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19 Citations
3,501 Views
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Energy-Saving Control of Hybrid Tractors Based on Instantaneous Optimization

  • Junjiang Zhang,
  • Ganghui Feng,
  • Liyou Xu,
  • Xianghai Yan,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Mengnan Liu

In this study, an energy-saving control strategy based on instantaneous optimization is proposed to improve the energy efficiency of hybrid tractors. Using a parallel diesel–electric hybrid tractor as the research object, the topological and wo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,134 Views
23 Pages

Energy-Saving and Decarbonization Design Optimization for School Canteen Buildings: A Case Study in Nanjing

  • Yuhan Zhang,
  • Kai Hu,
  • Yankai Yang,
  • Depeng Li,
  • Tao Deng,
  • Zhongping Hu and
  • Yizhe Xu

31 January 2025

In light of global climate change and China’s commitment to carbon neutrality by 2060, this study explores energy-saving and decarbonization design optimization for educational buildings, with a specific focus on a high school canteen in Nanjin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,429 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...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,767 Views
18 Pages

Sensor Fault Detection Combined Data Quality Optimization of Energy System for Energy Saving and Emission Reduction

  • Yabin Guo,
  • Zheng Zhang,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Hongxin Li,
  • Changhai Liu,
  • Jifu Lu and
  • Ruixin Li

11 February 2022

China’s “dual carbon” goals, energy conservation and emission reduction in the energy system, have become increasingly important. The sensor fault of an energy system will cause unstable operation and increase energy consumption. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,620 Views
18 Pages

14 December 2021

Multiparameter optimization of complex electromechanical systems in a physical space is a challenging task. CPS (Cyberphysical system) technology can speed up the solution of the problem based on data interaction and collaborative optimization of phy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,175 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Agent Recommendation System for Electrical Energy Optimization and Cost Saving in Smart Homes

  • Diego M. Jiménez-Bravo,
  • Javier Pérez-Marcos,
  • Daniel H. De la Iglesia,
  • Gabriel Villarrubia González and
  • Juan F. De Paz

5 April 2019

The European Union Establishes that for the next few years, a cleaner and more efficient energy system should be used. In order to achieve this, this work proposes an energy optimization method that facilitates the achievement of these objectives. Ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,585 Views
30 Pages

21 September 2021

The rural residences of Northwest China are characterized by a state of high energy consumption and low comfort due to the limited economic level and awareness of energy-saving compared with the urban residences. To remedy this, appropriate passive d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,580 Views
31 Pages

8 January 2023

Traditional energy-saving optimization of shop scheduling often separates the coupling relationship between a single machine and the shop system, which not only limits the potential of energy-saving but also leads to a large deviation between the opt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,991 Views
40 Pages

14 February 2023

With the traffic congestion problem deteriorating, people increasingly choose urban rail transit (URT) to travel. Although URT alleviates traffic congestion, the long-term operation of a large number of trains leads to huge energy consumption. In ord...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,865 Views
23 Pages

16 October 2022

The energy-saving scheduling problem (ESSP) has gained increasing attention of researchers in the manufacturing field. However, there is a lack of studies on ESSPs in the assembly job shop environment. In contrast with traditional scheduling problems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
305 Views
20 Pages

6 December 2025

As an important basic material for modern industry, the performance and production energy consumption of medium and thick plates have an important impact on engineering quality, industry technological progress and economic benefits. However, traditio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,290 Views
28 Pages

17 May 2021

Assessing the potential of advanced driver assistance systems requires developing dedicated control algorithms for controlling the longitudinal speed of automated vehicles over time. In this paper, a multiobjective off-line optimal control approach f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,239 Views
28 Pages

15 September 2017

Reducing energy consumption of mobile communication networks has gained significant attentions since it takes a major part of the total energy consumption of information and communication technology (ICT). In this paper, we consider 5G networks with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,097 Views
20 Pages

4 August 2025

With the promotion of national fitness, the requirements for regulating indoor environments during non-competition periods are low and relatively flexible under the trend of composite sports buildings. To maximize the use of natural ventilation and l...

  • Review
  • Open Access
188 Citations
20,162 Views
21 Pages

7 December 2017

In the last decades, increasing energy prices and growing environmental awareness have driven engineers and scientists to find new solutions for reducing energy consumption in manufacturing. Although many processes of a high energy consumption (e.g.,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,698 Views
14 Pages

Optimizing Energy-Saving Measures in New Residential Buildings Regarding Life-Cycle Costs

  • Vít Hromádka,
  • Jana Korytárová,
  • Jakub Federla,
  • Alexej Veselý and
  • Martin Skalický

This contribution is focused on the issue of the application of energy-saving measures in the construction of new residential properties and their optimal combinations with regard to the life-cycle costs of these buildings. The aim of the research is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,996 Views
23 Pages

1 April 2021

Residential water heaters use a substantial amount of electrical energy and contribute to 25% of the energy usage in the residential sector. This raises concern for users in countries with flat rate electricity fees and where fossil fuels are used fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,813 Views
19 Pages

12 March 2016

This study suggests an optimization method for the life cycle cost (LCC) in an economic feasibility analysis when applying energy saving techniques in the early design stage of a building. Literature and previous studies were reviewed to select appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,044 Views
23 Pages

11 January 2023

In the problem of designing a Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) for robots in general and a Differential Drive Robot (DDR) in particular, the determination of the parameters of Membership Functions (MFs) and Fuzzy Rules (FRs) is a difficult, complicated,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,319 Views
12 Pages

Applying Two-Stage Differential Evolution for Energy Saving in Optimal Chiller Loading

  • Chang-Ming Lin,
  • Chun-Yin Wu,
  • Ko-Ying Tseng,
  • Chih-Chiang Ku and
  • Sheng-Fuu Lin

15 February 2019

In Taiwan, over 45% of the energy in common buildings is used for the air-conditioning system. In particular, the chiller plant consumes about 70% of the energy in air-conditioning system. The electric energy consumption of air-condition system in a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,269 Views
37 Pages

7 November 2022

The resources of the earth are being consumed day by day with the increasing population and necessities of humankind in many areas, such as industrial applications and basic needs in houses, workplaces and transportation. As a consequence, careful us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,006 Views
25 Pages

18 January 2021

Window energy consumption has become a key factor in designing buildings with optimal energy efficiency. To that end, herein, the use of an energy-saving insulated window (ESIW) is proposed, particularly for winter heat conservation. DeST software wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
831 Views
16 Pages

28 July 2025

In the process of CNC machining, reducing energy consumption, production costs, and improving machining quality are critical strategies for enhancing product competitiveness. Based on an analysis of machine tool processing mechanisms, calculation mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
3,781 Views
18 Pages

An Energy-Saving Optimization Method of Dynamic Scheduling for Disassembly Line

  • Yicong Gao,
  • Qirui Wang,
  • Yixiong Feng,
  • Hao Zheng,
  • Bing Zheng and
  • Jianrong Tan

15 May 2018

Concerns have been increasing regarding the environmental sustainability of disassembly activities that take place in various recovery operations at end of life stage of products, and subsequently, disassembly activities have been gaining increased e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,128 Views
22 Pages

Optimizing Window Configuration Counterbalancing Energy Saving and Indoor Visual Comfort for Sydney Dwellings

  • Ehsan Sorooshnia,
  • Maria Rashidi,
  • Payam Rahnamayiezekavat and
  • Bijan Samali

31 October 2022

Building penetrations are the most-potent elements providing daylight and moderating the lighting energy consumption and affecting indoor comfort and consequent energy usage. In a semi-tropical climate with a green environment such as Sydney, there i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,352 Views
24 Pages

Innovation in Energy Saving: Application for the Optimization of Consumption and the Integration of Photovoltaic Energy

  • Celia Tena-Pintado,
  • Vicente A. Román-Galeano,
  • Dorotea Dimitrova-Angelova,
  • Diego Carmona-Fernández and
  • Juan Félix González-González

22 March 2025

Nowadays, due to the considerable increase in energy demand, the reduction of CO2 emissions, the increase in energy efficiency and the lack of knowledge of the population in the current electricity system, both at residential and industrial levels, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,941 Views
23 Pages

Energy-Saving Optimization of HVAC Systems Using an Ant Lion Optimizer with Enhancements

  • Bin Hu,
  • Yuhu Guo,
  • Wenjun Huang,
  • Jianxiang Jin,
  • Mingxuan Zou and
  • Zhikun Zhu

9 September 2024

The complex and time-varying external climate conditions and multi-equipment variable coupling characteristics make it challenging to optimize the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in existing buildings effectively. Additional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,752 Views
23 Pages

Potential of Energy Savings in the Public Housing Stock of Comunitat Valenciana Region by Applying the MedZEB Cost-Optimal Methodology

  • Cristina Isabel Jareño Escudero,
  • Miriam Navarro Escudero,
  • César Damián Mifsut García,
  • María Flores Fillol and
  • José Manuel Salmerón Lissen

23 December 2021

Improving energy efficiency in buildings has a key role to play in achieving the ambitious goal of EU-wide climate neutrality by 2050, set out in the European Green Deal. This paper describes a cost-optimal analysis of residential buildings of Valenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,027 Views
20 Pages

27 February 2024

Given the escalating global energy demand driven by building energy consumption, this study is dedicated to meticulously investigating efficient energy-saving strategies in buildings, with a keen focus on the impact of occupant behavior’s rando...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,855 Views
16 Pages

18 April 2019

A multi-objective optimization scheme is proposed to save energy for a data center air conditioning system (ACS). Since the air handling units (AHU) and chillers are the most energy consuming facilities, the proposed energy saving control scheme aims...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,485 Views
25 Pages

19 November 2019

Temperature measuring point is the key to room environment control. Temperature measuring points and climate changes are directly related to the room control effect. It is of great theoretical and practical significance to study the temperature measu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,117 Views
24 Pages

31 July 2020

Motivated by the importance and challenges of the energy saving problem of parallel-connected pumps in heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, we propose a distributed optimal control algorithm for on-off status and flow rate set p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,871 Views
17 Pages

12 October 2022

Global warming and other environmental problems are increasing the demand for green and low-carbon buildings. The development of high-performance computers and building information models has a significant impact on low-carbon buildings. Low-carbon b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,532 Views
32 Pages

Optimization of Ground Station Energy Saving in LEO Satellite Constellations for Earth Observation Applications

  • Francesco Valente,
  • Francesco Giacinto Lavacca,
  • Marco Polverini,
  • Tiziana Fiori and
  • Vincenzo Eramo

Orbital Edge Computing (OEC) capability on board satellites in Earth Observation (EO) constellations would surely enable a more effective usage of bandwidth, since the possibility to process images on board enables extracting and sending only useful...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,217 Views
22 Pages

29 February 2024

Concerning the double carbon national strategy, the energy-saving renovation of old buildings has become one of the most important tasks of energy conservation and emission reduction in construction in China. There are many problems, such as high ene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,816 Views
16 Pages

BIM-VE-Based Optimization of Green Building Envelope from the Perspective of both Energy Saving and Life Cycle Cost

  • Zhenmin Yuan,
  • Jianliang Zhou,
  • Yaning Qiao,
  • Yadi Zhang,
  • Dandan Liu and
  • Hui Zhu

23 September 2020

In the context of the increasingly severe energy crisis and global warming, green buildings and their energy-saving issues are being paid more attention in the world. Since envelope optimization can significantly reduce the energy consumption of gree...

  • Article
  • Open Access
556 Views
20 Pages

16 October 2025

It is of great significance to construct a networked energy-saving driving strategy method and application framework to solve the problems of traffic disorder, speed fluctuations, and high energy consumption caused by frequent acceleration, decelerat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,243 Views
18 Pages

Based on the resource conservation requirements of GB/T 50378-2019 “Green Building Evaluation Standard”, this study constructed a BIM–Ecotect collaborative analysis model and proposed a “four-dimensional integration” gre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,675 Views
26 Pages

22 November 2022

Knowledge of the influence of factors determining energy consumption in buildings is very important for the possibility of effective energy saving. This article describes the results of an original study on the analysis of the annual energy demand fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,665 Views
30 Pages

The greenhouse climate setpoint is an important factor that can affect the energy consumption of greenhouse climate regulation. Therefore, optimising the setpoint is an effective way to save energy. This work proposes a novel global optimization and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,226 Views
32 Pages

15 January 2020

Machining allowance distribution and related parameter optimization of machining processes have been well-discussed. However, for energy saving purposes, the optimization priorities of different machining phases should be different. There are often s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,879 Views
25 Pages

29 October 2018

Rail and metro systems are characterized by high-performing and environmentally friendly features that make them a crucial factor for driving modal split towards public transport modes, thus reducing private car use and related externalities (such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,931 Views
21 Pages

17 March 2016

With its large capacity, the total urban rail transit energy consumption is very high; thus, energy saving operations are quite meaningful. The effective use of regenerative braking energy is the mainstream method for improving the efficiency of ener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,839 Views
31 Pages

12 December 2019

An educational building is a kind of public building with a high density of occupants and high energy consumption. Energy-saving technology utilization is an effective measure to achieve high-performance buildings. However, numerous studies are great...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
911 Views
24 Pages

6 June 2025

Aiming at the problems of energy utilization efficiency and braking stability in electric vehicles, a high-efficiency and energy-saving control strategy that takes both driving and braking into account is proposed with the distributed hub motor-drive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,485 Views
18 Pages

22 January 2025

Under the background of dual carbon, the retrofitting of the equipment operation system of a refrigeration station and the optimization combination of its control system are significant for its efficient operation and energy saving. The single-direct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,263 Views
19 Pages

12 May 2025

When traditional HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning) systems are in operation, they often run according to the designed operating conditions. In fact, they operate under part-load conditions for more than 90% of the time, resulting in e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,463 Views
20 Pages

15 February 2024

In the context of global climate change, the implementation of building energy conservation and carbon reduction, as well as the realization of zero-energy buildings, is a key measure to cope with climate change and resource depletion. A substation i...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,743 Views
5 Pages

5 November 2018

Analysis for the energy optimization of 5 centers of distribution (COD) of dairy products that includes measures of saving and efficiency and implantation of photovoltaic solar energy that solves the problem of the instability of the electric network...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,284 Views
13 Pages

Cloud Servers: Resource Optimization Using Different Energy Saving Techniques

  • Mohammad Hijji,
  • Bilal Ahmad,
  • Gulzar Alam,
  • Ahmed Alwakeel,
  • Mohammed Alwakeel,
  • Lubna Abdulaziz Alharbi,
  • Ahd Aljarf and
  • Muhammad Umair Khan

1 November 2022

Currently, researchers are working to contribute to the emerging fields of cloud computing, edge computing, and distributed systems. The major area of interest is to examine and understand their performance. The major globally leading companies, such...

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