Renewable Energy

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Volume 87, issue P3, 2016

Research and development of the hybrid ground-coupled heat pump technology in China pp. 1033-1044

Min Guo, Nairen Diao, Yi Man and Zhaohong Fang

Operating performance in cooling mode of a ground source heat pump of a nearly-zero energy building in the cold region of China pp. 1045-1052

Shicong Zhang, Yiqiang Jiang, Wei Xu, Huai Li and Zhen Yu

Performance of a solar air composite heat source heat pump system pp. 1053-1058

Yin Liu, Jing Ma, Guanghui Zhou, Chao Zhang and Wenlei Wan

Assessment of an integrated active solar and air-source heat pump water heating system operated within a passive house in a cold climate zone pp. 1059-1066

M. Shan, Tun-hsiang Yu and X. Yang

Performance modeling of air cycle heat pump water heater in cold climate pp. 1067-1075

Liang Yang, Han Yuan, Jing-Wei Peng and Chun-Lu Zhang

Identifying key design parameters of the integrated energy system for a residential Zero Emission Building in Norway pp. 1076-1087

Natasa Nord, Live Holmedal Qvistgaard and Guangyu Cao

A natural ventilation wind tower with heat pipe heat recovery for cold climates pp. 1088-1104

John Kaiser Calautit, Dominic O'Connor and Ben Richard Hughes

Three-dimensional numerical analysis of the coupled heat transfer performance of LNG ambient air vaporizer pp. 1105-1112

Shanshan Liu, Wenling Jiao and Haichao Wang

Experimental study of the burning-cave hot water soil heating system in solar greenhouse pp. 1113-1120

Baogang Zhang, Xinying Fan, Ming Liu and Wengang Hao

Analysis on the transient heat transfer process inside and outside the borehole for a vertical U-tube ground heat exchanger under short-term heat storage pp. 1121-1129

L.H. Dai, Y. Shang, X.L. Li and S.F. Li

Field measurements on a district heating pipe with vacuum insulation panels pp. 1130-1138

Axel Berge, Carl-Eric Hagentoft and Bijan Adl-Zarrabi

Energy-consumption and economic analysis of group and building substation systems — A case study of the reformation of the district heating system in China pp. 1139-1147

Peng Wang and Kari Sipilä

DSC test error of phase change material (PCM) and its influence on the simulation of the PCM floor pp. 1148-1153

Guohui Feng, Kailiang Huang, Hailun Xie, Huixing Li, Xin Liu, Shibo Liu and Chihong Cao

Numerical analysis of temperature non-uniformity and cooling capacity for capillary ceiling radiant cooling panel pp. 1154-1161

Dong Xie, Yun Wang, Hanqing Wang, Shunquan Mo and Maili Liao

Volume 87, issue P2, 2016

Aero-structural design and optimization of a small wind turbine blade pp. 837-848

Abolfazl Pourrajabian, Peyman Amir Nazmi Afshar, Mehdi Ahmadizadeh and David Wood

Numerical models for robust shape optimization of wind turbine blades pp. 849-862

Damir Vučina, Ivo Marinić-Kragić and Zoran Milas

Optimization of a thruster sections by Prandtl's theory pp. 863-868

Abidi Essia, Hcini Cherif and Kamoun Badreddinne

Identification of critical components of wind turbines using FTA over the time pp. 869-883

Fausto Pedro García Márquez, Jesús María Pinar Pérez, Alberto Pliego Marugán and Mayorkinos Papaelias

On using Pareto optimality to tune a linear model predictive controller for wind turbines pp. 884-891

Peter Fogh Odgaard, Lars F.S. Larsen, Rafael Wisniewski and Tobias Gybel Hovgaard

Automatic identification of wind turbine models using evolutionary multiobjective optimization pp. 892-902

William La Cava, Kourosh Danai, Lee Spector, Paul Fleming, Alan Wright and Matthew Lackner

A multiobjective framework for wind speed prediction interval forecasts pp. 903-910

Nitin Anand Shrivastava, Kunal Lohia and Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi

Adaptive building energy management with multiple commodities and flexible evolutionary optimization pp. 911-921

Ingo Mauser, Jan Müller, Florian Allerding and Hartmut Schmeck

Coordinated energy management for inter-community imbalance minimization pp. 922-935

Rodrigo Verschae, Hiroaki Kawashima, Takekazu Kato and Takashi Matsuyama

Effective scheduling of residential energy storage systems under dynamic pricing pp. 936-945

Yourim Yoon and Yong-Hyuk Kim

Optimal generation dispatch of distributed generators considering fair contribution to grid voltage control pp. 946-953

Chenjie Ma, Paul Kaufmann, J.-Christian Töbermann and Martin Braun

Domestic fridge-freezer load aggregation to support ancillary services pp. 954-964

M. Martin Almenta, D.J. Morrow, R.J. Best, B. Fox and A.M. Foley

Investigation and analysis of high performance green energy induction motor drive with intelligent estimator pp. 965-976

A. Chitra and S. Himavathi

Models for optimization and performance evaluation of biomass supply chains: An Operations Research perspective pp. 977-989

Birome Holo Ba, Christian Prins and Caroline Prodhon

Considering biomass growth and regeneration in the optimisation of biomass supply chains pp. 990-1002

Annelies De Meyer, Dirk Cattrysse and Jos Van Orshoven

Impact of solar and wind forecast uncertainties on demand response of isolated microgrids pp. 1003-1015

Diana Neves, Miguel C. Brito and Carlos A. Silva

Development of an algorithm to analyze the yield of photovoltaic systems pp. 1016-1022

H. te Heesen and V. Herbort

A methodology for optimization of the complementarity between small-hydropower plants and solar PV systems pp. 1023-1030

Ioannis Kougias, Sándor Szabó, Fabio Monforti-Ferrario, Thomas Huld and Katalin Bódis

Volume 87, issue P1, 2016

A significant reduction in the costs of battery energy storage systems by use of smart parking lots in the power fluctuation smoothing process of the wind farms pp. 1-14

M. Jannati, S.H. Hosseinian, B. Vahidi and Guo-jie. Li

A semiparametric spatio-temporal model for solar irradiance data pp. 15-30

Joshua D. Patrick, Jane L. Harvill and Clifford W. Hansen

Bimetallic Pt–Au nanoparticles supported on multi-wall carbon nanotubes as electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction pp. 31-41

R.M. Félix-Navarro, M. Beltrán-Gastélum, E.A. Reynoso-Soto, F. Paraguay-Delgado, G. Alonso-Nuñez and J.R. Flores-Hernández

Comparison of support policies for residential photovoltaic systems in the major EU markets through investment profitability pp. 42-53

L. De Boeck, S. Van Asch, P. De Bruecker and A. Audenaert

Exploitation of geothermal energy in active volcanic areas: A numerical modelling applied to high temperature Mofete geothermal field, at Campi Flegrei caldera (Southern Italy) pp. 54-66

Stefano Carlino, Antonio Troiano, Maria Giulia Di Giuseppe, Anna Tramelli, Claudia Troise, Renato Somma and Giuseppe De Natale

Investigating of Helmholtz wave energy converter pp. 67-76

Y. Saadat, Nelson Fernandez, Alexei Samimi, Mohammad Reza Alam, Mostafa Shakeri and Reza Ghorbani

Profitability in absence of subsidies: A techno-economic analysis of rooftop photovoltaic self-consumption in residential and commercial buildings pp. 77-87

Tillmann Lang, David Ammann and Bastien Girod

Wear and tear on hydro power turbines – Influence from primary frequency control pp. 88-95

Weijia Yang, Per Norrlund, Linn Saarinen, Jiandong Yang, Wencheng Guo and Wei Zeng

The climatological relationships between wind and solar energy supply in Britain pp. 96-110

Philip E. Bett and Hazel E. Thornton

Smart fatigue load control on the large-scale wind turbine blades using different sensing signals pp. 111-119

Mingming Zhang, Bin Tan and Jianzhong Xu

Environmental co-benefits of the promotion of renewable power generation in China and India through clean development mechanisms pp. 120-129

A. Murata, J. Liang, R. Eto, K. Tokimatsu, K. Okajima and Y. Uchiyama

Opportunities and challenges of high renewable energy deployment and electricity exchange for North Africa and Europe – Scenarios for power sector and transmission infrastructure in 2030 and 2050 pp. 130-144

Inga Boie, Christoph Kost, Sven Bohn, Michael Agsten, Peter Bretschneider, Oleksandr Snigovyi, Martin Pudlik, Mario Ragwitz, Thomas Schlegl and Dirk Westermann

Sensitivity analysis of a photovoltaic solar plant in Chile pp. 145-153

F. Bustos, A. Toledo, J. Contreras and A. Fuentes

Influence of inflow turbulence intensity on the performance of bare and diffuser-augmented micro wind turbine model pp. 154-167

B. Kosasih and H. Saleh Hudin

The identification of structurally sensitive zones subject to failure in a wind turbine blade using nodal displacement based finite element sub-modeling pp. 168-181

Owaisur Rahman Shah and Mostapha Tarfaoui

Micro/small wind turbine power control for electrolysis applications pp. 182-192

Christopher Dixon, Steve Reynolds and David Rodley

Evaluation of technology structure based on energy yield from wheat straw for combined bioethanol and biomethane facility pp. 193-202

Viktoria Leitner and Johannes Lindorfer

Short-term wind speed and power forecasting using an ensemble of mixture density neural networks pp. 203-211

Zhongxian Men, Eugene Yee, Fue-Sang Lien, Deyong Wen and Yongsheng Chen

An Offshore Wind Energy Geographic Information System (OWE-GIS) for assessment of the UK's offshore wind energy potential pp. 212-228

S. Cavazzi and A.G. Dutton

The use of enhanced heat transfer phase change materials (PCM) to improve the coefficient of performance (COP) of solar powered LiBr/H2O absorption cooling systems pp. 229-239

Francis Agyenim

Field tests of multiple 1/10 scale tidal turbines in steady flows pp. 240-252

Penny Jeffcoate, Trevor Whittaker, Cuan Boake and Bjoern Elsaesser

Economic impact potential of solar photovoltaics in Illinois pp. 253-258

D.G. Loomis, J.H. Jo and M.R. Aldeman

EU biofuel policies: Income effects and lobbying decisions in the German agricultural sector pp. 259-265

Andre Deppermann, Frank Offermann, Judith Puttkammer and Harald Grethe

Optimization of low quality rapeseed oil transesterification with butanol by applying the response surface methodology pp. 266-272

Egle Sendzikiene, Dovile Sinkuniene, Irina Kazanceva and Kiril Kazancev

Anaerobic digestion of perennial ryegrass prepared by cryogenic freezing versus thermal drying methods, using contrasting in vitro batch digestion systems pp. 273-278

P. Nolan, S. Luostarinen, E.M. Doyle and P. O'Kiely

Incentives for wind power investment in Colombia pp. 279-288

Javier Contreras and Yeny E. Rodríguez

The influence of potato pulp content on the properties of pellets from buckwheat hulls pp. 289-297

Sławomir Obidziński, Jolanta Piekut and Dorota Dec

Wind-turbine collective-pitch control via a fuzzy predictive algorithm pp. 298-306

Ahmed Lasheen and Abdel Latif Elshafei

A methodology for designing Francis runner blade to find minimum sediment erosion using CFD pp. 307-316

Krishna Khanal, Hari P. Neopane, Shikhar Rai, Manoj Thapa, Subendu Bhatt and Rajendra Shrestha

Wave energy conversion through a point pivoted absorber: Numerical and experimental tests on a scaled model pp. 317-325

Domenico P. Coiro, Giancarlo Troise, Giuseppe Calise and Nadia Bizzarrini

Methanisation of spent maqui berry pomace via enzymatic treatment pp. 326-331

Alejandra Cerda, María Eugenia Martínez, Carmen Soto, María Elvira Zúñiga and Paola Poirrier

Tow testing of Savonius wind turbine above a bluff body complemented by CFD simulation pp. 332-345

Seach Chyr Goh, Sethu Raman Boopathy, Chidambaresan Krishnaswami and Jörg Uwe Schlüter

Investigating combustion behaviors of bamboo, torrefied bamboo, coal and their respective blends by thermogravimetric analysis pp. 346-352

Zhijia Liu, Wanhe Hu, Zehui Jiang, Bingbing Mi and Benhua Fei

Estimation of GSR to ascertain solar electricity cost in context of deregulated electricity markets pp. 353-363

Anamika,, Rajagopal Peesapati and Niranjan Kumar

A novel order tracking method for wind turbine planetary gearbox vibration analysis based on discrete spectrum correction technique pp. 364-375

Guolin He, Kang Ding, Weihua Li and Xintao Jiao

Atmospheric stability varying wind shear coefficients to improve wind resource extrapolation: A temporal analysis pp. 376-390

Giovanni Gualtieri

An emulator for fixed pitch wind turbine studies pp. 391-402

Amirhossein Sajadi, Łukasz Rosłaniec, Mariusz Kłos, Piotr Biczel and Kenneth A. Loparo

Wind resource assessment for urban renewable energy application in Singapore pp. 403-414

B.R. Karthikeya, Prabal S. Negi and N. Srikanth

Novel method for investigation of a K–Mg-based CO2 sorbent for sorption-enhanced water–gas shift reaction pp. 415-421

Chang Ki Byun, Soon Jin Kwon, Hyo Bin Im, Hee Sung Ahn, Ho Jung Ryu and Kwang Bok Yi

The pulsed-flow design: A new low-cost solar collector pp. 422-429

Luis Juanicó and Nicolás Dilalla

Prediction of site specific wind energy value factors pp. 430-436

Mark Capellaro

Influence of packing material characteristics on the performance of microbial fuel cells using petroleum refinery wastewater as fuel pp. 437-444

Xuan Guo, Yali Zhan, Chunmao Chen, Bin Cai, Yu Wang and Shaohui Guo

Influence of self-weight on electrical power conversion of dense-array concentrator photovoltaic system pp. 445-457

Ming-Hui Tan and Kok-Keong Chong

Model for geometry optimisation of thermoelectric devices in a hybrid PV/TE system pp. 458-463

H. Hashim, J.J. Bomphrey and G. Min

Influence of the control system on wind turbine loads during power production in extreme turbulence: Structural reliability pp. 464-477

I. Abdallah, A. Natarajan and J.D. Sørensen

Quantifying turbulence from field measurements at a mixed low tidal energy site pp. 478-492

Abdessalem Bouferrouk, Jonathan P. Hardwick, Antonella M. Colucci and Lars Johanning

Thermo-economic assessment of hybrid renewable energy based cooling system for food preservation in hilly terrain pp. 493-500

M. Edwin and S. Joseph Sekhar

A study on dynamic heating in solar dish concentrators pp. 501-508

L.A. Andrade, M.A.S. Barrozo and L.G.M. Vieira

Development of a novel phase change material emulsion for cooling systems pp. 509-516

Jingjing Shao, Jo Darkwa and Georgios Kokogiannakis

Simulation study of a naturally-ventilated building integrated photovoltaic/thermal (BIPV/T) envelope pp. 517-531

Syamimi Saadon, Leon Gaillard, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien and Christophe Ménézo

Design and control of a grid tied 6-switch converter for two independent low power wind energy resources based on PMSGs with MPPT capability pp. 532-543

Ali Ajami, Rana Alizadeh and Mahdi Elmi

Comparison of costs of different terminal layouts for fuel wood storage pp. 544-551

Martin Kühmaier, Gernot Erber, Christian Kanzian, Franz Holzleitner and Karl Stampfer

Analysis of a free vortex wake model for the study of the rotor and near wake flow of a vertical axis wind turbine pp. 552-563

G. Tescione, C.J. Simão Ferreira and G.J.W. van Bussel

Life cycle cost of photovoltaic technologies in commercial buildings in Baja California, Mexico pp. 564-571

J.F. Armendariz-Lopez, A. Luna-Leon, M.E. Gonzalez-Trevizo, A.P. Arena-Granados and G. Bojorquez-Morales

Lightning field behavior around grounded airborne systems pp. 572-584

G.A. Malinga and J.M. Niedzwecki

Thermal performance evaluation of vertical U-loop ground heat exchanger using in-situ thermal response test pp. 585-591

Keun Sun Chang and Min Jun Kim

Comparison of nanoparticles effects on biogas and methane production from anaerobic digestion of cattle dung slurry pp. 592-598

E. Abdelsalam, M. Samer, Y.A. Attia, M.A. Abdel-Hadi, H.E. Hassan and Y. Badr

Effect of ethanol organosolv pretreatment factors on enzymatic digestibility and ethanol organosolv lignin structure from Liriodendron tulipifera in specific combined severity factors pp. 599-606

Soo-Kyeong Jang, Ho-Yong Kim, Han-Seob Jeong, Jae-Young Kim, Hwanmyeong Yeo and In-Gyu Choi

Physical–chemical–morphological characterization of the whole sugarcane lignocellulosic biomass used for 2G ethanol production by spectroscopy and microscopy techniques pp. 607-617

Sandra C. Pereira, Larissa Maehara, Cristina M.M. Machado and Cristiane S. Farinas

A modified three-dimensional numerical model for predicting the short-time-step performance of borehole ground heat exchangers pp. 618-627

C.K. Lee

A novel adaptive approach for hourly solar radiation forecasting pp. 628-633

Emre Akarslan and Fatih Onur Hocaoglu

Data-driven fault detection and isolation scheme for a wind turbine benchmark pp. 634-645

Iury Valente de Bessa, Reinaldo Martinez Palhares, Marcos Flávio Silveira Vasconcelos D'Angelo and João Edgar Chaves Filho

Hydro-viscous transmission based maximum power extraction control for continuously variable speed wind turbine with enhanced efficiency pp. 646-655

Xiu-xing Yin, Yong-gang Lin, Wei Li and Hai-gang Gu

A detailed assessment of resource of biomethane from first, second and third generation substrates pp. 656-665

Eoin Allen, David M. Wall, Christiane Herrmann and Jerry D. Murphy

A study of the effect of design parameters on the performance of linear solar concentrator based thermal power plants in India pp. 666-675

Chandan Sharma, Ashish K. Sharma, Subhash C. Mullick and Tara C. Kandpal

Systematic derivation of parameters of one exponential model for photovoltaic modules using numerical information of data sheet pp. 676-685

M.H. Deihimi, R.A. Naghizadeh and A. Fattahi Meyabadi

Increasing climate-related-energy penetration by integrating run-of-the river hydropower to wind/solar mix pp. 686-696

B. François, B. Hingray, D. Raynaud, M. Borga and J.D. Creutin

Selection of microorganism immobilization particle for dark fermentative biohydrogen production by repeated batch operation pp. 697-702

Betül Kirli and Ilgi Karapinar Kapdan

Evaluation of oxygen availability on ethanol production from sugarcane bagasse hydrolysate in a batch bioreactor using two strains of xylose-fermenting yeast pp. 703-710

Kelly J. Dussán, Débora D.V. Silva, Victor H. Perez and Silvio S. da Silva

Solar pasteurizer for the microbiological decontamination of water pp. 711-719

Gustavo Carielo da Silva, Chigueru Tiba and Glícia Maria Torres Calazans

An efficient code to optimize the heliostat field and comparisons between the biomimetic spiral and staggered layout pp. 720-730

Maolong Zhang, Lijun Yang, Chao Xu and Xiaoze Du

A heuristic methodology to economic dispatch problem incorporating renewable power forecasting error and system reliability pp. 731-743

J.M. Lujano-Rojas, G.J. Osório, J.C.O. Matias and J.P.S. Catalão

Comparative testing of energy yields from micro-algal biomass cultures processed via anaerobic digestion pp. 744-753

Keiron P. Roberts, Sonia Heaven and Charles J. Banks

Performance characteristics of a residential-type direct absorption solar collector using MWCNT nanofluid pp. 754-764

S. Delfani, M. Karami and M.A. Akhavan- Behabadi

Development and experimental study on testing platform for rock-soil thermal response tester pp. 765-771

Xuan Wu, Zhengwen Wang, Guang Jin, Xue Yang, Zhiqiang Zhang and Wenming Bi

Feasibility analysis of a renewable hybrid energy system with producer gas generator fulfilling remote household electricity demand in Southern Norway pp. 772-781

Shiplu Sarker

Experimental evaluation of a rice bran biodiesel – biogas run dual fuel diesel engine at varying compression ratios pp. 782-790

Bhaskor J. Bora and Ujjwal K. Saha

Multi-criteria site selection for offshore renewable energy platforms pp. 791-806

L. Cradden, C. Kalogeri, I. Martinez Barrios, Giorgos Galanis, D. Ingram and G. Kallos

Forecast for surface solar irradiance at the Brazilian Northeastern region using NWP model and artificial neural networks pp. 807-818

Francisco J.L. Lima, Fernando R. Martins, Enio B. Pereira, Elke Lorenz and Detlev Heinemann

Dual port vapor injected compression: In-system testing versus test stand testing, and mapping of results pp. 819-833

Christian K. Bach, Eckhard A. Groll, James E. Braun and W. Travis Horton