Special Issue: Recent advances in renewable energy for energy sustainability
Guest Editors
Prof. BalaAnand Muthu
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, India
Email: balaanandmuthu.cse@adhiyamaan.in
Dr. Imran Shafique Ansari
James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK
Email: Imran.Ansari@glasgow.ac.uk
Prof. Dheiver Francisco Santos
Department of Mechatronic Engineering and Computer Science, UNIT, Tiradentes University Center, Maceió, Brazil
Email: dheiver.santos@gmail.com
Manuscript Topics
Continual depletion of fossil fuels (like crude oil and coal) put forth a question on our dependency towards them. Also growing concerns in sustainability of the environment drive us to rely on renewable energy sources for future demand. Renewable energy resources ensure continual generation of energy without the emission of greenhouse gases. Currently the energy derived from sun, wind and ocean waves are accompanied with fossil fuels and considered to be alternative forms of energy. Traditional methodology involves conversion of mechanical energy or thermal energy into electrical energy through a complicated process, which is less efficient. Though innovations in these alternative energy sources are coming every year, they could not completely replace fossil fuels due to the following troubles. The rate of production of energy by these sources is highly uncertain, and primarily dictated by the source availability (sun, wind etc.,) that is beyond human control. This inconsistency in energy production makes the whole process costly with the need for frequent maintenance. Factors like geographic location, weather and climate significantly vary the output efficiency. Renewable energy plants usually require a large area with extensive instrumentation (grid platforms) when compared to conventional forms which makes their installation and energy production even more costly. Transfer of energy from source to grid increases the overall complication in the production of energy. These difficulties along with lack of awareness about the environment pollution due to conventional energy made government and corporate agencies to hesitate for investing in renewable energy sources
However, recent innovation in renewable energy production unravels a new dimension in generating energy from them and their extent of sustainability is ahead of its time. Advanced solar cells called “Optical Rectenna” harvest high energy electromagnetic energy from solar radiation rather than photons for production of energy. Thermo-Electro-Chemical Converter is a type of electrical generator uses solar heat to drive a chemical reaction from saline water which in turn produces electricity. High conversion efficiency (than traditional solar power plants) with its ability to work even at high temperatures makes these methods an ideal option for industrial scale electricity generation. Flexible generators like piezoelectric generators and triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) have the capacity to convert mechanical strains (like vibrations and friction) to electrical energy. The versatility of this device makes it potential to generate electricity by simply wrapping it on any reliable source. Its compact size accompanied with its versatility makes it an ideal choice for low power electrical devices for a very long time and thus having potential to replace batteries in near future. Hydrogen has been identified as a sustainable alternative fuel for a very long time but neglected due to its intricacy in storage and safety. Innovations in air-stable metal nano-composites enable storage of hydrogen with less complexity ensuring high safety standards. In conversion of biomass usage of “Effective Microorganism” technology enables effective transformation of waste materials to biofuels (like ethanol, butanol, propanol and Methane). Though these promising technologies are in experimental scale, they have the potential to provide seamless clean energy for extended periods of time. Therefore adaptation and commercialization of these technologies for energy production would certainly meet our growing demand for energy in future.
This special issue forms an ideal platform for the researchers, environmentalists, activists and entrepreneurs who are interested in sustainability of renewable energy sources can present their unpublished works, reviews and their perspectives on recent advancements in sustainable production of energy. The major focus of the special issue is to bring out novel technologies for industrial scale production of energy with sustainability to the environment.
The topics of interest for the special issue include but not limited to the following:
• Advances in developing smart acoustic harvesters capable having non linear resonance behavior
• Innovations in betavoltaics to harvest energy from high energy beta rays
• Administration of vertically grown carbon nanotubes for harvesting high energy solar radiation
• Advances in atomic layer deposition technology for the production of advanced nano harvesters and insulators
• Research in usage cost efficient polymer materials for solid state flexible generators
• Development of wide band piezoelectric energy harvesters for highly efficient energy production
• Research in autonomous self-powered electrical appliances that can capture mechanical energy
• Trends in production of sustainable bioreactors for high throughput biomass conversion
• Research in isolating “Rumen Microorganisms” for increased production of Methanol
• Institution of policies and regulation for the usage of fossil fuels for commercial purposes
• Revolutionizing future energy infrastructure for commercial production of clean energy
• Establishment and optimization of pilot scale flexible energy generators
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