Showing papers in "Applied Energy in 2016"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review various studies on resource potential of natural gas hydrate, the current research progress in laboratory settings, and several recent field trials, and discuss possible limitation in each production method and the challenges to be addressed for large scale production.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a detailed analysis of real life application and performance of different energy storage technologies, and highlight some of the challenges hindering the commercial deployment of energy storage technology.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the effects of renewable energy consumption on the economic growth of major renewable energy consuming countries in the world and conclude that renewable energy investment has a significant positive impact on economic output for 57% of the selected countries.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of phase change materials (PCMs) with phase transition temperatures between 0 and 250°C is presented in this paper, with the focus on this temperature range is due to potential CO 2 emissions reduction able to be achieved replacing conventional heating and cooling applications in the domestic, commercial and public administration sectors, which represented around a quarter of the UK's final energy consumption in 2015.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of cold temperatures on the capacity/power fade of Li-ion battery technology are discussed, along with thermal strategies and the ideal approach to cold-temperature operation.

TL;DR: A broad review on the variety of CAES concepts and compressed air storage (CAS) options is given, evaluating their individual strengths and weaknesses in this article, where the concept of exergy is applied to CAES in order to enhance the fundamental understanding.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of different types (designs) of MFCs in terms of electric current and power outputs together with the wastewater treatment efficiency, including chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal and columbic efficiency (CE), is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the potential of this type of carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) plant on (i) the net reduction of CO2 emissions and (ii) the cost of production, in comparison with the conventional synthesis process of MeOH Europe Process flow modelling is used to estimate the operational performance and the total purchased equipment cost.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ an input-output model to calculate consumption-based CO2 emissions for thirteen Chinese cities and find substantial differences between production-and consumptionbased accounting in terms of both overall and per capita carbon emissions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors comprehensively review the relevant studies of natural gas hydrates and propose their comments, discuss the limitations and challenges, raise some questions and put forward some suggestions from their points of view.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the separation of carbon dioxide from typical power plant exhaust gases using the adsorption process, which is believed to be one of the economic and least interfering ways for post-combustion carbon capture as it can accomplish the objective with very few modifications to power plants.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the recent progress of the investigations and applications of composite phase change materials with the enhanced performance is presented, where the focus is placed on the composite PCMs fabricated by using the metal foams and carbon materials, which have proved to be the most promising approaches for thermal conductivity and heat transfer promotion on PCMs.

TL;DR: The comparative results demonstrate that the high-level nonlinear and non-stationary feature in the wind speed series can be learned better, and competitive performance can be obtained, and it is convinced that the proposed method has a high potential for practical applications in electric power and energy systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed 50 industry case studies, in which both on-site and off-site recovery systems are considered, taking into account the characteristics of the heat source, the heat, the TES system, and the economic, environmental and energy savings.

TL;DR: In this article, a genetic algorithm is used to implement a tri-objective design of a grid independent PV/Wind/Split-diesel/Battery hybrid energy system for a typical residential building with the objective of minimizing the Life Cycle Cost (LCC), CO2 emissions and dump energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple EV energy model that computes an EV's instantaneous energy consumption using second-by-second vehicle speed, acceleration and roadway grade data as input variables is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the analysis of battery terminal voltage curves under different cycle numbers during charge process is utilized for RUL definition and the relationship between RUL and charge curve is simulated by feed forward neural network for its simplicity and effectiveness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed an apparent energy consumption approach and updated emissions factors to re-calculate Chinese provincial CO2 emissions during 2000-2012 to reduce the uncertainty in Chinese CO2 emission estimates for the first time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the possibility of charging battery electric vehicles at workplace in Netherlands using solar energy and proposed a priority mechanism to facilitate the charging of multiple EVs from a single EV-PV charger.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) algorithm is coupled with EnergyPlus building energy simulation software to find a set of non-dominated solutions to enhance the building energy performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the state-of-the-art technical progress and research bottlenecks in wireless power transfer (WPT) development and applications in the transportation sector, and characterize the demonstrations of real-world deployment of WPT EV systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, computational fluid dynamic analysis is performed to investigate the air cooling system for a 38,120 cell battery pack, and the correlation between Nu number and Re number were deduced from the numerical modeling results and compared with literature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the technical and economic performance of the monoethanolamine (MEA)-based post-combustion capture process and its improvements integrated with a 650MW coal-fired power station.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the potential value of energy storage in deep decarbonization of the electricity sector, and assess the impact of increasing levels of storage capacity on both power system operations and investments in generation capacity using a generation capacity expansion model with detailed unit commitment constraints.

TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of the literature of WWTP energy-use performance and of the state-of-the-art methods for energy benchmarking is given, along with a large dataset of WET energy consumption data, together with the methods for synthesizing the information.

TL;DR: In this article, an interval optimization based coordinated operating strategy for the gas-electricity integrated energy system (IES) considering demand response and wind power uncertainty is proposed, where the nonlinear characteristics are modeled including pipeline gas flow and compressors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the transport and performance modeling of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells is presented, where the authors show how these modeling studies offer valid findings and recommendations that can be applied in enhancing transport processes for improving the cell performance.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed analysis of the levelized cost of storage (LCOS) for different electricity storage technologies is presented, and the results for the long-term storage show that Pumped-Storage Hydroelectricity has the lowest LCOS among the mature technologies today, while Power to Gas technologies, once established on the market, may also provide longterm electricity storage at even lower LCOS.

TL;DR: In this article, two battery state of charge (SOC) estimators are compared and evaluated in terms of tracking accuracy, convergence time, and robustness for online estimating battery SOC.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors introduced an improved Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index to measure the green productivity growth of China's manufacturing sector during the 11th five-year period (2006-2010).