Sensors are perhaps the most important and integral components of our modern society. With global warming and environmental pollution garnering ever-increasing attention, as well as solutions for sustainabile and smart cities, the optimized…
The need to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions may require the use of renewable gaseous fuels in the food and beverage industry to decarbonise processes that are difficult to electrify such as whiskey distillation. Large companies report…
In this study, an energy-climate-water nexus model for China (abbreviated as CN-ECWN model) is developed through integrating global climate models, multiple linear regression, and interval-parameter programming into an optimization framework. The…
A number of conflicting issues such as growing economic demand, increasing energy supply, shrinking energy resources, changing climate condition, as well as tightening environmental requirement pose great challenges to decision makers for planning…
Due to the huge energy demand and the influences from the technology, cost, production, and consumption structures, urban system has become a hot topic for the assessment of the energy security of energy systems. In this study, all the energy sources…
Renewable energy technologies play an important role in the future energy systems, not only to realize a low-carbon society, but also to provide socioeconomic benefits such as creating employment opportunities and revitalizing local economies. This…