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Development Trends of New Energy Materials and Devices

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 3575

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Juan Bai

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School of Chemistry & Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Austrilia
Interests: design and synthesis of functional nanostructured materials and their applications in electrochemistry and energy conversion device
Dr. Jun Mei

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Guest Editor
School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
Interests: rational design of advanced nanomaterials for energy storage and green catalysis
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your latest research to this Special Issue on “Development Trends of New Energy Materials and Devices”.

Petroleum, coal and refined products currently account for the largest parts of global fuel consumption, which has dramatically increased over the past few decades. This has caused serious environmental pollution, climate change, and other energy crises. In response to these problems, the development of clean fuels and new energy devices has been regarded as one promising solution.

This special issue aims to focusing on the development of new energy materials and devices. Both original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following topics:

  • Design of new energy devices and Synthesis of energy materials
  • Rechargeable batteries and Supercapacitors
  • Electrocatalysis and Fuel cells
  • Solar-related sustainable applications
  • Energy policies and development trends
  • Theoretical insights on energy-based topics
  • Other energy applications

Dr. Juan Bai
Dr. Jun Mei
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • batteries
  • fuel cells
  • electrocatalysis
  • nanomaterials
  • hydrogen production

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A Novel Numerical Method for Geothermal Reservoirs Embedded with Fracture Networks and Parameter Optimization for Power Generation
by Xufeng Yan, Kangsheng Xue, Xiaobo Liu and Xiaolou Chi
Sustainability 2023, 15(12), 9744; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su15129744 - 19 Jun 2023
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Geothermal recovery involves a coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) process in fractured rocks. A fluid transient equilibrium equation, considering thermal conduction, convection, and heat exchange, is established. The evolution of the reservoir permeability and the variance in the fracture aperture due to a change in [...] Read more.
Geothermal recovery involves a coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) process in fractured rocks. A fluid transient equilibrium equation, considering thermal conduction, convection, and heat exchange, is established. The evolution of the reservoir permeability and the variance in the fracture aperture due to a change in the stress field are derived simultaneously. THM coupling is accomplished through iterative hydromechanical and thermo-hydro processes. To overcome the difficulty of geometric discretization, a three-dimensional THM coupler model embedded with discrete fracture networks, using a zero-thickness surface and line elements to simulate fractures and injection/production wells, is established to evaluate the geothermal production. The reliability of the method is verified by a case study. Then, this method is applied to evaluate the influence of the geometric topological characteristics of fracture networks and the fracture aperture on the reservoir temperature evolution and heat extraction effectiveness. The results show that the power generation efficiency and geothermal depletion rate are significantly affected by the injection–production pressure. Injection wells and production wells with pressures higher than the initial fluid pressure in the fractures can be used to significantly increase power generation, but the consumption of geothermal energy and loss of efficiency are significant and rapid. To achieve better benefits for the geothermal recovery system, an optimization algorithm based on simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) is proposed; it takes the power generation efficiency as the objective function, and the corresponding program is developed using MATLAB to optimize the position and pressure values for each production well. The results show that the heat transfer for the entire EGS reservoir becomes more uniform after optimization, and the heat transfer efficiency is greatly improved. Full article
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State Estimation of Membrane Water Content of PEMFC Based on GA-BP Neural Network
by Haibo Huo, Jiajie Chen, Ke Wang, Fang Wang, Guangzhe Jin and Fengxiang Chen
Sustainability 2023, 15(11), 9094; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su15119094 - 05 Jun 2023
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Too high or too low water content in the proton exchange membrane (PEM) will affect the output performance of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) and shorten its service life. In this paper, the mathematical mechanisms of cathode mass flow, anode mass [...] Read more.
Too high or too low water content in the proton exchange membrane (PEM) will affect the output performance of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) and shorten its service life. In this paper, the mathematical mechanisms of cathode mass flow, anode mass flow, water content in the PEM and stack voltage of the PEMFC are deeply studied. Furthermore, the dynamic output characteristics of the PEMFC under the conditions of flooding and drying membrane are reported, and the influence of water content in PEM on output performance of the PEMFC is analyzed. To effectively diagnose membrane drying and flooding faults, prolong their lifespan and thus to improve operation performance, this paper proposes the state assessment of water content in the PEM based on BP neural network optimized by genetic algorithm (GA). Simulation results show that compared with LS-SVM, GA-BP neural network has higher estimation accuracy, which lays a foundation for the fault diagnosis, life extension and control scheme design of the PEMFC. Full article
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Study on the Influence of Solar Array Tube on Thermal Environment of Greenhouse
by Mingzhi Zhao, Yingjie Liu, Daorina Bao, Xiaoming Hu, Ningbo Wang and Lei Liu
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3127; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su15043127 - 08 Feb 2023
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The stratum and microenvironment temperatures in a greenhouse are important factors that affect crop yield. In order to solve the problem of temperature imbalance caused by solar radiation in greenhouses, this paper proposes the application of a solar radiation array tube in a [...] Read more.
The stratum and microenvironment temperatures in a greenhouse are important factors that affect crop yield. In order to solve the problem of temperature imbalance caused by solar radiation in greenhouses, this paper proposes the application of a solar radiation array tube in a greenhouse. By adding water or phase change materials to the array tube, the influence of the array tube on the formation and microenvironment temperature changes was studied, and a 10-day test was carried out. A test group and control group were set up to monitor test results, and the ground was divided into six areas. The depths of each area were 10 cm, 30 cm, and 50 cm, and the heights of the greenhouse centers were 0 cm, 30 cm, 60 cm, 90 cm, 120 cm, 150 cm, and 180 cm. Via an analysis of the test results obtained for the formation and microenvironment temperature, the arrangement of the array tube was found to exert a constant temperature regulation effect on the microenvironment of the greenhouse at a formation depth of 10 cm and was able to improve this formation depth to a certain extent. The temperature at 30 cm and 50 cm plays a positive role in building a good vegetation growth environment. Full article
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