Towards a sustainable distributed energy system in China: decision-making for strategies and policy implicationsEnergy, Sustainability and Society - Tập 9 - Trang 1-25 - 2019
Yi Man, Jingzheng Ren, Yue Liu, Ruojue Lin
The conflict between the Chinese fossil fuel-based economy and worsening environmental conditions requires further research to be carried out. Due to their clean, highly-efficient and flexible properties, distributed energy systems (DESs) have become a global research focus in the field of energy conservation. China, as the largest coal-fired energy user and highest power consumer in the world, ha...... hiện toàn bộ
Household willingness to adopt a single-stage solar-supported hyper-thermophilic anaerobic biogas digester in GhanaEnergy, Sustainability and Society - Tập 11 - Trang 1-11 - 2021
Isaac Mbir Bryant, Abdul-Rahaman Afitiri
Sustainability of energy is key for quality life; thus, the use of clean energy at the household level warrants moving from fossil-based energy to modern forms like biogas. However, the joint interactive effect of household income, biogas usage and willingness to adopt a single-stage solar-supported hyper-thermophilic anaerobic biogas digester (SSHTABD) is not known. A cross-sectional survey was c...... hiện toàn bộ
Reflecting trends in the academic landscape of sustainable energy using probabilistic topic modelingEnergy, Sustainability and Society - Tập 9 - Trang 1-23 - 2019
Manuel W. Bickel
Facing planetary boundaries, we need a sustainable energy system providing its life support function for society in the long-term within environmental limits. Since science plays an important role in decision-making, this study examines the thematic landscape of research on sustainable energy, which may contribute to a sustainability transformation. Understanding the structure of the research fiel...... hiện toàn bộ
Simulation of the downstream processing in the ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass with ASPEN Plus® and IPSEproEnergy, Sustainability and Society - Tập 4 - Trang 1-7 - 2014
Tino Lassmann, Philipp Kravanja, Anton Friedl
One of the most promising alternatives to gasoline as fuel in the transport industry is bioethanol, whether if it is conventional (based on raw materials containing sugar and starch) or produced from lignocellulosic biomass. Unfortunately, the energy intensive downstream process in lignocellulosic bioethanol production still limits the ability to compete with conventional bioethanol or petroleum. ...... hiện toàn bộ
Possibilities for using mine waters in the context of the construction of heat energy clusters in PolandEnergy, Sustainability and Society - Tập 9 - Trang 1-10 - 2019
Justyna Woźniak, Katarzyna Pactwa
Non-renewable energy continues to remain the main link in energy production in Poland. At the end of 2016, fossil fuels (hard coal and lignite) accounted for around 82% of gross domestic energy production. Reducing the share of fossil fuels in renewable energy sources in the overall energy mix is a long-term process. An example of solutions for the use of renewable energy sources as one of the key...... hiện toàn bộ
Technical and economic assessment of wind power potential of Nooriabad, PakistanEnergy, Sustainability and Society - Tập 7 - Trang 1-14 - 2017
Zahid Hussain Hulio, Wei Jiang, S. Rehman
Pakistan is a developing nation and heavily spends on the development of conventional power plants to meet the national energy demand. The objective of this paper is to investigate wind power potential of site using wind speed, wind direction, and other meteorological data collected over a period of 1 year. This type of detailed investigation provides information of wind characteristics of potenti...... hiện toàn bộ
Maximizing social benefit from finite energy resource allocationEnergy, Sustainability and Society - Tập 9 - Trang 1-14 - 2019
Jenifer L. Wightman, Peter B. Woodbury
Since the industrial revolution, human population and fossil energy consumption have steadily increased. With concerns over fossil energy impact on air quality and global climate, there is increasing interest in collection and conversion of non-fossil energy feedstocks. These finite renewable feedstocks (biomass, solar, wind) provide a challenge based on their land-limited supply and temporal avai...... hiện toàn bộ