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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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Leonard Vance, Agustin Espinoza, Jorge Martinez Dominguez, Salil Rabade, Gavin Liu and Jekan Thangavelautham
Sustainable space exploration will require using off-world resources for propellant generation. Using off-world-generated propellants significantly increases future missions? range and payload capacity. Near Earth Objects (NEOs) contain a range of availa...
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Dina Bakranova and David Nagel
The rise in the Earth?s surface temperature on an annual basis has stimulated scientific and engineering interest in developing and implementing alternative energy sources. Besides cost, the main requirements for alternative energy sources are renewabili...
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Michael Tesfaye Bekele and Cemil Atakara
Residential buildings have a list of functions, and one of the top priories is the thermal comfort of its occupants. Thermal comfort can be one of the measurements of successful building performance, and it can be addressed in various ways to provide a g...
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Bahador Ziaeemehr, Zahra Jandaghian, Hua Ge, Michael Lacasse and Travis Moore
The Urban Heat Island (UHI), a consequence of urban development, leads to elevated temperatures within cities compared to their rural counterparts. This phenomenon results from factors such as urban designs, anthropogenic heat emissions, and materials th...
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Hua Wang, Jijun Liu, Zhonghong Wu, Jia Liu, Lu Yi, Yixue Li, Siqi Li and Meizhi Wang
Maximizing the utilization of renewable energy for heating is crucial for reducing energy consumption in pig houses and enhancing energy efficiency. However, the mismatch between peak solar radiation and peak heat load demand in nursery pig houses result...
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M. I. Rodríguez-Tapiador, J. M. Asensi, M. Roldán, J. Merino, J. Bertomeu and S. Fernández
Copper nitride (Cu3N) has gained significant attention recently due to its potential in several scientific and technological applications. This study focuses on using Cu3N as a solar absorber in photovoltaic technology. Cu3N thin films were deposited on ...
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José Pereira, Ana Moita and António Moreira
The current work aims to offer a specific overview of the homogeneous dispersions of 2D nanomaterials in heat transfer base fluids?so-called 2D nanofluids. This data compilation emerged from the critical overview of the findings of the published scientif...
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Harald Mehling
The availability of food to a growing world population is a matter of concern for decades. Despite that, post-harvest losses are large in many countries, due to insufficient food preservation. And recently rising prices for fossil energies additionally i...
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Gisela Lameira, Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos, Nuno Valentim and Azar Mohammadpanah
Custom-built solutions for ageing, urban regeneration, energy efficiency, thermal performance, and well-being are contemporary challenges that have prompted considerable research over the past decades. In the construction field, subjects such as energy e...
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