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3 Citations
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12 May 2021

A combined energy method is proposed to investigate the flutter instability characteristics of weakly damped panels in the supersonic airflow. Based on the small damping assumption, the motion governing partial differential equation (PDE) of the pane...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamical Systems and Their Applications Methods)
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  • Open Access
144 Citations
12,957 Views
16 Pages

20 June 2013

In this paper, we aim to select the most appropriate Hydrogen Energy Storage (HES) method for Turkey from among the alternatives of tank, metal hydride and chemical storage, which are determined based on expert opinions and literature review. Thus, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,185 Views
22 Pages

22 November 2023

This study proposes a scientific method to assess the rationality of planning and design of self-sufficient wind power systems (SS-WPSs) at ports. The evaluation method proposed is based on the concept of integrated development of water transportatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Transition in Transport Energy Consumption: The Charging/Discharging Infrastructure and Self-Containing Transport Energy System of New Energy Vehicles)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,875 Views
15 Pages

A previously-developed mechanistic energy balance model for production of biogas from the anaerobic digestion of microalgal biomass grown in open raceway systems was used to consider the energetic viability of a number of scenarios, and to explore so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,904 Views
32 Pages

21 January 2021

The purpose of this work is to increase the theoretical and methodological approaches to value and regulate the dynamics of management processes. Application of these dynamics is implemented via methods of improving the quality of management of compl...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,422 Views
33 Pages

12 October 2020

Tubular steel towers are the most common design solution for supporting medium-to-high-rise wind turbines. Notwithstanding, historical failure incidence records reveal buckling modes as a common type of failure of shell structures. It is thus necessa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wind Energy Structures)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,103 Views
16 Pages

9 November 2017

As the living standards of Chinese people have been improving, the energy demand for cooling and heating, mainly in the form of electricity, has also expanded. Since an integrated cooling, heating and power supply system (CCHP) will serve this demand...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,857 Views
18 Pages

18 October 2021

An energy efficiency monitoring method of the steam turbine system is studied in this paper. Multivariate state estimation technique (MSET) is utilized to compare the actual monitoring parameters and the healthy data of the equipment in normal workin...

(This article belongs to the Section J: Thermal Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,223 Views
24 Pages

6 September 2023

In an electricity and heat integrated energy system, the transmission of thermal energy encounters significant delays, and the delays are often not integer multiples of the dispatch interval. This mismatch poses challenges for achieving coordinated d...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,625 Views
26 Pages

Optimization of the Energy-Saving Building Envelopes in Regional Climate

  • Rongdan Diao,
  • Yinqiu Cao,
  • Linzhu Sun,
  • Chen Xu and
  • Fang Yang

24 January 2024

For a large number of monolithic buildings in the Wenzhou area, serious cold air infiltration occurs at night due to the poor insulation performance of the enclosure structure. This results in the indoor temperature often falling below the thermal co...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,157 Views
22 Pages

6 March 2013

he accurate forecasting of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel energy consumption is a key requirement for making energy policy and environmental strategy. In this paper, a novel quantum harmony search (QHS) algorithm-based discounted mea...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
827 Views
27 Pages

24 November 2025

As a vital support for sustainable energy power systems, shared energy storage has the potential to address challenges in energy storage within rural grids. Nevertheless, the comprehensive value of rural shared energy storage (RSES) exhibits scenario...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,173 Views
16 Pages

27 September 2019

Agriculture is one of the largest consumers of water and energy. This paper evaluated the agricultural sustainability of the Chenmengquan irrigation district of China based on the water–energy–food nexus. One objective weighting method an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Agricultural Water Management Using a Socio-Technical Approach)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,392 Views
14 Pages

The retrofitting of existing masonry buildings is now a crucial problem for Europe. Indeed, structural safety and energy efficiency should represent the target of any renovation. The proposal of a new synthetic performance parameter is presented and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Traditional and Innovative Approaches in Seismic Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,594 Views
18 Pages

29 June 2024

An improved fault localization method combining total aggregate empirical modal decomposition (MEEMD) and Teager energy operator (TEO) is proposed to address the fault localization issue of three-terminal multi-segment overhead line–cable hybri...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,704 Views
19 Pages

27 June 2019

Integrated energy systems (IES) are an important physical carrier of the energy Internet, which undertakes the tasks of energy conversion, distribution, and storage of electricity, heat and cold. From the perspective of energy Internet, this paper st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy Systems 2019)
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  • Open Access
44 Citations
1,332 Views
28 Pages

12 September 2025

A potential flow theory-based fully nonlinear 2D NWT is developed in the time domain to investigate the hydrodynamic performance of a submerged circular cylindrical WEC device under combined wave–current conditions. The hydrodynamic force on th...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
166 Views
32 Pages

Comparative Energy and Exergy Analyses of Single-Mode and Combined Drying Methods for Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato

  • Khuthadzo Ntsowe,
  • Tilahun Seyoum Workneh,
  • Mohammad Naushad Emmambux and
  • Sunette Laurie

12 October 2026

Orange-fleshed sweet potato is valued for its high β-carotene content, a precursor of vitamin A. It is a highly perishable storage root due to its high moisture content, which contributes to rapid deterioration after harvesting. Therefore, it re...

(This article belongs to the Section J1: Heat and Mass Transfer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,551 Views
23 Pages

Understanding household energy-consumption patterns is essential for developing effective energy-conservation strategies. This study aims to identify ‘out-profiled’ consumers—households that exhibit atypical energy-usage behaviors&m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,365 Views
18 Pages

Low-Carbon Energy Planning: A Hybrid MCDM Method Combining DANP and VIKOR Approach

  • Ruijun Liu,
  • Hao Sun,
  • Lu Zhang,
  • Qianwei Zhuang,
  • Lele Zhang,
  • Xueyi Zhang and
  • Ye Chen

4 December 2018

With the development of urbanization, people’s living standards have improved. Simultaneously, the growing aggravation of resource shortages and environmental pollution have also gradually attracted widespread attention. Low-carbon energy plann...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solar Thermal Energy Utilization Technologies in Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,533 Views
18 Pages

23 November 2021

Methods to assess wood-based bioenergy projects have tended to focus on technological and physical constraints. Less is known about how longer-term environmental, economic, and social systems—the three pillars of sustainable development—h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis of Bio-Based Products for the Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,217 Views
24 Pages

5 September 2018

China’s electricity market is in the environment for a round of new electric power reform, energy planning and transformation and the carbon market construction. The current market players are in urgent need of implementing their own energy sav...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Home and Energy Management Systems 2019)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,010 Views
22 Pages

8 August 2018

The layout configuration of Vortex Induced Piezoelectric Energy Converters (VIPECs) is essential to improve its overall performance. Based on the formations of migrating geese, the configuration is characterized by two nondimensionalized layout param...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,350 Views
24 Pages

14 October 2022

The large-scale integration of variable renewable energy sources into the energy system presents techno–economic challenges. Long–term energy system optimization models fail to adequately capture these challenges because of the low tempor...

(This article belongs to the Section B1: Energy and Climate Change)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,725 Views
12 Pages

12 January 2017

Large configuration interaction (CI) calculations can be performed if part of the interaction is treated perturbatively. To evaluate the combined CI and perturbative method, we compute excitation energies for the 3 l 3 l ′ , 3 l 4 l ′ ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spectra of Ionized Atoms: From Laboratory to Space)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,150 Views
22 Pages

9 January 2023

Currently, neural network algorithms based on time-domain features are used for change-point detection problems, and they have proven to be effective. However, due to the instability of human biosignals, establishing a training dataset with labels is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,823 Views
20 Pages

10 May 2018

Land surface temperatures (LSTs) obtained from remote sensing data are crucial in monitoring the conditions of crops and urban heat islands. However, since retrieved LSTs represent only the average temperature states of pixels, the distributions of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Land Surface Temperature and its Combination with other Satellite Land Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,554 Views
13 Pages

14 October 2023

Wind energy potential or quality serve as the primary determinants influencing the decisions of Thai farmers regarding the installation of water-pumping windmills with heights ranging from 9 to 15 m and a cut-in wind speed requirement of 4 m/s, aimed...

(This article belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
10,984 Views
23 Pages

Combining Artificial Intelligence with Physics-Based Methods for Probabilistic Renewable Energy Forecasting

  • Sue Ellen Haupt,
  • Tyler C. McCandless,
  • Susan Dettling,
  • Stefano Alessandrini,
  • Jared A. Lee,
  • Seth Linden,
  • William Petzke,
  • Thomas Brummet,
  • Nhi Nguyen and
  • Majed Al-Rasheedi
  • + 3 authors

16 April 2020

A modern renewable energy forecasting system blends physical models with artificial intelligence to aid in system operation and grid integration. This paper describes such a system being developed for the Shagaya Renewable Energy Park, which is being...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energy)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,885 Views
21 Pages

Combined Physicochemical and Energy Methods to Improve the Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Eudialyte Concentrate

  • Valentine A. Chanturiya,
  • Vladimir G. Minenko,
  • Andrey L. Samusev,
  • Maria V. Ryazantseva and
  • Elizaveta V. Koporulina

15 March 2023

The parameters for efficient nitric acid leaching were experimentally determined, which ensured the recoveries of Zr and REEs from eudialyte concentrate up to 87.0%–91.7% and 76.0%–81.1%, respectively. The possibility was shown of intensi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Valuable Metals Recovery by Mineral Processing and Hydrometallurgy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,914 Views
38 Pages

18 June 2021

China’s rural houses are mostly courtyard-style independent houses. Such houses have certain characteristics, e.g., small mutual influences between houses, strong transformation flexibility, and an easier approach to using the natural environment to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics to the Built Environment)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,406 Views
24 Pages

31 January 2024

Large discrepancies can occur between building energy performance simulation (BEPS) outputs and reference data. Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses are performed to discover the significant contributions of each input parameter to these discrepancie...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,886 Views
19 Pages

Combined Biological and Chemical/Physicochemical Pretreatment Methods of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Bioethanol and Biomethane Energy Production—A Review

  • Shruthi Meenakshisundaram,
  • Antoine Fayeulle,
  • Estelle Léonard,
  • Claire Ceballos,
  • Xiaojun Liu and
  • André Pauss

30 September 2022

Lignocellulosic biomass is a low-cost and environmentally-friendly resource that can be used to produce biofuels such as bioethanol and biogas, which are the leading candidates for the partial substitution of fossil fuels. However, the main challenge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,727 Views
24 Pages

A Bi-Level Capacity Optimization Method for Hybrid Energy Storage Systems Combining the IBWO and MVMD Algorithms

  • Qiaoqiao Xing,
  • Shidong Li,
  • Da Qiu,
  • Yang Long,
  • Qinyi Liao,
  • Xiangjin Yin,
  • Yunxiang Li and
  • Kai Qian

2 April 2025

With the swift evolution of renewable energy technologies, the design and optimization of microgrids have emerged as vital components for fostering energy transition and promoting sustainable development. This study presents a bi-level capacity optim...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,469 Views
14 Pages

15 April 2021

Waste is a product of society and one of the biggest challenges for future generations is to understand how to sustainably dispose of large amounts of waste. The main objective of this study was to determine the possibility and conditions of the dece...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,293 Views
19 Pages

26 October 2023

With the rapid increase in new energy penetration, the uncertainty of the power system increases sharply. We can smooth out fluctuations and promote the more grid-friendly integration of new energy by combining it with energy storage. This paper prop...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,953 Views
16 Pages

25 February 2022

With the increasing installed capacity of renewable energy in the energy system, the uncertainty of renewable energy has an increasingly prominent impact on power system planning and operation. Renewable energy such as wind and solar energy is greatl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Process and Modelling of Renewable Energy Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,711 Views
25 Pages

3 July 2017

As one of the most effective approaches in dealing with the energy crisis, combined electricity and natural gas systems have become more and more popular worldwide. To take full advantages of such hybrid energy networks, a proper operation and contro...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
938 Views
19 Pages

16 June 2025

In surface energy tests of asphalt materials, the inaccuracy of the calculation method (e.g., least squares (LS)) and the arbitrary selection of chemical reagent combinations lead to unstable results, threatening the quantitative evaluation of asphal...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction and Building Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,367 Views
22 Pages

29 December 2022

The transformation of railway infrastructure and traction equipment is an ideal way to realize energy savings of urban rail transit trains. However, upgrading railway infrastructure and traction equipment is a high investment and difficult process. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,856 Views
22 Pages

1 March 2021

The imperfection of theoretical and methodological approaches to regulate the jump process transition when combining differentiated energy resources is a pressing issue. The goal of this paper is to develop a theory and a method to regulate the integ...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental and Earth Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,587 Views
20 Pages

4 March 2024

Accurate building energy consumption prediction is a crucial condition for the sustainable development of building energy management systems. However, the highly nonlinear nature of data and complex influencing factors in the energy consumption of la...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,769 Views
25 Pages

19 December 2024

Energy storage is crucial for enhancing the economic efficiency of integrated energy systems. This paper addresses the need for flexible resources due to high renewable energy integration and the complexity of managing multiple resources. We propose...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
6,962 Views
30 Pages

27 June 2019

Selection of the most appropriate contractor for the installation of solar panels is essential to maximizing the benefit of this renewable, sustainable energy source. Solar energy is one of the 100% renewable energy sources, but implementation may no...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Energy Consumption)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,678 Views
13 Pages

Research on Sub-Synchronous-Oscillation Energy Analysis and Traceability Method Based on Refined Energy

  • Zhixiang Zhang,
  • Jingying Yang,
  • Shuyu Zhou,
  • Cheng Liu,
  • Song Gao and
  • Zhichong Cao

1 April 2024

At present, most studies use the direct method to analyze the oscillation problem of modern power systems. However, these studies often only simplify the external characteristics of the wind turbine and lack an in-depth understanding of its internal...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
12,529 Views
23 Pages

Physical–Chemical–Biological Pretreatment for Biomass Degradation and Industrial Applications: A Review

  • Jinmeng Chen,
  • Xiaotian Ma,
  • Mengying Liang,
  • Zhiwei Guo,
  • Yafan Cai,
  • Chenjie Zhu,
  • Zhi Wang,
  • Shilei Wang,
  • Jingliang Xu and
  • Hanjie Ying

4 November 2024

Lignocellulosic biomass, including agricultural, forestry, and energy crop waste, is one of Earth’s most abundant renewable resources, accounting for approximately 50% of global renewable resources. It contains cellulose, hemicellulose, and lig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,154 Views
19 Pages

7 December 2022

This paper discusses the power generation characteristics between new energy and traditional energy. This paper uses different energy alliance operation modes for a power system led by new energy power generation. The peak-valley power imbalance issu...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,069 Views
16 Pages

Modeling Residential Electricity Consumption from Public Demographic Data for Sustainable Cities

  • Muhammad Ali,
  • Krishneel Prakash,
  • Carlos Macana,
  • Ali Kashif Bashir,
  • Alireza Jolfaei,
  • Awais Bokhari,
  • Jiří Jaromír Klemeš and
  • Hemanshu Pota

16 March 2022

Demographic factors, statistical information, and technological innovation are prominent factors shaping energy transitions in the residential sector. Explaining these energy transitions requires combining insights from the disciplines investigating...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planning and Operation of Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,840 Views
18 Pages

Establishment and Utilization Plans of Apartment Housing Envelope System Database

  • Jong-Geon Lee,
  • Hyeong-Jae Jang,
  • Sungho Tae and
  • Yonghan Ahn

18 April 2022

Recently, apart from the energy saving of new buildings, various carbon-centered environmental policies for climate change were implemented to improve the energy performance of existing buildings, actively promoting green remodeling businesses. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction: Environmental Evaluation of Construction and Building Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
637 Views
29 Pages

3 April 2026

To address the problem of renewable energy curtailment and the need for operational economic optimization in integrated energy systems with high penetration of wind and solar power, a coordinated optimization method integrating thermoelectric decoupl...

(This article belongs to the Section F2: Distributed Energy System)

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