Outputs (30)

Exploring knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Low energy building retrofit presents important opportunities for reducing of greenhouse gas emissions in the environment. It has been considered as one of the key approaches to achieving sustainable development in construction industry. Nevertheless... Read More about Exploring knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction.

Written evidence submitted by Dr Mary Alice Young (HEA0001) Organised crime and chasing net zero (2023)
Report

Executive Summary of Evidence: Organised Crime and Chasing Net Zero
1) This evidence will focus on the criminal manipulation of government initiatives to sustainably heat our homes as we work towards the 2050 goal of net-zero emissions; a novel area... Read More about Written evidence submitted by Dr Mary Alice Young (HEA0001) Organised crime and chasing net zero.

SOL-ART Visions (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) technology enables the replacement of conventional building envelope materials with photovoltaics (PVs) that generate electrical energy from sunlight. PVs can be integrated visibly or invisibly into roofs and f... Read More about SOL-ART Visions.

Impact of climate change and socioeconomic factors on domestic energy consumption: The case of Hong Kong and Singapore (2022)
Journal Article

Temperature and population growth are key drivers of energy consumption. However, the relative importance of climatic and socioeconomic factors driving energy consumption at different temporal scales is not well-understood. Therefore, we developed a... Read More about Impact of climate change and socioeconomic factors on domestic energy consumption: The case of Hong Kong and Singapore.

Investigation of flow augmentation and dynamic stall control devices as performance enhancement of lift-driven vertical axis wind turbine using high-fidelity CFD methods (2022)
Thesis

This study performs an investigation of dynamic stall control (Gurney flap (GF)) and flow augmentation (straight upstream deflector (SUD)) devices to improve the performance of lift-driven Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) as they can improve the pow... Read More about Investigation of flow augmentation and dynamic stall control devices as performance enhancement of lift-driven vertical axis wind turbine using high-fidelity CFD methods.

Nigeria’s legal responses to climate change obligations (2022)
Thesis

This thesis set out to analyse the effectiveness of the Nigerian legal mechanisms (laws, policies, regulations, and institutions) to achieve the international climate change obligations stemming from the UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreemen... Read More about Nigeria’s legal responses to climate change obligations.

Curbing excess: High energy consumption and the fair energy transition (2022)
Report

The Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) is a research programme dedicated to understanding the role of reduced energy demand in the UK’s transition to a net-zero carbon society.

This research project investigated the household... Read More about Curbing excess: High energy consumption and the fair energy transition.

Life cycle optimisation of building retrofitting considering climate change effects (2022)
Journal Article

Novelty: Climate change has significant impacts on building energy performance. A novel life cycle optimisation strategy is developed for determining optimal retrofitting solutions for office buildings with climate change effects taken into considera... Read More about Life cycle optimisation of building retrofitting considering climate change effects.

A self-adaptive deep learning model for building electricity load prediction with moving horizon (2022)
Journal Article

A self-adaptive deep learning model powered by ranking selection-based particle swarm optimisation (RSPSO) is developed to predict electricity load in buildings with moving horizons. The main features of the load prediction model include its self-ada... Read More about A self-adaptive deep learning model for building electricity load prediction with moving horizon.

A data-driven life-cycle optimisation approach for building retrofitting: A comprehensive assessment on economy, energy and environment (2021)
Journal Article

A novel data-driven life-cycle optimisation approach is proposed for building retrofitting. The innovation points include big-data information, integrated retrofitting design, and life-cycle optimisation through a comprehensive assessment of the econ... Read More about A data-driven life-cycle optimisation approach for building retrofitting: A comprehensive assessment on economy, energy and environment.

A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership (2020)
Journal Article

The B&C special issue EDUCATION & TRAINING: MAINSTREAMING ZERO CARBON raised three challenges: How can education and training be rapidly changed to ensure the creation of zero-carbon built environments? How can this transition be implemented success... Read More about A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership.

Redressing harmful environmental practices in the Nigerian petroleum industry through the criminal justice approach (2020)
Journal Article

The discovery and continued exploitation of crude oil in Nigeria with its many advantages, has exposed the Nigerian environment to several forms of pollution and degradation. Consequently, extensive harm has been done to the human and natural environ... Read More about Redressing harmful environmental practices in the Nigerian petroleum industry through the criminal justice approach.

Application of the direct power control strategy in a shunt active filter by exploiting the solar photovoltaic energy as a continuous source (2020)
Journal Article

In order to follow the standard recommendations of the electrical energy quality (IEEE519) on the distribution network, the active filter have responded to these recommendations, which require that the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) must be less tha... Read More about Application of the direct power control strategy in a shunt active filter by exploiting the solar photovoltaic energy as a continuous source.

Potential regions in the Persian Gulf to deploy offshore floating photovoltaic systems (2020)
Journal Article

Generating energy by means of renewable sources is a vital strategy for all the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Photovoltaic (PV) systems in the GCC have been a primary choice among renewable sources due to regional weather and high levels... Read More about Potential regions in the Persian Gulf to deploy offshore floating photovoltaic systems.

Challenges towards renewable energy: An exploratory study from the Arabian Gulf region (2020)
Journal Article

Considering the importance of energy for social and economic development, access to clean, affordable and reliable energy has been adopted as one of the United Nations sustainable development goals that all countries aim to achieve by 2030. However,... Read More about Challenges towards renewable energy: An exploratory study from the Arabian Gulf region.

Electroosmotically generated disinfectant from urine as a by-product of electricity in microbial fuel cell for the inactivation of pathogenic species (2020)
Journal Article

This work presents a small scale and low cost ceramic based microbial fuel cell, utilising human urine into electricity, while producing clean catholyte into an initially empty cathode chamber through the process of electro-osmostic drag. It is the f... Read More about Electroosmotically generated disinfectant from urine as a by-product of electricity in microbial fuel cell for the inactivation of pathogenic species.

Microbial fuel cell stack performance enhancement through carbon veil anode modification with activated carbon powder (2020)
Journal Article

The chemical energy contained in urine can be efficiently extracted into direct electricity by Microbial Fuel Cell stacks to reach usable power levels for practical implementation and a decentralised power source in remote locations. Herein, a novel... Read More about Microbial fuel cell stack performance enhancement through carbon veil anode modification with activated carbon powder.

Optimisation of the internal structure of ceramic membranes for electricity production in urine-fed microbial fuel cells (2020)
Journal Article

The need to find a feasible alternative to commercial membranes for microbial fuel cells (MFCs) poses an important challenge for the practical implementation of this technology. This work aims to analyse the influence of the internal structure of low... Read More about Optimisation of the internal structure of ceramic membranes for electricity production in urine-fed microbial fuel cells.

For politics, people, or the planet? The political economy of fossil fuel reform, energy dependence and climate policy in Haiti (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd The uneven effects of the climate crisis and the need for decarbonization by reducing fossil fuel exploitation and eliminating subsidies create critical trade-offs and tensions for low-income developing countries. Recent reform of... Read More about For politics, people, or the planet? The political economy of fossil fuel reform, energy dependence and climate policy in Haiti.

Marimo machines: Oscillators, biosensors and actuators (2019)
Journal Article

Background
The green algae balls (Aegagropila linnaei), known as Marimo, are large spherical colonies of live photosynthetic filaments, formed by rolling water currents in freshwater lakes. Photosynthesis therein produces gas bubbles that can attach... Read More about Marimo machines: Oscillators, biosensors and actuators.