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  1. Renewable energy sources like sun and wind are intermittent, hence a hybrid system incorporating them is necessary. However, certain systems are more cost-effective and efficient than others, and they are not ...

    Authors: Bello-Pierre Ngoussandou, Nicodem Nisso, Dieudonné Kaoga Kidmo, E. Sreelatha, Yosef Berhan Jember, Sima Das and Kitmo
    Citation: Sustainable Energy Research 2023 10:14
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  2. The International Renewable Energy Agency predicts that with current national policies, targets and energy plans, global renewable energy shares are expected to reach 36% and 3400 GWh of stationary energy stor...

    Authors: Ernest Hiong Yew Moa and Yun Ii Go
    Citation: Sustainable Energy Research 2023 10:13
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  3. Solar power on Earth is characterized by its intermittent nature, limiting its practical application to peak loads only. However, this limitation can be overcome by implementing a concept known as Satellite So...

    Authors: Prasad Rathod, Abdullah Al Mahamud and Utkarsh Talele
    Citation: Sustainable Energy Research 2023 10:12
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  6. The naturally occurring heat inside the earth is renewable and sustainable and is known as geothermal energy. It is a renewable energy source that may be used in various applications, including milk pasteuriza...

    Authors: Namrata Bist, Parth Vaghela, Tanisha Kumar, Vaishnavi Pandey, Dharmesh Morabiya, Sourav Santara, Rohit Pawar, Roshni Kumari, Kriti Yadav and Anirbid Sircar
    Citation: Sustainable Energy Research 2023 10:9
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  7. Globally, the construction industry is experiencing an increase in energy demand, which has significant environmental and economic repercussions. To address these issues, it is now possible for buildings, vehi...

    Authors: Mohammad Amin Mirjalili, Alireza Aslani, Rahim Zahedi and Mohammad Soleimani
    Citation: Sustainable Energy Research 2023 10:8
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  8. Among the Concentrated Solar Collector (CSC) technologies, Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) is the most mature and commercialized CSC technology today. Currently, solar PTC technology is mainly used for electr...

    Authors: Philip O. O. Akello, Churchil O. Saoke, Joseph N. Kamau and Jared O. H. Ndeda
    Citation: Sustainable Energy Research 2023 10:7
    Content type: Design and simulation study Published on:

  9. One of the biggest causes of worldwide environmental pollution is conventional fossil fuel-based electricity generation. The need for cleaner and more sustainable energy sources to produce power is growing as ...

    Authors: Feroz Shaik, Syam Sundar Lingala and Punnaiah Veeraboina
    Citation: Sustainable Energy Research 2023 10:6
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. Wind potential estimation is generally evaluated using two-parameter (k, c) Weibull distribution. Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Coefficient of Determination (R2) and Relative Error (RE) are computed in order to ...

    Authors: Abdoul Aziz, David Tsuanyo, Jl Nsouandele, Inouss Mamate, Ruben Mouangue and Patrice Elé Abiama
    Citation: Sustainable Energy Research 2023 10:5
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  11. While desalination of water is energy intensive, traditional use of fossil fuels makes it not only costly, but also unsustainable and environmentally unfriendly; utilization of solar energy for desalination is...

    Authors: Alireza Baghizade, Farshad Farahbod and Omid Alizadeh
    Citation: Sustainable Energy Research 2023 10:4
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  12. Hydropower plants are among the most efficient and reliable renewable energy systems in the world as far as electricity production is concerned. Run-of-river hydropower plants seem more attractive than convent...

    Authors: David Tsuanyo, Boris Amougou, Abdoul Aziz, Bernadette Nka Nnomo, Davide Fioriti and Joseph Kenfack
    Citation: Sustainable Energy Research 2023 10:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  13. Hot water supply is a daily necessity for various purposes ranging from industrial to domestic usage. However, the availability of hot water supply is dependent on reliable energy systems to heat the water. Th...

    Authors: Zamavangeli Mdletshe, Velaphi Msomi and Ouassini Nemraoui
    Citation: Sustainable Energy Research 2023 10:2
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  15. For the last 20 years, solar collectors have been developing rapidly in the use of energy in buildings. Under experimental conditions, the solar energy utilization efficiency (SEUE) of flat plate solar collect...

    Authors: Shubo Xiao, Ying Zhang, Kuiming Xia and Jibo Long
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2022 9:2
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  16. Texas has seen a rapid decline in coal use in recent years, but still burns more coal and emits more carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide than any other state. Coal’s share of power generation in the Electric Rel...

    Authors: Richard Morse, Sarah Salvatore, Joanna H. Slusarewicz and Daniel S. Cohan
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2022 9:1
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  18. Integrating different energy resources, like solar PV, wind, and hydro is used to ensure reliable power to the rural community loads. Hybrid power system offers sufficient power supply for the rural villages b...

    Authors: Abraham Hizkiel Nebey
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2021 8:4
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  21. Solar collector (SC) technology has proved promising applications in heating, desalination, refrigeration of water, etc. Thermal performance (TP) of Heat Pipe (HP) improves by combining the various profiled ab...

    Authors: Mohammed Yunus and Mohammad S. Alsoufi
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2021 8:1
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  22. The use of wind energy worldwide has overgrown in recent years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Wind power is free, but the installation and maintenance of wind turbines remain very costly. The size of the ...

    Authors: Yassine Charabi and Sabah Abdul-Wahab
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2020 7:5
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2021 8:2

  23. Currently, the nine islands of the Autonomous Region of the Azores have fossil fuel-fired power stations as the main source of electric power. Each island has an independent electrical system classified as an ...

    Authors: Inês Melo, João Paulo Neto Torres, Carlos Alberto Ferreira Fernandes and Ricardo A. Marques Lameirinhas
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2020 7:4
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  24. The traditional vegetable drying (open-air/sun drying) method of harvesting of tomato, potato and onion in the Fogera District in Amhara regional state, Ethiopia, leads to loss of product, reduction in the qua...

    Authors: Yihun Tefera Sintie and Gebrie Teshome Aduye
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2020 7:3
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  25. For clean hydropower generation while sustaining ecosystems, minimizing harmful impacts and balancing multiple water needs is an integral component. One particularly harmful effect not managed explicitly by hy...

    Authors: Shahryar Khalique Ahmad and Faisal Hossain
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2020 7:2
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  26. The electrode plays an important role in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Preparation of the electrode should be simple and should result in high performance of its DSSC. We herein demonstrated high-perform...

    Authors: Kongsak Pattarith and Yonrapach Areerob
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2020 7:1
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  27. A novel genetically themed hierarchical algorithm (GTHA) has been investigated to design Fresnel lens solar concentrators that match with the distinct energy input and spatial geometry of various thermal appli...

    Authors: Hassan Qandil, Shuping Wang and Weihuan Zhao
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2019 6:3
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  28. Distributed generations (DGs) are small generating plants which are connected to consumers in distribution systems to improve the voltage profile, stability improvement, reduction in power losses and economic ...

    Authors: C. Hari Prasad, K. Subbaramaiah and P. Sujatha
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2019 6:2
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  29. Eight vegetable dyes extracted from flowers, fruits and leaves abundant in the wide biodiversity of the Andes region of South America were extracted with ethanol without purification to explore as vegetable ph...

    Authors: Javier Ramirez-Perez, Calero Maria and Cristian P. Santacruz
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2019 6:1
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  30. As wind and solar power installations proliferate, power grids will face new challenges in ensuring consistent coverage from variable renewable resources. One option to reduce variability is to integrate the o...

    Authors: Joanna H. Slusarewicz and Daniel S. Cohan
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2018 5:7
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  31. In power systems, increasing the renewable energy penetration with small signal stability is one of the demanding and critical tasks in recent days. This research work aims to develop a multistage optimization...

    Authors: T. K. Renuka, P. Reji and Sasidharan Sreedharan
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2018 5:6
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  32. A self-replicating rapid prototyper (RepRap) is a type of 3-D printer capable of printing many of its own components in addition to a wide assortment of products from high-value scientific or medical tools to ...

    Authors: Khalid Yousuf Khan, Lucia Gauchia and Joshua M. Pearce
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2018 5:5
    Content type: Design and simulation study Published on:

  33. Distributed generation (DG) is small generating plants which are connected to consumers in distribution systems to improve the voltage profile, voltage regulation, stability, reduction in power losses and econ...

    Authors: M. C. V. Suresh and Edward J. Belwin
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2018 5:4
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  34. This paper presents a low-cost solution of virtual instrumentation to provide a new technique for real-time instrumentation of the PV panel characteristics such as voltage, current and power. The system design...

    Authors: Aboubakr El Hammoumi, Saad Motahhir, Abdelilah Chalh, Abdelaziz El Ghzizal and Aziz Derouich
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2018 5:3
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  35. Pumped storage hydroelectric power plants are one of the most applicable energy storage technologies on large-scale capacity generation due to many technical considerations such as their maturity, frequency co...

    Authors: Diaa Abdellatif, Rameen AbdelHady, Ahmed M. Ibrahim and Essam Abu El-Zahab
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2018 5:2
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  38. The purpose of this paper is to present a performance comparison between two maximum power point tracking algorithms. These two algorithms are incremental conductance (INC) which is an improved version of the ...

    Authors: Saad Motahhir, Ayoub Aoune, Abdelaziz El Ghzizal, Souad Sebti and Aziz Derouich
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:8
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  40. Successful integration of renewable energy sources like wind power into smart grids largely depends on accurate prediction of power from these intermittent sources. Production of wind power cannot be controlle...

    Authors: Sumaira Tasnim, Ashfaqur Rahman, Amanullah Maung Than Oo and Md. Enamul Haque
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:6
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  41. Renewable energy sources are fast emerging as more reliable supplement of conventional energy sources. Among the various renewable sources, solar energy is most sought after in today’s world. Solar PV modules ...

    Authors: Basant Raj Paudyal, Shree Raj Shakya, Dhan Prasad Paudyal and Deependra Das Mulmi
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:5
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  42. The study focuses on the evaluation of global solar radiation on a horizontal level. The estimate of the solar layer was made on the basis of mathematical model obtained from the relations of Angstrom–Prescott...

    Authors: Marcel Hamda Soulouknga, Ousmane Coulibaly, Serge Yamigno Doka and Timoleon Crepin Kofane
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:4
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  43. Distributed generator (DG) resources are small scale electric power generating plants that can provide power to homes, businesses or industrial facilities in distribution systems. Power loss reductions, volta...

    Authors: P. Dinakara Prasad Reddy, V. C. Veera Reddy and T. Gowri Manohar
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:3
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  44. Supply of additional power generation by wind system to increase total power generation is increasing exponentially and globally to meet the challenge of surplus power demand. This total power generation shoul...

    Authors: Satish Kumar, Ashwani Kumar and Nikhlesh Kumar Sharma
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:2
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  45. Pure and fresh water is being scarce day by day. Although Bangladesh is a riverine country, pure drinking potable water is not a cheap commodity. Most of the people in the cities boil water to drink, and peopl...

    Authors: Md. Nazmul Islam Sarkar, Anwarul Islam Sifat, S. M. Shamim Reza and Md. Shibli Sadique
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:1
    Content type: Review Published on:

  46. A life cycle assessment (LCA) was carried out on three separate drinking water production options—a groundwater treatment plant (GWTP), surface water treatment plant and seawater desalination plant (electrodia...

    Authors: Wahidul K. Biswas and Pauline Yek
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:14
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  48. The thermochemical system using ammonia as energy storage carrier is investigated in this study. A mathematical model was developed to predict the behavior of both reactors in the ammonia-based closed-loop sys...

    Authors: Ramadan Ali Abdiwe and Markus Haider
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:12
    Content type: Design and simulation study Published on:

  49. Wind energy is one of the most cost-effective forms of renewable energy source with significant increment in yearly installed capacities all around the world. In this study, three commercial wind turbines, na...

    Authors: Satyanarayana Gaddada and Shiva Prashanth Kumar Kodicherla
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:10
    Content type: Review Published on:

  50. Energy is the greatest challenge facing the environment. Energy efficiency can be improved by energy storage by management of distribution networks, thereby reducing cost and improving energy usage efficiency....

    Authors: Eanest B. Jebasingh
    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:8
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

2023
 

Integration of renewable energy sources and energy infrastructure

Edited by: Zafar Said, Haris M. Khalid
 

Energy and material recovery in waste management

Edited by: Shrikaant Kulkarni