Showing papers in "Energy for Sustainable Development in 2022"

TL;DR: In this paper , a review comprehensively addresses bio-fuels production in Brazil, with a focus on the current status of industrial enzymes, exploring their characteristics, advantages, and discussing current technical challenges for their industrial application.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors highlighted the design, installation, operation and maintenance issues, and their impacts on the performance and degradation of installed photovoltaic (PV) systems, revealing that 69% of the systems were improperly sized, resulting in lower power output than expected and failure of some systems.

TL;DR: It is shown that it is possible to develop a high performing ML model for building energy use prediction at the design stage and Gradient Boosting (GB) outperformed the other models with an accuracy of 0.67 for predicting building energy performance.

TL;DR: In this paper , simulation tasks are performed to assess the technical potential of floating photovoltaic power generation and discuss the sustainable system of floating solar PV technology in terms of prospective PV potential, conservation of water and potential to conserve agriculture land bank.

TL;DR: In this article , nine machine learning classification-based algorithms were compared for energy performance assessment at the design stage of residential buildings, and feature selection and hyper-parameter tuning were implemented for building energy prediction.

TL;DR: In this article , the potentialities of this method as a possible solution to introduce alternative fuels in developing countries were evaluated, and 85 scientific articles available from 1999 to 2021 from international databases were reviewed, and a SWOT analysis has been conducted following the indications underlined in the scientific literature.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors proposed an enhanced solar tracking instrument to solve the issues of low sunlight incident angles and manual orientation/elevation calibrations, which used two Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers with Real-Time Clock (RTC) forming a satellite compass and combined with an inclinometer to follow the sun trajectory correctly without manual aligning the heading of system to orientation of North-South.

TL;DR: In this article , a bottom-up approach and use large-scale nationwide building energy survey data (covering 30 provinces, four different types of buildings, and district heating from 2009 to 2016) to correct the existing, widely used assumption of normal distribution for building energy intensity and provide a more accurate estimate of building energy consumption in China.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors proposed a forecaster to predict solar irradiation, for very short-term, specifically in the 10 min ahead, based on Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).

TL;DR: In this paper , the state of the art of non-catalytic supercritical production of biodiesel using animal fats as a feedstock is described and the key aspects of the process such as the type of fat used, operation variables including reaction time, temperature, solvent excess, pressure, and solvent excess.

TL;DR: In this paper , a multi-factor and multi-objective preferred method based on orthogonal tests and entropy weights was proposed to evaluate building retrofit in severe cold areas.

TL;DR: In this article , an experimental investigation has been conducted at CUTM, Odisha through a portable and adjustable agrivoltaic system of 0.675 kWp capacity in 11 m2 of land area to study the enhancement of land productivity and revenue of farmers or investors.

TL;DR: In this paper , the projected transition to EVs would: a) reduce consumption of petroleum fuels currently used for road transportation; b) shift the consumer demand from internal combustion engine based automobiles to EVs; and c) require additional electricity and network of charging infrastructure for energizing EVs.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors presented a comprehensive analysis of the potential of FSPV installations in Indian hydropower reservoirs, including electricity generation, CO2 savings and evaporation savings.

TL;DR: In this article , a qualitative analysis of semi-structured expert interviews was carried out to identify main actors, objectives, and relevant contextual factors forming the political economy of energy and coal.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyzed the energy-saving potential and economic viability of adopting active energy efficiency measures (EEMs) on a detached family house in warm-humid climate of South India.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors quantify the energy consumption and CO2 emissions of "large office" buildings in top-five European economies under the COVID-19 guidelines under the post-pandemic telework forecast.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present a framework facilitating each stage of solar microgrid design from demand estimation through to cost-optimal sizing of the microgrid and its economic and environmental characterisation.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the factors affecting access to clean cooking fuel among rural Indian households during the COVID-19 outbreak, based on World Bank's rural impact survey, covering 2731 rural households.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared deterministic and stochastic methods to predict future energy demand of isolated rural communities in Honduras and concluded that the deterministic approach can be useful for the early stages of the project, when the investment is being sized.

TL;DR: In this article , a meta-theoretical framework for national energy transitions and core concepts from policy mixes for sustainability transitions literature are developed to qualitatively describe the evolution of clean energy technologies in Mexico from 1879 to 2021.

TL;DR: In this paper , a hybrid multimodal renewable energy harvesting system (HHMRES) was proposed to power the wireless monitoring sensors such as accelerometer, humidity sensor, inclinometer, and light sensor alongside the railway in remote areas.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors developed a cost optimization power sector model to assess the potential role of renewable energies in Indonesia's power sector, based on four different scenarios assuming a comparatively slow and a comparatively rapid decrease in the costs for renewable energies, each with and without carbon pricing, and assessed capacity expansion, electricity generation, resulting CO2 emissions, and total system costs until 2040.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors evaluated renewable energy policies to draw up recommendations for the energy sector stakeholders and investigated the energy security in Palestine over the upcoming 20 years using a Monte-Carlo simulation model that applies different RE adoption scenarios.

TL;DR: In this article , the role of biomass and municipal solid waste in isolated energy systems is assessed in La Réunion, a French overseas territory in the Indian Ocean with a population of about 850,000.

TL;DR: In this article , a comparison of net metering and zero-export systems for solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage systems (BESS) is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper , a predictive model based on nonlinear regression and asymmetrical S-curves was developed to evaluate the evolution of electric vehicle adoption in different countries, which can help in decision-making regarding public policies and infrastructure to support electromobility.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present a semiquantitative energy and transport system analysis for UK road freight focusing on two primary investment areas for nation-wide decarbonisation, namely electrification and hydrogen propulsion.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the effect of key bioclimatic design strategies, namely green roof and walls, tree shading, natural ventilation, glazing system, blinds, building orientation and Trombe wall on the energy performance of a typical residential building in the three most dominant climates worldwide.