Plausible energy demand patterns in a growing global economy with climate policy

G Semieniuk, L Taylor, A Rezai, DK Foley - Nature Climate Change, 2021 - nature.com
Reducing the energy demand has become a key mechanism for limiting climate change, but
there are practical limitations associated with large energy savings in a growing global …

Efficient cleavage of lignin–carbohydrate complexes and ultrafast extraction of lignin oligomers from wood biomass by microwave‐assisted treatment with deep …

Y Liu, W Chen, Q Xia, B Guo, Q Wang, S Liu… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant and renewable resource for the production of
biobased value‐added fuels, chemicals, and materials, but its effective exploitation by an …

In-depth interpretation of the structural changes of lignin and formation of diketones during acidic deep eutectic solvent pretreatment

S Hong, XJ Shen, B Pang, Z Xue, XF Cao, JL Wen… - Green chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) as novel and green solvents can extract high-purity lignin
from lignocellulose in a high yield; however, further utilization of the extracted lignin in the …

Past and prospective energy transitions: Insights from history

R Fouquet, PJG Pearson - Energy policy, 2012 - Elsevier
This introduction to the special issue on past and prospective energy transitions presents
some insights from research into past energy transitions of relevance for a possible …

[HTML][HTML] The drivers of energy efficiency improvement among nine selected West African countries: A two-stage DEA methodology

FA Sarpong, J Wang, BB Cobbinah, JJ Makwetta… - Energy Strategy …, 2022 - Elsevier
There has been a general outcry globally to ensure sustainable environmental practices by
minimizing CO 2 while increasing economic growth. In general, most African countries have …

Solar-induced direct biomass-to-electricity hybrid fuel cell using polyoxometalates as photocatalyst and charge carrier

W Liu, W Mu, M Liu, X Zhang, H Cai, Y Deng - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
The current polymer-exchange membrane fuel cell technology cannot directly use biomass
as fuel. Here we present a solar-induced hybrid fuel cell that is directly powered with natural …

Measuring energy transition away from fossil fuels: A new index

Y Qi, J Lu, T Liu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
With the adoption of carbon neutrality policies, an increasing number of countries have
implemented diverse measures to facilitate the energy transition away from fossil fuels …

Investigating the non-linear effects of globalization on material consumption in the EU countries: Evidence from PSTR estimation

R Ulucak, E Koçak, S Erdoğan, Y Kassouri - Resources policy, 2020 - Elsevier
The efficient and sustainable use of resources has gained great importance in combating
environmental threats and in keeping humanity out of resource scarcity. An effective way of …

Environmental efficiency of disaggregated energy R&D expenditures in OECD: a bootstrap DEA approach

E Koçak, H Kınacı, K Shehzad - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Two essential topics of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are accessible which are
clean energy (SDG-7) and climate change action (SDG-13). Developments and innovations …

Finding the optimal combination of power plants alternatives: A multi response Taguchi-neural network using TOPSIS and fuzzy best-worst method

H Omrani, A Alizadeh, A Emrouznejad - Journal of cleaner production, 2018 - Elsevier
With increasing growth of electricity consumption in developed and developing countries,
the necessity of constructing and developing of power plants is inevitable. There are two …