India is the fifth economic power in the World, and 20% of its GDP is contributed by the
agriculture and allied sector. The agricultural sector entails various activities involving land …

Purpose Good background data are an important requirement in LCA. Practitioners
generally make use of LCI databases for such data, and the ecoinvent database is the …

Abstract Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) of single-crystalline silicon (sc-Si) photovoltaic (PV)
systems often disregard novel module designs (eg glass-glass modules) and the fast pace …

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a comprehensive method used to investigate the
environmental impacts and energy use of a product throughout its entire life cycle. For solar …

With the increased sustainable awareness and pressures from stakeholders, enterprises
have realized the importance to implement sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) …

Sustainability is a concept that integrates at least three dimensions: environmental,
economic and social. Energy systems are usually evaluated as a key contributor for …

The main challenges in transforming natural-derived biomass materials into a solar steam
generator (SSG) are the complicated preparation process and the inevitable pollution in the …

The past few years have witnessed a rapid evolution of perovskite solar cells, an
unprecedented photovoltaic (PV) technology with both relatively low cost and high power …

This study presents roadmaps for each of the 50 United States to convert their all-purpose
energy systems (for electricity, transportation, heating/cooling, and industry) to ones …

Since the 1970s, installed solar photovoltaic capacity has grown tremendously to 230
gigawatt worldwide in 2015, with a growth rate between 1975 and 2015 of 45%. This rapid …