Medium-deep borehole heat exchanger (MBDHE) is a clean building heating solution that offers improved indoor thermal comfort, but it risks heat extraction capacity deterioration due to insufficient geothermal heat flux recovery. Cross-seasonal heat s...
This paper discusses whether the concepts of energy democracy, energy justice and the principles of good market regulation could play a role in developing a more consistent approach towards the regulation of the energy sector. It is concluded that th...
With the rapid development of microelectronics and micro-electromechanical system technology, the electronic components have become smaller and the performance has become higher. Under this condition, however, their energy consumption and heat produc...
The issue of real-time deep down-regulation ancillary service has received increasing attention in the Northeast of China. Participation of combined heat and power plants with multitype units and flexible heating devices in the market is investigated...
The integrated electricity and heating system (IEHS) can satisfy the diversified energy demand and improve energy efficiency through electro-thermal synergy and complementarity, which is beneficial for energy transformation and global climate governa...
The heat-shock response is defined by the transient gene-expression program that leads to the rapid accumulation of heat-shock proteins. This evolutionary conserved response aims at the preservation of the intracellular environment and represents a c...
Due to the new green energy policies, district heating companies are being increasingly encouraged to exploit power-to-heat assets, e.g., heat pumps and electric boilers, in their distribution networks besides the traditional central combined heat an...
HSP70s play crucial roles in plant growth and development, as well as in stress response. Knowledge of the distribution and heat response of HSP70s is important to understand heat adaptation and facilitate thermotolerance improvement in wheat. In thi...
Changes of Selenoprotein F (SELENOF) protein levels have been reported during selenium supplementation, stressful, and pathological conditions. However, the mechanisms of how these external factors regulate SELENOF gene expression are largely unknown...
Water temperature stands as a crucial environmental element, exerting an impact on the survival and growth of organisms in aquaculture. Heat stress poses a significant threat to the survival and aquaculture of the Hong Kong oyster Magallana hongkonge...
The Northwest Pacific is a source of strong typhoons accompanied by significantly changing ocean heat content (OHC). Based on the GDCSM_Argo dataset, all typhoons within twenty years are considered to explore the regulation of OHC between 0 and 2000...
The complex climate in permafrost regions poses severe challenges to infrastructure, and freeze-thaw cycles accelerate the deformation and damage of road embankments. Conventional thermosyphon technology, though effective in lowering permafrost tempe...
Heat stress (HS) severely impacts the productivity and welfare of dairy cows. Investigating the biological mechanisms underlying HS response is crucial for developing effective mitigation and breeding strategies. Therefore, we evaluated the changes i...
The first hard rock shallow-lined underground CAES cavern in China has been excavated to conduct a thermodynamic process and heat exchange system for practice. The thermodynamic equations for the solid and air region are compiled into the fluent two-...
This study employs the effective heat capacity method within the COMSOL simulation framework to analyze the thermal performance of double-layer phase-change walls under typical summer climatic conditions in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. The model consid...
Controlling the exhaust gas temperature (EGT) of coal–fired boilers at a reasonable value is beneficial to ensuring unit efficiency and preventing acid corrosion and fouling of tail heating surfaces in power plants. To obtain the operation regu...
The temperature of a surrounding rock mass decreases continuously due to the ventilation in its roadway, and the range of the rock mass with the temperature decreasing is called a Heat-Regulating Ring. Considering the steady-state temperature field,...
Heat pumps (HPs) are considered as a key technology in the future energy system. Besides technical and ecological aspects, user acceptance and user friendliness are also essential. The aim of the study was therefore to research which aspects are deci...
Heat is one of the most fundamental and ancient environmental stresses, and response mechanisms are found in prokaryotes and shared among most eukaryotes. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the heat stress response involves coordinated ch...
The urban energy system is greatly dependent on the District Heating System (DHS). However, many difficulties with regulation and control are caused by its large scale and numerous coupling variables. Additionally, reliance on manual experience means...
To achieve a balance between supply and demand during cogeneration system operation, it is necessary to improve the peak regulation capacity and regulatory flexibility of the unit. Considering the excellent performance of energy storage systems, a he...
The combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP) system, which is a sustainable distributed energy system, has attracted increasing attention due to the associated economic, environmental, and energy benefits. Currently, the enforcement of carbon emis...
The frequent occurrence of excessive heat events driven by global warming poses a great threat to plant growth and food security. To survive in heat stress (HS) environments, plants have evolved sophisticated response mechanisms, and the transcriptio...
Cabbage is a heat-stress-sensitive cool-season crop. When exposed to high temperatures, cabbage plants can experience reduced growth, wilting, leaf yellowing, and premature bolting (the formation of a flowering stem). The regulatory mechanism control...
Magnetic coupling resonance wireless power transfer can efficiently provide energy to intracranial implants under safety constraints, and is the main way to power fully implantable brain–computer interface systems. However, the existing maximum...
To optimize heat treatment of gears for high-end equipment and enhance their fatigue resistance, this paper studied the effects of Al, Mn and Cr content on surface microstructure, i.e., martensite, retained austenite, grain size, hardened layer depth...
Rising water temperatures due to climate change pose a significant threat to Phoxinus lagowskii, a cold-water fish that is ecologically vital to the high-latitude regions of China. This study assessed heat stress effects on behavioral, hematological,...
It is significant for power system stability to improve the operation flexibility of grid-connected units. Such improvement has always been a hot topic, especially for coal-fired units. In recent decades, it has become increasingly urgent and challen...
The inherent residual swirl at the furnace outlet of tangentially fired boilers induces severe thermal deviations on high-temperature heating surfaces. To reveal the evolutionary patterns of thermal deviation during peak regulation operation, this st...
High-temperature heat pumps are a key technology for enabling the complete integration of renewables into the power grid. Although these systems may come with several variants, Brayton heat pumps are gaining more and more interest because of the high...
Background: MicroRNA plays an important role in multifarious biological processes by regulating their corresponding target genes. However, the biological function and regulatory mechanism of fungal microRNA-like RNAs (milRNAs) remain poorly understoo...
With the advance of China’s power system reform, combined heat and power (CHP) units can participate in multi-energy market. In order to maximize CHP profit in a multi-energy market, a bidding strategy for deep peak regulation auxiliary service...
To expand the use of polylactic acid (PLA) in high-temperature environments, crystallization morphology regulation was studied to enhance the heat resistance of PLA. PLA crystallinity was controlled using heat treatment and nucleating agent (zinc phe...
This paper presents research results to improve energy efficiency in one of the crude oil heating furnaces at the “Hermanos Díaz” refinery in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. It analyzes the main process’s variables and disturbances,...
Cell division and cell cycle mechanism has been studied for 70 years. This research has revealed that the cell cycle is regulated by many factors, including cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). Heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) have bee...
Transposable elements (TEs) are highly abundant in plant genomes. Environmental stress is one of the critical stimuli that activate TEs. We analyzed a heat-activated retrotransposon, named ONSEN, in cruciferous vegetables. Multiple copies of ONSEN-li...
Abscisic acid (ABA) is known to play roles in regulating plant tolerance to various abiotic stresses, but whether ABA’s effects on heat tolerance are associated with its regulation of heat stress transcription factors (HSFs) and heat shock proteins (...
Arabidopsis cyclic nucleotide-gated channels (CNGC) 2 and 4 are shown to negatively regulate disease resistance and heat tolerance and to positively regulate plant growth. Whether or not their functions in these processes are interdependent is largel...
As one of the world’s principal food crops, rice sustains over half of the global population. With global climate change intensifying, the frequency of extreme high temperatures is increasing, posing significant threats to the growth and develo...
Heat metering is an important measure of China’s heating marketization reform as well as an energy-saving policy implemented in buildings nearly 20 years ago. However, this policy has not achieved the expected results due to various reasons. It...
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are essential mediators of cellular homeostasis by maintaining protein functionality and stability, and activating appropriate immune cells. HSP activity is influenced by a variety of factors including diet, microbial stimu...
Because of their sessile lifestyle, plants cannot escape from heat stress and are forced to alter their cellular state to prevent damage. Plants, therefore, evolved complex mechanisms to adapt to irregular increases in temperature in the natural envi...
Photosystems of higher plants alleviate heat-induced damage in the presence of light under moderate stressed conditions; however, in the absence of light (i.e., in the dark), the same plants are damaged more easily. (Yamauchi and Kimura, 2011) We dem...
RNase H1s are associated with growth and development in both plants and animals, while the roles of RNase H1s in bryophytes have been rarely reported. Our previous data found that PpRNH1A, a member of the RNase H1 family, could regulate the developme...
Activation and enhancement of heat shock factor (HSF) pathways are important adaptive responses to heat stress in plants. The γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) plays an important role in regulating heat tolerance, but it is unclear whether GABA-induce...
Grapevine is a popular cultivated fruit throughout the world and heat stress is one of the most serious threats to viticulture. However, transcriptional responses, such as molecular properties of photosynthesis and abscisic acid biosynthesis, metabol...
Environmental stresses negatively affect the growth and development of plants. Several previous studies have elucidated the response mechanisms of plants to drought and heat applied separately; however, these two abiotic stresses often coincide in en...
Chicken is important livestock that serves as a vital food source which remain largely affected by heat stress. Therefore, we performed the transcriptome analysis to help understand the mechanisms of heat stress response in chickens. In the animal ex...
As the global climate warms, more creatures are threatened by high temperatures, especially cold-water fish such as rainbow trout. Evidence has demonstrated that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a pivotal role in regulating heat stress in animals,...
Heat stress (HT) exerts significant negative impacts on plant growth, development, and productivity. In this study, we identified OsLAC12, a heat-induced laccase-encoding gene, as a key regulator of heat tolerance in rice. Functional validation confi...
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