Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Volume 147, issue C, 2021

Dynamic aware aging design of a simple distributed energy system: A comparative approach with single stage design strategies

Hugo Radet, Xavier Roboam, Bruno Sareni and Rémy Rigo-Mariani

Water–energy nexus in Central Asia's lift irrigation schemes: Multi-level linkages

Akmal Kh Karimov, Rashid H. Toshev, Rustam Karshiev and Aziz A. Karimov

A systems engineering perspective on electrochemical energy technologies and a framework for application driven choice of technology

Deepa Elizabeth Eapen, Resmi Suresh, Sairaj Patil and Raghunathan Rengaswamy

A review of multiphase energy conversion in wind power generation

Xiaokang Peng, Zicheng Liu and Dong Jiang

From coconut shell biomass to oxygen reduction reaction catalyst: Tuning porosity and nitrogen doping

Satpal Singh Sekhon, Prabhsharan Kaur and Jin-Soo Park

Challenges and opportunities of inertia estimation and forecasting in low-inertia power systems

Evelyn Heylen, Fei Teng and Goran Strbac

Applications for solar irradiance nowcasting in the control of microgrids: A review

Remember Samu, Martina Calais, G.M. Shafiullah, Moayed Moghbel, Md Asaduzzaman Shoeb, Bijan Nouri and Niklas Blum

Overview of energy harvesting and emission reduction technologies in hybrid electric vehicles

Shengxi Bai and Chunhua Liu

Alkylation of phenol and substituted phenols with C1–C4 alcohols/olefins as an upgrading route for bio-oil oxygenates: A review

G. Afreen and S. Upadhyayula

Integration of solar heating systems for low-temperature heat demand in food processing industry – A review

Muhammad Imran Ismail, Nor Alafiza Yunus and Haslenda Hashim

Stable energy, energy inequality, and climate change vulnerability in Pan-Third Pole regions: Empirical analysis in cross-national rural areas

Mingxing Sun, Xiangbo Xu, Le Wang, Chang Li and Linxiu Zhang

Ancillary services in active distribution networks: A review of technological trends from operational and online analysis perspective

Georgios C. Kryonidis, Eleftherios O. Kontis, Theofilos A. Papadopoulos, Kalliopi D. Pippi, Angelos I. Nousdilis, Georgios A. Barzegkar-Ntovom, Alexandros D. Boubaris and Nick P. Papanikolaou

Non-technical losses: A systematic contemporary article review

Fernando de Souza Savian, Julio Cezar Mairesse Siluk, Taís Bisognin Garlet, Felipe Moraes do Nascimento, José Renes Pinheiro and Zita Vale

Bioinspired synthesis of iron-based nanomaterials for application in biofuels production: A new in-sight

Manish Srivastava, Neha Srivastava, Mohd Saeed, P.K. Mishra, Amir Saeed, Vijai Kumar Gupta and Bansi D. Malhotra

Towards a novel holistic design of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems operating under heat source fluctuations and intermittency

Xiaoya Li, Bin Xu, Hua Tian and Gequn Shu

Emergy evaluation of the integrated gasification combined cycle power generation systems with a carbon capture system

Siyue Ren, Xiao Feng and Yufei Wang

H2 gas-liquid mass transfer: A key element in biological Power-to-Gas methanation

M.B. Jensen, L.D.M. Ottosen and M.V.W. Kofoed

Energy emissions, consumption and impact of urban households: A review

Pramit Verma, Tanu Kumari and Akhilesh Singh Raghubanshi

Sustainability assessment of sugarcane residues valorization to biobutadiene by exergy and exergoeconomic evaluation

Alireza Fallahi, Somayeh Farzad, Seyed Saeid Mohtasebi, Mohsen Mandegari, Johann F. Görgens, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Su Shiung Lam, Meisam Tabatabaei and Mortaza Aghbashlo

Mechanism insight into photocatalytic conversion of lignin for valuable chemicals and fuels production: A state-of-the-art review

Huan Chen, Kun Wan, Fangjuan Zheng, Zhuo Zhang, Yayun Zhang and Donghui Long

Energy efficiency in extrusion-related polymer processing: A review of state of the art and potential efficiency improvements

Chamil Abeykoon, Alison McMillan and Bao Kha Nguyen

Factors affecting changes of greenhouse gas emissions in Belt and Road countries

Changjian Wang, Zhuang Miao, Xiaodong Chen and Yu Cheng

Integration of sustainability, stakeholder and process approaches for sustainable offshore wind farm decommissioning

Vanessa Spielmann, Thomas Brey, Jennifer Dannheim, Jesper Vajhøj, Mandy Ebojie, Johanna Klein and Silke Eckardt

The role of inertia for grid flexibility under high penetration of variable renewables - A review of challenges and solutions

Peter Makolo, Ramon Zamora and Tek-Tjing Lie

An overview of data tools for representing and managing building information and performance data

Na Luo, Marco Pritoni and Tianzhen Hong

A decision-making process for wave energy converter and location pairing

O. Choupin, F. Pinheiro Andutta, A. Etemad-Shahidi and R. Tomlinson

The role of fuel cells in port microgrids to support sustainable goods movement

Michael Mac Kinnon, Ghazal Razeghi and Scott Samuelsen

The significance of aqueous binders in lithium-ion batteries

Niranjanmurthi Lingappan, Lingxi Kong and Michael Pecht

Understanding waste management at airports: A study on current practices and challenges based on literature review

R.M. Sebastian and J. Louis

Low power energy harvesting systems: State of the art and future challenges

Katrina Calautit, Diana S.N.M. Nasir and Ben Richard Hughes

Government-led urbanization and natural gas demand in China

Zhengyu Cai, Chin-Hsien Yu and Chunhui Zhu

Impact of energy intensity, renewable energy, and economic growth on CO2 emissions: Evidence from Africa across regions and income levels

J.P. Namahoro, Q. Wu, N. Zhou and S. Xue

Scalable pathways to net zero carbon in the UK higher education sector: A systematic review of smart energy systems in university campuses

Vasiliki Kourgiozou, Andrew Commin, Mark Dowson, Dimitrios Rovas and Dejan Mumovic

Renewable electricity generation in the Australian water industry: Lessons learned and challenges for the future

A. Strazzabosco, S.J. Kenway, S.A. Conrad and P.A. Lant

Bioplastics: A boon or bane?

Ardra Nandakumar, Jo-Ann Chuah and Kumar Sudesh

The climate change potential effects on the run-of-river plant and the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability

Adriane Michels-Brito, Daniel Andrés Rodriguez, Wellington Luís Cruz Junior and João Nildo de Souza Vianna

Advances and emerging techniques for energy recovery during absorptive CO2 capture: A review of process and non-process integration-based strategies

Kelvin O. Yoro, Michael O. Daramola, Patrick T. Sekoai, Edward K. Armah and Uwemedimo N. Wilson

A systematic review of environmental determinants of renewable energy performance in Ethiopia: A PESTECH analysis

Ambe J. Njoh

Alone or together? A review on pure and mixed microbial cultures for butanol production

T. Pinto, X. Flores-Alsina, K.V. Gernaey and H. Junicke

Effectiveness of demand response in achieving supply-demand matching in a renewables dominated electricity system: A modelling approach

S. Balasubramanian and P. Balachandra

Diversifying the portfolio of sugarcane biorefineries: Anaerobic digestion as the core process for enhanced resource recovery

L.T. Fuess, R.B.C.M. Cruz, M. Zaiat and C.A.O. Nascimento

Redox-active polymers as organic electrode materials for sustainable supercapacitors

Xiaofang Zhang, Zongying Xiao, Xufei Liu, Peng Mei and Yingkui Yang

Review of developments in whole-building statistical energy consumption models for commercial buildings

Hongxiang Fu, Juan-Carlos Baltazar and David E. Claridge

Technological progresses in modern sustainable greenhouses cultivation as the path towards precision agriculture

Yasmine Achour, Ahmed Ouammi and Driss Zejli

Recent advance on the catalytic system for efficient production of biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural

Di Hu, Man Zhang, Hong Xu, Yuchen Wang and Kai Yan

A review on ammonia, ammonia-hydrogen and ammonia-methane fuels

Wai Siong Chai, Yulei Bao, Pengfei Jin, Guang Tang and Lei Zhou

Comprehensive comparison of multiple renewable power generation methods: A combination analysis of life cycle assessment and ecological footprint

Chengkang Gao, Sulong Zhu, Nan An, Hongming Na, Huan You and Chengbo Gao

Flower-power in the bioenergy sector – A review on second generation biofuel from perennial wild plant mixtures

C. Janusch, E.F. Lewin, M.L. Battaglia, E. Rezaei-Chiyaneh and M. Von Cossel

Volume 146, issue C, 2021

Inherent roadmap of conversion of plastic waste into energy and its life cycle assessment: A frontrunner compendium

Bhasha Sharma, Yagyadatta Goswami, Shreya Sharma and Shashank Shekhar

A consistent taxonomic framework: towards common understanding of high energy performance building definitions

C. Verhaeghe, S. Verbeke and A. Audenaert

Enhanced biomethane production from corn straw by a novel anaerobic digestion strategy with mechanochemical pretreatment

Shuaishuai Ma, Hongliang Wang, Longrui Li, Xiaohui Gu and Wanbin Zhu

Voltage control in future electrical distribution networks

William Murray, Marco Adonis and Atanda Raji

Economic costs of electricity load shedding in Nepal

Govinda Timilsina and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

Liquid air energy storage systems: A review

O. O'Callaghan and P. Donnellan

An innovative approach for the optimal sizing of mini-grids in rural areas integrating the demand, the supply, and the grid

Ibrahim Abada, Mehdi Othmani and Léa Tatry

Financing electricity access in Africa: A choice experiment study of household investor preferences for renewable energy investments in Ghana

Bridget Okyerebea Menyeh

A novel musical chairs algorithm applied for MPPT of PV systems

Ali M. Eltamaly

Biased technological progress and total factor productivity growth: From the perspective of China's renewable energy industry

Wang Zhen, Zhao Xin-gang and Zhou Ying

Critical evaluation and review of partial shading mitigation methods for grid-connected PV system using hardware solutions: The module-level and array-level approaches

I.M. Mehedi, Z. Salam, M.Z. Ramli, V.J. Chin, H. Bassi, M.J.H. Rawa and M.P. Abdullah

A game theoretic approach for analyzing electric and gasoline-based vehicles’ competition in a supply chain under government sustainable strategies: A case study of South Korea

Morteza Rasti-Barzoki and Ilkyeong Moon

The consumption patterns and determining factors of rural household energy: A case study of Henan Province in China

Cao Zi, Meng Qian and Gao Baozhong

Institutions and consumer preferences for renewable energy: A meta-regression analysis

Mayula Chaikumbung

Fuel consumption analysis and cap and trade system evaluation for Canadian in situ oil sands extraction

Minxing Si, Ling Bai and Ke Du

Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of renewable gas technologies: A comparative review

Sebastian Kolb, Thomas Plankenbühler, Katharina Hofmann, Joule Bergerson and Jürgen Karl

Analysis of green building performance in cold coastal climates: An in-depth evaluation of green buildings in Dalian, China

Yuan Su, Linwei Wang, Wei Feng, Nan Zhou and Luyuan Wang

Process intensification for hydrogen production through glycerol steam reforming

M. Salomé Macedo, M.A. Soria and Luis M. Madeira

Exploring the nexus between non-renewable and renewable energy consumptions and economic development: Evidence from panel estimations

Gagan Sharma, Aviral Tiwari, Burak Erkut and Hardeep Singh Mundi

A comprehensive review of energy-efficiency of ventilation system using Artificial Intelligence

Prince, and Ananda Shankar Hati

Potential assessment of large-scale hydro-photovoltaic-wind hybrid systems on a global scale

Zhenni Wang, Xin Wen, Qiaofeng Tan, Guohua Fang, Xiaohui Lei, Hao Wang and Jinyue Yan

Energy inequality in the Eurasian Economic Union

V. Bianco, Liliana Proskuryakova and A. Starodubtseva

Does energy trilemma a driver of economic growth? The roles of energy use, population growth, and financial development

Irfan Khan, Fujun Hou, Muhammad Irfan, Abdulrasheed Zakari and Hoang Phong Le

Service operation vessels for offshore wind farm maintenance: Optimal stock levels

Fábio Neves-Moreira, Jasper Veldman and Ruud H. Teunter

Corporate acceleration of the renewable energy transition and implications for electric grids

Eric O'Shaughnessy, Jenny Heeter, Chandra Shah and Sam Koebrich

Beyond-carbon materials for potassium ion energy-storage devices

Fulan Zhong, Yijun Wang, Guilan Li, Chuyun Huang, Anding Xu, Changrong Lin, Zhiguang Xu, Yurong Yan and Songping Wu

Sorting, regrouping, and echelon utilization of the large-scale retired lithium batteries: A critical review

Xin Lai, Yunfeng Huang, Cong Deng, Huanghui Gu, Xuebing Han, Yuejiu Zheng and Minggao Ouyang

Conversion of protein-rich lignocellulosic wastes to bio-energy: Review and recommendations for hydrolysis + fermentation and anaerobic digestion

F. Cheng and C.E. Brewer

Conversion of lignocellulose to biofuels and chemicals via sugar platform: An updated review on chemistry and mechanisms of acid hydrolysis of lignocellulose

Ziyuan Zhou, Dehua Liu and Xuebing Zhao

Multi-physics coupling in thermoacoustic devices: A review

Geng Chen, Lihua Tang, Brian Mace and Zhibin Yu

Cool pavements for urban heat island mitigation: A synthetic review

Chenghao Wang, Zhi-Hua Wang, Kamil E. Kaloush and Joseph Shacat

Grey-box modeling and application for building energy simulations - A critical review

Yanfei Li, Zheng O'Neill, Liang Zhang, Jianli Chen, Piljae Im and Jason DeGraw

Comparative energy consumption and photovoltaic economic analysis for residential buildings in Santiago de Chile and Santo Domingo of the Dominican Republic

M. Montané, L. Ruiz-Valero, C. Labra, J.G. Faxas-Guzmán and A. Girard

Renewable-based electrification for remote locations. Does short-term success endure over time? A case study in Peru

M. Juanpera, B. Domenech, L. Ferrer-Martí, A. Garzón and R. Pastor

A review on fundamental combustion characteristics of syngas mixtures and feasibility in combustion devices

E.V. Jithin, G.K.S. Raghuram, T.V. Keshavamurthy, Ratna Kishore Velamati, Chockalingam Prathap and Robin John Varghese

Hydrogen energy systems: A critical review of technologies, applications, trends and challenges

Meiling Yue, Hugo Lambert, Elodie Pahon, Robin Roche, Samir Jemei and Daniel Hissel

Harnessing solar energy using phototrophic microorganisms: A sustainable pathway to bioenergy, biomaterials, and environmental solutions

Rahamat Ullah Tanvir, Jianying Zhang, Timothy Canter, Dick Chen, Jingrang Lu and Zhiqiang Hu

The use of primary energy factors and CO2 intensities for electricity in the European context - A systematic methodological review and critical evaluation of the contemporary literature

Sam Hamels, Eline Himpe, Jelle Laverge, Marc Delghust, Kjartan Van den Brande, Arnold Janssens and Johan Albrecht

Principles regulation of electricity tariffs for the integrated generation of traditional and alternative energy sources

Ivan Kapitonov and Aleksandras Patapas

Cookstove implementation and Education for Sustainable Development: A review of the field and proposed research agenda

Samantha Lindgren

Brazil's offshore wind energy potential assessment based on a Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Amanda Vinhoza and Roberto Schaeffer

Sustainable renewable energy supply networks optimization – The gradual transition to a renewable energy system within the European Union by 2050

Sanja Potrč, Lidija Čuček, Mariano Martin and Zdravko Kravanja

Technoeconomic feasibility review of hybrid waste to energy system in the campus: A case study for the University of Victoria

Reza Esfilar, Mehdi Bagheri and Behrooz Golestani

Lubrication of textured journal bearing by using vegetable oil: A review of approaches, challenges, and opportunities

Z. Rasep, M.N.A.W. Muhammad Yazid and S. Samion

Effects of textured cylinder liner piston ring on performances of diesel engine under hot engine tests

Xiang Rao, Chenxing Sheng, Zhiwei Guo, Xuecheng Zhang, Huabing Yin, Chang Xu and Chengqing Yuan

Overview of the potential and limitations of cylinder deactivation

K. Fridrichová, L. Drápal, J. Vopařil and J. Dlugoš