Energy Focus

Planning Greenhouses Energy Supply with Focus on Renewable Energy in Microgrid Mode

Climate change and the increasing population of countries have made the importance of greenhouses more important for future food security. One of the most important considerations in greenhouse production is the need of energy to create suitable greenhouse conditions. Therefore, in this paper, the problem of greenhouse energy planning with a focus on renewable energies will be investigated. To ...

Introduction to the focus on superconductivity for energy

Low-Energy Plasma Focus Device as an Electron Beam Source

A low-energy plasma focus device was used as an electron beam source. A technique was developed to simultaneously measure the electron beam intensity and energy. The system was operated in Argon filling at an optimum pressure of 1.7 mbar. A Faraday cup was used together with an array of filtered PIN diodes. The beam-target X-rays were registered through X-ray spectrometry. Copper and lead line ...

Focus on Energy Efficiency Through Power Consumption Disaggregation

Focus on overview of innovative materials for energy

Innovative materials for energy play an important role in major fields of science and technology, including life and environmental sciences and many interdisciplinary fields. This focus issue contains several reviews and primary research articles devoted to materials for energy conversion (photovoltaic, lighting, solid oxide fuel cells, etc.) and energy harvesting applications. This focus issue...