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Drivers and barriers to the diffusion of energy-efficient technologies—a plant-level analysis of the German steel industry [PDF]

, 2017
The paper aims at explaining why large-scale energy-intensive industries—here the German iron and steel industry—had a period of slow uptake of major energy-efficient technologies from the mid 1990s to mid 2000s (Arens and Worrell, 2014) and why from the
Sustainable Energy, Eichhammer, Wolfgang, Energy, Resources & Technological Change, Energy and Resources, Arens, Marlene, Worrell, Ernst   +5 more
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Investigation and Evaluation of Primary Energy from Wind Turbines for a Nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB)

Energies, 2019
In order to fulfill the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requirements regarding the reduction of energy consumption in buildings, great attention is paid to primary energy consumption.
Rokas Tamašauskas, Jolanta Šadauskienė, Patrikas Bruzgevičius, Dorota Anna Krawczyk   +3 more
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Selection of Energy Improvement Factors and Economic Analysis of Standard MDU Complexes in Korean Metropolitan Regions

Energies, 2022
In Korea, energy consumption within apartments in metropolitan areas accounted for more than 33% of the total energy consumption by buildings in 2020.
Ki-Won Lee, Young Il Kim
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Assessing the level of CO2 emission in Iran via the econometric approach [PDF]

Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2021
The main objective of this study is to investigate the production of carbon dioxide and its effective factors on CO2 emission in Iran and other parts of the world.
Kourosh Asayesh
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Advantages of an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Sustainable Development of Two Scenarios in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Buildings, 2019
Presently, almost all human activities (agriculture, transport, industry, construction sector, etc.) have an adverse impact on the environment. The construction sector in the EU alone accounts for a big part of the total energy consumption and emission ...
Sanela Klaric, Azra Korjenic, Jutta Hollands, Lamija Subasic   +3 more
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An Evaluation of the Structure of Energy Consumption in Educational Buildings in Poland After Thermal Retrofitting

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering, 2020
The paper presents the structure and indices of the annual energy consumption in educational buildings subject to comprehensive thermal retrofitting. Seven buildings were analyzed; the energy consumption for heating and ventilation, hot water preparation,
Życzyńska Anna, Suchorab Zbigniew, Dyś Grzegorz, Čurpek Jakub, Čekon Miroslav   +4 more
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Technical analysis of China′s energy security situation

电力工程技术, 2023
As an important part of the national security system, energy security is of great importance to the construction of a modern and powerful socialist country in China.
LI Jinyu, LIU Ruijian, ZHOU Chaoyang, LI Nan, TANG Fangcheng   +4 more
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Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Project 2 Mw Fuel Cell Demonstration [PDF]

, 2005
With about 50% of power generation in the United States derived from coal and projections indicating that coal will continue to be the primary fuel for power generation in the next two decades, the Department of Energy (DOE) Clean Coal Technology ...
FuelCell Energy
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Decarbonization of Residential Building Energy Supply: Impact of Cogeneration System Performance on Energy, Environment, and Economics

Energies, 2021
Electrical and thermal loads of residential buildings present a unique opportunity for onsite power generation, and concomitant thermal energy generation, storage, and utilization, to decrease primary energy consumption and carbon dioxide intensity. This
Praveen K. Cheekatamarla
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Performance Evaluation of a Fuel Cell mCHP System under Different Configurations of Hydrogen Origin and Heat Recovery

Energies, 2023
Motivated by the growing importance of fuel cell systems as the basis for distributed energy-generation systems, this work considers a micro-combined heat and power (mCHP) generation system based on a fuel cell integrated to satisfy the (power and ...
Pedro Gabana, Francisco V. Tinaut, Miriam Reyes, José Ignacio Domínguez   +3 more
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