Renewable Energy

1991 - 2025

Current editor(s): Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 131, issue C, 2019

A parameter study and optimization of two body wave energy converters pp. 1-13

Elie Al Shami, Xu Wang, Ran Zhang and Lei Zuo

Electrical & mechanical diagnostic indicators of wind turbine induction generator rotor faults pp. 14-24

D. Zappalá, N. Sarma, S. Djurović, C.J. Crabtree, A. Mohammad and P.J. Tavner

Active control of wind turbines through varying blade tip sweep pp. 25-36

Achilles M. Boulamatsis, Thanasis K. Barlas and Herricos Stapountzis

A wind farm control strategy for power reserve maximization pp. 37-44

Sara Siniscalchi-Minna, Fernando D. Bianchi, Mikel De-Prada-Gil and Carlos Ocampo-Martinez

Assessing solution quality and computational performance in the long-term generation scheduling problem considering different hydro production function approaches pp. 45-54

Guilherme Luiz Minetto Fredo, Erlon Cristian Finardi and Vitor Luiz de Matos

Utilization of residues from rice parboiling industries in southern Brazil for biogas and hydrogen-syngas generation: Heat, electricity and energy planning pp. 55-72

Willian Cézar Nadaleti

The effects of site selection, opportunity costs and transportation costs on bioethanol production pp. 73-82

Aaron V. De Laporte and David Ripplinger

Quasi-steady model of a pumping kite power system pp. 83-99

Rolf van der Vlugt, Anna Bley, Michael Noom and Roland Schmehl

Continuous process for biodiesel production from palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) using helical static mixers as reactors pp. 100-110

Krit Somnuk, Natthapon Soysuwan and Gumpon Prateepchaikul

Techno-economic analysis of a megawatt-scale thermoplastic resin wind turbine blade pp. 111-119

Robynne E. Murray, Scott Jenne, David Snowberg, Derek Berry and Dylan Cousins

How business model innovation affects firm performance in the energy storage market pp. 120-127

Martijn Hamelink and Raymond Opdenakker

Integrating stakeholder preferences into assessment of scenarios for electricity production from locally produced biomass on a small island pp. 128-136

Pierre Chopin, Loïc Guindé, François Causeret, Göran Bergkvist and Jean-Marc Blazy

Process modeling and simulation for butanol removing from fermentation broth by extraction with biodiesel pp. 137-143

Anca Madalina Dumitrescu, Ionut Banu and Gheorghe Bumbac

Effect of calcination temperature on the association between free NiO species and catalytic activity of Ni−Ce0.6Zr0.4O2 deoxygenation catalysts for biodiesel production pp. 144-151

Kyung-Won Jeon, Jae-Oh Shim, Won-Jun Jang, Da-We Lee, Hyun-Suk Na, Hak-Min Kim, Yeol-Lim Lee, Seong-Yeun Yoo, Hyun-Seog Roh, Byong-Hun Jeon, Jong Wook Bae and Chang Hyun Ko

Enzymatic hydrolysis at high lignocellulosic content: Optimization of the mixing system geometry and of a fed-batch strategy to increase glucose concentration pp. 152-158

Federico Battista, Mélanie Gomez Almendros, Romain Rousset and Pierre-Antoine Bouillon

Physic of secondary flow phenomenon in distributor and bifurcation pipe of Pelton turbine pp. 159-167

L. Han, X.L. Duan, R.Z. Gong, G.F. Zhang, H.J. Wang and X.Z. Wei

Transient thermal prediction methodology for parabolic trough solar collector tube using artificial neural network pp. 168-179

Shye Yunn Heng, Yutaka Asako, Tohru Suwa and Ken Nagasaka

Fabrication of noble-metal-free CdS nanorods-carbon layer-cobalt phosphide multiple heterojunctions for efficient and robust photocatalyst hydrogen evolution under visible light irradiation pp. 180-186

Peifang Wang, Tengfei Wu, Yanhui Ao and Chao Wang

Esterification of palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) to biodiesel using Bi-functional catalyst synthesized from waste angel wing shell (Cyrtopleura costata) pp. 187-196

Osman Nur Syazwani, Umer Rashid, Mohd Sufri Mastuli and Yun Hin Taufiq-Yap

Numerical analysis for detecting head losses in trifurcations of high head in hydropower plants pp. 197-207

Carlos Andrés Aguirre, Ramiro Gustavo Ramirez Camacho, Waldir de Oliveira and François Avellan

CO2 emissions, economic growth, renewable and non-renewable energy production and foreign trade in China pp. 208-216

Yulong Chen, Zheng Wang and Zhangqi Zhong

Oleaginous yeast biomass flocculation using bioflocculant produced in wastewater sludge and transesterification using petroleum diesel as a co-solvent pp. 217-228

Sravan Kumar Yellapu, Nouha Klai, Rajwinder Kaur, Rajeshwar D. Tyagi and Rao Y. Surampalli

Investigation of the thermoelectric potential for heating, cooling and ventilation in buildings: Characterization options and applications pp. 229-239

Amaia Zuazua-Ros, César Martín-Gómez, Elia Ibañez-Puy, Marina Vidaurre-Arbizu and Yaniv Gelbstein

Hydraulic and biological characterization of a large Kaplan turbine pp. 240-249

J.J. Martinez, Z.D. Deng, P.S. Titzler, J.P. Duncan, Jie Lu, R.P. Mueller, C. Tian, B.A. Trumbo, M.L. Ahmann and J.F. Renholds

Experimental study of the potential of eucalyptus fibres for evaporative cooling pp. 250-260

Pervin Abohorlu Doğramacı, Saffa Riffat, Guohui Gan and Devrim Aydın

An experimental and modeling approach for ethanol production by Kluyveromyces marxianus in stirred tank bioreactor using vacuum extraction as a strategy to overcome product inhibition pp. 261-267

Bruna Tavares, Maria das Graças de Almeida Felipe, Júlio César dos Santos, Félix Monteiro Pereira, Simone Damasceno Gomes and Luciane Sene

Urban wind conditions and small wind turbines in the built environment: A review pp. 268-283

Anup Kc, Jonathan Whale and Tania Urmee

Analysis of direct interconnection technique for offshore airborne wind energy systems under normal and fault conditions pp. 284-296

Mahdi Ebrahimi Salari, Joseph Coleman and Daniel Toal

Decentralized solar rooftop photovoltaic in India: On the path of sustainable energy security pp. 297-307

Pushpendra Kumar Singh Rathore, Durg Singh Chauhan and Rudra Pratap Singh

A comprehensive exergy analysis of a prototype Peltier air-cooler; experimental investigation pp. 308-317

Hamed Sadighi Dizaji, Samad Jafarmadar, Shahram Khalilarya and Samira Pourhedayat

Saturation characteristics for stability of hydro-turbine governing system with surge tank pp. 318-332

Zhiyuan Peng and Wencheng Guo

Optimization of a stand-alone photovoltaic–wind–diesel–battery system with multi-layered demand scheduling pp. 333-347

Tu Tu, Gobinath P. Rajarathnam and Anthony M. Vassallo

Optimization of esterification reaction over niobium phosphate in a packed bed tubular reactor pp. 348-355

Letícia Leandro Rade, Caroline Ortega Terra Lemos, Marcos Antônio de Souza Barrozo, Rogério Marques Ribas, Robson de Souza Monteiro and Carla Eponina Hori

Effect of humic acid on photofermentative hydrogen production of volatile fatty acids derived from wastewater fermentation pp. 356-363

Naidong Xiao, Yinguang Chen and Wenbing Zhou

The effect of electricity markets, and renewable electricity penetration, on the levelised cost of energy of an advanced electro-fuel system incorporating carbon capture and utilisation pp. 364-371

Shane McDonagh, David M. Wall, Paul Deane and Jerry D. Murphy

Multi-unit renewables auctions for small markets - Designing the Danish multi-technology auction scheme pp. 372-380

Marijke Welisch

Modeling residential adoption of solar energy in the Arabian Gulf Region pp. 381-389

Nassma Mohandes, Antonio Sanfilippo and Marwa Al Fakhri

A new distributed energy system configuration for cooling dominated districts and the performance assessment based on real site measurements pp. 390-403

Jing Kang, Shengwei Wang and Chengchu Yan

Exergetic and thermo-ecological assessment of heat pump supported by electricity from renewable sources pp. 404-412

Wojciech Stanek, Tomasz Simla and Wiesław Gazda

Investigation on effect of indoor air distribution strategy on solar air-conditioning systems pp. 413-421

K.F. Fong, C.K. Lee and Zeteng Lin

Bill saving analysis of rooftop PV customers and policy implications for Thailand pp. 422-434

Aksornchan Chaianong, Sopitsuda Tongsopit, Athikom Bangviwat and Christoph Menke

Effect of waves on the leading-edge undulated tidal turbines pp. 435-447

Weichao Shi, Mehmet Atlar, Rosemary Norman, Sandy Day and Batuhan Aktas

Accounting for low solar resource days to size 100% solar microgrids power systems in Africa pp. 448-458

N. Plain, B. Hingray and Sandrine Mathy

Biodiesel production from Calophyllum inophyllum oil a potential non-edible feedstock: An overview pp. 459-471

A. Arumugam and V. Ponnusami

Competitive advantage in the renewable energy industry: Evidence from a gravity model pp. 472-481

Onno Kuik, Frederic Branger and Philippe Quirion

Dynamic response analysis of Darrieus wind turbine geared transmission system with unsteady wind inflow pp. 482-493

Imen Bel Mabrouk and Abdelkhalak El Hami

Transient heat transfer performance of a vertical double U-tube borehole heat exchanger under different operation conditions pp. 494-505

Li Zhu, Sarula Chen, Yang Yang and Yong Sun

What affects the development of renewable energy power generation projects in China: ISM analysis pp. 506-517

Zhen-Yu Zhao, Yu-Long Chen and Heng Li

Dynamic analysis of an offshore monopile foundation used as heat exchanger for energy extraction pp. 518-548

Arundhuti Banerjee, Tanusree Chakraborty and Vasant Matsagar

Tube-based explicit model predictive output-feedback controller for collective pitching of wind turbines pp. 549-562

Ahmed Lasheen, Mohamed S. Saad, Hassan M. Emara and Abdel Latif Elshafei

Comparative analysis of liquid versus vapor-feed passive direct methanol fuel cells pp. 563-584

Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem, Anis Allagui, Enas Taha Sayed, M. El Haj Assad, Zafar Said and Khaled Elsaid

Assessment of the power potential extraction in the Chilean Chacao channel pp. 585-596

V. Villalón, D. Watts and R. Cienfuegos

A mechanism investigation of synergy behaviour variations during blended char co-gasification of biomass and different rank coals pp. 597-605

Juntao Wei, Yan Gong, Qinghua Guo, Xueli Chen, Lu Ding and Guangsuo Yu

Optimization of the performance of the SnTe uni-leg thermoelectric module via metallized layers pp. 606-616

Xue Wang, Hongchao Wang, Wenbin Su, Jinze Zhai, Teng Wang, Tingting Chen, Fahad Mehmood and Chunlei Wang

Elemental, morphological and thermal analysis of mixed microalgae species from drain water pp. 617-624

Nazia Hossain, Juliana Zaini, T.M.I. Mahlia and Abul K. Azad

Design methodology of hybrid turbine towards better extraction of wind energy pp. 625-643

Joe Jacob and Dhiman Chatterjee

The effects of unsteady wind on the performances of a newly developed cross-axis wind turbine: A wind tunnel study pp. 644-659

Wei-Cheng Wang, Jheng-Jie Wang and Wen Tong Chong

A shrinking core model for Nannochloropsis salina oil extraction using subcritical water pp. 660-666

Mohammad H. Eikani, Nahid Khandan, Elnaz Feyzi and Iman M. Ebrahimi

New detected uncertainties in the design of foundations for offshore Wind Turbines pp. 667-677

Jorge Luengo, Vicente Negro, Javier García-Barba, José-Santos López-Gutiérrez and M. Dolores Esteban

Combustion of jojoba-oil/diesel blends in a small scale furnace pp. 678-688

Salah A.B. Al Omari, Mohammad O. Hamdan, Mohamed YE. Selim and Emad Elnajjar

Comparing stakeholder incentives across state-of-the-art renewable support mechanisms pp. 689-699

Mihail Mihaylov, Roxana Rădulescu, Iván Razo-Zapata, Sergio Jurado, Leticia Arco, Narcís Avellana and Ann Nowé

Costs and benefits of renewable energy development in China's power industry pp. 700-712

Yuanyuan Liang, Biying Yu and Lu Wang

Comparative 2D and 3D analysis on the hydrodynamics behaviour during biomass gasification in a pilot-scale fluidized bed reactor pp. 713-729

João Cardoso, Valter Silva, Daniela Eusébio, Paulo Brito, Ronney Mancebo Boloy, Luís Tarelho and José Luz Silveira

Colour properties and glazing factors evaluation of multicrystalline based semi-transparent Photovoltaic-vacuum glazing for BIPV application pp. 730-736

Aritra Ghosh, Senthilarasu Sundaram and Tapas K. Mallick

Experimental studies on engine performance and emission characteristics using castor biodiesel as fuel in CI engine pp. 737-744

M. Arunkumar, M. Kannan and G. Murali

Soot abatement from biomass boilers by means of open-cell foams filters pp. 745-754

E. Meloni, M. Caldera, V. Palma, V. Pignatelli and V. Gerardi

Daily irradiance test signal for photovoltaic systems by selection from long-term data pp. 755-762

Alberto Avila, Pedro R. Vizcaya and Rafael Diez

Efficient workflow for simulation of multifractured enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) pp. 763-777

Pranay Asai, Palash Panja, John McLennan and Joseph Moore

Estimates of clear-sky solar irradiances over Nigeria pp. 778-787

T.A. Otunla

Performance improvement and development of correlation for friction factor and heat transfer using computational fluid dynamics for ribbed triangular duct solar air heater pp. 788-799

Rajneesh Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Varun Goel

Overshoots in the water-level control of hydropower plants pp. 800-810

Riccardo Vesipa and Luca Ridolfi

Modelling assessment of the tidal stream resource in the Ria of Ferrol (NW Spain) using a year-long simulation pp. 811-817

Marc Mestres, Pablo Cerralbo, Manel Grifoll, Joan Pau Sierra and Manuel Espino

Consideration of lifetime and fatigue load in wind turbine control pp. 818-828

Jackson G. Njiri, Nejra Beganovic, Manh H. Do and Dirk Söffker

CFD prediction of dust pollution and impact on an isolated ground-mounted solar photovoltaic system pp. 829-840

Hao Lu and Wenjun Zhao

Using high-frequency SCADA data for wind turbine performance monitoring: A sensitivity study pp. 841-853

Elena Gonzalez, Bruce Stephen, David Infield and Julio J. Melero

Pyrolysis of high ash sewage sludge: Kinetics and thermodynamic analysis using Coats-Redfern method pp. 854-860

Salman Raza Naqvi, Rumaisa Tariq, Zeeshan Hameed, Imtiaz Ali, Muhammad Naqvi, Wei-Hsin Chen, Selim Ceylan, Harith Rashid, Junaid Ahmad, Syed A. Taqvi and Muhammad Shahbaz

Modelling the global solar radiation climate of Mauritius using regression techniques pp. 861-878

Jay R.S. Doorga, Soonil D.D.V. Rughooputh and Ravindra Boojhawon

Wind speed and wind direction forecasting using echo state network with nonlinear functions pp. 879-889

Mohammad Amin Chitsazan, M. Sami Fadali and Andrzej M. Trzynadlowski

Numerical modeling of homogeneous gas and heterogeneous char combustion for a wood-fired hydronic heater pp. 890-899

Joseph P. Richter, Joshua M. Weisberger, Brian T. Bojko, Joseph C. Mollendorf and Paul E. DesJardin

Assessment of early degradation and performance loss in five co-located solar photovoltaic module technologies installed in Ghana using performance ratio time-series regression pp. 900-910

David A. Quansah and Muyiwa S. Adaramola

Experimental investigation on thermal properties and thermal performance enhancement of octadecanol/expanded perlite form stable phase change materials for efficient thermal energy storage pp. 911-922

Peizhao Lv, Mingyue Ding, Chenzhen Liu and Zhonghao Rao

Al-Abdaliya integrated solar combined cycle power plant: Case study of Kuwait, part I pp. 923-937

Anwar O. Binamer

Spectral characterization of spectrally selective liquid absorption filters and exploring their effects on concentrator solar cells pp. 938-945

Xinyue Han, Dengshuai Xue, Jun Zheng, Sami M. Alelyani and Xiaobin Chen

Optimizing the combination of conventional carbonaceous additives of culture media to produce lignocellulose-degrading enzymes by Trichoderma reesei in solid state fermentation of agricultural residues pp. 946-955

Maryam Taherzadeh-Ghahfarokhi, Reza Panahi and Babak Mokhtarani

Day-ahead thermal and renewable power generation scheduling considering uncertainty pp. 956-965

Surender Reddy Salkuti

Profitability of a solar water heating system with evacuated tube collector in the meat industry pp. 966-976

José Luis García, Carlos Javier Porras-Prieto, Rosa María Benavente, María Teresa Gómez-Villarino and Fernando R. Mazarrón

A novel hybrid free-wake model for wind turbine performance and wake evolution pp. 977-992

Keye Su and Donald Bliss

Optimization of PV powered SPD switchable glazing to minimise probability of loss of power supply pp. 993-1001

Aritra Ghosh and Brian Norton

Thermal analysis of a finned receiver for a central tower solar system pp. 1002-1012

A. Piña-Ortiz, J.F. Hinojosa, R.A. Pérez-Enciso, V.M. Maytorena, R.A. Calleja and C.A. Estrada

Opportunities and challenges to rural renewable energy projects in Africa: Lessons from the Esaghem Village, Cameroon solar electrification project pp. 1013-1021

Ambe J. Njoh, Simon Etta, Ijang B. Ngyah-Etchutambe, Lucy E.D. Enomah, Hans T. Tabrey and Uwem Essia

Evaluation of loss effect on optimum operation of variable speed micro-hydropower energy conversion systems pp. 1022-1034

Hossein Iman-Eini, David Frey, Seddik Bacha, Cedric Boudinet and Jean-Luc Schanen

Using renewables coupled with thermal energy storage to reduce natural gas consumption in higher temperature commercial/industrial applications pp. 1035-1046

Rhys Jacob, Martin Belusko, Ming Liu, Wasim Saman and Frank Bruno

The macroeconomic impact of renewable electricity power generation projects pp. 1047-1059

Corrado Andini, Ricardo Cabral and José Eusébio Santos

Analysis and optimization of a Dual Mass-Spring-Damper (DMSD) wave-energy convertor with variable resonance capability pp. 1060-1072

Zhongfei Chen, Liang Zhang and Ronald W. Yeung

Cumulative social effect assessment framework to evaluate the accumulation of social sustainability benefits of regional bioenergy value chains pp. 1073-1088

Elena Fedorova and Eva Pongrácz

Optimized design of a Linear Fresnel reflector for solar process heat applications pp. 1089-1106

Diego Pulido-Iparraguirre, Loreto Valenzuela, Juan-José Serrano-Aguilera and Aránzazu Fernández-García

Geopolymer composites for the catalytic cleaning of tar in biomass-derived gas pp. 1107-1116

R. Bendoni, F. Miccio, V. Medri, P. Benito, A. Vaccari and E. Landi

Optimizing purity and recovery of biogas methane enrichment process in a closed landfill pp. 1117-1127

S.Z.A. Seman, I. Idris, Abdul Rashid Abdullah, I.K. Shamsudin and M.R. Othman

Synthesis, characterization and catalytic activity studies of lanthanum oxide from Thai monazite ore for biodiesel production pp. 1128-1137

Dussadee Rattanaphra, Phansiri Soodjit, Anusith Thanapimmetha, Maythee Saisriyoot and Penjit Srinophakun

Small-scale biogas plants in central Vietnam and biogas appliances with a focus on a flue gas analysis of biogas cook stoves pp. 1138-1145

H. Roubík and J. Mazancová

Synthesis of methyl esters through residual feedstock using acid and free catalyst – Proposal of new reactor pp. 1146-1155

Hugo Gomes D'Amato Villardi, Monique Ferreira Leal, Fernando Luiz Pellegrini Pessoa and Andréa Medeiros Salgado

Multi-Objective Particle Swarm optimal sizing of a renewable hybrid power plant with storage pp. 1156-1167

Jean-Laurent Duchaud, Gilles Notton, Christophe Darras and Cyril Voyant

Prospects of hydropower industry in the Yangtze River Basin: China's green energy choice pp. 1168-1185

Chu Penghao, Liu Pingkuo and Pan Hua

Prediction of dynamic response of semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine using augmented Morison's equation with frequency dependent hydrodynamic coefficients pp. 1186-1207

Takeshi Ishihara and Shining Zhang

Power-to-load balancing for heaving asymmetric wave-energy converters with nonideal power take-off pp. 1208-1225

Nathan M. Tom, Farshad Madhi and Ronald W. Yeung

Energy assessment and enhancement of the lipid yield of indigenous Chlorella sp. KA-24NITD using Taguchi approach pp. 1226-1235

Kiran Bobde, Huda Momin, Ashish Bhattacharjee and Kaustav Aikat

Constant temperature response factors for fast calculation of sparse BHE field g-functions pp. 1236-1246

Marco Fossa and Antonella Priarone

A novel heat transfer model of biomass briquettes based on secondary development in EDEM pp. 1247-1254

Yudi Li, Hongguang Xu, Chenghu Jing, Jihai Jiang and Xuyan Hou

Numerical study of effect of winglet planform and airfoil on a horizontal axis wind turbine performance pp. 1255-1273

A. Farhan, A. Hassanpour, A. Burns and Y. Ghaffari Motlagh

Energy and economic analysis for the design of greenhouses with semi-transparent photovoltaic cladding pp. 1274-1287

James Bambara and Andreas K. Athienitis

Assessment of net energy contribution to buildings by rooftop photovoltaic systems in hot-humid climates pp. 1288-1299

Ammar H.A. Dehwah and Muhammad Asif

Velocity and performance correction methodology for hydrokinetic turbines experimented with different geometry of the channel pp. 1300-1317

Vimal Patel, T.I. Eldho and S.V. Prabhu