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Vasilis Fthenakis
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 213
Citations - 10764
Vasilis Fthenakis is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Photovoltaic system & Renewable energy. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 202 publications receiving 9212 citations. Previous affiliations of Vasilis Fthenakis include National Renewable Energy Laboratory & Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Emissions from photovoltaic life cycles
TL;DR: Overall, all PV technologies generate far less life-cycle air emissions per GWh than conventional fossil-fuel-based electricity generation technologies.
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Land use and electricity generation: A life-cycle analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the normalized land requirements during the life cycles of conventional and renewable energy options, covering coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric, photovoltaics, wind, and biomass, and compared the land transformation and occupation matrices within a life-cycle framework across those fuel cycles.
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Sustainability of photovoltaics: The case for thin-film solar cells
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the potential of thin-films in a prospective life-cycle analysis, focusing on direct costs, resource availability, and environmental impacts, and concluded that developing thinner solar cells and recycling spent modules will become increasingly important in resolving cost, resource, and environment constraints to large scales of sustainable growth.
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Photovoltaics: Life-cycle Analyses
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe material and energy flows in four commercial PV technologies, i.e., mono-crystalline silicon, multi-crystaline silicon (MCS), ribbon-silicon, and cadmium telluride.
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Hazard and operability (HAZOP) analysis. A literature review.
TL;DR: This paper is the first HAZOP review intended to gatherHAZOP-related literature from books, guidelines, standards, major journals, and conference proceedings, with the purpose of classifying the research conducted over the years and define the HAZop state-of-the-art.