Membrane distillation hybrids for water production and energy efficiency enhancement: A critical review

N Ghaffour, S Soukane, JG Lee, Y Kim, A Alpatova - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
With an ever-increasing demand in energy, constrained by strict environmental regulations,
process development faces stringent design requirements further limited by intrinsic …

Multi-objective optimization and fluid selection of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system based on economic-environmental-sustainable analysis

S Wang, C Liu, S Zhang, Q Li, E Huo - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Global issues such as the energy crisis and environmental pollution impulse the
development of waste heat recovery technologies. Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems …

Exergoeconomic analysis of a novel trigeneration system containing supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle, organic Rankine cycle and absorption refrigeration cycle for gas …

S Wang, C Liu, J Li, Z Sun, X Chen, X Wang - Energy Conversion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Poly-generation system is gaining more attentions recently due to its advantages of the
effective promotion on energy utilization efficiency and deceleration of environmental …

A review of conventional and exergetic life cycle assessments of organic Rankine cycle plants exploiting various low-temperature energy resources

J Oyekale, E Emagbetere - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
The importance of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) plants to the development of future energy
infrastructure is widely acknowledged, due largely to their ability to exploit low-temperature …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative life cycle assessment of seawater desalination technologies enhanced by graphene membranes

C Skuse, RRZ Tarpani, P Gorgojo, A Gallego-Schmid… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Graphene oxide (GO)-enhanced membranes are being developed to solve major limitations
in both reverse osmosis (RO) and membrane distillation (MD) technologies, which include …

Selection principle of working fluid for organic Rankine cycle based on environmental benefits and economic performance

S Wang, C Liu, Q Li, L Liu, E Huo, C Zhang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The utilization of renewable energy and waste heat recovery can effectively alleviate the
ongoing energy crisis and environmental pollution. The organic Rankine cycle has been …

Resource, environmental, and economic aspects of SGHE

M Papapetrou, G Kosmadakis - Salinity Gradient Heat Engines, 2022 - Elsevier
First, the heat sources that can be used to power salinity gradient heat engines (SGHEs) are
explored. The waste heat sources included in this analysis are waste heat from the industry …

Quantifying the advantages of TRIZ in sustainability through life cycle assessment

C Spreafico - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of how much the application of the main TRIZ
(Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) strategies resulted in an …

Life cycle analysis of a waste heat recovery for marine engines Organic Rankine Cycle

G Kallis, TC Roumpedakis, P Pallis, Z Koutantzi… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The Marine ORC prototype unit is based on a conventional low-temperature subcritical
Organic Rankine Cycle and has been designed as a waste heat recovery system for the …

Environmental assessment of a heating, cooling and electric energy grid from a geothermal source in Southern Italy

A Maione, N Massarotti, R Santagata… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of human societies, of lifestyles and of technologies are responsible for
increasing trends of the worldwide energy consumption and of the related greenhouse gas …