-Poly) and single layer of polyethylene (PE), as greenhouse covers, on aubergine growth, productivity and energy requirement were …

Greenhouse gas reduction and energy saving are becoming two important issues in both industrialized and developing … countries, and policymakers are developing means to reduce total domestic energy use. We evaluate and compare the direct and the … indirect energy use both in the People's Republic of China (China) and the United States of America (US) by looking at a series …

cooling along with evaporative aftercooling has an obvious increase in the energy and exergy efficiency compared to the basic …

The advent of distributed renewable energy supply sources and storage systems has placed a greater degree of focus on … for forecasting next day demand in an LV network into a comprehensive distributed energy resource management algorithm. …

As agricultural system comprises natural processes that are ruled by thermodynamics, the energy utilization is well … energy use efficiency of the main crops during the 1992–2005 period in Inland Pampa (Argentina); 2) to evaluate the database … structure in terms of energy allocation; 3) to assess the changes in technical efficiency using frontier analysis and 4) to …

In this paper, energy and exergy analyses of the geothermal-based hydrogen production via thermochemical water … decomposition using a new, four-step copper–chlorine (Cu–Cl) cycle are conducted, and the respective cycle energy and exergy … performance are affected by reference environment temperatures, reaction temperatures, as well as energy efficiency of the …

mathematical model) and analyzed based on the first- and second law of thermodynamics. The energy and exergy analysis were carried …, application of microwave energy during fluidized bed drying enhanced the exergy efficiency of drying process. However, the results … showed that it was more efficient not to apply microwave energy at the first stage of fluidized bed drying process. The …

Energy efficiency in buildings has become a key goal of any energy policy. Europe relies on the Energy Performance of … Buildings Directive (EPBD), which has been converted by Flanders into the ‘Energy Performance and Interior Climate’ (EPB …

discuss their determining factors through analysis of mass and energy balances. This study has shown that woody biomass can be … processes is expected to improve and energy efficiencies are expected to be at least 97% as optimal torgas use and efficient … stable product, capable of utilising different feedstocks, at desired end-use energy densities. …

energy savings in thermal processes is proposed. The process fluid heat is recuperated by the magnetocaloric effect of … the AMR heat circulator was constructed to understand its behavior and verify its energy-saving potential. From the … energy consumption in a thermal process. The temperature–entropy diagram shows that in order to gain the maximum energy …