Parked Electric Vehicle’s Cabin Temperature Management Using Photovoltaic Powered Ventilation (2017)
Journal Article
Kolhe, M., Muneer, T., & Adhikari, S. (2017). Parked Electric Vehicle’s Cabin Temperature Management Using Photovoltaic Powered Ventilation. Energy Procedia, 142, 343-349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.054

District heating networks are commonly addressed in the literature as one of the most effective solutions for decreasing the greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector. These systems require high investments which are returned through the heat... Read More about Parked Electric Vehicle’s Cabin Temperature Management Using Photovoltaic Powered Ventilation.

Experimental Assessment and Modelling of Coupled Biochemical-Physical-Mechanical Biodegradation Process of a Municipal Solid Waste Sample from Michigan (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Datta, S., Zekkos, D., Fei, X., & McDougall, J. (2017). Experimental Assessment and Modelling of Coupled Biochemical-Physical-Mechanical Biodegradation Process of a Municipal Solid Waste Sample from Michigan. In Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics (CPEG2), Leeds, UK 2017

Municipal solid waste (MSW) is biodegradable in landfills under anaerobic conditions. The evolution of the biochemical, physical and mechanical characteristics of MSW are interdependent and is investigated first through an experiment and subsequently... Read More about Experimental Assessment and Modelling of Coupled Biochemical-Physical-Mechanical Biodegradation Process of a Municipal Solid Waste Sample from Michigan.

Hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) will likely yield more accurate results than process-based LCA (2017)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & Lenzen, M. (2017). Hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) will likely yield more accurate results than process-based LCA. Journal of Cleaner Production, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.119

We analyse the comparative investigation into truncation vs. aggregation errors of process-based and hybrid LCA by Yang et al. 2017. We analyse the validity of their findings when the hypothetical five-sector economy is altered to account for realist... Read More about Hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) will likely yield more accurate results than process-based LCA.

So much for COP23 – there’s a whole class of carbon emissions we’re totally ignoring (2017)
Other
Pomponi, F. (2017). So much for COP23 – there’s a whole class of carbon emissions we’re totally ignoring. [https://theconversation.com/so-much-for-cop23-theres-a-whole-class-of-carbon-emissions-were-totally-ignoring-87544]. The Conversation, UK

Article published on 'The Conversation' on embodied carbon of buildings.

Innovation in corrosion monitoring in sewers - use of novel photonic sensors for humidity measurements in gravity sewers (2017)
Journal Article
Bustamante, H., Alwis, L. S. M., Grattan, K. T. V., Sun, T., Vorreiter, L., & González, J. (2017). Innovation in corrosion monitoring in sewers - use of novel photonic sensors for humidity measurements in gravity sewers. Water e-journal, 2(4), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.21139/wej.2017.038

Humidity plays a key role in microbiologically induced corrosion of concrete gravity sewers. Minor reductions in humidity can reduce corrosion rates. No reliable long lived (>1 week) humidity sensors are available, thus limiting the development of us... Read More about Innovation in corrosion monitoring in sewers - use of novel photonic sensors for humidity measurements in gravity sewers.

Indoor living plants' effects on an office environment (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, A. J., Fsadni, A., & Holt, G. (2017). Indoor living plants' effects on an office environment. Facilities, 35(9/10), 525-542. https://doi.org/10.1108/F-09-2016-0088

Purpose The use of indoor living plants for enhancement of indoor relative humidity and the general environment of a large, modern, open plan office building; are studied using a mixed-methods paradigm. Design/methodology/approach The quantitat... Read More about Indoor living plants' effects on an office environment.

Influence of pole number and stator outer diameter on volume, weight and cost of superconducting generator with iron-cored rotor topology for wind turbines. (2017)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Zhu, Z. Q., Li, G., Azar, Z., Thomas, A. S., Vedreño-Santos, F., & Odavic, M. (2017). Influence of pole number and stator outer diameter on volume, weight and cost of superconducting generator with iron-cored rotor topology for wind turbines. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 27(6), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2017.2716818

This paper investigates the influence of pole number and stator outer diameter on the performance of superconducting (SC) generators. The SC generator has an iron-cored rotor topology. Firstly, the generator structure is introduced and the optimizati... Read More about Influence of pole number and stator outer diameter on volume, weight and cost of superconducting generator with iron-cored rotor topology for wind turbines..

PV electrical parameters degradation analysis-Oman perspective (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Honnurvali, M. S., & Gupta, N. (2017). PV electrical parameters degradation analysis-Oman perspective. In 2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). https://doi.org/10.1109/irec.2017.7926000

Recent interests in exploring the potential of renewable energy possibilities and readiness in sultanate of Oman has showed that it can engage renewable energy technologies, such as solar, wind power and various hybrid power models to mitigate fossil... Read More about PV electrical parameters degradation analysis-Oman perspective.

Recent developments in integrated platforms (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Kerrouche, A. (2017, May). Recent developments in integrated platforms. Presented at International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This session will review and discuss the increase role of automated rapid and molecular methods for pathogen detection in drinking water and attempt to reach a consensus on the future role of such methods for routine use. The session will start with... Read More about Recent developments in integrated platforms.

Exploring multi-objective trade-offs in the design space of a waste heat recovery system (2017)
Journal Article
Mokhtar, M., Burns, S., Ross, D., & Hunt, I. (2017). Exploring multi-objective trade-offs in the design space of a waste heat recovery system. Applied Energy, 195, 114-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.03.030

A waste heat recovery system (WHRS) is used to capture waste heat released from an industrial process, and transform the heat into reusable energy. In practice, it can be difficult to identify the optimal form of a WHRS for a particular installation,... Read More about Exploring multi-objective trade-offs in the design space of a waste heat recovery system.