Greenhouse gas emissions of rice straw-to-methanol chain in Southern Brazil

MG da Silva, ACL Lisbôa, R Hoffmann… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Brazil is the largest producer of paddy rice in the American Continent, straw discarded in the
field after the rice harvest can be used for methanol production and help mitigate the impact …

Towards a sustainable artificial intelligence: A case study of energy efficiency in decision tree algorithms

M Ferro, GD Silva, FB de Paula… - Concurrency and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial intelligence has been showing accelerated growth due to its use in solving
problems in several application domains. This success results from the convergence of large …

Impact of greenhouse gases on surface coal mining in Brazil

MG da Silva, ARC Muniz, R Hoffmann… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents the first inventory and environmental impact study of the life cycle of
coal obtained from a surface mine in Brazil. Significant reserves of coal in Brazil have …

[HTML][HTML] Potential of photovoltaic solar energy to reduce the carbon footprint of the Brazilian electricity matrix

M Carvalho, D Delgado - … Latino-Americana em Avaliação do Ciclo …, 2017 - revista.ibict.br
A energia solar fotovoltaica dentro da geração distribuída vem se consolidando no Brasil
desde 2012. Este crescimento é acompanhado por um desconhecimento dos efeitos, tanto …

Cooling supply with a new type of evacuated solar collectors: a techno-economic optimization and analysis

MPR Teles, M Sadi, KAR Ismail, A Arabkoohsar… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Renewable cooling via absorption chillers being supplied by various green heat
technologies such as solar collectors has been widely studied in the literature, but it is still …

Energy transition and path creation for natural gas in the Brazilian electricity mix

FP Vahl, N Casarotto Filho - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015 - Elsevier
Emerging economies will account for more than 90% of net energy demand growth to 2035.
Although there is international consent about the need for reducing green-house gas (GHG) …

Integration between olive cultivation and sheep farming in Brazil: Carbon footprint mitigation potential

MG da Silva, LR Soares, GR Marques… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Two economic activities have been integrated in southern Brazil: olive cultivation and sheep
farming. The favorable edaphoclimatic conditions in the southern region for cultivating olive …

Investigating hardware and software aspects in the energy consumption of machine learning: A green AI‐centric analysis

AM Yokoyama, M Ferro, FB de Paula… - Concurrency and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Much has been discussed about artificial intelligence's negative environmental impacts due
to its power‐hungry Machine Learning algorithms and CO 2 CO _2 emissions linked to this …

Consumer response to energy label policies: Evidence from the Brazilian energy label program

C Huse, C Lucinda, AR Cardoso - Energy Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
The PBE program made the adoption of energy labels mandatory in the Brazilian refrigerator
market. In this paper, we examine the effects of PBE using data from a nationally …

Numerical simulation of an on-grid natural gas PEMFC-solar photovoltaic micro CHP unit: Analysis of the energy, economic and environmental impacts for residential …

R de Oliveira Gabriel, S Leal Braga, F Pradelle… - … and Economics of Smart …, 2022 - Springer
As global natural resources depletion and concern on emission of greenhouse gases
intensify, the interest for low emission technologies and the use of renewable energy …