Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Volume 119, issue C, 2020

Anaerobic digestion of livestock manure in cold regions: Technological advancements and global impacts

Yao Yao, Gordon Huang, Chunjiang An, Xiujuan Chen, Peng Zhang, Xiaying Xin, Jian Shen, and Joy Agnew

Development of smart energy towns in China: Concept and practices

Xuesheng Liang, Linwei Ma, Chinhao Chong, Zheng Li and Weidou Ni

A review on municipal solid waste-to-energy trends in the USA

C. Mukherjee, J. Denney, E.G. Mbonimpa, J. Slagley and R. Bhowmik

Greenhouse gas emission reduction and cost from the United States biofuels mandate

R. Johansson, S. Meyer, J. Whistance, W. Thompson and D. Debnath

Geothermal resource and reserve assessment methodology: Overview, analysis and future directions

Anthony E. Ciriaco, Sadiq J. Zarrouk and Golbon Zakeri

Bioethanol supply chain network design considering land characteristics

Hasti Rahemi, S. Ali Torabi, Akram Avami and Fariborz Jolai

Renewable energy communities as ‘socio-legal institutions’: A normative frame for energy decentralization?

Michiel A. Heldeweg and Séverine Saintier,

A comparative review of municipal energy business models in Germany, California, and Great Britain: Institutional context and forms of energy decentralization

Laura Brinker and Andrew J. Satchwell

The socio-economic impacts of solar water heaters compared across two communities: A case study of Cato Manor

A. Naidoo

Layered perovskite oxides and their derivative nanosheets adopting different modification strategies towards better photocatalytic performance of water splitting

Yuchao Hu, Liuhao Mao, Xiangjiu Guan, Kevin Andrew Tucker, Huling Xie, Xuesong Wu and Jinwen Shi

Adsorption heat pumps for heating applications

Joana M. Pinheiro, Sérgio Salústio, João Rocha, Anabela A. Valente and Carlos M. Silva

Skeleton materials for shape-stabilization of high temperature salts based phase change materials: A critical review

Feng Jiang, Lingling Zhang, Xiaohui She, Chuan Li, Daqiang Cang, Xianglei Liu, Yimin Xuan and Yulong Ding

Review of wind generation within adequacy calculations and capacity markets for different power systems

Lennart Söder, Egill Tómasson, Ana Estanqueiro, Damian Flynn, Bri-Mathias Hodge, Juha Kiviluoma, Magnus Korpås, Emmanuel Neau, António Couto, Danny Pudjianto, Goran Strbac, Daniel Burke, Tomás Gómez, Kaushik Das, Nicolaos A. Cutululis, Dirk Van Hertem, Hanspeter Höschle, Julia Matevosyan, Serafin von Roon, Enrico Maria Carlini, Mauro Caprabianca and Laurens de Vries

Future integrated mobility-energy systems: A modeling perspective

Matteo Muratori, Paige Jadun, Brian Bush, David Bielen, Laura Vimmerstedt, Jeff Gonder, Chris Gearhart and Doug Arent

A decision tree method for explaining household gas consumption: The role of building characteristics, socio-demographic variables, psychological factors and household behaviour

Maliheh Namazkhan, Casper Albers and Linda Steg

Evaluation of the potential of classic and electric bicycle commuting as an impetus for the transition towards environmentally sustainable cities: A case study of the university campuses in Liege, Belgium

ModesteKameni Nematchoua, Caroline Deuse, Mario Cools and Sigrid Reiter

Review on carbon emissions of commercial buildings

Mengxue Lu and Joseph Lai

A review on subcritical and supercritical water gasification of biogenic, polymeric and petroleum wastes to hydrogen-rich synthesis gas

Jude A. Okolie, Sonil Nanda, Ajay K. Dalai, Franco Berruti and Janusz A. Kozinski

Prospects in anode materials for sodium ion batteries - A review

Tahira Perveen, Muhammad Siddiq, Nadia Shahzad, Rida Ihsan, Abrar Ahmad and Muhammad Imran Shahzad

Recent developments on functional nanomaterial-based electrodes for microbial fuel cells

Rajnish Kaur, Aanchal Marwaha, Varun A. Chhabra, Ki-Hyun Kim and S.K. Tripathi

A review on biomass derived syngas for SOFC based combined heat and power application

Nikdalila Radenahmad, Atia Tasfiah Azad, Muhammad Saghir, Juntakan Taweekun, Muhammad Saifullah Abu Bakar, Md Sumon Reza and Abul Kalam Azad

Biogas to liquefied biomethane: Assessment of 3P's–Production, processing, and prospects

Muhammad Abdul Qyyum, Junaid Haider, Kinza Qadeer, Valentina Valentina, Amin Khan, Muhammad Yasin, Muhammad Aslam, Giorgia De Guido, Laura A. Pellegrini and Moonyong Lee

Metabolic engineering for enhancing microbial biosynthesis of advanced biofuels

Manali Das, Pradipta Patra and Amit Ghosh

Developing indicators for the monitoring of the sustainability of food, energy, and water

Mei-Hua Yuan and Shang-Lien Lo

Rambling facets of manure-based biogas production in Europe: A briefing

Spyridon Achinas and Gerrit Jan Willem Euverink

Pyrolysis of municipal sewage sludge for bioenergy production: Thermo-kinetic studies, evolved gas analysis, and techno-socio-economic assessment

Hossein Shahbeig and Mohsen Nosrati

Variation in rural household energy transitions for basic lighting in India

Elise Harrington, Ameya Athavankar and David Hsu

The cultural barriers to a low-carbon future: A review of six mobility and energy transitions across 28 countries

Benjamin K. Sovacool and Steve Griffiths

Exploring solar and wind energy resources in North Korea with COMS MI geostationary satellite data coupled with numerical weather prediction reanalysis variables

Jong-Min Yeom, Ravinesh C. Deo, Jan F. Adamwoski, Taebyeong Chae, Dong-Su Kim, Kyung-Soo Han and Do-Yong Kim

Critical design features of thermal-based radioisotope generators: A review of the power solution for polar regions and space

Xiawa Wang, Renrong Liang, Peter Fisher, Walker Chan and Jun Xu

The production of biodiesel from safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) oil as a potential feedstock and its usage in compression ignition engine: A comprehensive review

Murat Kadir Yesilyurt, Cüneyt Cesur, Volkan Aslan and Zeki Yilbasi

Advanced thermal response tests: A review

Sascha Wilke, Kathrin Menberg, Hagen Steger and Philipp Blum

Impacts of energy decentralization viewed through the lens of the energy cultures framework: Solar home systems in the developing economies

Imran Khan

Phase change material thermal energy storage systems for cooling applications in buildings: A review

Khaireldin Faraj, Mahmoud Khaled, Jalal Faraj, Farouk Hachem and Cathy Castelain

Towards net zero energy in industrial and commercial buildings in Portugal

F. Bandeiras, M. Gomes, P. Coelho and J. Fernandes

A review of research on the closed thermodynamic cycles of ocean thermal energy conversion

Weimin Liu, Xiaojian Xu, Fengyun Chen, Yanjun Liu, Shizhen Li, Lei Liu and Yun Chen

Biochar-based adsorbents for carbon dioxide capture: A critical review

Pavani Dulanja Dissanayake, Siming You, Avanthi Deshani Igalavithana, Yinfeng Xia, Amit Bhatnagar, Souradeep Gupta, Harn Wei Kua, Sumin Kim, Jung-Hwan Kwon, Daniel C.W. Tsang and Yong Sik Ok

Structural design implications of combining a point absorber with a wind turbine monopile for the east and west coast of Ireland

O’Kelly-Lynch, Patrick, Cian Long, Fiona Devoy McAuliffe, Jimmy Murphy and Vikram Pakrashi

The evolution of rural energy policies in China: A review

Shu Wu

Blockchain for power systems: Current trends and future applications

Maria Luisa Di Silvestre, Pierluigi Gallo, Josep M. Guerrero, Rossano Musca, Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Giuseppe Sciumè, Juan C. Vásquez and Gaetano Zizzo

Investigation of biogas production potential from mechanical separated municipal solid waste as an approach for developing countries (case study: Isfahan-Iran)

Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Noorbakhsh Dehkordi, Ahmad Reza Taghipour Jahromi, Ali Ferdowsi, Mohammad Shumal and Ali Dehnavi

Critical considerations in two-stage anaerobic digestion of food waste – A review

G. Srisowmeya, M. Chakravarthy and G. Nandhini Devi

Unlocking the potential of walnut husk extract in the production of waste cooking oil-based biodiesel

Zahra Khounani, Homa Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Alawi Sulaiman, Sayed Amir Hossein Goli, Elham Tavassoli-Kafrani, Akram Ghaffari, Mohammad Ali Rajaeifar, Ki-Hyun Kim, Ahmad Farhad Talebi, Mortaza Aghbashlo and Meisam Tabatabaei

A review on catalytic methane combustion at low temperatures: Catalysts, mechanisms, reaction conditions and reactor designs

Li He, Yilin Fan, Jérôme Bellettre, Jun Yue and Lingai Luo

On-design pre-optimization and off-design analysis of hybrid Brayton thermosolar tower power plants for different fluids and plant configurations

R.P. Merchán, M.J. Santos, I. Heras, J. Gonzalez-Ayala, A. Medina and A. Calvo Hernández

A review of steady-state thermal and mechanical modelling on tubular solar receivers

Tim Conroy, Maurice N. Collins and Ronan Grimes

Initial metal contents and leaching rate constants of metals leached from end-of-life solar photovoltaic waste: An integrative literature review and analysis

Preeti Nain and Arun Kumar

Learning occupants’ indoor comfort temperature through a Bayesian inference approach for office buildings in United States

Zhe Wang and Tianzhen Hong

Hydrogen vehicles in urban logistics: A total cost of ownership analysis and some policy implications

J. Jones, A. Genovese and A. Tob-Ogu

Thorough state-of-the-art analysis of electric and hybrid vehicle powertrains: Topologies and integrated energy management strategies

Dai-Duong Tran, Majid Vafaeipour, Mohamed El Baghdadi, Ricardo Barrero, Joeri Van Mierlo and Omar Hegazy

A systematic review of energy systems: The role of policymaking in sustainable transitions

Fiona Robertson Munro and Paul Cairney

A comparative analysis on performances of flat plate photovoltaic/thermal collectors in view of operating media, structural designs, and climate conditions

Wei Pang, Yanan Cui, Qian Zhang, Gregory.J. Wilson and Hui Yan

Coke formation and deactivation during catalytic reforming of biomass and waste pyrolysis products: A review

Aitor Ochoa, Javier Bilbao, Ana G. Gayubo and Pedro Castaño

China's carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) policy: A critical review

Kai Jiang, Peta Ashworth, Shiyi Zhang, Xi Liang, Yan Sun and Daniel Angus

Stability problems in the hydrogen production by dark fermentation: Possible causes and solutions

Elena Castelló, Antonio Djalma Nunes Ferraz-Junior, Cristiane Andreani, Melida del Pilar Anzola-Rojas, Liliana Borzacconi, Germán Buitrón, Julián Carrillo-Reyes, Simone Damasceno Gomes, Sandra I. Maintinguer, Iván Moreno-Andrade, Rodolfo Palomo-Briones, Elías Razo-Flores, María Schiappacasse-Dasati, Estela Tapia-Venegas, Idania Valdez-Vázquez, Alejandra Vesga-Baron, Marcelo Zaiat and Claudia Etchebehere

Recent advances on palm oil mill effluent (POME) pretreatment and anaerobic reactor for sustainable biogas production

Md Maniruzzaman A Aziz, Khairul Anuar Kassim, Moetaz ElSergany, Syed Anuar, M. Ehsan Jorat, H. Yaacob, Amimul Ahsan, Monzur A. Imteaz and Arifuzzaman,

Comparative study of fast pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis and catalytic hydropyrolysis of poplar sawdust and rice husk in a modified Py-GC/MS microreactor system: Insights into product distribution, quantum description and reaction mechanism

Yifeng He, Yingnan Zhao, Meiyun Chai, Zhongyue Zhou, Manobendro Sarker, Chong Li, Ronghou Liu, Junmeng Cai and Xinghua Liu

An assessment of wind energy potential in the Beibu Gulf considering the energy demands of the Beibu Gulf Economic Rim

Xinping Chen, Aoife Foley, Zenghai Zhang, Kaimin Wang and Kieran O'Driscoll

A vision on biomass-to-liquids (BTL) thermochemical routes in integrated sugarcane biorefineries for biojet fuel production

Renato Cruz Neves, Bruno Colling Klein, Ricardo Justino da Silva, Mylene Cristina Alves Ferreira Rezende, Axel Funke, Edgardo Olivarez-Gómez, Antonio Bonomi and Rubens Maciel-Filho

Recent progress in development of diverse kinds of hole transport materials for the perovskite solar cells: A review

Zahra Shariatinia

Pathways for integrated concentrated solar power - Desalination: A critical review

Amr Omar, Amir Nashed, Qiyuan Li, Greg Leslie and Robert A. Taylor

Two-stage cultivation strategy for simultaneous increases in growth rate and lipid content of microalgae: A review

Md Maniruzzaman A. Aziz, Khairul Anuar Kassim, Zahra Shokravi, Fauzan Mohd Jakarni, Hong Yuan Liu, Nabilah Zaini, Lian See Tan, A.B.M. Saiful Islam and Hoofar Shokravi

Recent updates on the adsorption capacities of adsorbent-adsorbate pairs for heat transformation applications

Faizan Shabir, Muhammad Sultan, Takahiko Miyazaki, Bidyut B. Saha, Ahmed Askalany, Imran Ali, Yuguang Zhou, Riaz Ahmad and Redmond R. Shamshiri

A comparative study of the data-driven day-ahead hourly provincial load forecasting methods: From classical data mining to deep learning

Xin Liu, Zijun Zhang and Zhe Song

Examining the decreasing share of renewable energy amid growing thermal capacity: The case of South America

S. Arango-Aramburo, J.P. Ríos-Ocampo and E.R. Larsen

A comprehensive review of pilot ignited high pressure direct injection natural gas engines: Factors affecting combustion, emissions and performance

Menghan Li, Hanming Wu, Tiechen Zhang, Boxiong Shen, Qiang Zhang and Zhenguo Li

Smart Energy Markets - Future electricity, gas and heating markets

P. Sorknæs, Henrik Lund, I.R. Skov, S. Djørup, K. Skytte, P.E. Morthorst and F. Fausto