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The AI-Driven Hydrogen Community: A Critical Review of Design Strategies for Decentralized Integrated Energy Systems

  • Florina-Ambrozia Coteț,
  • Sára Ferenci,
  • Elena Simina Lakatos and
  • Loránd Szabó
Designs2026, 10(1), 12;https://doi.org/10.3390/designs10010012 
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29 January 2026

Hydrogen-integrated decentralized energy systems (DIESs) promise communities higher renewable penetration, greater resilience, and sector coupling across electricity, heat, and mobility. AI supports forecasting, dispatch optimization, multi-asset coo...

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27 January 2026

Design optimization is a computational tool that can enable a designer to investigate the effectiveness of a design concept in an organized format. However, this design process requires the design variables, constraints, and objective function to be...

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27 January 2026

As structural engineers face increasing pressure to minimize the embodied carbon of building components, selecting appropriate materials is critical for sustainable design. Thiemission ts study evaluates the life cycle performance of engineered bambo...

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409 Views
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Conceptual Retrofit of a Hydrogen–Electric VTOL Rotorcraft: The Hawk Demonstrator Simulation

  • Jubayer Ahmed Sajid,
  • Seeyama Hossain,
  • Ivan Grgić and
  • Mirko Karakašić

24 January 2026

Decarbonisation of the aviation sector is essential for achieving global-climate targets, with hydrogen propulsion emerging as a viable alternative to battery–electric systems for vertical flight. Unlike previous studies focusing on clean-sheet...

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177 Views
23 Pages

21 January 2026

User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) design play a critical role in shaping human interaction with digital systems, particularly in professional environments where accuracy, safety, and efficiency are essential. Poor visual design increases c...

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218 Views
17 Pages

19 January 2026

This paper addresses critical issues related to the structural design of a micro-factory housing a mobile 3D printing system for plastic recycling. Rather than a simple comparison, it quantifies the “modification penalty”, the structural...

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128 Views
28 Pages

16 January 2026

With the increasing integration of renewable energy sources into the grid, power quality at the point of common coupling (PCC)—particularly harmonic distortion introduced by power electronic converters—has become a critical concern. This...

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292 Views
36 Pages

3 January 2026

Smart charging management systems for electric vehicles (SCMSs) enable the effective management of electric vehicle (EV) charging processes using smart technologies. Numerous SCMS technologies have been available for different stakeholders, e.g., EV...

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303 Views
25 Pages

30 December 2025

Liquid Crystal Elastomers combine the elasticity of polymer networks with the anisotropic ordering of liquid crystals, thus enabling reversible shape modifications and stimulus responsive actuation. Unfortunately, manual LCE fabrication remains limit...

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