Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Volume 70, issue C, 2017

The spatio-temporal dynamics of ethanol/gasoline price ratio in Brazil pp. 1-12

Márcio Laurini

Scenarios analysis of energy mix for road transportation sector in Indonesia pp. 13-23

Deendarlianto,, Adhika Widyaparaga, Bertha Maya Sopha, Arief Budiman, Imam Muthohar, Indra Chandra Setiawan, Alia Lindasista, Joewono Soemardjito and Kazutaka Oka

Incentive policies from 2006 to 2016 and new energy vehicle adoption in 2010–2020 in China pp. 24-43

Xiang Zhang and Xue Bai

Renewable energy: Prospects and trends in Bangladesh pp. 44-49

M.F. Hossain, S. Hossain and M.J. Uddin

A business model for success: Enterprises serving the base of the pyramid with off-grid solar lighting pp. 50-55

Inara Scott

Modeling the energy ratio and productivity of biodiesel with different reactor dimensions and ultrasonic power using ANFIS pp. 56-64

Leila Naderloo, Hossein Javadikia and Mostafa Mostafaei

A methodological review on bio-lubricants from vegetable oil based resources pp. 65-70

Tirth M. Panchal, Ankit Patel, D.D. Chauhan, Merlin Thomas and Jigar V. Patel

Prediction of soil temperatures for shallow geothermal applications in Turkey pp. 71-77

Deniz Yener, Onder Ozgener and Leyla Ozgener

Market structure and performance: An empirical study of the Chinese solar cell industry pp. 78-82

Yun Li, Dan Nie, Xingang Zhao and Yanbin Li

An institutional framework for the development of sustainable and competitive power market in Pakistan pp. 83-95

Usama Qazi, Mirza Jahanzaib, Wasim Ahmad and Salman Hussain

The effect of urbanization, energy consumption, and foreign direct investment on the carbon dioxide emission in the SSEA (South and Southeast Asian) region pp. 96-106

Smruti Ranjan Behera and Devi Prasad Dash

People’s knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes towards stump harvesting for bioenergy production in Finland pp. 107-116

Abul Rahman, Tahamina Khanam and Paavo Pelkonen

Biofuel development in Ghana: policies of expansion and drivers of failure in the jatropha sector pp. 133-149

Abubakari Ahmed, Benjamin Betey Campion and Alexandros Gasparatos

The prospects for smart energy prices: Observations from 50 years of residential pricing for fixed line telecoms and electricity pp. 150-160

Musiliu Oseni and Michael Pollitt

Renewable energy and biodiversity: Implications for transitioning to a Green Economy pp. 161-184

Alexandros Gasparatos, Christopher N.H. Doll, Miguel Esteban, Abubakari Ahmed and Tabitha A. Olang

Carbon emission, energy consumption, trade openness and financial development in Pakistan: A revisit pp. 185-192

Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad, Ronald Kumar, Muhammad Zakaria and Maryam Hurr

Renewable energy harvesting by vortex-induced motions: Review and benchmarking of technologies pp. 193-214

Ali Bakhshandeh Rostami and Mohammadmehdi Armandei

Recent approaches of unit commitment in the presence of intermittent renewable energy resources: A review pp. 215-223

Saleh Y. Abujarad, M.W. Mustafa and J.J. Jamian

Economic analysis of converting of waste agricultural biomass into liquid fuel: A case study on a biofuel plant in China pp. 224-229

Li-Qun Ji, Chuang Zhang and Jing-Qi Fang

The implications of energy systems for ecosystem services: A detailed case study of offshore wind pp. 230-241

Tara Hooper, Nicola Beaumont and Caroline Hattam

A review of biogas production from palm oil mill effluents using different configurations of bioreactors pp. 242-253

Elijah Ige Ohimain and Sylvester Chibueze Izah

Renewable energy and carbon capture and sequestration for a reduced carbon energy plan: An optimization model pp. 254-265

Andrew N. Arnette

Greening the gas network – The need for modelling the distributed injection of alternative fuels pp. 266-286

Sandro Pellegrino, Andrea Lanzini and Pierluigi Leone

Analyzing the potential and progress of distributed generation applications in Saudi Arabia: The case of solar and wind resources pp. 287-297

Makbul A.M. Ramli, Ssennoga Twaha and Zakariya Al-Hamouz

Progressing towards the development of sustainable energy: A critical review on the current status, applications, developmental barriers and prospects of solar photovoltaic systems in India pp. 298-313

S. Manju and Netramani Sagar

A critical review of the models used to estimate solar radiation pp. 314-329

Jianyuan Zhang, Li Zhao, Shuai Deng, Weicong Xu and Ying Zhang

A new electricity price prediction strategy using mutual information-based SVM-RFE classification pp. 330-341

Zhen Shao, ShanLin Yang, Fei Gao, KaiLe Zhou and Peng Lin

On heat pumps in smart grids: A review pp. 342-357

David Fischer and Hatef Madani

Green building evaluation from a life-cycle perspective in Australia: A critical review pp. 358-368

Jian Zuo, Stephen Pullen, Raufdeen Rameezdeen, Helen Bennetts, Yuan Wang, Guozhu Mao, Zhihua Zhou, Huibin Du and Huabo Duan

Paradigm shift from mechanical direct injection diesel engines to advanced injection strategies of diesel homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines- A comprehensive review pp. 369-384

S.V. Khandal, N.R. Banapurmath, V.N. Gaitonde and S.S. Hiremath

A review of seasonal pumped-storage combined with dams in cascade in Brazil pp. 385-398

Julian David Hunt, Marcos Aurélio Vasconcelos de Freitas and Amaro Olímpio Pereira Junior

Tribology with biodiesel: A study on enhancing biodiesel stability and its fuel properties pp. 399-412

F. Sundus, M.A. Fazal and H.H. Masjuki

Charge distribution measurement of solid insulator materials: A review and new approach pp. 413-426

N.A. Othman, M.A.M. Piah and Z. Adzis

Challenges and opportunities for a European HVDC grid pp. 427-456

Erika Pierri, Ole Binder, Nasser G.A. Hemdan and Michael Kurrat

The status of solar energy integration and policy in Nigeria pp. 457-471

C.G. Ozoegwu, C.A. Mgbemene and P.A. Ozor

A comprehensive review on utilization of hydrogen in a compression ignition engine under dual fuel mode pp. 472-491

Venkateswarlu Chintala and K.A. Subramanian

Solar systems integrated with absorption heat pumps and thermal energy storages: state of art pp. 492-505

Grazia Leonzio

Prospects of recently developed membraneless cell designs for redox flow batteries pp. 506-518

Musbaudeen O. Bamgbopa, Saif Almheiri and Hong Sun

Energy and quality aspects for fixed deep bed drying of paddy pp. 519-528

Mojtaba Tohidi, Morteza Sadeghi and Mehdi Torki-Harchegani

Dye sensitized solar cells: From genesis to recent drifts pp. 529-537

Sunita Sharma, Bulkesh Siwach,, S.K. Ghoshal and Devendra Mohan

The effectiveness of federal renewable policies in India pp. 538-550

Gireesh Shrimali, Sandhya Srinivasan, Shobhit Goel and David Nelson

Path creation in Nordic energy and road transport systems – The role of technological characteristics pp. 551-562

Teis Hansen, Antje Klitkou, Mads Borup, Lisa Scordato and Nina Wessberg

A comprehensive review on combustion and stability aspects of metal nanoparticles and its additive effect on diesel and biodiesel fuelled C.I. engine pp. 563-588

Vishal Saxena, Niraj Kumar and Vinod.Kumar Saxena

Microbial electrochemical systems for sustainable biohydrogen production: Surveying the experiences from a start-up viewpoint pp. 589-597

Gopalakrishnan Kumar, Péter Bakonyi, Guangyin Zhen, Periyasamy Sivagurunathan, László Koók, Sang-Hyoun Kim, Gábor Tóth, Nándor Nemestóthy and Katalin Bélafi-Bakó

Data science for building energy management: A review pp. 598-609

Miguel Molina-Solana, María Ros, M. Dolores Ruiz, Juan Gómez-Romero and M.J. Martin-Bautista

Electric power substitution for coal in China: Status quo and SWOT analysis pp. 610-622

Dong-xiao Niu, Zong-yun Song and Xin-li Xiao

Integrated technological paradigm-based soft paths towards sustainable development of small hydropower pp. 623-634

Jiuping Xu and Ting Ni

Active power filter (APF) for mitigation of power quality issues in grid integration of wind and photovoltaic energy conversion system pp. 635-655

Wajahat Ullah Tareen, Saad Mekhilef, Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian and Ben Horan

A comprehensive review of technical aspects of biomass cookstoves pp. 656-665

Mohammadreza Sedighi and Hesamoddin Salarian

Towards keeping diesel fuel supply and demand in balance: Dual-fuelling of diesel engines with natural gas pp. 666-697

Abdelrahman Hegab, Antonino La Rocca and Paul Shayler

Review of electric vehicle policies in China: Content summary and effect analysis pp. 698-714

Xingping Zhang, Yanni Liang, Enhai Yu, Rao Rao and Jian Xie

Is there convergence in per capita renewable energy consumption across U.S. States? Evidence from LM and RALS-LM unit root tests with breaks pp. 715-728

James Payne, Maruška Vizek and Junsoo Lee

Implications of U.S. biofuels policy for sustainable transportation energy in Maine and the Northeast pp. 729-735

Binod Neupane and Jonathan Rubin

A review on windcatcher for passive cooling and natural ventilation in buildings, Part 1: Indoor air quality and thermal comfort assessment pp. 736-756

Fatemeh Jomehzadeh, Payam Nejat, John Kaiser Calautit, Mohd Badruddin Mohd Yusof, Sheikh Ahmad Zaki, Ben Richard Hughes and Muhammad Noor Afiq Witri Muhammad Yazid

Gas generation and wind power: A review of unlikely allies in the United Kingdom and Ireland pp. 757-768

Joseph Devlin, Kang Li, Paraic Higgins and Aoife Foley

Limits to growth in the renewable energy sector pp. 769-774

J.P. Hansen, P.A. Narbel and D.L. Aksnes

Strategies to improve sustainability and offset the initial high capital expenditure of wave energy converters (WECs) pp. 775-785

S. Foteinis and T. Tsoutsos

Legionella disinfection by solar concentrator system pp. 786-792

S. Amara, T. Baghdadli, S. Knapp and B. Nordell

High-value low-volume bioproducts coupled to bioenergies with potential to enhance business development of sustainable biorefineries pp. 793-804

Wojciech M. Budzianowski

Planning for tidal current turbine technology: A case study of the Gulf of St. Lawrence pp. 805-813

Stephen J. Sangiuliano

Assessment of orange peel waste availability in ghana and potential bio-oil yield using fast pyrolysis pp. 814-821

D. Aboagye, N. Banadda, N. Kiggundu and I. Kabenge

Techno-economic evaluation of grid connected PV system for households with feed in tariff and time of day tariff regulation in New Delhi – A sustainable approach pp. 822-835

Vivek Tomar and G.N. Tiwari

Trends in the economic return on energy use and energy use efficiency in China's crop production pp. 836-844

Shen Yuan and Shaobing Peng

Application and development of biogas technology for the treatment of waste in China pp. 845-851

Liangwei Deng, Yi Liu, Dan Zheng, Lan Wang, Xiaodong Pu, Li Song, Zhiyong Wang, Yunhui Lei, Ziai Chen and Yan Long

Corrugated plate heat exchanger review pp. 852-860

Talal M. Abou Elmaaty, A.E. Kabeel and M. Mahgoub

Evaluation of Earth Building Tools in Construction (EBTC) in earth architecture and earth buildings pp. 861-866

Hamed Niroumand, Juan Antonio Barcelo, Charles J. Kibert and Maryam Saaly

Ground-source pump system for heating and cooling: Review and thermodynamic approach pp. 867-874

Umberto Lucia, Marco Simonetti, Giacomo Chiesa and Giulia Grisolia

Opportunities and challenges of gas hydrate policies with consideration of environmental impacts pp. 875-885

Jiafei Zhao, Yongchen Song, Xin-Le Lim and Wei-Haur Lam

Multiterminal DC grids: Operating analogies to AC power systems pp. 886-895

Kumars Rouzbehi, J. Ignacio Candela, Gevork B. Gharehpetian, Lennart Harnefors, Alvaro Luna and Pedro Rodriguez

Assessment of the environmental impacts associated with hydropower pp. 896-904

Anabela Botelho, Paula Ferreira, Fátima Lima, Ligia Pinto and Sara Sousa

A review on supercooling of Phase Change Materials in thermal energy storage systems pp. 905-919

A. Safari, R. Saidur, F.A. Sulaiman, Yan Xu and Joe Dong

Zinc oxide based dye-sensitized solar cells: A review pp. 920-935

R. Vittal and Kuo-Chuan Ho

A critical review of eutectic salt property prediction for latent heat energy storage systems pp. 936-944

Ralf Raud, Rhys Jacob, Frank Bruno, Geoffrey Will and Theodore A. Steinberg

Recent progress on catalytic pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass to high-grade bio-oil and bio-chemicals pp. 945-967

G. Kabir and B.H. Hameed

Energy efficiency policy evaluation by moving from techno-economic towards whole society perspective on energy efficiency market pp. 968-975

Vesna Bukarica and Željko Tomšić

A review on the application of Trombe wall system in buildings pp. 976-987

Zhongting Hu, Wei He, Jie Ji and Shengyao Zhang

Review on the renewable energy and solid waste management policies towards biogas development in Malaysia pp. 988-998

Cassendra Phun Chien Bong, Wai Shin Ho, Haslenda Hashim, Jeng Shiun Lim, Chin Siong Ho, William Soo Peng Tan and Chew Tin Lee

GIS application and econometric analysis for the verification of the financial feasibility of roof-top wind turbines in the city of Bari (Italy) pp. 999-1010

Pierluigi Morano, Francesco Tajani and Marco Locurcio

A review of energy use and energy-efficient technologies for the iron and steel industry pp. 1022-1039

Kun He and Li Wang

A review of biomass-derived heterogeneous catalyst for a sustainable biodiesel production pp. 1040-1051

Sharifah Hanis Yasmin Sayid Abdullah, Nur Hanis Mohamad Hanapi, Azman Azid, Roslan Umar, Hafizan Juahir, Helena Khatoon and Azizah Endut

Thermal conductivity enhancement of treated petroleum waxes, as phase change material, by α nano alumina: Energy storage pp. 1052-1058

Nermen H. Mohamed, Fathi S. Soliman, Heba El Maghraby and Y.M. Moustfa

Final and B molasses for fuel ethanol production and some market implications pp. 1059-1065

Juan Arturo Castañeda-Ayarza and Luis Augusto Barbosa Cortez

Analysis of fuel cell vehicles with advisor software pp. 1066-1071

Anil Can Turkmen, Salim Solmaz and Cenk Celik

A review on current status and challenges of inorganic phase change materials for thermal energy storage systems pp. 1072-1089

Shamseldin A. Mohamed, Fahad A. Al-Sulaiman, Nasiru I. Ibrahim, Md. Hasan Zahir, Amir Al-Ahmed, R. Saidur, B.S. Yılbaş and A.Z. Sahin

An overview of incentive policies for the expansion of renewable energy generation in electricity power systems and the Brazilian experience pp. 1090-1098

Giancarlo Aquila, Edson de Oliveira Pamplona, Anderson Rodrigo de Queiroz, Paulo Rotela Junior and Marcelo Nunes Fonseca

A review of Weibull functions in wind sector pp. 1099-1107

Piotr Wais

Building electrical energy consumption forecasting analysis using conventional and artificial intelligence methods: A review pp. 1108-1118

Mohammad Azhar Mat Daut, Mohammad Yusri Hassan, Hayati Abdullah, Hasimah Abdul Rahman, Md Pauzi Abdullah and Faridah Hussin

A comprehensive review on compressed air powered engine pp. 1119-1130

Devang Marvania and Sudhakar Subudhi

What drives carbon dioxide emissions in the long-run? Evidence from selected South Asian Countries pp. 1142-1153

Khalid Ahmed, Mujeeb Ur Rehman and Ilhan Ozturk

Maximum power point tracking methodologies for solar PV systems – A review pp. 1154-1177

Puneet Joshi and Sudha Arora

Integration of solar technology to modern greenhouse in China: Current status, challenges and prospect pp. 1178-1188

Tianyue Wang, Gaoxiang Wu, Jiewei Chen, Peng Cui, Zexi Chen, Yangyang Yan, Yan Zhang, Meicheng Li, Dongxiao Niu, Baoguo Li and Hongyi Chen

Solar air heaters: Design configurations, improvement methods and applications – A detailed review pp. 1189-1206

A.E. Kabeel, Mofreh H. Hamed, Z.M. Omara and A.W. Kandeal

Innovating problem solving in power quality devices: A survey based on Dynamic Voltage Restorer case (DVR) pp. 1207-1216

Muhammad Mansoor, Norman Mariun, Arash Toudeshki, Noor Izzri Abdul Wahab, Ahmad Umair Mian and Mojgan Hojabri

Evaluating decentralized energy investments: Spatial value of on-site PV electricity pp. 1217-1222

Jussi Vimpari and Seppo Junnila

The effect of energy on output per worker in the Balkan Peninsula: A country-specific study of 12 nations in the Energy Community pp. 1223-1239

Ronald Kumar, Peter Stauvermann, Arvind Patel and Nikeel Kumar

Economics of climate change and green employment: A general equilibrium investigation for Turkey pp. 1240-1250

Gunes Kolsuz and Erinc Yeldan

Energy transitions and national development indicators: A global review of nuclear energy production pp. 1251-1265

Fabienne Gralla, David J. Abson, Anders P. Møller, Daniel J. Lang and Henrik von Wehrden

Development scheme and key technology of an electric vehicle: An overview pp. 1266-1285

M. Satyendra Kumar and Shripad T. Revankar

A review of thin film solar cell technologies and challenges pp. 1286-1297

Taesoo D. Lee and Abasifreke U. Ebong

A comprehensive review of data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach in energy efficiency pp. 1298-1322

Abbas Mardani, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Dalia Streimikiene, Ahmad Jusoh and Masoumeh Khoshnoudi

Temporal and spacial dynamics of bioenergy-related CO2 emissions and underlying forces analysis in China pp. 1323-1330

Jing Yang, Kaihui Song, Jian Hou, Peidong Zhang and Jinhu Wu

Electrolytes behavior during hydrogen production by solar energy pp. 1331-1335

M.Hassen Sellami and K. Loudiyi

Application of SiC power electronic devices in secondary power source for aircraft pp. 1336-1342

Qian Xun, Boyang Xun, Zuxin Li, Peiliang Wang and Zhiduan Cai

Evaluation of wind power potential in Baburband (Pakistan) using Weibull distribution function pp. 1343-1351

Muhammad Shoaib, Imran Siddiqui, Yousaf Muhammad Amir and Saif Ur Rehman

Optimal hybrid PV/wind energy system sizing: Application of cuckoo search algorithm for Algerian dairy farms pp. 1352-1365

O. Nadjemi, T. Nacer, A. Hamidat and H. Salhi

Testing the Kuznets Curve hypothesis for Qatar: A comparison between carbon dioxide and ecological footprint pp. 1366-1375

Zouhair Mrabet and Mouyad Alsamara

Comparative study of emissions from stationary engines using biodiesel made from soybean oil, palm oil and waste frying oil pp. 1376-1392

Márcio de Almeida D´Agosto, Marcelino Aurélio Vieira da Silva, Luíza Santana Franca, Cíntia Machado de Oliveira, Manuel Oliveira Lemos Alexandre, Luiz Guilherme da Costa Marques, Aurélio Lamare Soares Murta and Marcos Aurelio Vasconcelos de Freitas