BMC EnergyPub Date : 2020-06-12DOI: 10.1186/s42500-020-00015-2
S. Bullock, J. Mason, J. Broderick, A. Larkin
{"title":"Shipping and the Paris climate agreement: a focus on committed emissions","authors":"S. Bullock, J. Mason, J. Broderick, A. Larkin","doi":"10.1186/s42500-020-00015-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42500-020-00015-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":420075,"journal":{"name":"BMC Energy","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114579048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC EnergyPub Date : 2020-05-13DOI: 10.1186/s42500-020-00013-4
Fiac Gaffney, J. P. Deane, G. Drayton, J. Glynn, B. Ó. Gallachóir
{"title":"Comparing negative emissions and high renewable scenarios for the European power system","authors":"Fiac Gaffney, J. P. Deane, G. Drayton, J. Glynn, B. Ó. Gallachóir","doi":"10.1186/s42500-020-00013-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42500-020-00013-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":420075,"journal":{"name":"BMC Energy","volume":"638 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131691819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC EnergyPub Date : 2020-03-11DOI: 10.1186/s42500-020-00012-5
Binglin Chen, G. Yan, Gaofeng Chen, Yunchao Feng, Xianhai Zeng, Yong Sun, Xing Tang, Tingzhou Lei, Lu Lin
{"title":"Recent progress in the development of advanced biofuel 5-ethoxymethylfurfural","authors":"Binglin Chen, G. Yan, Gaofeng Chen, Yunchao Feng, Xianhai Zeng, Yong Sun, Xing Tang, Tingzhou Lei, Lu Lin","doi":"10.1186/s42500-020-00012-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42500-020-00012-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":420075,"journal":{"name":"BMC Energy","volume":"330 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122837848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC EnergyPub Date : 2020-01-28DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.14603/v3
S. Jouttijärvi, X. Yao, M. Asghar, J. Etula, Anne-Maria Reinecke, W. Lippmann, P. Lund
{"title":"Carbonate dual-phase improves the performance of single-layer fuel cell made from mixed ionic and semiconductor composite","authors":"S. Jouttijärvi, X. Yao, M. Asghar, J. Etula, Anne-Maria Reinecke, W. Lippmann, P. Lund","doi":"10.21203/rs.2.14603/v3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.14603/v3","url":null,"abstract":"A mixed ionic and semiconducting composite in a single-layer configuration has been shown to work as a fuel cell at a lower temperature (500–600 °C) than a traditional solid-oxide fuel cell. The performance of a single-layer fuel cell (SLFC) is often limited by high resistive losses. Here, a eutectic mixture of alkali-carbonates was added to SLFC to improve the ionic conductivity. The dual-phase composite ionic conductor consisted of a ternary carbonate (sodium lithium potassium carbonate, NLKC) mixed with gadolinium-doped cerium oxide (GDC). Lithium nickel zinc oxide (LNZ) was used as the semiconducting material. The LNZ-GDC-NLKC SLFC reached a high power density, 582 mW/cm 2 (conductivity 0.22 S/cm) at 600 °C, which is 30 times better than without the carbonate. The best results were obtained with the ternary carbonate which decreased the ohmic losses of the cell by more than 95%, whereas the SLFC with a binary carbonate (sodium lithium carbonate, NLC) showed a lower conductivity and performance (243 mW/cm 2 , 0.17 S/cm at 600 °C). It is concluded that adding carbonates to LNZ-GDC will improve the ionic conductivity and positively contribute to the cell performance. These results suggest a potential path for further development of SLFCs, but also imply the need for efforts on up-scaling and stability to produce practical applications with SLFC.","PeriodicalId":420075,"journal":{"name":"BMC Energy","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122259034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC EnergyPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1186/s42500-019-0010-9
A. Holland, A. Cruden, A. Zerey, A. Hector, R. Wills
{"title":"Electrochemical study of TiO2 in aqueous AlCl3 electrolyte via vacuum impregnation for superior high-rate electrode performance","authors":"A. Holland, A. Cruden, A. Zerey, A. Hector, R. Wills","doi":"10.1186/s42500-019-0010-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42500-019-0010-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":420075,"journal":{"name":"BMC Energy","volume":"47 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124315756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC EnergyPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1186/s42500-019-0007-4
D. D. Hong, H. L. Anh, L. T. Tam, P. Show, H. Leong
{"title":"Effects of nanoscale zerovalent cobalt on growth and photosynthetic parameters of soybean Glycine max (L.) Merr. DT26 at different stages","authors":"D. D. Hong, H. L. Anh, L. T. Tam, P. Show, H. Leong","doi":"10.1186/s42500-019-0007-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42500-019-0007-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":420075,"journal":{"name":"BMC Energy","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132272738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC EnergyPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1186/s42500-019-0006-5
L. S. Xavier, W. Amorim, A. F. Cupertino, V. F. Mendes, Wallace C. do Boaventura, H. Pereira
{"title":"Power converters for battery energy storage systems connected to medium voltage systems: a comprehensive review","authors":"L. S. Xavier, W. Amorim, A. F. Cupertino, V. F. Mendes, Wallace C. do Boaventura, H. Pereira","doi":"10.1186/s42500-019-0006-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42500-019-0006-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":420075,"journal":{"name":"BMC Energy","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122161291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC EnergyPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1186/s42500-019-0009-2
Leonardo K. K. Maia, E. Zondervan
{"title":"Optimization of energy storage and system flexibility in the context of the energy transition: Germany’s power grid as a case study","authors":"Leonardo K. K. Maia, E. Zondervan","doi":"10.1186/s42500-019-0009-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42500-019-0009-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":420075,"journal":{"name":"BMC Energy","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134161609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC EnergyPub Date : 2019-10-29DOI: 10.1186/s42500-019-0008-3
Zhongliang Li, Zhixue Zheng, Liangfei Xu, Xiaonan Lu
{"title":"A review of the applications of fuel cells in microgrids: opportunities and challenges","authors":"Zhongliang Li, Zhixue Zheng, Liangfei Xu, Xiaonan Lu","doi":"10.1186/s42500-019-0008-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42500-019-0008-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":420075,"journal":{"name":"BMC Energy","volume":"2018 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133262525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}