Ecological impacts of run-of-river hydropower plants—Current status and future prospects on the brink of energy transition

A Kuriqi, AN Pinheiro, A Sordo-Ward… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
The general perception of small run-of-river hydropower plants as renewable energy
sources with little or no environmental impacts has led to a global proliferation of this …

Application of entropy production theory for energy losses and other investigation in pumps and turbines: A review

L Zhou, J Hang, L Bai, Z Krzemianowski, MA El-Emam… - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
As the demand for energy consumption saving and emission reduction become an urgent
need in the contemporary world, the requirements for pumps and turbines need to pay more …

A prompt decarbonization pathway for ship**: green hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol production and utilization in marine engines

J Shi, Y Zhu, Y Feng, J Yang, C ** industry has reached a higher level of maturity in terms of its knowledge and
awareness of decarbonization challenges. Carbon-free or carbon-neutralized green fuel …

[HTML][HTML] Low-head pumped hydro storage: A review of applicable technologies for design, grid integration, control and modelling

JP Hoffstaedt, DPK Truijen, J Fahlbeck… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
To counteract a potential reduction in grid stability caused by a rapidly growing share of
intermittent renewable energy sources within our electrical grids, large scale deployment of …

The role of hydropower energy in the level of CO2 emissions: An application of continuous wavelet transform

F Bilgili, DB Lorente, S Kuşkaya, F Ünlü, P Gençoğlu… - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between hydroelectric energy
consumption and CO 2 emissions in the USA from 1980: 1 to 2019: 8 by using the wavelet …

A review on operation and maintenance of hydropower plants

K Kumar, RP Saini - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydropower is one of the renewable energy sources having the highest conversion
efficiency than other renewable energy sources. The hydro turbine is considered as the …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging and innovative materials for hydropower engineering applications: Turbines, bearings, sealing, dams and waterways, and ocean power

E Quaranta, P Davies - Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The hydropower sector is currently experiencing several technological developments. New
technologies and practices are emerging to make hydropower more flexible and more …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the energy potential of modernizing the European hydropower fleet

E Quaranta, G Aggidis, RM Boes, C Comoglio… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
About 50% of all hydropower plants (HPPs) worldwide were originally commissioned more
than 40 years ago, so that the advanced age of the fleet is a major concern across all …

Existing and new arrangements of pumped-hydro storage plants

JD Hunt, B Zakeri, R Lopes, PSF Barbosa… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
The energy sector is undergoing substantial transition with the integration of variable
renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy. These sources come with …

Selection, control and techno-economic feasibility of Pumps as Turbines in Water Distribution Networks

M Stefanizzi, T Capurso, G Balacco, M Binetti… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) are becoming an attractive area of application
for small hydropower, which can contribute to the development of distributed energy …