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EU energy and climate change strategy
da Graça Carvalho, Maria - In: Energy 40 (2012) 1, pp. 19-22
This paper will summarise the European Strategy for Energy and Climate Change. In current international negotiations Europe has proposed a 20% reduction in GHG (greenhouse gases) in the developed countries by 2020 or 30% should there be an international agreement in the domain. However it is...
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Assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions from cogeneration and trigeneration systems. Part II: Analysis techniques and application cases
Mancarella, Pierluigi; Chicco, Gianfranco - In: Energy 33 (2008) 3, pp. 418-430
separate production systems are equivalent in terms of GHG emissions. The various emission indicators are evaluated and …
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A simulation and optimisation study: Towards a decentralised microgrid, using real world fluctuation data
Quiggin, Daniel; Cornell, Sarah; Tierney, Michael; … - In: Energy 41 (2012) 1, pp. 549-559
reduced by 16%, CO2 emissions associated with energy use were reduced by 10% for all hours of operation, and by 74% during the …
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Assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions from cogeneration and trigeneration systems. Part I: Models and indicators
Chicco, Gianfranco; Mancarella, Pierluigi - In: Energy 33 (2008) 3, pp. 410-417
The diffusion of cogeneration and trigeneration plants as local generation sources could bring significant energy saving and emission reduction of various types of pollutants with respect to the separate production of electricity, heat and cooling power. The advantages in terms of primary energy...
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The relative contribution of waste heat from power plants to global warming
Zevenhoven, R.; Beyene, A. - In: Energy 36 (2011) 6, pp. 3754-3762
waste heat rejection combined with CO2 emissions using Finland and California as case examples. The immediate effects of …
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An assessment of fossil fuel energy use and CO2 emissions from farm field operations using a regional level crop and land use database for Canada
Dyer, J.A.; Kulshreshtha, S.N.; McConkey, B.G.; … - In: Energy 35 (2010) 5, pp. 2261-2269
The Canadian Economic and Emissions Model for Agriculture (CEEMA) is considered a potentially useful tool for … investigating the impacts of biofuel feedstock production on rural land use. Fossil CO2 emissions from fieldwork in the CEEMA model … were upgraded with the Fossil Fuel Farm Fieldwork Energy and Emissions (F4E2) simulation model. There was very close …
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Sub- and super-critical carbon dioxide permeability of wellbore materials under geological sequestration conditions: An experimental study
Nasvi, M.C.M.; Ranjith, P.G.; Sanjayan, J.; Haque, A. - In: Energy 54 (2013) C, pp. 231-239
emissions of greenhouse gases. The injection wells and well cement provide the wellbore integrity necessary for the long …, sandstone and G–S composites were studied using the high pressure triaxial set-up in the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash …
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The impact of ethanol and iso-butanol blends on gaseous and particulate emissions from two passenger cars equipped with spray-guided and wall-guided direct injection SI (spark igni...
Karavalakis, Georgios; Short, Daniel; Vu, Diep; … - In: Energy 82 (2015) C, pp. 168-179
We examined the effects of different ethanol and iso-butanol blends on the gaseous and particulate emissions from two …. Emissions of THC (total hydrocarbons), NMHC (non-methane hydrocarbons), and CO (carbon monoxide) reduced with increasing oxygen … content in the blend for some of the vehicle/fuel combinations, whereas NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions did not show strong …
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Analysis of low carbon super credit policy efficiency in European Union greenhouse gas emissions
Álvarez, Roberto; Zubelzu, Sergio; Díaz, Guzmán; … - In: Energy 82 (2015) C, pp. 996-1010
under the Super-credit modality, and its actual relationship with the reduction of carbon emissions derived from the use of … battery electric vehicles (BEV). Particularly, we have estimated the BEV associated carbon emissions through the method … BEV emissions by country in the EU according to the regional electricity mix. We additionally have accounted for the …
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An integrated method to calculate an automobile's emissions throughout its life cycle
Viñoles-Cebolla, Rosario; Bastante-Ceca, María José; … - In: Energy 83 (2015) C, pp. 125-136
Although studies can be found in the literature that present emissions inventories associated with different types of … impact of the complete life cycle of two vehicles. This is because there is no valid emissions inventory for all types of … principal types of emissions throughout a vehicle's life cycle based on primary data (weight, year of manufacture, engine …
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