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Sustainability and biophysics basis of technical and economic processes: A survey of the reconciliation by thermodynamics

Teles dos Santos, Moisés; Park, Song Won - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 23 (2013) C, pp. 261-271

tool to deal with sustainability assessment. The exergy, a concept derived from entropy, can offer qualitative measurements … this paper is to review the environmental sustainability concept from the perspective of entropy law, offering a survey of … (Entropy Law) reveals the unidirectional and irreversible aspect of such transformations, and it can be used as an auxiliary …

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A review on the thermodynamic optimisation and modelling of the solar thermal Brayton cycle

Le Roux, W.G.; Bello-Ochende, T.; Meyer, J.P. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 28 (2013) C, pp. 677-690

the use of the total entropy generation minimisation method. This method can be applied for the modelling of a system and …

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Second law thermodynamic study of heat exchangers: A review

Manjunath, K.; Kaushik, S.C. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 40 (2014) C, pp. 348-374

literature survey based on performance parameters such as entropy generation, exergy analysis, production and manufacturing …

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Assessing the sustainability of renewable energy technologies using multi-criteria analysis: Suitability of approach for national-scale assessments and associated uncertainties

Troldborg, Mads; Heslop, Simon; Hough, Rupert L. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 39 (2014) C, pp. 1173-1184

Multi-criteria analyses (MCAs) are often applied to assess and compare the sustainability of different renewable energy … sustainability assessments, which typically involve a range of conflicting criteria featuring different forms of data and information … develop and apply a MCA for a national-scale sustainability assessment and ranking of eleven renewable energy technologies in …

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Current energy scenario and future prospect of renewable energy in Bangladesh

Islam, Md. Tasbirul; Shahir, S.A.; Uddin, T.M. Iftakhar; … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 39 (2014) C, pp. 1074-1088

Energy is the building block of modern civilization and a prerequisite for sustainable development. Global energy consumption will increase by 36% with an annual growth of 1.6% from year 2011 to 2030, comprising 88% fossil fuel share. Bangladesh is a developing country in the Southeast Asia,...

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A review of life cycle assessment method for building industry

Rashid, Abd; Faiz, Ahmad; Yusoff, Sumiani - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 45 (2015) C, pp. 244-248

sustainability in building industry. …

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Power to liquid and power to gas: An option for the German Energiewende

Varone, Alberto; Ferrari, Michele - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 45 (2015) C, pp. 207-218

The large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources (RES) is an important aspect of decarbonising the energy supply, and represents a key part of the German Energiewende. However, significantly increasing the share of renewable power in the energy mix implies coping with the natural...

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Introducing “ecoputation”: A universal systems design process

Sinclair, Philip; Peters, Michael; Fudge, Shane - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 46 (2015) C, pp. 311-330

A universal systems design process is specified, tested in a case study and evaluated. It links English narratives to numbers using a categorical language framework with mathematical mappings taking the place of conjunctions and numbers. The framework is a ring of English narrative words between...

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Green real estate development in China: State of art and prospect agenda—A review

Zhang, Xiaoling - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 47 (2015) C, pp. 1-13

studies mainly focus on the environmental aspect of green building, other dimensions of sustainability of green building …, especially the social sustainability is largely overlooked. Future research opportunities were identified such as the innovation …

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Trends and challenges of sustainable energy and water research in North Africa: Sahara solar breeder concerns at the intersection of energy/water

Boudghene Stambouli, A.; Khiat, Z.; Flazi, S.; Tanemoto, H. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 30 (2014) C, pp. 912-922

In this contribution a particular attention is being given to the strategic objective for the establishment of a North Africa (NA) countries cooperation on water and clean energy superhighway as the solution to regional energy challenges, water shortages, climate change and other environmental...

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