Current status and future prospects of renewable and sustainable energy in North America: Progress and challenges

A Azarpour, O Mohammadzadeh, N Rezaei… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy is an important drive for the economic development and social growth. The energy
demand has remarkably escalated due to the technological developments in various …

Opportunities, recent trends and challenges of integrated biorefinery: Part I

SK Maity - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Sustainable production of energy, fuels, organic chemicals and polymers from biomass in an
integrated biorefinery is extremely important to reduce enslavement on limited fossil fuels. In …

Advances in valorization of lignocellulosic biomass towards energy generation

I Haq, K Qaisar, A Nawaz, F Akram, H Mukhtar, Y Xu… - Catalysts, 2021 - mdpi.com
The booming demand for energy across the world, especially for petroleum-based fuels, has
led to the search for a long-term solution as a perfect source of sustainable energy …

Alcohol based automotive fuels from first four alcohol family in compression and spark ignition engine: A review on engine performance and exhaust emissions

IM Yusri, R Mamat, G Najafi, A Razman, OI Awad… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Alcohol fuels have some significant advantages over other alternative fuels, including the
ability to work in existing engines as well as the capability to reduce greenhouse gas …

Effects of physicochemical properties of biodiesel fuel blends with alcohol on diesel engine performance and exhaust emissions: A review

MSM Zaharin, NR Abdullah, G Najafi… - … and Sustainable energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, alternative fuel studies have been conducted thoroughly by researchers
through their experimental work. Depletion of fossil fuel raised the attention of researchers to …

Fuel cell technology for domestic built environment applications: State of-the-art review

T Elmer, M Worall, S Wu, SB Riffat - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
Fuel cells produce heat when generating electricity, thus they are of particular interest for
combined heat and power (CHP) and combined cooling heat and power (CCHP) …

A review of solar energy based heat and power generation systems

A Modi, F Bühler, JG Andreasen, F Haglind - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2017 - Elsevier
The utilization of solar energy based technologies has attracted increased interest in recent
times in order to satisfy the various energy demands of our society. This paper presents a …

A comprehensive review on thermochemical, biological, biochemical and hybrid conversion methods of bio-derived lignocellulosic molecules into renewable fuels

G Kumar, J Dharmaraja, S Arvindnarayan, S Shoban… - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
In this review, the conversion (thermochemical, biological and hybrid) of chemical energy
chiefly enclosed in biomass structures ie as 30–50% cellulose, 15–35% hemicellulose and …

Volumetric solar heating and steam generation via gold nanofluids

M Amjad, G Raza, Y Xin, S Pervaiz, J Xu, X Du, D Wen - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Volumetric solar absorption using nanofluids can minimize the thermal loss by trapping the
light inside the fluid volume. A strong surface boiling with the underneath fluid still subcooled …

A review of micro combined heat and power systems for residential applications

S Murugan, B Horák - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Cogeneration systems have been employed for many years in various heat and power
applications. The micro combined heat and power (mCHP) system is an advanced and …