In recent years, the utilization of a water source heat pump system (WSHP) has been
proposed in South Korea as a solution to reduce energy consumption of buildings. To …

The study aimed to evaluate the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in conjunction with
eco-efficiency tools and circular economy that generate economic, environmental, and/or …

Wastewater heat, a promising alternative to traditional district heating and cooling sources,
can be recovered using heat pumps and transmitted to surrounding buildings for winter …

Currently, one of the main goals is to make municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs)
energy-neutral. However, advanced wastewater treatments and sewage sludge processing …

To remediate significant risks such as increasing resources consumption, climate change,
and environmental pollutions which affect resource management and security, energy …

Recovering waste heat from urban infrastructures is gaining greater importance in the
context of decarbonisation. However, evaluating the feasibility of waste heat recovery …

Entropy is a concept defined by the second law of thermodynamics. Applying this concept to
the world we live in, entropy production must be minimized and negentropy (negative …

Reaching carbon neutrality in cities is the ambition that determines decarbonisation strategy
of district heating (DH) systems. Waste heat diffused in the urban environment gives floor for …

Urban cities have a great potential for the sewage wastewater (WW) and treated WW but this
heat resource is still underutilised in many European cities, including the three Baltic …

Energy consumption in the building sector, especially hospitals, is increasing every day. A
considerable volume of energy is usually lost in the oxygen generation unit of hospitals; …