The aim is to work with cities in advancing renewable energy technologies and systems and to help promote the renewable energy industry in a way that allows it to serve as model for the rest of the national urban system. The emphasis is therefore on market-led approaches of technology system development and deployment, through pricing, investment, electricity purchasing policies, information, model action, and other means. (more…)
In the absence of useful and established patterns of practice, a search is under way for new means of reconciling local government’ ...
The Solar City approach originally emerged from a new generation of International Energy Agency (IEA) energy research and developme ...
The age of industrialization came into full force through the modern exploration and use of fossil fuels. As one of its most striki ...
Japan has the largest Photovoltaic installed capacity in the world as a result of the sustained investments made by the country thr ...
The aim of this broad sweep through the area of energy innovation, highlighting the main actors, activities, policies, institutions ...
According to the German standard VDI 4640 geothermal energy is stored energy as heat beneath the Earth’s solid surface, encompasses the heat stored in rocks, soils and groundwater.
The main energy sources charge of the land are two: the first is the heat recovery of the Earth that can be assessed by the thermal gradient (variation of temperature versus depth), usually increase of 3.3 º C per 100 m depth. (more…)
The Geologists Association president advocates the use of geothermal energy by its high durability and low maintenance. Besides a r ...
Mieres campus yesterday welcomed the conclusion of the technical conference on geothermal energy as alternative renewable energy. E ...
Several passive heating systems, if provided with proper ventilation, can ensure to provide cooling. Passive heating and cooling fo ...
Geothermal drilling technology is adapted from the oil industry. Most of the geothermal wells are drilled with a rotary-type drilli ...
Geothermal energy is energy created by the heat of the Earth. Under the Earth’s crust lies a layer of thick, hot rock with occa ...
Separation is a unit operation used in absorption heat pumps and chemical processing applications such as solvent extraction and product separations. A typical separation process in a heat pump application involves the desorption of ammonia from a water–ammonia solution. Although a number of configurations have been studied for this process at the macroscale, most are based on gravity and have relatively low rates of desorption. (more…)
Heat-actuated heat pumps are cooling systems requiring no electricity for operation. Rather, a heat source is used, avoiding the ne ...
The most fundamental process from an energy systems standpoint is heat transfer to (or from) a working fluid. This unit operation t ...
Mixing is a process where two or more liquids or gas phase components are brought together and combined to form a uniform compositi ...
Microtechnology-Based Energy and Chemical Systems will most likely employ combustion for driving processes such as vapor generation ...
So-called thin-film photovoltaic devices are usually based on mixtures of elements other than silicon — most notably copper ind ...
