Assessment of the renewable energy generation towards net-zero energy buildings: A review

A Ahmed, T Ge, J Peng, WC Yan, BT Tee, S You - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Decarbonizing the building sector is extremely important to mitigating climate change as the
sector contributes 40% of the overall energy consumption and 36% of the total greenhouse …

Review on biomass feedstocks, pyrolysis mechanism and physicochemical properties of biochar: State-of-the-art framework to speed up vision of circular bioeconomy

GS Ghodake, SK Shinde, AA Kadam… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
The biochar is a solid carbon-rich, porous material produced by the thermochemical
conversion of a diverse range of biomass feedstocks under an inert atmosphere (ie, in the …

[HTML][HTML] Biophysical and economic constraints on China's natural climate solutions

N Lu, H Tian, B Fu, H Yu, S Piao, S Chen, Y Li… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural climate solutions (NCS) are strategies for climate mitigation in the land sector that
increase carbon storage or avoid GHG emissions. Here we estimate China's historic NCS …

A technical review of bioenergy and resource recovery from municipal solid waste

S Nanda, F Berruti - Journal of hazardous materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Population growth, rapid urbanization, industrialization and economic development have led
to the magnified municipal solid waste generation at an alarming rate on a global scale …

A review on biomass: importance, chemistry, classification, and conversion

A Tursi - Biofuel Research Journal, 2019 - biofueljournal.com
Biomass is currently the most widespread form of renewable energy and its exploitation is
further increasing due to the concerns over the devastative impacts of fossil fuel …

[HTML][HTML] Half the world's population are exposed to increasing air pollution

G Shaddick, ML Thomas, P Mudu, G Ruggeri… - NPJ Climate and …, 2020 - nature.com
Air pollution is high on the global agenda and is widely recognised as a threat to both public
health and economic progress. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4.2 …

Separating Daily 1 km PM2.5 Inorganic Chemical Composition in China since 2000 via Deep Learning Integrating Ground, Satellite, and Model Data

J Wei, Z Li, X Chen, C Li, Y Sun, J Wang… - … science & technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) chemical composition has strong and diverse impacts on the
planetary environment, climate, and health. These effects are still not well understood due to …

Significant changes in the chemical compositions and sources of PM2. 5 in Wuhan since the city lockdown as COVID-19

H Zheng, S Kong, N Chen, Y Yan, D Liu, B Zhu… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wuhan was the first city to adopt the lockdown measures to prevent COVID-19 spreading,
which improved the air quality accordingly. This study investigated the variations in chemical …

Multi-scale complexities of solid acid catalysts in the catalytic fast pyrolysis of biomass for bio-oil production–A review

R Liu, M Sarker, MM Rahman, C Li, M Chai… - Progress in Energy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite remarkable progress in catalytic fast pyrolysis, bio-oil production is far from
commercialization because of multi-scale challenges, and major constraints lie with …

Scenarios of energy efficiency and CO2 emissions reduction potential in the buildings sector in China to year 2050

N Zhou, N Khanna, W Feng, J Ke, M Levine - Nature Energy, 2018 - nature.com
As China's rapid urbanization continues and urban dwellers become more affluent, energy
use in buildings is expected to grow. To understand how this growth can be slowed, we …