This study presents the thermal analysis of a building prototype, which was designed and built in accordance with energy efficiency measures to improve indoor thermal comfort, particularly in summer. The building prototype is located in Souidania (20 km southwest of Algiers, latitude 36°7N,...

Stand-alone hybrid renewable energy systems are more reliable than one-energy source systems. However, their design is crucial. For this reason, a new methodology with the aim to design an autonomous hybrid PV-wind-battery system is proposed here. Based on a triple multi-objective optimization...

A dynamic model was developed to describe the oxidation of Cu in a large-scale Cu/CuO chemical looping process performed in adiabatic fixed-bed reactors at high pressure. An ideal plug flow pattern without axial dispersion or radial gradients and with negligible intra-particle concentrations and...

High-temperature superconducting magnetic energy storage systems (HTS SMES) are an emerging technology with fast response and large power capacities which can address the challenges of growing power systems and ensure a reliable power supply. China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI) has...

Thermoelectric self-cooling systems hold good prospects for the future, since they improve the cooling of any heat-generating device without electricity consumption. The potential number of applications seems to be enormous, hence the necessity of a specific model to simulate this type of...

Waste heat recovery by means of a Rankine Cycle is a promising approach for achieving significant reductions in fuel consumption and, as a result, exhaust emissions of passenger car engines. This approach is already well established in industrial applications such as gas and steam power plants...

Because of the increasing shortage of international energy sources and greater climate change related to global warming, developing renewable energy sources has been emphasized by numerous countries. Solar energy provides a type of clean and non-polluting renewable energy source and contributes...