Many efforts have been made in order to adequate the production of a solar thermal collector field to the consumption of domestic hot water of the inhabitants of a building. In that sense, much has been achieved in different domains: research agencies, government policies and manufacturers....

This paper presents a novel energy storage system which stores excessive energy in the form of compressed air and thermal heat. It is different from the conventional compressed air energy storage (CAES) technology in that the new system allows trigeneration of electrical, heating and cooling...

A reverse electrodialysis (RED) system utilizes the transport of cations and anions from controlled mixing of saline water (e.g., seawater) and freshwater (e.g., river water) through selective ion exchange membranes for power generation. Sodium chloride alone has been widely used to create power...

If the current energy policy priorities are retained, there may be no need to focus additionally on carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the power plant sector of Germany. This applies even in the case of ambitious climate protection targets, according to the results of the presented integrated...

The legislation of various European countries imposes limits on the demand for building heating and cooling in order to reduce the primary energy consumptions. Moreover, the legislation prescribes that a fraction of the demand for building cooling, heating and power must be met through renewable...

During the past decade, the global trade of wood pellets has been growing. Rapid increases in the production and consumption of wood pellets, and predictions on its increased demand in the near future have formed a competitive global market. Several studies have focused on the economic,...

This paper proposes an innovative game theoretic framework for a next-generation retail electricity market (“Energy Internet”) with high penetration of distributed residential electricity suppliers (“Energy Cells”). The envisioned Energy Internet is developed for plug-and-play of a large...

An integrated configuration of a fuel cell and an auto-thermal ethanol reformer has been studied conceptually for high temperature (HT) and low temperature (LT) polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) for a 5kW, stand-alone power unit. It is found that the integrated reformer–HT fuel...

This report primarily aims to provide both dispatch and wholesale spot price forecasts for the proposed hybrid gas-solar thermal plant at Collinsville, Queensland, Australia for its lifetime 2017-47. These forecasts are to facilitate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) negotiations and to evaluate...

The primary aim of this report is to produce hourly yield projections of electricity power for the proposed LFR plant at Collinsville, Queensland, Australia based on the environmental condition between 2007 and 2013. However, the techniques and methods used to overcome the inadequacies of the...