Die Pinch-Analyse kann als ein Ansatz des integrierten Prozeßdesigns zur Verbesserung der Ressourceneffizienz von Produktionsprozessen dienen. Zunächst wurde sie für die techno-ökonomische Optimierung von Wärmeübertragungsnetzwerken eingesetzt. Analog der Temperatur, die ein Muß für den...

Many countries introduced subsidy schemes that were successful in incentivising investments into residential solar PV. The resulting growth of the global PV market was accompanied by cost reductions for PV systems, reductions of PV subsidies and, often, increasing electricity retail prices....

Environmental protection and energy efficiency are important topics for sea port management, which is characterized by long-term investments. To assess the environmental impact of port equipment, we investigate different equipment types with fossil, hybrid and electric drive technologies, in...

Purpose: Energy scenarios have long been successfully used to inform decision-making in energy systems planning, with a wide range of different methodological approaches for developing and evaluating them. The purpose of this study is to analyze the existing approaches and classify them with a...