The building and infrastructure sector is accountable for 46% of the total worldwide energy
consumption. Most traditional energy sources such as coal or petroleum are among the non …

Energy generation and its utilization is bound to increase in the following years resulting in
accelerating depletion of fossil fuels, and consequently, undeniable damages to our …

Nowadays, marine propulsion systems are mainly based on internal combustion diesel
engines. Despite this fact, a number of LNG carriers have steam propulsion plants. In such …

We embellish a mixed-integer program that prescribes a set of renewable energy,
conventional generation, and storage technologies to procure, along with a corresponding …

In the last decade, many artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been used to solve
various problems in sustainable energy (SE). Consequently, an increasing volume of …

Recently security issues like investment and financing in China's power industry have
become increasingly prominent, bringing serious challenges to the financial security of the …

Modeling of batteries in photovoltaic systems has been a major issue related to the random
dynamic regime imposed by the changes of solar irradiation and ambient temperature …

This paper studies the location–allocation–configuration problem of emergency resources in
a maritime emergency system and it proposes a discrete nonlinear integer-programming …

Smart energy systems are meant as groups of energy conversion units that fulfill the
requirements of several users according to “smart rules”. This paper considers an existing …

It is well accepted that combined heat and power (CHP) generation can increase the
efficiency of power and heat generation at the same time. With the increasing penetration of …