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Cooling Process Analysis of a 5-Drum System for Radioactive Waste Processing
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018-10-09)
A cooling system design for the processing of radioactive waste drums is investigated in this work, with the objective of providing insights for the determination of the air flow rate required to ensure an acceptable ...
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Solar Desalination Driven by Organic Rankine Cycles (Orc) and Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles: An Update
(MDPI, 2022)
In the field of desalination powered by renewable energies, the use of solar power cycles exhibits some favorable characteristics, such as the possibility of implementing thermal energy storage systems or a multi-generation ...
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Techno-Economic Assessment of an Innovative Small-Scale Solar-Biomass Hybrid Power Plant
(MDPI, 2023-07)
The current context of the climate emergency highlights the need for the decarbonization of the energy sector by replacing current fossil fuels with renewable energy sources. In this regard, concentrating solar power (CSP) ...
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CFD Applications in Energy Engineering Research and Simulation: An Introduction to Published Reviews
(MDPI, 2019-11)
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been firmly established as a fundamental discipline to advancing research on energy engineering. The major progresses achieved during the last two decades both on software modelling ...
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Potential of ORC Systems to Retrofit CHP Plants in Wastewater Treatment Stations
(International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2013)
Wastewater treatment stations take advantage of the biogas produced from sludge in anaerobic digesters to generate electricity (reciprocating gas engines) and heat (cooling water and engine exhaust gases). A fraction of ...
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A framework for sustainable evaluation of thermal energy storage in circular economy
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021)
The circular economy can be promoted as a solution to support the sustainability market position of renewable energy systems. To design a circular and sustainable system, a structured approach is needed. The present study ...
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Transcritical Carbon Dioxide Charge-Discharge Energy Storage with Integration of Solar Energy
(SDEWES Centre, 2019)
New and improved energy storage technologies are required to overcome non-dispatchability, which is the main challenge for the successful integration of large shares of renewable energy within energy supply systems. ...
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A new heat release rate (HRR) law for homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion mode
(Elsevier, 2009)
Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines are drawing attracting attention as the next-generation’s internal combustion engine, mainly because of its very low NOx and soot emissions and also for improvement ...
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Synthetic generation of plausible solar years for long-term forecasting of solar radiation
(Springer, 2022-08)
In this work, we test and improve an algorithm proposed in previous studies to generate synthetic series of plausible solar years (PSY). The method provides 100 synthetic years of coupled global horizontal irradiance (GHI) ...
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A cross-country review on energy efficiency drivers
(Elsevier, 2021-05)
Energy efficiency remains as the main mitigation factor to slow down the growth of energy consumption and related CO2 emissions, undoubtedly the major responsible for climate change. Gaining insights into the driving forces ...