Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the development of intelligent agriculture (IA) in China, which is an important tendency in advancing the agricultural productivity in the coming era. Design/methodology/approach: Considering publications as featured...

The information and communications technology (ICT) industry has transformed modern society to be more efficiently connected. It also contributes to a range of sustainability challenges such as climate change and inequality. Advancing the ICT industry in an environmentally, socially, and...

Based on the performance analysis of the single stage, the two-stage and the double absorption heat transformer, a new ejection-absorption heat transformer is presented and analyzed in this paper. The results show that it has a simpler configuration than the double absorption heat transformer...

The absorption heat transformer (AHT) is a promising system for recovering waste heat. It can effectively recover about 50% of the waste heat and reuse it in industrial processes. However, there exists a need for identifying suitable working fluid combinations and for evaluating their relative...

A ternary mixture of R124/R142b/R600a, named HTR01, for moderately high temperature heat pumps, was developed. Tests of material compatibility and oil miscibility showed that the mixture could be used with a R22 compressor in an HTR01 heat-pump system. A 2.92 kW moderately high temperature water...