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Clean Technologies, Volume 4, Issue 1

2022 March - 12 articles

Cover Story: How does material degradation affect the durability of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (FCs)? How can we extend the service life of electric vehicles by replacing FC components? What are the greenhouse gas implications? Our manuscript investigates for the first time how the degradation of gas diffusion media (GDM) may affect the durability of FC electric vehicles and their global warming impact. Moreover, we demonstrated that the use of fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) instead of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) as the GDM's hydrophobic agent could extend the service life of the FC electric vehicle by more than 50%, reducing its global warming impact per driven km by up to 32%. View this paper
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,797 Views
60 Pages

China promptly took the leading step to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, producing the first scientific guidelines assuming health above energy consumption and significantly changing HVAC/AHU operation. The research intended to fulfill the gap by mea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,540 Views
21 Pages

Application of Machine Learning to Accelerate Gas Condensate Reservoir Simulation

  • Anna Samnioti,
  • Vassiliki Anastasiadou and
  • Vassilis Gaganis

According to the roadmap toward clean energy, natural gas has been pronounced as the perfect transition fuel. Unlike usual dry gas reservoirs, gas condensates yield liquid which remains trapped in reservoir pores due to high capillarity, leading to t...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,086 Views
4 Pages

The increase in the population growth rate and the motivation to overcome issues such as environmental concerns and air pollution have made distributed renewable energy resources (DRER) the most popular option for providing the required energy [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,329 Views
17 Pages

Greenhouse Gas Implications of Extending the Service Life of PEM Fuel Cells for Automotive Applications: A Life Cycle Assessment

  • Alessandro Arrigoni,
  • Valeria Arosio,
  • Andrea Basso Peressut,
  • Saverio Latorrata and
  • Giovanni Dotelli

23 February 2022

A larger adoption of hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) is typically included in the strategies to decarbonize the transportation sector. This inclusion is supported by life-cycle assessments (LCAs), which show the potential greenhouse gas...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
12,084 Views
35 Pages

Integration of Solar Process Heat in Industries: A Review

  • Nahin Tasmin,
  • Shahjadi Hisan Farjana,
  • Md Rashed Hossain,
  • Santu Golder and
  • M. A. Parvez Mahmud

17 February 2022

Industrial manufacturing approaches are associated with processing materials that consume a significant amount of thermal energy, termed as industrial process heat. Industrial sectors consume a substantial amount of energy for process heating over a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,562 Views
24 Pages

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) appears to be essential for lowering emissions during the necessary energy transition. However, in Australia, it has not delivered this result, at any useful scale, and this needs explanation. To investigate the reaso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,819 Views
14 Pages

Encapsulated EVOO Improves Food Safety and Shelf Life of Refrigerated Pre-Cooked Chicken Nuggets

  • Marta Barón-Yusty,
  • Ginés Benito Martínez-Hernández,
  • María Ros-Chumillas,
  • Laura Navarro-Segura and
  • Antonio López-Gómez

(1) Background: New clean technologies are needed to reduce the high frying oil waste in the food industry of fried breaded products, together with the obtention of healthier (less fat content) and safer (less microbial growth and acrylamide formatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,239 Views
16 Pages

Biogas, Biomethane and Digestate Potential of By-Products from Green Biorefinery Systems

  • Rajeev Ravindran,
  • Kwame Donkor,
  • Lalitha Gottumukkala,
  • Abhay Menon,
  • Amita Jacob Guneratnam,
  • Helena McMahon,
  • Sybrandus Koopmans,
  • Johan P. M. Sanders and
  • James Gaffey

Global warming and climate change are imminent threats to the future of humankind. A shift from the current reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy is key to mitigating the impacts of climate change. Biological raw materials and residues can pla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,966 Views
21 Pages

There continues to be significant attention and investment in wind power generation, which can supply a high percentage of the global demand for renewable energy if harvested efficiently. The research study is based on a techno-economic analysis of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,176 Views
13 Pages

Solar Photovoltaic System-Based Reduced Switch Multilevel Inverter for Improved Power Quality

  • Madhu Andela,
  • Ahmmadhussain Shaik,
  • Saicharan Beemagoni,
  • Vishal Kurimilla,
  • Rajagopal Veramalla,
  • Amritha Kodakkal and
  • Surender Reddy Salkuti

This paper deals with a reduced switch multi-level inverter for the solar photovoltaic system-based 127-level multi-level inverter. The proposed technique uses the minimum number of switches to achieve the maximum steps in staircase AC output voltage...

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Clean Technol. - ISSN 2571-8797