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  1. The use of biogas as renewable resource of energy is of growing interest. To increase the efficiency and sustainability of anaerobic biogas reactors, process failures such as overacidification, foaming, and fl...

    Authors: Tobias Lienen, Anne Kleyböcker, Manuel Brehmer, Matthias Kraume, Lucie Moeller, Kati Görsch and Hilke Würdemann
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:20
    Content type: Short communication Published on:

  2. As fossil fuels run out, more attention should be paid to renewable energies, among which wind energy is one of the best. Therefore, the optimization of its energetic efficiency in variable speed wind turbines...

    Authors: Alireza Fakharzadeh J, Fatemeh Jamshidi and Leila Talebnezhad
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:19
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  3. The hydration and carbonation of olivine, the most common mineral on Earth, produce a large amount of heat. Unfortunately, the reaction is too slow for normal technological applications, but when thermally wel...

    Authors: Roelof D Schuiling
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:18
    Content type: Review Published on:

  4. Developing medium- to long-term energy scenarios is a key to achieve goals of energy security and greenhouse gas emission reduction through the implementation of effective public policies.

    Authors: Marcos Vinícius Eloy Xavier, Andrea Marcello Bassi, Cibele Mally de Souza, Wilson Pereira Barbosa Filho, Kevin Schleiss and Felipe Nunes
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:17
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  5. Since 1940s, other than a few success stories, the outcomes of efforts of development and dissemination of improved cookstoves a have not been so fruitful. This paper presents a bottom-up approach that was succes...

    Authors: Vijay H Honkalaskar, Upendra V Bhandarkar and Milind Sohoni
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:16
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  7. An oversupply of solar radiation in Northern Africa as well as high energy consumption in the economic centers of Central Europe give reason to an international cross-linking of regenerative power supply. A fu...

    Authors: Katrin Walter and Stephan Bosch
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:14
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  9. The aim of this paper is to analyze the unintended consequences of green government policies. This paper begins by providing a background on how the implementation of the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA)...

    Authors: Roshan Mehdizadeh and Martin Fischer
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:12
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  10. The province of Ontario in Canada is the first North American jurisdiction withlegislation in place to eliminate coal-fired thermoelectric production by theend of 2014. Ontario Power Generation (OPG) operates ...

    Authors: Jason Ernest Elvin Dampier, Chander Shahi, Raynald Harvey Lemelin and Nancy Luckai
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:11
    Content type: Review Published on:

  11. Biogas is one of the most promising regenerative energies. The simple fundamental principle underlying behind biomethanation is the conversion of biomass into biogas by microorganisms in four steps, whereby pr...

    Authors: Carina Gasch, Ina Hildebrandt, Falk Rebbe and Isolde Röske
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:10
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  12. Renewable energy technology can meet the energy needs of remote communities if local renewable energy resources are available and if it is deployed in a way that meets reasonable community expectations, thus a...

    Authors: Maria Retnanestri and Hugh Outhred
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:9
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  13. This paper aims to create insights into people's technology preferences in striving to achieve a low-carbon electricity generation system. The investigation seeks to analyze informed rather than mere opinion-b...

    Authors: Dirk Scheer, Wilfried Konrad and Oliver Scheel
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:8
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  15. This article examines the scope of voluntary certification schemes, based on the sustainability criteria of the European Renewable Energy Directive for biofuel production in the context of social sustainabilit...

    Authors: Anna Mohr and Linda Bausch
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:6
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  18. Sustainable biohydrogen production can be achieved by dark fermentation of organic wastes, and studies were carried out using a range of substrates and inocula. The bacterial populations involved were mainly i...

    Authors: Rita Di Bonito, Antonella Marone, Giulia Massini, Chiara Patriarca, Silvia Rosa, Antonella Signorini, Cristiano Varrone, Corinna Viola and Giulio Izzo
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:3
    Content type: Short communication Published on:

  21. Recently, several papers have assessed land use consequences of biofuel expansion. In the absence of empirical evidence, these papers assigned subjective values to extensive margin (productivity of new croplan...

    Authors: Farzad Taheripour, Qianlai Zhuang, Wallace E Tyner and Xiaoliang Lu
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:25
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  22. Due to a rapid urbanization process in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile (MRS), the amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) generated has increased considerably within the last years. MSW should be ma...

    Authors: Tahnee González Martínez, Klaus-Rainer Bräutigam and Helmut Seifert
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:24
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  23. Forward-thinking governments recognize that local renewable resource use is crucial to the resilience of communities and are developing and implementing community energy plans (CEPs). Guelph, Ontario, (Canada)...

    Authors: Joseph H McIntyre
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:23
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  24. Energy input in agriculture has increased tremendously and accounts for about 17% of total energy consumed in the USA. Precision agriculture involves knowledge-based technical management systems to optimize ap...

    Authors: Ganesh C Bora, John F Nowatzki and David C Roberts
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:22
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  25. Climate change has become a concern of both policy makers and consumers. Transportation constitutes a key source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; hence, alternative transportation fuels with reduced GHG emis...

    Authors: Adrienne E Marra, Kimberly L Jensen, Christopher D Clark, Burton C English and Dustin K Toliver
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:21
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  27. Nonindustrial private forest owners (NIPFs) in Finland are important stakeholders of forest management and roundwood supply decisions. Their role will also be significant to supply energy wood to meet Finland'...

    Authors: Pradipta Halder, Timo Weckroth, Qu Mei and Paavo Pelkonen
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:19
    Content type: Short communication Published on:

  28. Biogas made from main crops (e.g., corn) is commonly used for producing electricity and heat. Nevertheless, the production of energy from monocultures is highly unsustainable and not truly renewable. Since nei...

    Authors: Nora Niemetz and Karl-Heinz Kettl
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:18
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  32. Islands often depend on the import of fossil fuels for power generation. Due to the combined effect of high oil prices and transportation costs, energy supply systems based on renewable energies are already ab...

    Authors: Kristina Bognar, Philipp Blechinger and Frank Behrendt
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:14
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  33. Biogas production from lignocellulosic feedstock not competing with food production can contribute to a sustainable bioenergy system. The hydrolysis is the rate-limiting step in the anaerobic digestion of soli...

    Authors: Heike Sträuber, Martina Schröder and Sabine Kleinsteuber
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:13
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  34. This review gives an overview of the current knowledge concerning the problem of foam formation in the process of anaerobic digestion in biogas plants that utilize renewable resources or biogenic waste materia...

    Authors: Lucie Moeller, Kati Goersch, Juergen Neuhaus, Andreas Zehnsdorf and Roland Arno Mueller
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  35. The synthesis of 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid (2-HIB), a promising building block for, e.g., Plexiglas® production, is described as an example for a clean and sustainable bioproduction.

    Authors: Denise Przybylski, Thore Rohwerder, Hauke Harms and Roland H Mueller
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:11
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  36. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in using micro-renewable energy sources. However, planning has not yet developed methodological approaches (1) for spatially optimizing residential develo...

    Authors: Claudia Palmas, Emanuela Abis, Christina von Haaren and Andrew Lovett
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:10
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  37. Within the last decade, the biogas branch has become an important economic sector in Germany. Many arguments are used to support a further and rapid expansion of local biogas plants in both quantity and capaci...

    Authors: Anke Bischoff
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:9
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  39. In this study, a general model of a hybrid off-grid energy system is developed, which can be adjusted to reflect real conditions in order to achieve economical and ecological optimisation of off-grid energy sy...

    Authors: Fabian Huneke, Johannes Henkel, Jairo Alberto Benavides González and Georg Erdmann
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:7
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  41. Empirical research on the local economic effects associated with decentralized electricity generation from renewable sources has only just started. So far, most studies focus on quantifying economic effects an...

    Authors: Britta Klagge and Tobias Brocke
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:5
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  43. Biofuels may play a significant role in regard to carbon emission reduction in the transportation sector. Therefore, a thermochemical process for biomass conversion into synthetic chemicals and fuels is being ...

    Authors: Nicolaus Dahmen, Edmund Henrich, Eckhard Dinjus and Friedhelm Weirich
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:3
    Content type: Original Published on:

  45. The enzymatic desizing of starch-sized cotton fabrics leads to wastewaters with an extremely high chemical oxygen demand due to its high sugar content. Nowadays, these liquors are still disposed without use, r...

    Authors: Klaus Opwis, Thomas Mayer-Gall, Jochen S Gutmann, Christoph Dammer, Tanja Titscher, Anna Nickisch-Hartfiel, Oliver Grün, Christoph Spurk, Christine Schloderer, Axel Köppe, Christian Dörfler and Herbert Bachus
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:1
    Content type: Original Published on:

  46. In 2009 the German funding programme for "Promoting Projects to Optimise the Use of Biomass for Energy Production" ("Biomass for Energy") has started and fostered a wide range of projects to combine sustainabl...

    Authors: Daniela Thrän, Diana Pfeiffer, Angela Gröber, Stefan Steiert, Vanessa Zeller, Christian Weiser, Peter Deumelandt, Peter Zimmermann and Wolfgang Wimmer
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2011 1:7
    Content type: Short communication Published on:

  47. Recent scientific investigations have revealed a correlation between nutrition habits and the environmental impacts of agriculture. So, it is obviously worthwhile to study what effects a change in diet has on ...

    Authors: Karin Fazeni and Horst Steinmüller
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2011 1:6
    Content type: Original Published on:

  48. A new sustainable technology has been designed by Fondazione Bruno Kessler through its unit Renewable Energies and Environmental Technologies. This technology is realized integrating in a single system (1) a S...

    Authors: Luigi Crema, Fabrizio Alberti, Alberto Bertaso and Alessandro Bozzoli
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2011 1:5
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  50. Authors: Michael Narodoslawsky and Dagmar Fiedler
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2011 1:1
    Content type: Editorial Published on:
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