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Stefania Perrella, Fabio Bisegna, Piero Bevilacqua, Daniela Cirone and Roberto Bruno
In the EU, the building sector is responsible for 40% of the global energy consumption for final uses and 36% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Heat pumps allow for the replacement of conventional systems based on fossil fuels with the perspective o...
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Zhigang Ren, Shize Yang, Jiaji Zhang, Qiankun Wang, Shuqiang Gui, Junli Zhou, Yuyang Tang, Ke Zhu, Chuxiong Shen, Zhihua Xiong, Jinlong Sun, Xinpeng Qiu and Zhuo Chen
The discharge of warm water from water source heat pump (WSHP) energy stations can cause local changes in the water temperature, leading to changes in the water quality around and downstream of the discharge outlet, resulting in a cumulative effect that ...
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Beichen Lu, Yanjun Liu, Xiaoyu Zhai, Li Zhang and Yun Chen
In recent years, clean and renewable energy sources have received much attention to balance the contradiction between resource needs and environmental sustainability. Among them, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), which consists of surface warm seaw...
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Lu Wang, Yiming Li, Zhouping Sun, Sida Meng, Tianlai Li and Xingan Liu
Solar greenhouses are commonly overheated during the day, and the remaining air heat can only be dissipated through ventilation, which is a severe energy waste problem. In order to improve the energy utilization of the greenhouse, this study proposes a w...
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Techane Bosona
The increasing population pressure and demand for quality food, and the significant burden of agriculture on the environment, impede the sustainable development of the food sector. Understanding the environmental performance of different agricultural tec...
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Evangelos Bellos, Panagiotis Lykas, Dimitrios Tsimpoukis, Dimitrios N. Korres, Angeliki Kitsopoulou, Michail Gr. Vrachopoulos and Christos Tzivanidis
The goal of this investigation is the thorough analysis and optimization of a solar-assisted heat pump heating unit for covering the space heating demand for a building in Athens, Greece. The novelty of the studied system is the use of a high-temperature...
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Zhaoyi Zhuang, Jin Zhao, Fengfeng Mi, Teng Zhang, Yuguo Hao and Shangyue Li
Heat pump technology can extract low-level heat energy from urban sewage to heat or cool buildings, which can alleviate the two major problems of energy shortage and environmental pollution to a certain extent. This paper introduces the principle of wast...
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Qinghua Wu, Yue Fan and Xiao Wang
Shallow geothermal energy (SGE) is a renewable energy source that has the advantage of being low-cost, clean, and locally sourced compared to fossil fuels, and is thus significant for China to achieve its future goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutral...
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Mingxing Cao, Yimin Zhang and Tianfei Hu
This study aimed to investigate the practical applications of a ground source heat pump (GSHP) system for heating applications in embankment engineering. A special direct-expansion GSHP (DE-GSHP) was designed and manufactured, and its performance was exp...
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Pengxuan Wang, Yixi Wang, Weijun Gao, Tongyu Xu, Xindong Wei, Chunyan Shi, Zishu Qi and Li Bai
In cold regions, due o the impact of climatic conditions, the heat load in winter and the cooling load in summer are unbalanced. In the long-term operation of the ground-source heat pump (GSHP), the soil heat imbalance phenomenon has still not been succe...
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