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Bader Alaifan and Elie Azar
A net-zero energy community (NZEC) is a promising paradigm that can directly contribute to a sustainable building sector and infrastructure. This research presents a unique empirical techno-economic optimization and evaluation approach for NZEC potential...
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Xihong Zhang, Wahidul K. Biswas, Andy Watt, Lendyn Philip and Shaun Sadler
This paper presents the application of recycled tubular, flowline, and umbilical in coastal protection structures. Flowline and tubular are found to improve the load resistance capacity of concrete beams. Embedment of flowline, umbilical, and tubular int...
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Alejandra Vera-Burau, Daniel Álvarez-Ramírez, Lluís Sanmiquel and Marc Bascompta
Mine planning and mine design are crucial stages of a project in the mining industry. This study aimed to determine the impact of different constraints on the design and planning of a mine. Some of the deposit characteristics and parameters that influenc...
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Victor Ramos, Gianmaria Giannini, Tomás Calheiros-Cabral, Paulo Rosa-Santos and Francisco Taveira-Pinto
In recent years, seaports have faced increasing pressure to transition towards a low-carbon and more sustainable energy model. In this context, the exploitation of the local wave energy resource may appear as a promising alternative. Therefore, the objec...
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Panagiotis Karvounis, João L. D. Dantas, Charalampos Tsoumpris and Gerasimos Theotokatos
The shipping sector decarbonisation has attracted great attention due to the sector contribution to worldwide carbon emissions. This study aims at investigating the techno-economic?environmental performance of different ship power plants to identify sust...
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Jian Tan, Xuezhou Wang, Henk Polinder, Antonio Jarquin Laguna and Sape A. Miedema
A crucial part of wave energy converters (WECs) is the power take-off (PTO) mechanism, and PTO sizing has been shown to have a considerable impact on the levelized cost of energy (LCOE). However, as a dominating type of PTO system in WECs, previous resea...
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Marcello Rava, Panagiotis Dafnakis, Vittorio Martini, Giuseppe Giorgi, Vincenzo Orlando, Giuliana Mattiazzo, Giovanni Bracco and Andrea Gulisano
This work presents the Water Energy Point Absorber (WEPA), which is a heaving single-buoy point absorber optimized for a specific site off the west coast of Sardinia Island. The aim of the study is to present the optimization process undertaken to identi...
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Ali M. H. A. Khajah and Simon P. Philbin
There continues to be significant attention and investment in wind power generation, which can supply a high percentage of the global demand for renewable energy if harvested efficiently. The research study is based on a techno-economic analysis of the f...
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Mauro Bonfanti and Giuseppe Giorgi
Wave energy converter (WEC) optimization often underlines incremental and iterative approaches that result in suboptimal solutions, since all the elements that concur with a techno-economical evaluation are optimized separately due to computation constra...
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Jian Tan, Henk Polinder, Antonio Jarquin Laguna, Peter Wellens and Sape A. Miedema
Currently, the techno-economic performance of Wave Energy Converters (WECs) is not competitive with other renewable technologies. Size optimization could make a difference. However, the impact of sizing on the techno-economic performance of WECs still re...
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