Review on environmental aspects in smart city concept: Water, waste, air pollution and transportation smart applications using IoT techniques

MY Salman, H Hasar - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing urban populations due to factors such as more comfortable life and immigration
have turned self-sufficient traditional cities into mega-cities and caused several new …

Ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting: Mechanisms, enhancement techniques, and scaling laws

R Sun, S Zhou, L Cheng - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for clean and sustainable energy, self-powered technologies
based on environmental vibrations have attracted a lot of attention recently. Natural vibration …

IntelliSense technology in the new power systems

H Xie, M Jiang, D Zhang, HH Goh, T Ahmad… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The energy and climate crises have accelerated the decarbonization of electric power
systems. An important part of this decarbonization process, along with the incorporation of …

Leak detection and localization techniques in oil and gas pipeline: A bibliometric and systematic review

J Yuan, W Mao, C Hu, J Zheng, D Zheng… - Engineering Failure …, 2023 - Elsevier
Oil and gas pipelines are very important for fuel transportation, however leakages in them
may lead to life and property losses due to the release of the energy they contain. Reliable …

An energy-aware and Q-learning-based area coverage for oil pipeline monitoring systems using sensors and Internet of Things

AM Rahmani, S Ali, MH Malik, E Yousefpoor… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Pipelines are the safest tools for transporting oil and gas. However, the environmental
effects and sabotage of hostile people cause corrosion and decay of pipelines, which bring …

Recent advances in correlation and integration between vibration control, energy harvesting and monitoring

T Yang, S Zhou, G Litak, X Jing - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Traditional structures adopt a split design with vibration control, energy harvesting and
monitoring, which is difficult to meet the needs of technological development. The …

A variable damping vibration energy harvester based on Half-Wave flywheeling effect for freight railways

T Zhang, H Cao, Z Zhang, W Kong, L Kong, J Liu… - … Systems and Signal …, 2023 - Elsevier
The vibrational energy, often considered a negative factor, is abundant in everyday life.
Especially in railway systems, the negatively impacted track vibrations resulting from moving …

Integrated Piezoelectric/Pyroelectric Sensing from Organic–Inorganic Perovskite Nanocomposites

B Chai, K Shi, Y Wang, Y Liu, F Liu, L Zhu, X Huang - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Flexible ferroelectric materials are in high demand in emerging energy harvesting and self-
powered sensing electronics. However, current flexible ferroelectric polymers, such as poly …

An internal resonance piezoelectric energy harvester based on geometrical nonlinearities

Y Fan, Y Zhang, MQ Niu, LQ Chen - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the effects of nonlinear modal interactions on a piezoelectric energy
harvester, specifically focusing on the absence of externally induced magnetic …

Small hydropower plants' impacts on the ecological status indicators of urban rivers

P Tomczyk, M Wiatkowski, A Kuriqi - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Water is the basis of life for living creatures and is used for various purposes, especially in
agriculture, industry, municipal services, and energy production. Assessing water quality in …