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Resources, Volume 12, Issue 4

April 2023 - 11 articles

Cover Story: A hardware-in-the-loop test bench was constructed to assess the performance of system components such as district heating substations, storage tanks and heat pumps. This paper examines the impact of two district heating substation designs on the efficiency of district heating systems. A district heating substation with storage can reduce peak loads in a district heating network and enable intermittent operation, whereas the use of a substation with only heat exchangers eliminates storage-related losses. When utilized appropriately, both systems can offer advantages for the operation of a district heating network. View this paper
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Articles (11)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,270 Views
13 Pages

The world is shifting toward renewable energy sources due to global warming and rising GHG emissions. Malaysia has joined other nations in the conference of parties to develop policies for the reduction of GHG and carbon emissions. Malaysia is switch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,806 Views
16 Pages

This paper sought to examine the nexus between human capital and environmental sustainability in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. This contemporary topic has not received much attention in the region, hence the need to investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,116 Views
15 Pages

Mining and mineral processing industry adversely affects ecosystems and communities in nearby areas, including high freshwater consumption and scarcity. That is why the emerging global trend is to use sea water in flotation to recover valuable minera...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
3,492 Views
14 Pages

Modern Technologies Providing a Full Cycle of Geo-Resources Development

  • Cheynesh B. Kongar-Syuryun,
  • Alexander V. Aleksakhin,
  • Evgeniya N. Eliseeva,
  • Anna V. Zhaglovskaya,
  • Roman V. Klyuev and
  • Denis A. Petrusevich

Resource-dependent countries and economies are found to be particularly sensitive to global shocks. A unifying parallel is drawn between resource-dependent countries and regions with depleted mineral resources. The objective factors of losses of acce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,382 Views
23 Pages

Assessment of Virtual Water Flows in Morocco’s Foreign Trade of Crop Products

  • Abdeslam Boudhar,
  • Said Boudhar,
  • Mohamed Oudgou and
  • Aomar Ibourk

As a semi-arid/arid country located in the northwest of Africa, Morocco is facing serious water scarcity driven by the dual stresses of decreasing availability of water resources and increasing water demands. Virtual water trade could be an effective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,473 Views
22 Pages

The use of fossil fuels has caused many environmental issues, including greenhouse gas emissions and associated climate change. Several studies have focused on mitigating this problem. One dynamic direction for emerging sources of future renewable en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,382 Views
25 Pages

Hydrochemical Indicator Analysis of Seawater Intrusion into Coastal Aquifers of Semiarid Areas

  • Jobst Wurl,
  • Miguel Angel Imaz-Lamadrid,
  • Lía Celina Mendez-Rodriguez and
  • Pablo Hernández-Morales

Saltwater intrusion into groundwater systems is a problem worldwide and is induced mainly by human activities, such as groundwater overexploitation and climate change. The coastal Los Planes aquifer in the southern part of the Baja California Peninsu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,114 Views
14 Pages

Use of a Convolutional Neural Network for Predicting Fuel Consumption of an Agricultural Tractor

  • Hamid Jalilnezhad,
  • Yousef Abbaspour-Gilandeh,
  • Vali Rasooli-Sharabiani,
  • Aref Mardani,
  • José Luis Hernández-Hernández,
  • José Antonio Montero-Valverde and
  • Mario Hernández-Hernández

The energy crisis and depleting fossil fuel resources have always been the focus of researchers. Fuel consumption of agricultural tractors is not an exception. Researchers have used different methods to predict fuel consumption. With the development...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
11,601 Views
24 Pages

Automotive Paint Sludge: A Review of Pretreatments and Recovery Options

  • Barbara Ruffino,
  • Giuseppe Campo,
  • Siti Shawalliah Idris,
  • Güray Salihoğlu and
  • Mariachiara Zanetti

Automotive paint sludge (PS) is the waste product generated in the painting process of vehicle bodies. Although automotive spray painting is an automated operation, its efficiency is still quite low, since approximately 40–50% of the employed p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,435 Views
15 Pages

The geoheritage importance of the stones used in the construction of buildings in urban landscapes has been documented by several scholars around the world. Building stones can provide an ex situ cross-section of a region’s geodiversity and ill...

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