Background: Multidisciplinary rounds are essential for high-quality intensive care but are frequently hindered by inconsistent team participation and logistical inefficiencies. We evaluated the associated impact of implementing a standardized multidi...
The purpose of this paper was to analyze the influence mechanism of the new round of Collective Forest Rights Reform (CFRR) on farmers’ production efficiency from the perspective of forestland transfer. Based on the panel data of field investigation...
As an important public facility, the number, area, and scale of hospital buildings are growing rapidly. The efficiency of nurses’ rounds to beds is an important indicator of the efficiency of nursing units in ward buildings. Ward buildings occu...
This study presents a comprehensive thermo-economic evaluation of a pumped thermal energy storage (PTES) system based on a supercritical carbon dioxide (s-CO2) recompression Brayton cycle (RBC). A multiparametric analysis was conducted through system...
In the context of the separation of three rights of land and agricultural modernization, this paper is based on the land economic survey data from eleven provinces in China in 2019, covering the eastern, middle, and western regions of China. Based on...
The processing performance of deep narrow grooves by electrical discharge machining (EDM) needs to be further improved, mainly reflected in the serious electrode wear and low processing efficiency. This study firstly conducted a single-factor experim...
A model for a pumped thermal energy storage system is presented. It is based on a Brayton cycle working successively as a heat pump and a heat engine. All the main irreversibility sources expected in real plants are considered: external losses arisin...
Supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) jet is capable of decreasing the threshold pressure of rock breakage and mitigating formation damage, owing to its low viscosity, high diffusivity, and extremely-low surface tension. The swirling-round jet holds...
Carnot batteries based on the coupling of high-temperature heat pumps (HTHPs) and Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs) emerge as promising solutions for large-scale and long-duration energy storage, enabling sector coupling and the valorization of industria...
Improving the thermal efficiency of internal combustion engines plays a crucial role in reducing fuel consumption and engine emissions. Studies have shown that the friction loss caused by the piston ring–cylinder liner pair accounts for approxi...
Cr content χ of 0.4 at% for a Cr doped Nd (1 at%): YAG laser rod (LR) gave a higher laser output (Ioutput) than that of 0.0, 0.7, and 1.0 at% in a specially designed compact solar-pumped laser (SPL) outdoors. Ioutputs were measured as a function...
Energy storage plays a significant role in the rapid transition towards a higher share of renewable energy sources in the electricity generation sector. A liquid air energy storage system (LAES) is one of the most promising large-scale energy technol...
The development of efficient and economically viable energy storage technologies is key to the integration of renewable energies. This study evaluates the thermo-economic performance of hydrocarbons as working fluids in PTES systems based on a simple...
This study investigates a novel short electric arc vertical turning method for machining titanium alloy shafts. The method was successfully applied to titanium alloy rods, and its effects on material removal rate (MRR), surface roughness, roundness,...
As the global energy sector and maritime industry transition toward carbon neutrality, Carnot batteries have emerged as a critical technology for flexible, long-duration energy management. Carnot batteries, which operate on a Power-to-Heat-to-Power p...
This study presents an ideal-cycle thermodynamic analysis of an advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) system with single thermal energy storage (TES) and an external heat boost. The additional heat is represented by a solar heat source, alt...
Gravity energy storage (GES) is an important direction in the development of emerging energy storage technologies because of its potential for long-duration storage, large capacity, and high safety. To address limitations in transmission structure de...
Reversible solid oxide cells (rSOC) enable the efficient cyclic conversion between electrical and chemical energy in the form of fuels and chemicals, thereby providing a pathway for long-term and high-capacity energy storage. Amongst the different fu...
The urgent energy transition needs a better penetration of renewable energy in the world’s energy mix. The intermittency of renewables requires the use of longer-term storage. The present system uses water displacement, in a lined rock cavern or in a...
This paper presents an extensive study on the electrochemical, shunt currents, and hydraulic modeling of a vanadium redox flow battery of m stacks and
Compressed carbon dioxide energy storage (CCES) has emerged as a promising solution for long-duration energy storage owing to its high energy density, adaptability to diverse environments, and compatibility with carbon capture technologies. This stud...
To improve the flexibility of coal-fired power units and support renewable energy integration, molten salt thermal storage has been widely considered a promising retrofit option. However, under unified operating conditions, the comparative effects of...
Supplemental light (SL) is a technique used to increase horticulture yield, especially in northern countries, where the Daily Light Integral (DLI) is a limiting factor during fall and winter, and which could also be used to obtain higher tomato yield...
Hydrogen (H2) has emerged as a promising sustainable energy vector due to its scalability, high energy density, and its ability to enable sector coupling across electricity, heating, transportation, and industry. There remains a huge technical challe...
This paper presents a zero-dimensional dynamic model of redox flow batteries (RFBs) for the system-level analysis of energy loss. The model is used to simulate multi-cell systems considering the effect of design and operational parameters on energy l...
This paper proposed a modularized discharge-type topology for the voltage balance of series-connected super capacitor (SC) string. The proposed topology consists of cascaded converter modules and a boost converter. The cascaded converter modules disc...
The recent increase in the use of carbonless energy systems have resulted in the need for reliable energy storage due to the intermittent nature of renewables. Among the existing energy storage technologies, compressed-air energy storage (CAES) has s...
Second-life electric vehicle (EV) batteries are increasingly recognized as valuable resources for stationary energy storage. However, the heterogeneous degradation of retired batteries makes reliable and application-oriented reuse decisions challengi...
Rankine cycle CO2 pumped thermal energy storage (R-CPTES) offers high-density, emission-free grid storage, but existing designs are limited by modest turbine inlet temperatures and produce electricity only, leaving their thermal potential unused. Thi...
This paper presents a preliminary feasibility study for integrating hydro-pneumatic energy storage (HPES) with off-grid offshore wind turbines and green hydrogen production facilities—a concept termed HydroGenEration (HGE). This study compares...
Thanks to the rapid technological convergence of wireless communications, medical sensors and cloud computing, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have emerged as a novel networking paradigm enabling ubiquitous Internet services, allowing people to r...
Batteries are becoming highly important in automotive and power system applications. The lithium-ion battery, as the fastest growing energy storage technology today, has its specificities, and requires a good understanding of the operating characteri...
Despite advances in technique and technology, the chainsaw is still the most widely used tool in forestry. For this reason, equipment manufacturers are developing new technical solutions to make working with a chainsaw as easy and efficient as possib...
Round Robin based Intermittent Periodic Transmit (RR-IPT) has been proposed which achieves highly efficient multi-hop relays in multi-hop wireless backhaul networks (MWBN) where relay nodes are 2-dimensionally deployed. This paper newly investigates...
A fast-paced energy transition needs a higher penetration of renewables, of heating and cooling in the worldwide energy mix. With three novelties 1-of using shallow high-pressure LRC (Lined Rock Cavern) excavated close to storage needs, 2-of using a...
The continuous increase of energy demand with the subsequent huge fossil fuel consumption is provoking dramatic environmental consequences. The main challenge of this century is to develop and promote alternative, more eco-friendly energy production...
This study aims to demonstrate that, in the context of the energy transition and with solar generation playing a dominant role in the energy mix, key technical parameters of energy infrastructure should be re-evaluated and taken into account, as chan...
Aiming at the challenging issue of nonlinear coupling control between cooling intensity and solidification rate in the secondary cooling zone of round billet continuous casting, this study proposes an efficient 3D temperature field modeling method th...
Photoreduction is recognized as a desirable treatment method for hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)). However, it has been limited by the intermittent solar flux and limited light absorption. In this work, a novel Z-scheme photocatalyst combining a covalent...
The research utilizes Ansys Maxwell 2024 R2, a 3D Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software, to compare the electromagnetic coil parameters, losses, and efficiency of planar spiral circular, square, and round-cornered square (RCS) coils for wireless pow...
A field-based study was performed to broaden our knowledge of operational efficiency losses associated with the neglect of the proper maintenance of the delimbing and feeding mechanisms of a harvester. The post-harvest assessments of industrial round...
There are two key parameters in short-haul truck operations to deliver biomass to a biorefinery: (1) mass of the load and (2) cycle time (load, travel, unload, and return). A plan to optimize both these parameters is outlined in this study. Operation...
Model simulations for bioenergy harvest planning need to utilize equipment-capacity relationships for equipment operating under the high-yield conditions typical of a biomass crop. These performance assumptions have a direct bearing on the estimates...
The hydraulic performance of round-cornered rectangular labyrinth weirs with varying weir heights and effective lengths has not been explored in the existing literature to the authors’ knowledge. The purpose of this experimental study was to see how...
This paper focuses on designing a tweakable block cipher via by tweaking the Key-Alternating Feistel (
The application of a synthetic jet actuator in workplaces entails the necessity of noise reduction, which they generate. One of the methods to achieve this is the use of the chevron orifice or nozzle. Therefore, the impact of different numbers of che...
Precision agriculture (PA), leveraging wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for efficient data collection, is set to revolutionize intelligent farming. However, challenges such as energy efficiency, data collection time, data quality, redundant data trans...
Lithium-air batteries (LABs) continue to receive attention as a promising power source because they possess a high theoretical energy density of 3436 Wh L−1. However, the remaining Li2O2 resulting from the irreversible decomposition of Li2O2 du...
Existing secure multiparty computation protocol from secret sharing is usually under this assumption of the fast network, which limits the practicality of the scheme on the low bandwidth and high latency network. A proven method is to reduce the comm...
Recovering compression waste heat using latent thermal energy storage (LTES) is a promising method to enhance the round-trip efficiency of compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems. In this study, a systematic thermodynamic model coupled with a co...
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