Showing papers in "Energy Conversion and Management in 2014"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the co-pyrolysis process through several points of view, including the process mechanism, feedstock, exploration on co- pyrolyisation studies, co-PyROlysis phenomena, characteristics of byproducts, and economic assessment.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of the state of the art of wind energy conversion systems and technologies, with an emphasis on wind power generator and control, is presented, where different types of common WECSs are classified according to their features and drive train types.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential of and barriers to grid-scale energy storage playing a substantive role in transitioning to an efficient, reliable and cost-effective power system with a high penetration of renewable energy sources are examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduced some species of non-edible vegetables whose oils are potential sources of biodiesel, such as Pongamia pinnata (karanja), Calophyllum inophyllus (Polanga), Maduca indica (mahua), Hevea brasiliensis (rubber seed), Cotton seed, Simmondsia chinesnsis (Jojoba), Nicotianna tabacum (tobacco), Azadirachta indica, Linum usitatissimum (Linseed)

TL;DR: In this paper, the electrical and thermal performances of photovoltaic thermal (PVT) water collectors were determined under 500-800 W/m2 solar radiation levels, and the results showed that the spiral flow absorber exhibited the highest performance at a solar radiation level of 800-W/m 2 and mass flow rate of 0.041 kg/s.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a holistic approach to reduce the overall energy consumption of urban rail, which includes regenerative braking, energy-efficient driving, traction losses reduction, comfort functions optimisation, energy metering, smart power management and renewable energy micro-generation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated and reviewed the different technologies and approaches, and demonstrated their ability to improve the performance of HVAC systems in order to reduce energy consumption, and the influence of that method on the energy saving is investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the forecast errors of wind speed and solar irradiance are modeled by related probability distribution functions and then, by using the Latin hypercube sampling (LHS), the plausible scenarios of renewable generation for day-head energy and reserve scheduling are generated.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-objective operational scheduling method for charging/discharging of EVs in a smart distribution system is proposed, which aims at minimizing the total operational costs and emissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a survey regarding published papers on why the microgrid is required, and what the components and control systems are which constitute the actual microgrid studies, and proposed a standard microgrid for better power quality and optimizing energy generation.

TL;DR: In this article, the design modification of a single basin solar still has been investigated to improve the solar still performance through increasing the productivity of distilled water by using nanofluids and integrating the still basin with external condenser.

TL;DR: A critical review of the research into vehicle thermal management during the cold-start phase which has been driven by a desire to improve both engine and overall vehicle engine efficiency can be found in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the performance and emission of 10% C. inophyllum biodiesel blends (CIB10) gave a satisfactory result in diesel engines as the brake thermal increase 2.30% and fuel consumption decrease 3.06% compared to diesel.

TL;DR: In this article, two monophenolic antioxidants, 2, 6-di-tert-butyl-4methylphenol (BHA) and 2(3)-tert -butyl -4methoxy phenol(BHT), were added at 1000 ppm concentration to 20% PME (B20) to study their effect.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the application characteristics of DME in compression ignition (CI) engines, including its fuel properties, spray and atomization characteristics, combustion performance, and exhaust emission characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined and compared two energy storage technologies, i.e. batteries and pumped hydro storage (PHS), for the renewable energy powered microgrid power supply system on a remote island in Hong Kong.

TL;DR: In this article, a mixture of biodiesel fuels produced from two different kinds of waste cooking oils was blended in 5% and 10% with No. 2 diesel fuel, and the detailed combustion and engine performance results showed that the ignition delay with the biodiesel addition was decreased for the all engine loads with the earlier combustion timings due to higher cetane number of fuel.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a technical and economic model for the design of a grid connected PV plant with battery energy storage (BES) system, in which the electricity demand is satisfied through the PV-BES system and the national grid, as the backup source.

TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach was applied to identify and prioritize 25 scattered cities all around the country for implementation of future solar power plants.

TL;DR: In this article, high density polyethylene (HDPE) was co-pyrolyzed with almonds from almond shell (aS) to investigate the synergistic effects on the product yields and compositions.

TL;DR: The BBO-M uses the structure of biogeography-based optimization algorithm (BBO), and both the mutation motivated from the differential evolution (DE) algorithm and the chaos theory are incorporated into the BBO structure for improving the global searching capability of the algorithm.

TL;DR: In this paper, the combustion and emission fundamentals of high n-butanol/diesel ratio blend with 40% butanol (i.e., Bu40) in a heavy-duty diesel engine were investigated by experiment and simulation at constant engine speed of 1400rpm and an IMEP of 1.0 MPa.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical analysis of emission characteristics for both diesel and biodiesel was performed under low temperature combustion (LTC) and the effects of significant factors thoroughly under LTC regime.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of compression ratio on the performance, combustion and emission characteristics of a dual fuel diesel engine run on raw biogas was investigated, where a 3.5-kW single cylinder, direct injection, water cooled, variable compression ratio diesel engine is converted into a biogAS run dual-fuel diesel engine by connecting a venturi gas mixer at the manifold.

TL;DR: In this article, the kinetics of the thermal decomposition of two biomass materials (sugarcane bagasse and cotton stalks powders) were evaluated using a differential thermo-gravimetric analyzer under a non-isothermal condition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental results obtained through an anaerobic digestion pilot plant by using fruit and vegetable wastes as single substrate were presented, and the optimum daily loading rate of wastes was 35 kg/d, with a corresponding hydraulic residence time of 27 days.

TL;DR: In this paper, the physicochemical structure change of the acid-treated biomass samples was examined by using Brunauer Emmett Teller (BET) method, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and FTIR.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of using different types of nanomaterials on the performance of solar still were studied and the performance was investigated at different weight fraction concentrations of nanoparticles in basin water with and without providing vacuum.

TL;DR: In this article, a movie theater complex equipped with a plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) parking lot is considered as the optimum location for constructing a movie theatre complex with a PHEV parking lot.

TL;DR: In this paper, an energy resources management model for a microgrid (MG) is proposed, which considers practical constraints, renewable power forecasting errors, spinning reserve requirements and EVs owner satisfaction, and a case study with a typical MG including 200 EVs is used to illustrate the performance of the proposed method.