Pub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2024.103955
Structure supercapacitors (SSC) have aroused tremendous interest in building energy storage due to their dual function of electrochemical-mechanical properties. As well known, the low energy storage capacity limits their development. To enhance the energy density of SSC, lots of high-performance structural electrodes were developed. Herein, Mg and S elements were used to regulate the microstructure of the binary metal hydroxide, which could improve the electrode’s electrochemical performance. As we expected, rGO/N1C3Mg-S4′ electrode exhibits high areal capacitance (10.20F/cm2), which boosts the electrochemical capacitance of SSC. Our device based on rGO/N1C3Mg-S4′ electrode exhibits a high areal capacitance (179.21 mF/cm2) and a high energy density (56 μWh/cm2) at 3 mA/cm2. More importantly, the electrochemical performance of our device doesn’t change obviously under a certain amount of pressure, demonstrating its good practical application potential in buildings.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2024.103953
In the effort to conserve energy and reduce emissions, waste heat recovery for power generation offers a significant advantage by enabling energy recycling. The turbo-expander, a critical component within expansion power generation systems, plays a pivotal role. However, flow during various operation can generate vibrations that negatively affect operational efficiency and trigger safety hazards. Therefore, studying the flow-induced vibration of the turbo-expander is of significant value. We apply computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and transient structural mechanics to examine the flow-induced vibration characteristics of the turbo-expander influenced by stator-rotor interaction using a two-way fluid structure interaction (FSI) strategy. The flow field modeling and calculation approach discussed here is validated through actual operating data from a prototype. Subsequent stages involve coupling the steady-state flow field with the structural field and performing pre-stress modal analysis on the impeller. In the end, we integrate flow-induced excitation from flow field calculations with the transient structural field to calculate the impeller’s flow-induced vibration at the expansion end of the turbo-expander. Our analysis reveals that guide vane frequency (3267 Hz), its harmonic frequencies, and pre-stress modal frequency (1465 Hz) prominently manifest in pressure pulsation and the dynamic response of the turbo-expander impeller under the influence of stator-rotor interaction.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2024.103951
Lateral sliding triboelectric nanogenerators LS-TENGs promise to combine low cost and high-efficiency mechanical energy harvesting at low frequency with the advantages of light weight and simple device architecture. To date, device power generation optimization has only been addressed on the framework of the optimal load resistance through the maximum power transfer theorem (MPTT). However, MPTT is a concept to optimize the power transferred from TENGs to loads, but not for optimizing the power generated by the TENG itself. In response, this work reports a concept that resembles the population growth model of species for designing enhanced performance LS-TENGs with optimal charge-generating rate. In this way, devices designed under the proposed concept possess a significantly enhanced optimal charge and power generation rate up to 3-fold and 8-fold respectively superior to those found for conventional rectangular TENGs with similar capacity, which allows us power up sustainably for hours low power consumption devices with a few minutes of mechanical energy harvesting. Thereby, this model aids in the development of enhanced performance LS-TENGs capable of collecting mechanical vibrations and optimally converting them into electrical energy by breaking the limits set by the MPTT, as well as opening a route towards batteryless power autonomy.
侧向滑动三电纳米发电机 LS-TENGs 可将低成本、高效率的低频机械能采集与重量轻、设备结构简单等优点结合起来。迄今为止,人们仅通过最大功率传递定理(MPTT)在最佳负载电阻的框架内对设备发电进行了优化。然而,MPTT 是一个优化从 TENG 到负载的功率传输的概念,而不是用于优化 TENG 本身产生的功率。为此,本研究报告提出了一个类似于物种种群增长模型的概念,用于设计具有最佳电荷生成率的高性能 LS-TENG 器件。因此,根据所提出的概念设计的设备具有显著增强的最佳充电率和发电率,分别比具有类似容量的传统矩形 TENG 高出 3 倍和 8 倍,这使我们能够通过几分钟的机械能量收集为低功耗设备持续供电数小时。因此,该模型有助于开发性能更强的 LS-TENGs,它们能够收集机械振动并以最佳方式将其转换为电能,突破了 MPTT 的限制,同时也为实现无电池自动供电开辟了道路。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-31DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2024.103952
Cold chain logistics involves all aspects of food storage, transport, and sales. This study focuses on innovating cold storage disinfection within this context. Regular disinfection reduces microorganism growth, improves food quality, and ensures safety. Traditional methods lack automation, accurate monitoring, and responsive control. Conventional sensors are unsuitable for curved bottles and need frequent power changes. This paper proposes a light energy harvested flexible wireless sensing for disinfection sterilization in food storage (FLWDS). FLWDS comprises five parts: light energy harvesting and power supply node (LEPN), sensing node, control node, monitoring node, and host computer. A predictive control model improves response speed and accuracy. Bluetooth technology ensures real-time communication between nodes. FLWDS collects light energy inside the cold store as a supplementary energy source and can be used in curved structures with a response time of less than 1 s. The maximum communication distance is 40 m. The flexible level sensing system can be designed according to the induction pad’s length, with a measurement accuracy of 0.3 mm, sampling every 4.8 ms, and a resolution of 0.2 mm. FLWDS provides self-powered flexible wireless sensing, ensuring accurate liquid level measurement, improved food quality, reduced pollution, and increased sustainability.
{"title":"Light energy harvested flexible wireless sensing for disinfection sterilization in food storage","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.seta.2024.103952","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seta.2024.103952","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cold chain logistics involves all aspects of food storage, transport, and sales. This study focuses on innovating cold storage disinfection within this context. Regular disinfection reduces microorganism growth, improves food quality, and ensures safety. Traditional methods lack automation, accurate monitoring, and responsive control. Conventional sensors are unsuitable for curved bottles and need frequent power changes. This paper proposes a light energy harvested flexible wireless sensing for disinfection sterilization in food storage (FLWDS). FLWDS comprises five parts: light energy harvesting and power supply node (LEPN), sensing node, control node, monitoring node, and host computer. A predictive control model improves response speed and accuracy. Bluetooth technology ensures real-time communication between nodes. FLWDS collects light energy inside the cold store as a supplementary energy source and can be used in curved structures with a response time of less than 1 s. The maximum communication distance is 40 m. The flexible level sensing system can be designed according to the induction pad’s length, with a measurement accuracy of 0.3 mm, sampling every 4.8 ms, and a resolution of 0.2 mm. FLWDS provides self-powered flexible wireless sensing, ensuring accurate liquid level measurement, improved food quality, reduced pollution, and increased sustainability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56019,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142095080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2024.103937
High global warming potential gases (“high GWP”) are the fastest growing sector of greenhouse gas emissions in the world and in California and are primarily used as refrigerant gases in refrigeration and cooling equipment. Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) refrigerants are the dominant type of high GWP gases with GWP values thousands of times larger than CO2 on a 100-year timescale. Refrigerant-grade propane (“R290”) has a very low GWP (GWP = 3.3) with good thermodynamic properties and good cooling equipment performance but the flammability of any leaked refrigerant makes equipment design, handling, and maintenance critical factors to manage. This paper focuses on the potential climate benefits and costs of transitioning to R290 refrigerant in small room air conditioning (AC) units, specifically window AC, packaged terminal AC/heat pumps (PTAC/PTHP), and mini-split heat pumps. Overall climate impact for a transition to all three types of air conditioning units in the 2022–2051 timeframe is found to be from 15 to 64 million metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) savings in California with a cost of saved CO2eq that ranges from $14.50 per ton of CO2eq saved to −$50.30 per ton of CO2eq saved (net savings) depending on whether the baseline refrigerant is R32 or R410A and depending on the relative energy efficiency for R290 units compared to baseline units.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2024.103948
Piggy-backed anchors present a promising solution to address the limitations of single Drag Embedment Anchors (DEAs). A series of centrifugal model tests were performed on the installation of piggy-backed anchors with varying spacings and attachment points in saturated sand using a magnetometer system. The experimental results validated the proposed theoretical prediction model, which can identify the trajectory, capacity, orientation, and soil failure wedge slip surface. Key findings include: (1). the embedment depth of the second anchor in piggy-backed anchors is significantly greater than that of a single anchor, resulting in the total capacity of piggy-backed anchors exceeding twice that of a single anchor at appropriate spacing; (2). investigating spacing effects shows that capacities are less than twice that of the single anchors when spacing is less than 1Lf due to overlapping failure soil wedges; optimal spacing was found to be 2Lf to 3Lf; (3). piggy-backed anchors with attachment points at the back of fluke exhibit better embedment performance and capacity stability compared to those with attachment points at the padeye. Finally, the prediction model explored the capacity performance of piggy-backed anchors at different loading angles at the final embedment depth, revealing a two-stage failure process compared to single drag anchors.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2024.103950
This study evaluates an innovative domestic indirect solar dryer (ISD) for drying grapes (Vitis Vinifera L.), focusing on energy, exergy, economic, and sustainability performance. Two trials with crop loads of 15% (Trial-1) and 33% (Trial-2) were conducted. Trial-2 exhibited higher energy efficiencies in the solar collector (SC) and drying chamber (DC) compared to Trial-1, with efficiencies of 61.4% and 58.5% for SC, and a 13% increase in DC efficiency. The daily average exergy efficiencies for SC and DC ranged from 11%–13% and 54%–58%, respectively. Trial-2 also showed a 113% higher life cycle savings, a 54.4% decrease in payback period, and a 23% lower waste exergy ratio compared to Trial-1. Pre-treatment of grapes resulted in superior dried product quality. The study highlights the ISD’s potential as an economically and environmentally sustainable solution for small-scale agricultural ventures, providing insights for renewable energy sectors
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Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2024.103935
Fuel cells are among the best options for producing electrical energy due to their advantages, such as high efficiency, wide range of production, environmental adaptability, and no noise pollution. One of the most valuable applications of fuel cells is their use in combination with renewable systems to respond to one of the main weaknesses of these systems, namely the inability to produce electricity continuously and meet on-peak electricity demand. The surplus of electricity generation is converted to Hydrogen and used by the Fuel Cell to generate electricity on-peak gird. The total energy efficiency of these systems has reached 71.3%. In addition to electricity, heat and cooling load can be supplied in multiple hybrid systems, and energy wasted can be used to improve efficiency. The hybrid renewable energy systems could facilitate a new generation of decentralized energy, ease of life in isolated areas, high reliability, the elimination of CO2 emissions, and a step towards sustainable development.
{"title":"Step toward sustainable development through the integration of renewable energy systems with fuel cells: A review","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.seta.2024.103935","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seta.2024.103935","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fuel cells are among the best options for producing electrical energy due to their advantages, such as high efficiency, wide range of production, environmental adaptability, and no noise pollution. One of the most valuable applications of fuel cells is their use in combination with renewable systems to respond to one of the main weaknesses of these systems, namely the inability to produce electricity continuously and meet on-peak electricity demand. The surplus of electricity generation is converted to Hydrogen and used by the Fuel Cell to generate electricity on-peak gird. The total energy efficiency of these systems has reached 71.3%. In addition to electricity, heat and cooling load can be supplied in multiple hybrid systems, and energy wasted can be used to improve efficiency. The hybrid renewable energy systems could facilitate a new generation of decentralized energy, ease of life in isolated areas, high reliability, the elimination of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, and a step towards sustainable development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56019,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142039917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2024.103946
This paper presents an assessment of the energy harvesting potential from wave-induced motions when producing electricity by linear generators installed on ships. The study estimates an upper maximum energy extraction potential by not considering the electro-mechanical coupling; neither is mechanical and electrical dissipation considered. The analysis of the harvested energy is made using simulated data in a case study investigating three different ships (by size). Specifically, the case study reveals that, in moderate to mildly severe sea states, the power harvested from the environment using linear generators may reach values around 1–2 kW/tons of seismic mass. Thus, it is unrealistic to imagine ship designs where linear generators are thought to provide a ship’s necessary propulsion power but, on the other hand, they may serve to supplement the main engine for auxiliary power generation.
{"title":"Energy extraction potential from wave-induced ship motions using linear generators","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.seta.2024.103946","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seta.2024.103946","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents an assessment of the energy harvesting potential from wave-induced motions when producing electricity by linear generators installed on ships. The study estimates an <em>upper maximum</em> energy extraction potential by <em>not</em> considering the electro-mechanical coupling; neither is mechanical and electrical dissipation considered. The analysis of the harvested energy is made using simulated data in a case study investigating three different ships (by size). Specifically, the case study reveals that, in moderate to mildly severe sea states, the power harvested from the environment using linear generators may reach values around 1–2 kW/tons of seismic mass. Thus, it is unrealistic to imagine ship designs where linear generators are thought to provide a ship’s necessary propulsion power but, on the other hand, they may serve to supplement the main engine for auxiliary power generation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56019,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213138824003424/pdfft?md5=47dfd1c15db186212ad8d2c38f2ec796&pid=1-s2.0-S2213138824003424-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142044686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2024.103938
New researchers in Performance-Enhancing Thermal Management Strategies (PETS) for photovoltaic (PV) technology struggle with scattered data, hindering their efforts. This research gap is addressed by extracting key information from 1,474 documents in the Web of Science and Scopus databases and conducting a thorough data analysis. The findings reveal three phases of the trend inception, gradual growth period, tech-advanced period, and rapid progress. The bibliometric results show a 24.98% growth rate, 25.01 citations per document, 2,577 researchers involved, and 275 production sources. China, India, and other Asian countries are the main collaborators in this field, emphasizing the impact of hot climate regions in Asia on the choice of PETS methods. The main researchers collaborating with PETS are Sopian. K, Jie Ji, and Pie Gang. Furthermore, a review of keywords suggests that most experimental and numerical studies have prioritized temporal and performance outcomes, often neglecting long-term practical viability considerations. Future research should prioritize the 4E (Energy, Exergy, Economic and Environmental) analysis approach to address this gap effectively. Advancements in evaporative cooling and PVT technology have evolved in offshore solar plants, PV with heat pumps, and building-integrated PV (BIPV). This analysis sets the stage for future PV advancements in PETS technology.
光伏(PV)技术的性能提升热管理策略(PETS)方面的新研究人员苦于数据分散,阻碍了他们的工作。针对这一研究空白,我们从 Web of Science 和 Scopus 数据库中的 1,474 篇文献中提取了关键信息,并进行了全面的数据分析。研究结果揭示了趋势开始的三个阶段:逐步增长期、技术先进期和快速发展期。文献计量结果显示,增长率为 24.98%,每篇文献的引用次数为 25.01 次,共有 2,577 名研究人员参与其中,275 个文献来源。中国、印度和其他亚洲国家是该领域的主要合作者,强调了亚洲炎热气候地区对 PETS 方法选择的影响。与 PETS 合作的主要研究人员有 Sopian.K、Jie Ji 和 Pie Gang。此外,对关键词的回顾表明,大多数实验和数值研究都优先考虑了时间和性能结果,往往忽视了长期的实际可行性考虑。未来的研究应优先考虑 4E(能源、放能、经济和环境)分析方法,以有效解决这一差距。蒸发冷却和 PVT 技术在离岸太阳能电站、带热泵的光伏发电和建筑一体化光伏发电 (BIPV) 中得到了发展。该分析为 PETS 技术的未来光伏进步奠定了基础。
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