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Green Energy: Strategies, Plans and Implementations for a Clean Future Role and Future Benefits of Green Energy

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B2: Clean Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2022) | Viewed by 12823

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Prem Kumar Chaurasiya

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sagar Institute of Science and Technology Gandhi Nagar, Bhopal-462036, India
Interests: renewable energy; energy policy; energy economics; CFD; fluid mechanics and dynamics;
Dr. Tikendra Nath Verma

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Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
Interests: renewable energy; IC engine; CFD; thermal engineering

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Green energy has a lower impact on the environment than energy from nonrenewable sources. Renewable energies such as wind power, biomass, hydropower, solar power, and geothermal are preferred as they do not run out quickly. These energy sources are environmentally friendly. Further, the most sustainable resources that are utilized today are wind energy, solar energy, hydro energy, tidal energy, geothermal energy, and biomass energy. With the ongoing rapid population growth, the demand for energy for various household and business activities is also increasing rapidly. Innovations and the expansion of green energy sources are the only way in which a sustainable energy level can be maintained, preventing the harmful effects of climate change. To reduce the impacts of energy extraction on the environment, sustainable practices should be implemented (e.g., using the resources available in a region, recycling the water used for extraction, limiting the use of energies, choosing green extraction techniques, filtering gases before they are released into the atmosphere, and using conventional sources of energy). This Special Issue demonstrates effective solutions to control the impacts of energy extraction on the environment and encourages scholars and researchers to develop new solutions to effectively produce energies with the available resources for a sustainable lifestyle. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Green energy and green power;
  • Energy recovery and management;
  • Green transportation;
  • Green buildings;
  • Role of green energy sources of electricity generation for a sustainable environment;
  • Sustainable policies for efficient energy forms;
  • Sustainable clean energy technologies for emerging green economics;
  • Analysis of challenges and opportunities of green energy production for a sustainable future.

Dr. Prem Kumar Chaurasiya
Dr. Tikendra Nath Verma
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • renewable energy
  • future perspectives for green energy
  • policies
  • economics
  • waste resources to green energy
  • energy efficient systems
  • green energy harvesting
  • efficient biosystem
  • energy transformation and management

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Experimental Optimization with the Emphasis on Techno-Economic Analysis of Production and Purification of High Value-Added Bioethanol from Sustainable Corn Stover
by Sara E. AbdElhafez, Tarek Taha, Ahmed E. Mansy, Eman El-Desouky, Mohamed A. Abu-Saied, Khloud Eltaher, Ali Hamdy, Gomaa El Fawal, Amr Gamal, Aly M. Hashim, Abdallah S. Elgharbawy, Mona M. Abd El-Latif, Hesham Hamad and Rehab M. Ali
Energies 2022, 15(17), 6131; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15176131 - 24 Aug 2022
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Bioethanol-derived biomass is a green sustainable source of energy that is highly recommended as an efficient alternative to the replacement of fossil fuels. However, this type of bioethanol production is always expensive with very low bioethanol concentration. Therefore, this work aims to represent [...] Read more.
Bioethanol-derived biomass is a green sustainable source of energy that is highly recommended as an efficient alternative to the replacement of fossil fuels. However, this type of bioethanol production is always expensive with very low bioethanol concentration. Therefore, this work aims to represent a facile and green approach for bioethanol production with high concentration and purity as well as reasonable cost from corn stover (CS). The goal of this study is to characterize CS and its treated samples with maleic acid (CSM) using various characterization analyses, such as proximate and ultimate analysis, HHV, TGA, FTIR, SEM, and CHNS. The bioethanol production stages: Pretreatment, enzymatic degradation, fermentation, and finally bioethanol separation and purification via the pervaporation process, which have been investigated and optimized are associated with the economic analysis. The optimum operating condition of the pretreatment process was 2% maleic acid, 1:20 solid-to-liquid ratio at 45 psi, 120 °C, and 1 h of operation in the autoclave. This process contributes to 53 and 45% lignin and hemicellulose removal, 98% cellulose recovery, and a glucose yield of 741 mg/dL. The yeast isolate succeeded in the production of 1230 mg/dL of bioethanol. This isolated yeast strain was close to Pichia nakasei with a similarity of 98%, and its amplified 18S rRNA gene sequence was deposited in GenBank with the accession number MZ675535. Poly (MMA-co-MA) membrane was synthesized, characterized, and its efficiency for increasing the bioethanol concentration was evaluated using the integrated pervaporation technique. The techno-economic analysis is presented in detail to evaluate the process profitability, which achieves a considerable profit for the whole duration of the project without any losses as it reaches a net profit of USD 1 million in 2023, reaching USD 2.1 million in 2047 for a company with a capacity of 32 thousand tons per year. The sequential strategy offers a promising approach for efficient bioethanol production under mild and environmentally friendly conditions that enable its implication industrially. Full article
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Experimental Analysis of Modified DC-P&O Technique with Arm Controller for a Stand-Alone 40 W PV System
by Ashish Kumar Singhal, Narendra Singh Beniwal, Khalid Almutairi, Joshuva Arockia Dhanraj, Ali Mostafaeipour, Alibek Issakhov, Prem Kumar Chaurasiya, Hossein Goudarzi and Vinod Kumar Singh
Energies 2021, 14(19), 6169; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14196169 - 27 Sep 2021
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The world is moving towards the generation of electricity with renewable energy sources (RES) due to the deterioration of the green environment and trying to replace non-renewable energy resources. The real-time results are achieved with the help of an arm controller, having good [...] Read more.
The world is moving towards the generation of electricity with renewable energy sources (RES) due to the deterioration of the green environment and trying to replace non-renewable energy resources. The real-time results are achieved with the help of an arm controller, having good controller efficiency with the Waijung toolbox, compatible with MATLAB using STM32ST-link utility. In this paper, the authors are focused on areas such as easy to implement controller efficiency, and real-time solutions for modified direct-control perturbation & observation (DC-P&O) technique based on 32- bit ARM Cortex microcontroller (STM32F407VGT6) with embedded programming using Waijung blocksets, which offers very expected outcomes of the problem to make the stand-alone system efficient with fast-tracking. The observation setup is tested with a 40-watt photovoltaic (PV) panel with resistive load for achieving its stability. The designed algorithm enhances the efficiency of the controller by 84.48% for the real-time parameters of the PV panel at maximum power point (MPP) for a 57% duty ratio. Full article
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An Effective Evaluation on Fault Detection in Solar Panels
by Joshuva Arockia Dhanraj, Ali Mostafaeipour, Karthikeyan Velmurugan, Kuaanan Techato, Prem Kumar Chaurasiya, Jenoris Muthiya Solomon, Anitha Gopalan and Khamphe Phoungthong
Energies 2021, 14(22), 7770; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14227770 - 19 Nov 2021
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The world’s energy consumption is outpacing supply due to population growth and technological advancements. For future energy demands, it is critical to progress toward a dependable, cost-effective, and sustainable renewable energy source. Solar energy, along with all other alternative energy sources, is a [...] Read more.
The world’s energy consumption is outpacing supply due to population growth and technological advancements. For future energy demands, it is critical to progress toward a dependable, cost-effective, and sustainable renewable energy source. Solar energy, along with all other alternative energy sources, is a potential renewable resource to manage these enduring challenges in the energy crisis. Solar power generation is expanding globally as a result of growing energy demands and depleting fossil fuel reserves, which are presently the primary sources of power generation. In the realm of solar power generation, photovoltaic (PV) panels are used to convert solar radiation into energy. They are subjected to the constantly changing state of the environment, resulting in a wide range of defects. These defects should be discovered and remedied as soon as possible so that PV panels efficiency, endurance, and durability are not compromised. This paper focuses on five aspects, namely, (i) the various possible faults that occur in PV panels, (ii) the online/remote supervision of PV panels, (iii) the role of machine learning techniques in the fault diagnosis of PV panels, (iv) the various sensors used for different fault detections in PV panels, and (v) the benefits of fault identification in PV panels. Based on the investigated studies, recommendations for future research directions are suggested. Full article
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