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Renewable Energy and Cooling Systems: Technologies, Market and Sustainable Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 3226

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Dr. Simon Pezzutto

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Institute for Renewable Energy, European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC Research), Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Interests: energy economics; circular economy; heating and cooling; R&D funding
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Dear Colleagues,

For decades, space cooling demand has increased steadily worldwide, and is expected to rise even more in the coming years (2030/2050). This is true especially for the residential sector, where a significant increase of space cooling consumption in future is expected. To face this rising trend, we need to understand how to best meet actual and future demand while investigating the implementation of innovative, efficient space cooling solutions (best available technologies). In this contect, comfort, lifestyle, and user behaviour indications for different territories, demand-side management/demand response measures, as well as economic, policy, and legal/regulatory conditions are relevant. Natural, passive, and free cooling (including nature-based solutions) is an important part of the special issue, due to being largely unexplored so far and their high-deployment potential.

Dr. Simon Pezzutto
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Keywords

  • space cooling consumption
  • planning
  • comfort, lifestyle and user behaviour
  • residential sector

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Performance Enhancement of Solar Still Unit Using v-Corrugated Basin, Internal Reflecting Mirror, Flat-Plate Solar Collector and Nanofluids
by Mostafa AbdEl-Rady Abu-Zeid, Yasser Elhenawy, Monica Toderaș, Mohamed Bassyouni, Thokozani Majozi, Osama A. Al-Qabandi and Sameh Said Kishk
Sustainability 2024, 16(2), 655; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16020655 - 11 Jan 2024
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The conventional solar still (CSS) unit faces challenges such as low productivity (Pd) and thermal efficiency (ηth) due to the limited temperature difference between the hot water and the cold interior glass cover surfaces (ΔTw-gi). [...] Read more.
The conventional solar still (CSS) unit faces challenges such as low productivity (Pd) and thermal efficiency (ηth) due to the limited temperature difference between the hot water and the cold interior glass cover surfaces (ΔTw-gi). This study addresses these issues by introducing enhancements in the CSS unit, incorporating a v-corrugated-type basin, internal reflecting mirror, flat-plate solar collector (FPSC) still, and FPSC nanofluids. A v-corrugated-type basin, internal reflecting mirror, FPSC still, and FPSC nanofluids elicited a significant improvement in the distillate productivity (Pd) up to approximately 22.39%, 41.72%, 70.10%, and 104.13% compared to the CSS unit. This increase in the Pd is attributed mainly to a notable raise in the ΔTw-gi, showing increments of around 34.33%, 52.32%, 77.37%, and 112.87% compared to the CSS unit. Moreover, a v-corrugated basin, internal reflecting mirror, FPSC still, and FPSC nanofluids substantially increased the average daily thermal efficiency (ηth), around 22.01%, 26.71%, 39.57%, and 56.21%, respectively. The results confirmed that integrating the v-corrugated basin, internal reflecting mirror, FPSC still, and FPSC nanofluids within a combined seawater distillation system can significantly enhance the performance of the CSS unit. These different combinations effectively raised the basin water temperature (Tw) and ΔTw-gi, consequently improving the overall performance of the solar still unit. Full article
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Environmental Assessment of Residential Space Heating and Cooling Technologies in Europe: A Review of 11 European Member States
by Riccardo Fraboni, Gianluca Grazieschi, Simon Pezzutto, Benjamin Mitterrutzner and Eric Wilczynski
Sustainability 2023, 15(5), 4288; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15054288 - 28 Feb 2023
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Greenhouse gas emissions have reached critical levels and climate change is threatening the globe. Thus, the space heating and cooling sector is striving to decarbonize assets through higher efficiency and renewable energy adoption for 2030 and 2050. This article reviewed data about the [...] Read more.
Greenhouse gas emissions have reached critical levels and climate change is threatening the globe. Thus, the space heating and cooling sector is striving to decarbonize assets through higher efficiency and renewable energy adoption for 2030 and 2050. This article reviewed data about the environmental impact and the primary energy consumption of 27 space heating and cooling technologies for the residential sector as if they were adopted in 11 different European member states: Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, and Sweden. Direct emissions from the machineries and upstream indirect emissions from the energy carriers were considered. The analysis indicates that the adoption of renewable energy-powered technologies should be prioritized due to the significantly lower emissions related to these technologies. Notably, the emissions of electricity-powered technologies, if not driven by the direct self-consumption of renewable energy systems, highly depend on the region of adoption: in specific cases, such as in Poland, Cyprus, and Estonia, they can even exceed the emissions of coal-powered technologies. These countries should speed up the adoption of decarbonization policies regarding the residential sector to close the gap with the other EU member states and provide their contribution to the EU climate change goals. Full article
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