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Zikhona Tshemese, Nirmala Deenadayalu, Linda Zikhona Linganiso and Maggie Chetty
Bioenergy production from waste is one of the emerging and viable routes from renewable resources (in addition to wind and solar energy). Many developing countries can benefit from this as they are trying to solve the large amounts of unattended garbage ...
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Xinrui He, Wenli Jia, Yuxiang Dong and Mohammad Siahkouhi
The railway industry has shown a strong interest in utilizing sustainable materials, including recycled materials and composites, in construction. Bamboo, as a highly renewable natural resource, has been proposed as a construction material for the railwa...
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Nicholas Davison, Aaron Brown and Andrew Ross
Pig manure currently results in sizeable greenhouse gas emissions, during storage and spreading to land. Anaerobic digestion and hydrothermal carbonisation could provide significant greenhouse gas mitigation, as well as generate renewable heat and power ...
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Rajeev Ravindran, Kwame Donkor, Lalitha Gottumukkala, Abhay Menon, Amita Jacob Guneratnam, Helena McMahon, Sybrandus Koopmans, Johan P. M. Sanders and James Gaffey
Global warming and climate change are imminent threats to the future of humankind. A shift from the current reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy is key to mitigating the impacts of climate change. Biological raw materials and residues can play a ...
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Hanyu Liu, Mingsheng Chen, Zhaolong Han, Hao Zhou and Lin Li
Marine aquaculture has been expanded into more remote areas due to the increasing demand for high value-added fish products, bringing more challenges in fuel supply and mooring safety to open ocean aquaculture farms. Therefore, the idea of integrating aq...
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Robert Maxwell Tullberg, Huu Phu Nguyen and Chien Ming Wang
This study provides an overview of both traditional nearshore seaweed farming infrastructure and more recent developments intended for large scale farming in more exposed coastal waters where nutrient supply may be a limiting factor. The success of multi...
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Sweta Bhattacharya, Rajeswari Chengoden, Gautam Srivastava, Mamoun Alazab, Abdul Rehman Javed, Nancy Victor, Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta and Thippa Reddy Gadekallu
Smart grids (SG) are electricity grids that communicate with each other, provide reliable information, and enable administrators to operate energy supplies across the country, ensuring optimized reliability and efficiency. The smart grid contains sensors...
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Eric W. Harmsen, John R. Mecikalski, Victor J. Reventos, Estefanía Álvarez Pérez, Sopuruchi S. Uwakweh and Christie Adorno García
In 2009, the University of Alabama-Huntsville configured their GOES satellited-based solar radiation product to include Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands (USVI), Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba. The half-hourly and daily integrated data are...
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Tamás Mizik and Gábor Gyarmati
As Earth?s fossil energy resources are limited, there is a growing need for renewable resources such as biodiesel. That is the reason why the social, economic and environmental impacts of biofuels became an important research topic in the last decade. De...
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Caterina Caprioli, Marta Bottero and Elena De Angelis
Renewable energy resources and energy-efficient technologies, as well as building retrofitting, are only some of the possible strategies that can achieve more sustainable cities and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Subsidies and incentives are often prov...
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