15 articles in this issue
Craig M. Jensen, Etsuo Akiba and Hai-Wen Li
Both the Japanese and Hawaiian archipelagos are both completely devoid of petroleum resources.[...]
Dan Wang, Chongru Liu and Gengyin Li
In recent years, the increasing penetration level of wind energy into power systems has brought new issues and challenges. One of the main concerns is the issue of dynamic response capability during outer disturbance conditions, especially the fault-toler... see more
Guoyang Wu, Ping Ju, Xinli Song, Chenglong Xie and Wuzhi Zhong
Nuclear power plants (NPPs) have recently undergone rapid development in China. To improve the performance of both NPPs and grids during adverse conditions, a precise understanding of the coordination between NPPs and grids is required. Therefore, a new m... see more
M. Mujahid Rafique, Shafiqur Rehman, Luai M. Alhems and Aref Lashin
Now days, air conditioning systems are a must for almost every commercial and residential building to achieve comfortable indoor conditions. The increasing energy demand, and increasing oil prices and pollution levels raise the need for alternative air co... see more
Liyan Feng, Jiangping Tian, Wuqiang Long, Weixin Gong, Baoguo Du, Dan Li and Lei Chen
The authors applied one-dimensional (1-D) simulation and 3-D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation to evaluate the potential of in-cylinder control methods on a low-speed 2-stroke marine engine to reach the International Maritime Organization (IMO... see more
Ze Han, Wei Song and Xiangzheng Deng
Qinghai Province has a very fragile ecological environment and is an important component of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. To understand the disturbance caused by human activities to the local ecological system, it is necessary to evaluate the response of eco... see more
Annamaria Buonomano
In this paper details about the results of a code-to-code validation procedure of an in-house developed building simulation model, called DETECt, are reported. The tool was developed for research purposes in order to carry out dynamic building energy perf... see more
Yanjian Peng, Yong Li, Zhisheng Xu, Ming Wen, Longfu Luo, Yijia Cao and Zbigniew Leonowicz
Unlike the traditional method for power quality improvement and low-voltage ride through (LVRT) capability enhancement of wind farms, this paper proposes a new wind power integrated system by means of an inductive filtering method, especially if it contai... see more
Gaosheng Li, Hongguang Zhang, Fubin Yang, Songsong Song, Ying Chang, Fei Yu, Jingfu Wang and Baofeng Yao
A novel free piston expander-linear generator (FPE-LG) integrated unit was proposed to recover waste heat efficiently from vehicle engine. This integrated unit can be used in a small-scale Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system and can directly convert the th... see more
Zhaobin Zhang and Xiao Li
Shear fracture network is important to the hydraulic fracturing treatment of a shale gas reservoir. In this paper, the formation of shear fracture network is investigated by a Displacement Discontinuity Method (DDM) based model. The results show that the ... see more
Wenbiao Li, Longyun Kang, Xiangwei Guo and Yuan Yao
Various balancing topology and control methods have been proposed for the inconsistency problem of battery packs. However, these strategies only focus on a single objective, ignore the mutual interaction among various factors and are only based on the ext... see more
Yazhou Jiang, Chen-Ching Liu and Yin Xu
The increasing importance of system reliability and resilience is changing the way distribution systems are planned and operated. To achieve a distribution system self-healing against power outages, emerging technologies and devices, such as remote-contro... see more
Yalan Zhao, Yaoqiu Kuang and Ningsheng Huang
With a continuously growing share of the world’s overall energy consumption, the transport sector has been acknowledged as one of the most important contributors to global carbon emissions. This paper applies a complete decomposition and decoupling analys... see more
Niki-Artemis Spyridaki, Anastasia Ioannou and Alexandros Flamos
The influence of context dynamics in the course of the climate change mitigation policy instruments’ (PIs) deployment cycle, usually causes a need for policy adaptation mechanisms to ensure that policies can meet the sector needs efficiently and effective... see more
Adrian Clenci, Rodica Niculescu, Amélie Danlos, Victor Iorga-Siman and Alina Trica
The use of biodiesel fuel in compression ignition engines has the potential to reduce CO2, which can lead to a reduction in global warming and environmental hazards. Biodiesel is an attractive fuel, as it is made from renewable resources. Many studies hav... see more