One key strategy toward decarbonizing chemical synthesis is to reduce reliance on fossil fuels as an energy source. The increased availability of renewable electricity from sources such solar and wind offers opportunities both electrify manufacturing. While there are many possible uses for electricity, joule heating reactors, one approach use these electrons make break bonds directly via electr...

Solid oxide cell (SOC) technology currently attracts great attention due to its unique potential for substantially contributing a carbon-neutral power supply. The variety in possible designs and applications—covering oxygen ion proton conductors the ability convert surplus electricity easily storable synthetic fuels, as well produce from these fuels according demand availability—provides excell...

Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) are the main propulsion systems for ground transport, both in on-road and off-road applications. By mid-2016, a special issue about ICEs for ground transport was announced, corresponding to this editorial. At this time, the forecast consensus was that it is not possible to replace ICEs in the powertrain of the majority of vehicles in the forthcoming decades, e...

The electric power industry in the United States and in other countries is undergoing profound regulatory and operational changes. The underlying rationale behind these transformations is to move once highly monopolized vertically-integrated industry from a centralized operation approach to a competitive one. The emerging competitive markets and an increase in the number of market participants ...

Biomass is a significant source of energy in China today, particularly in rural areas. However, most current use of firewood and agricultural residues for cooking and heating brings with it detrimental effects of indoor air pollution and associated adverse health impacts. In addition, the time spent collecting biomass fuels creates a burden on women and children, which reduces their time availa...

Petroleum-based fuels are nonrenewable and unsustainable. Renewable sources of energy, such as lignocellulosic biofuels and plant metabolite-based drop-in fuels, can offset fossil fuel use and reverse environmental degradation through carbon sequestration. Despite these benefits, the lignocellulosic biofuels industry still faces many challenges, including the availability of economically viable...

Fuel cells will undoubtedly find widespread use in this new millennium in the conversion of chemical to electrical energy, as they offer very high efficiencies and have unique scalability in electricity-generation applications. The solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is one of the most exciting of these energy technologies; it is an all-ceramic device that operates at temperatures in the range 500-1,0...

Renewable Energy Sources have a lot of importance in today’s world to produce an electrical output which explains the main reasons that every government and policy maker now days prefer wake global warming limited availability fossil fuels (Twidell Weir, 2021). The are hazardless, pollution free, eco-friendly, freely available nature vast quantities most importantly, they give chance create car...

INTRODUCTION More than 95% of the population in Burkina Faso uses some form of solid biomass fuel. When these fuels are burned in traditional, inefficient stoves, pollutant levels within and outside the home can be very high. This can have important consequences for both health and climate change. Thus, the push to switch to cleaner burning fuels is advantageous. However, there are several cons...

Geothermal energy development in the UK has been limited, partly due to the lack of high enthalpy resources, but also due to the availability of cheap fossil fuels during the 1980s and 1990s. However, with the advent of renewable energy sources to combat climate change and the need to replace diminishing fossil fuels, geothermal is now in a good position to contribute to the energy mix. In this...