Heating and cooling systems in buildings account for 31% of global energy use, much which are regulated by Rule Based Controllers (RBCs) that neither maximise efficiency nor minimise emissions interacting optimally with the grid. Control via Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been shown to significantly improve building efficiency, but existing solutions require access building-specific simulators...

Several advanced economies are in the process of a transition towards zero emission housing by 2020. Such transitions require a radical shift beyond existing limited building envelope and energy efficiency improvements. The Zero Emission Housing (ZEH) concept indicates such a radical shift, implying as it does home energy consumption within limits set by the home itself, and renewable energy te...

The Gas to Gasoline (GTG) process includes conversion of natural, flare, and associated gas into synthetic fuels that can be compositionally upgraded and adjusted into different useful hydrocarbon fuels including gasoline, liquid petroleum gas (LPG), and fuel gas. Commonly, the GTG process involves three stages: 1) Synthesis gas (syngas) production unit 2) Methanol production unit 3) Methanol t...

We report the results of coincidence counting experiments at the output, of a Michelson interferometer using the zero-phonon-line emission of a single molecule at 1.4 K. Under continuous wave excitation, we observe the absence of coincidence counts as an indication of two-photon interference. This corresponds to the observation of Hong-Ou-Mandel correlations and proves the suitability of the ze...

We compare emission cap commitment that restricts total emissions and emission intensity commitment that restricts emissions per unit of output as measures of self-regulation. The monopolist chooses either emission cap commitment or emission intensity commitment and sets the target level under the constraint that the resulting emissions do not exceed the upper limit. We find that profit-maximiz...

Clean hydrogen is the major energy carrier for power production. The conversion of CO to CO2 and zero emission during hydrogen energy production causes high capital cost. It is a matter of prestige to optimize the process in order to make zero emission and cost effective production of clean hydrogen energy and electric power. In this era, coal gasification is th...