Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Volume 150, issue C, 2021

Digitalisation in wind and solar power technologies

H.L. Kangas, K. Ollikka, J. Ahola and Y. Kim

Towards next generation virtual power plant: Technology review and frameworks

Erphan A. Bhuiyan, Md. Zahid Hossain, S.M. Muyeen, Shahriar Rahman Fahim, Subrata K. Sarker and Sajal K. Das

Solar-driven biological inorganic hybrid systems for the production of solar fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide

Shuai Xiao, Qian Fu, Zhuo Li, Jun Li, Liang Zhang, Xun Zhu and Qiang Liao

A comprehensive review of nonlinear oscillators in hydrokinetic energy harnessing using flow-induced vibrations

Yanfang Lv, Liping Sun, Michael M. Bernitsas and Hai Sun

Principles of loop thermosyphon and its application in data center cooling systems: A review

Tao Ding, Xiaoxuan Chen, Hanwen Cao, Zhiguang He, Jianmin Wang and Zhen Li

Numerical investigations on pilot ignited high pressure direct injection natural gas engines: A review

Menghan Li, Hanming Wu, Xiaori Liu, Zhangning Wei, Hongjian Tian, Qiang Zhang and Zhenguo Li

CORSIA: The first internationally adopted approach to calculate life-cycle GHG emissions for aviation fuels

Matteo Prussi, Uisung Lee, Michael Wang, Robert Malina, Hugo Valin, Farzad Taheripour, César Velarde, Mark D. Staples, Laura Lonza and James I. Hileman

COVID-19 pandemics Stage II – Energy and environmental impacts of vaccination

Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, Peng Jiang, Yee Van Fan, Awais Bokhari and Xue-Chao Wang

Investment equilibrium of an integrated multi–stakeholder electricity–gas–hydrogen system

Guangsheng Pan, Wei Gu, Sheng Chen, Yuping Lu, Suyang Zhou and Zhinong Wei

State-of-charge estimation and remaining useful life prediction of supercapacitors

Chunli Liu, Qiang Li and Kai Wang

A comprehensive overview of framework for developing sustainable energy internet: From things-based energy network to services-based management system

Ying Wu, Yanpeng Wu, Josep M. Guerrero and Juan C. Vasquez

A review of solar-driven organic Rankine cycles: Recent challenges and future outlook

Reyhaneh Loni, Omid Mahian, Christos N. Markides, Evangelos Bellos, Willem G. le Roux, Ailbakhsh Kasaeian, Gholamhassan Najafi and Fatemeh Rajaee

Can rural stakeholders drive the low-carbon transition? Analysis of climate-related activities planned in local development strategies in Poland

Marek Furmankiewicz, Richard J. Hewitt and Jan K. Kazak

Energy, exergy, exergoeconomic and exergoenvironmental analysis and optimization of quadruple combined solar, biogas, SRC and ORC cycles with methane system

Rahim Zahedi, Abolfazl Ahmadi and Reza Dashti

Six sigma with the blue economy fundamentals to assess the economic and environmental performance in the aircraft refueling process

Henrricco Nieves Pujol Tucci, Geraldo Cardoso de Oliveira Neto, Flávio Luiz Rodrigues, Biagio F. Giannetti and Cecília Maria Villa Boas de Almeida

COVID-19: Government subsidy models for sustainable energy supply with disruption risks

Yu-Chung Tsao, Vo-Van Thanh, Yi-Ying Chang and Hsi-Hsien Wei

Microalgae biodiesel: A systematic review in Iran

Masoumeh Ravanipour, Ali Hamidi and Amir Hossein Mahvi

A perspective on the efficacy of green gas production via integration of technologies in novel cascading circular bio-systems

Richen Lin, Richard O'Shea, Chen Deng, Benteng Wu and Jerry D. Murphy

A multi-objective optimization model to sustainable closed-loop solar photovoltaic supply chain network design: A case study in Iran

Maryam Nili, Seyed Mohammad Seyedhosseini, Mohammad Saeed Jabalameli and Ehsan Dehghani

Do oil price changes really matter for clean energy returns?

Jiang-Bo Geng, Changyu Liu, Qiang Ji and Dayong Zhang

Progressive biodiesel policy in Indonesia: Does the Government's economic proposition hold?

A. Halimatussadiah, D. Nainggolan, S. Yui, Faizal Moeis and A.A. Siregar

State of biofuel development in sub-Saharan Africa: How far sustainable?

Priyanka Jha and Stefan Schmidt

Renewable energy, technological innovation and the environment: A novel dynamic auto-regressive distributive lag simulation

Danish, and Recep Ulucak

A comprehensive review on the application of nanofluid in heat pipe based on the machine learning: Theory, application and prediction

Xianling Wang, Liang Luo, Jinwei Xiang, Senlin Zheng, Samson Shittu, Zhangyuan Wang and Xudong Zhao

Viability assessment of algal wastewater treatment projects under outdoor conditions based on algal productivity and nutrient removal rate

José M. Vindel and Estrella Trincado

Torrefaction of biomass: Production of enhanced solid biofuel from municipal solid waste and other types of biomass

Kabir Abogunde Abdulyekeen, Ahmad Abulfathi Umar, Muhamad Fazly Abdul Patah and Wan Mohd Ashri Wan Daud

Mitigation strategies for Li-ion battery thermal runaway: A review

Bin Xu, Jinwoo Lee, Daeil Kwon, Lingxi Kong and Michael Pecht

Pyrolysis of waste lubricating oil/waste motor oil to generate high-grade fuel oil: A comprehensive review

Asmita Mishra, Hammad Siddiqi, Usha Kumari, Ipsita Dipamitra Behera, Subhrajit Mukherjee and B.C. Meikap

Comparative energetic studies on liquid organic hydrogen carrier: A net energy analysis

Sanghun Lee, Taehong Kim, Gwangwoo Han, Sungmin Kang, Young-Sung Yoo, Sang-Yun Jeon and Joongmyeon Bae

Upgrading biogas produced in anaerobic digestion: Biological removal and bioconversion of CO2 in biogas

Lan Wu, Wei Wei, Lan Song, Marta Woźniak-Karczewska, Łukasz Chrzanowski and Bing-Jie Ni

Biomass flow in bioeconomy: Overview for Germany

Nora Szarka, Henryk Haufe, Nora Lange, Franziska Schier, Holger Weimar, Martin Banse, Viktoriya Sturm, Lara Dammer, Stephan Piotrowski and Daniela Thrän

Identification of opportunities for integrating chemical processes for carbon (dioxide) utilization to nuclear power plants

M.M. Ramirez-Corredores, Luis A. Diaz, Anne M. Gaffney and Christopher A. Zarzana

Challenges and opportunities in biomass ash management and its utilization in novel applications

Muhammad Assad Munawar, Asif Hussain Khoja, Salman Raza Naqvi, Muhammad Taqi Mehran, Muhammad Hassan, Rabia Liaquat and Usama Fida Dawood

Conversion of chitin biomass into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural: A review

Xin Cai, Zhichao Wang, Yueyuan Ye, Duo Wang, Zhaoxia Zhang, Zhifeng Zheng, Yunquan Liu and Shuirong Li

How does temperature regulate anaerobic digestion?

Erqi Nie, Pinjing He, Hua Zhang, Liping Hao, Liming Shao and Fan Lü

Recent developments in investigating reaction chemistry and transport effects in biomass fast pyrolysis: A review

Khursheed B. Ansari, Bushra Kamal, Sidra Beg, Md. Aquib Wakeel Khan, Mohd Shariq Khan, Mohammed K. Al Mesfer and Mohd. Danish

Techno economic analysis of a micro Gas-to-Liquid unit for associated natural gas conversion

Gianluca Pauletto, Federico Galli, Alice Gaillardet, Paolo Mocellin and Gregory S. Patience

Transition of renewable energy policies in Malaysia: Benchmarking with data envelopment analysis

Fairuz Suzana Mohd Chachuli, Norasikin Ahmad Ludin, Muhamad Alias Md Jedi and Norul Hisham Hamid

An overview of solar still enhancement approaches for increased freshwater production rates from a thermal process perspective

L. Mu, L. Chen, L. Lin, Y.H. Park, H. Wang, P. Xu, K. Kota and S. Kuravi

Artificial intelligence techniques for enabling Big Data services in distribution networks: A review

Sara Barja-Martinez, Mònica Aragüés-Peñalba, Íngrid Munné-Collado, Pau Lloret-Gallego, Eduard Bullich-Massagué and Roberto Villafafila-Robles

Knowledge structuring for enhancing mechanical energy harvesting (MEH): An in-depth review from 2000 to 2020 using CiteSpace

Ali Azam, Ammar Ahmed, Muhammad Sajid Kamran, Li Hai, Zutao Zhang and Asif Ali

Implications of European Union recast Renewable Energy Directive sustainability criteria for renewable heat and transport: Case study of willow biomethane in Ireland

A. Long, A. Bose, R. O'Shea, R. Monaghan and J.D. Murphy

Geographic distribution of net-zero energy wastewater treatment in China

Yu-Tong Xiong, Jing Zhang, You-Peng Chen, Jin-Song Guo, Fang Fang and Peng Yan

A review on the thermal performance of natural convection in vertical annulus and its applications

Shahid Husain, Md Adil, Mohammad Arqam and Bahman Shabani

Microalgae: Sustainable resource of carbohydrates in third-generation biofuel production

Chandrani Debnath, Tarun Kanti Bandyopadhyay, Biswanath Bhunia, Umesh Mishra, Selvaraju Narayanasamy and Muthusivaramapandian Muthuraj

Techno-economic analysis of sustainability and externality costs of water desalination production

Layla Saleh and Toufic Mezher

Quantifying the trade-off between percentage of renewable supply and affordability in Pacific island countries: Case study of Samoa

T.V. Vaiaso and M.W. Jack

Experimental Analysis of hill-climbing MPPT algorithms under low irradiance levels

Vibhu Jately, Brian Azzopardi, Jyoti Joshi, Balaji Venkateswaran V, Abhinav Sharma and Sudha Arora

Analysing the water and land system impacts of Germany's future energy system

H.U. Heinrichs, Z. Mourao, S. Venghaus, D. Konadu, B. Gillessen, Stefan Vögele, J. Linssen, J. Allwood, W. Kuckshinrichs, M. Robinius and D. Stolten

Synthesis and performance evaluation of various metal chalcogenides as active anodes for direct urea fuel cells

Enas Taha Sayed, Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem, Ahmed Bahaa, Tasnim Eisa, Hussain Alawadhi, Sameer Al-Asheh, Kyu-Jung Chae and A.G. Olabi

Nondimensional convection numbers modeling thermally stratified storage tanks: Richardson's number and hot-water tanks

Joseph Rendall, Ahmad Abu-Heiba, Kyle Gluesenkamp, Kashif Nawaz, William Worek and Ahmed Elatar

Effects of swine manure storage time on solid-liquid separation and biogas production: A life-cycle assessment approach

C.E. Hollas, A.C. Bolsan, A. Chini, B. Venturin, G. Bonassa, D. Cândido, F.G. Antes, R.L.R. Steinmetz, N.V. Prado and A. Kunz

The role of personal and environmental factors in rural homeowner decision to insulate; an example from Poland

Ozgur Kaya, A.M. Klepacka and W.J. Florkowski

Development of a framework for evaluating the contents and usability of the building life cycle assessment tool

Minjin Kong, Minhyun Lee, Hyuna Kang and Taehoon Hong

Energy system resilience – A review

Justinas Jasiūnas, Peter D. Lund and Jani Mikkola

Review on gas-solid fluidized bed particle solar receivers applied in concentrated solar applications: Materials, configurations and methodologies

Kaijun Jiang, Xiaoze Du, Qiang Zhang, Yanqiang Kong, Chao Xu and Xing Ju

Utilization of forestry waste materials in British Columbia: Options and strategies

H. Wang, X. Bi and R. Clift

A pinch-based multi-energy targeting framework for combined chilling heating power microgrid of urban-industrial symbiosis

Wen Ni Yong, Peng Yen Liew, Kok Sin Woon, Sharifah Rafidah Wan Alwi and Jiří Jaromír Klemeš

Recovery processes of sustainable energy using different biomass and wastes

Samarjeet Singh Siwal, Qibo Zhang, Nishu Devi, Adesh Kumar Saini, Vipin Saini, Bhawna Pareek, Sergejs Gaidukovs and Vijay Kumar Thakur

Concentrated solar thermochemical gasification of biomass: Principles, applications, and development

Yi Fang, Manosh C. Paul, Sunita Varjani, Xian Li, Young-Kwon Park and Siming You

Extended water-energy nexus contribution to environmentally-related sustainable development goals

Xue-Chao Wang, Peng Jiang, Lan Yang, Yee Van Fan, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš and Yutao Wang

Bioenergy production from sugarcane bagasse with carbon capture and storage: Surrogate models for techno-economic decisions

Igor Lapenda Wiesberg, José Luiz de Medeiros, Raphael V. Paes de Mello, Jeiveison G.S. Santos Maia, João Bruno V. Bastos and Ofélia de Queiroz F. Araújo

Mitigation of CO2 emissions by transforming to biofuels: Optimization of biofuels production processes

Ahmad Mukhtar, Sidra Saqib, Muhammad Mubashir, Sami Ullah, Abrar Inayat, Abid Mahmood, Muhammad Ibrahim and Pau Loke Show

Implementing the dynamic simulation approach for the design and optimization of ships energy systems: Methodology and applicability to modern cruise ships

G. Barone, A. Buonomano, C. Forzano and A. Palombo

Life cycle assessment of food waste to energy and resources: Centralized and decentralized anaerobic digestion with different downstream biogas utilization

Hailin Tian, Xiaonan Wang, Ee Yang Lim, Jonathan T.E. Lee, Alvin W.L. Ee, Jingxin Zhang and Yen Wah Tong

Techno-economic analysis and energy modelling as a key enablers for smart energy services and technologies in buildings

Massimiliano Manfren, Benedetto Nastasi, Lamberto Tronchin, Daniele Groppi and Davide Astiaso Garcia

Integrating strategies for sustainable conversion of waste biomass into dark-fermentative hydrogen and value-added products

Sanjay K.S. Patel, Devashish Das, Sun Chang Kim, Byung-Kwan Cho, Vipin Chandra Kalia and Jung-Kul Lee

Societal cost-benefit analysis of electric vehicles in the Philippines with the inclusion of impacts to balance of payments

Neil Stephen Lopez, Lew Andrew Tria, Leo Allen Tayo, Rovinna Janel Cruzate, Carlos Oppus, Paul Cabacungan, Igmedio Isla, Arjun Ansay, Teodinis Garcia, Kevien Cabarrubias-Dela Cruz and Jose Bienvenido Manuel Biona

Three stages in the co-transformation of the energy and mobility sectors

Simon Morgenthaler, Justus Dünzen, Ingo Stadler and Dirk Witthaut

Experimental investigation on performance improvement by mid-plane guide-vanes in a biplane-rotor Wells turbine for wave energy conversion

João S. Alves, Luís M.C. Gato, António F.O. Falcão and João C.C. Henriques

Energy conversion efficiency in sugarcane cultivars as a function of production environments in Brazil

Alexandrius de Moraes Barbosa, Rafael Rebes Zilliani, Carlos Sérgio Tiritan, Gustavo Maia Souza and Marcelo de Almeida Silva

The impact of power network congestion, its consequences and mitigation measures on air pollutants and greenhouse gases emissions. A case from Germany

Fabio Monforti-Ferrario and Marta Poncela Blanco

Global biorenewable development strategies for sustainable aviation fuel production

Kok Siew Ng, Danial Farooq and Aidong Yang

Performances of a multi-product strategy for bioethanol, lignin, and ultra-high surface area carbon from lignocellulose by PHP (phosphoric acid plus hydrogen peroxide) pretreatment platform

Zhanglin Liu, Xue Wan, Qing Wang, Dong Tian, Jinguang Hu, Mei Huang, Fei Shen and Yongmei Zeng

Recent advances in biopolymeric composite materials: Future sustainability of bone-implant

Bankole I. Oladapo, S. Abolfazl Zahedi, Sikiru O. Ismail and David B. Olawade

Update on current approaches, challenges, and prospects of modeling and simulation in renewable and sustainable energy systems

Kelvin O. Yoro, Michael O. Daramola, Patrick T. Sekoai, Uwemedimo N. Wilson and Orevaoghene Eterigho-Ikelegbe

Decarbonization pathways for the power sector in Sumatra, Indonesia

L. Sani, D. Khatiwada, F. Harahap and S. Silveira

Biomass in biogas production: Pretreatment and codigestion

Archana Kasinath, Sylwia Fudala-Ksiazek, Malgorzata Szopinska, Hubert Bylinski, Wojciech Artichowicz, Anna Remiszewska-Skwarek and Aneta Luczkiewicz

Review of microwave-based treatments of biomass gasification tar

Jian Li, Junyu Tao, Beibei Yan, Liguo Jiao, Guanyi Chen and Jianli Hu

Sustainability assessment and emergy analysis of employing the CCHP system under two different scenarios in a data center

Mahdi Deymi-Dashtebayaz and Marziye Norani

Experimental investigation on the hydrodynamic performance of a multi-chamber OWC-breakwater

Xuanlie Zhao, Lidong Zhang, Mingwei Li and Lars Johanning

A review on hybrid thermal management of battery packs and it's cooling performance by enhanced PCM

G. Murali, G.S.N. Sravya, J. Jaya and V. Naga Vamsi

A review on various optical fibre sensing methods for batteries

Gaoce Han, Jize Yan, Zhen Guo, David Greenwood, James Marco and Yifei Yu

Constructing efficient portfolios of low-carbon technologies

Yeong Jae Kim, Seong-Hoon Cho and Bijay P. Sharma

Review and characterisation of high-temperature phase change material candidates between 500 C and 700°C

Ming Liu, Ehsan Shamil Omaraa, Jia Qi, Pegah Haseli, Jumal Ibrahim, Dmitry Sergeev, Michael Müller, Frank Bruno and Peter Majewski

Sustainable aquaculture and animal feed from microalgae – Nutritive value and techno-functional components

Dillirani Nagarajan, Sunita Varjani, Duu-Jong Lee and Jo-Shu Chang