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Ali Ghahremani, Scott D. Adams, Michael Norton, Sui Yang Khoo and Abbas Z. Kouzani
Solar panels are an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels; however, their useful life is limited to approximately 25 years, after which they become a waste management issue. Proper management and recycling of end-of-life (EOL) solar panels...
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Nick Rigogiannis, Ioannis Bogatsis, Christos Pechlivanis, Anastasios Kyritsis and Nick Papanikolaou
Road transportation accounts for about 20% of the total GHG emissions in the EU. Nowadays, the substitution of conventional fossil fuel-based ICEs with electric engines, or their hybridization, operating along with Energy Storage Systems, seems to be the...
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Giuliano Sico, Maria Montanino, Fausta Loffredo, Carmela Borriello and Riccardo Miscioscia
Pyroelectric energy harvesting is one of the more recent and promising solid-state approaches for directly converting time-dependent temperature fluctuations into electric energy. Conventional printing technologies can offer many advantages for the produ...
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Jorge Otaegi, Rufino J. Hernández, Xabat Oregi, Alexander Martín-Garín and Iñigo Rodríguez-Vidal
In the last decade, several European directives have been established to contribute to the 2020, 2030 and 2050 energy saving targets and impose energy efficiency requirements for new construction, existing buildings and building renovation operations. On...
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Maha Shehadeh, Emily Kwok, Jason Owen and Majid Bahrami
The City of Surrey in British Columbia, Canada has recently launched a district energy network (DEN) to supply residential and commercial buildings in the Surrey Centre area with hot water for space and domestic hot water heating. The network runs on nat...
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Chouaib Ennawaoui, Abdelowahed Hajjaji, Cédric Samuel, Erroumayssae Sabani, Abdelkader Rjafallah, Ikrame Najihi, El Mehdi Laadissi, El Mehdi Loualid, Mohamed Rguiti, Abdessamad El Ballouti and Azeddine Azim
This paper investigates energy harvesting performances of porous piezoelectric polymer films to collect electrical energy from vibrations and power various sensors. The influence of void content on the elastic matrix, dielectric, electrical, and mechanic...
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George Karalis, Kyriaki Tsirka, Lazaros Tzounis, Christos Mytafides, Lampros Koutsotolis and Alkiviadis S. Paipetis
This work proves the thermoelectric principles and efficiency of model composites towards the manufacturing of multifunctional fiber reinforced polymer composites (FRPCs) for large-scale structural applications enabling thermal energy harvesting technolo...
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Wei Chen, Jing Liu, Wen-Zhuang Ma, Gao-Xiang Yu, Jing-Qian Chen, Hao-Yuan Cai and Cheng-Fu Yang
Solar energy is the most important clean energy source on the earth, and many research studies have been conducted to investigate solar-energy collection. This article numerically proposes a new ultra-broadband solar absorber with structures of multilaye...
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Aikifa Raza, Jin-You Lu, Safa Alzaim, Hongxia Li and TieJun Zhang
Efficient solar vapor/steam generation is important for various applications ranging from power generation, cooling, desalination systems to compact and portable devices like drinking water purification and sterilization units. However, conventional sola...
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Eleni Avaritsioti
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Car exhaust heat recovery is being investigated in recent years as a way to increase the efficiency of Internal Combustion engines and simultaneously to reduce CO2 emissions by converting the thermal energy to electrical, employing either thermal fluid s...
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