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Alyson H. Rapp, Robert B. Sowby and Gustavious Williams
More water utilities are adopting aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) to balance long-term water supply and demand. Due to large implementation and operation costs, ASR projects need to be optimized, particularly for energy use, which is a major operating...
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Patrick Ssekitoleko and Shepherd Dhliwayo
The objective of this research is to appraise the level of entrepreneurial activity in South Africa and to identify the challenges to implementation of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) that obstruct the leveraging of 4IR technologies to boost entre...
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Emmanuel Karapidakis, Marios Nikologiannis, Marini Markaki, Ariadni Kikaki and Sofia Yfanti
The EU has set ambitious targets to combat climate change. Incorporating renewable energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is a critical aspect of achieving the European Union?s (EU) 2030 climate goals. Similarly to all member countries of...
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Ashfaque Ahmed Jhatial, Iveta Nováková and Eirik Gjerløw
Alternative to traditional concrete, sustainable concrete reduces cement content, waste management issues, and CO2 emissions. To achieve sustainable concrete, waste materials can be used as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) to partially replace...
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Hossein Hassani, Nadejda Komendantova, Daniel Kroos, Stephan Unger and Mohammad Reza Yeganegi
The importance of energy security for the successful functioning of private companies, national economies, and the overall society cannot be underestimated. Energy is a critical infrastructure for any modern society, and its reliable functioning is essen...
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Dawei Huang, Hongting Ma, Shuo Ma, Mo Chen, Chang Xu, Yongyichuan Zhang and Cong Yan
The solar-assisted electric boiler water heating systems adopted in student apartments at universities have some shortcomings, such as unsuitable system designs, unstable water supply temperature, and excessive power consumption. As discussed in this pap...
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Manish Ramaiah, Ram Avtar and Pankaj Kumar
Rising land surface temperature (LST), urban heat island (UHI) effects, and stress on surface-, processed-, potable-, and ground-water resources are some undesirable ecological changes due to rapid urbanization. Treating and reusing city-generated wastew...
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Tiziana Campisi, Alessandro Severino, Muhammad Ahmad Al-Rashid and Giovanni Pau
Smart cities aim to integrate technological development with different functions/components such as mobility, management of energy, natural resources, water, and the waste cycle, air quality, land use, service network, construction, but also the economy,...
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K. Akom, T. Shongwe, M.K. Joseph
The Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) was designed to consider South Africa?s energy needs from 2015 to 2050, as a guide for energy structural savings and the development of energy policy. The main aim of the Department of Energy is to ensure the security of ...
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Carlos Arnaiz del Pozo, Schalk Cloete, Ángel Jiménez Álvaro, Felix Donat and Shahriar Amini
The hydrogen economy has received resurging interest in recent years, as more countries commit to net-zero CO2 emissions around the mid-century. ?Blue? hydrogen from natural gas with CO2 capture and storage (CCS) is one promising sustainable hydrogen sup...
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