Browsing by Subject "Energy"
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A New Hybrid Free-Wake Model for Wind Turbine Aerodynamics with Application to Wake Steering
(2017)Wind energy has emerged as one of the most promising and rapidly growing renewable energy technologies in the United States and over the world. The offshore wind energy is of special interest because it has more consistent ... -
A Sustainability Plan for American Tobacco Campus
(2011-04-29)American Tobacco Campus (ATC) Management has committed to understanding the environmental impact of their campus and making strategic improvements, while reducing operational costs. This Masters Project focused on determining ... -
Aligning NYISO's Carbon Pricing with Existing Climate Policy
(2019-04-24)States across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic have implemented particularly ambitious policies to deploy clean energy and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the electric sector. These policies create a challenge ... -
An Analysis of the Distribution and Economics of Oil Fields for Enhanced Oil Recovery-Carbon Capture and Storage
(2012)The rising carbon dioxide emissions contributing to climate change has lead to the examination of potential ways to mitigate the environmental impact. One such method is through the geological sequestration of carbon (CCS). ... -
An Evaluation of Microgrid-Based Enterprise Viability
(2020-04-20)The global need to meet population housing needs through infrastructure development is at odds with the urgent necessity to mitigate the impacts of climate change. This investigation considers the relationships between ... -
Analysis of Electric Utility EV Proposals
(2020-05-23)The project analyzes a sample of Electric Vehicle program proposals put forth by electric utilities across the U.S. for developing and installing electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. The project looks at each of ... -
Analysis of High-Temperature Solar Selective Coating
(2018)Abundant and widely available solar energy is one possible solution to the increasing demands for clean energy. The Thermodynamics and Sustainable Energy Laboratory (T-SEL) in Duke University has been dedicated to investigating ... -
Assessing the Environmental Sustainability Potential of BRI Countries under the Five Connectivities Framework
(2019-04-26)China’s ambitious vision for the Belt and the Road initiative (BRI) marks a global milestone for economic and political cooperation across Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America. With more than 100 member countries accounting ... -
Assessing the Outcomes of a Long-term, Zero-emission Strategy for GoTriangle’s Transit Fleet
(2019-04-19)The goal of this project was to assess how GoTriangle might most effectively implement battery electric vehicle (BEV) buses by analyzing possible environmental and social factors and providing recommendations for BEV bus ... -
Changes in U.S. Residential Monthly Energy Use per Capita: 1990-2017
(2019)Residential energy consumption represents a large share of total end use energy and shows strong correlation with monthly cooling and heating degree days. This study focuses on quantifying temporal change in the relationship ... -
Coal-fired Power Plants with Flexible Amine-based CCS and Co-located Wind Power: Environmental, Economic and Reliability Outcomes
(2016)Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies provide a means to significantly reduce carbon emissions from the existing fleet of fossil-fired plants, and hence can facilitate a gradual transition from conventional to more ... -
Comparative Analysis on the Allocation of Environmental Mitigation Trust Funds at EPA Region 4
(2019-04-25)A notice of violation of the Clean Air was issued to Volkswagen Group by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2015. Volkswagen was revealed to have intentionally programmed a “defeat device” in approximately ... -
Comprehensive Evaluation of European Renewable Power Programs
(2016-04-26)Europe has shown a commitment to goal setting that mitigates climate change and increases renewable energy generation since the early 2000s. Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom have experienced challenges throughout the ... -
Constructal Design of Energy Systems
(2016)This dissertation shows the use of Constructal law to find the relation between the morphing of the system configuration and the improvements in the global performance of the complex flow system. It shows that the better ... -
Cooking Fuel “Stacking” Implications for Willingness to Switch to Clean Fuels in Peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
(2020)Cooking fuel “stacking,” or the use of multiple types of fuels, can be problematic in interventions when households are using both clean and dirty fuels at the same time. Dirty fuels such as firewood contribute to indoor ... -
Creating linked datasets for SME energy-assessment evidence-building: Results from the U.S. Industrial Assessment Center Program
(Energy Policy, 2017-12-01)© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Lack of information is commonly cited as a market failure resulting in an energy-efficiency gap. Government information policies to fill this gap may enable improvements in energy efficiency and social ... -
Design and Implementation of High Pressure Systems
(2014)Hydrogen is arising as a potential fuel source due to its high mass-specific energy and wide applicability. However, hydrogen must first be pressurized before being implemented, causing a loss in efficiency and larger issues ... -
Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Devices
(2019)The development of human society strongly relies on the utilization of energy. While fossil fuels are still the main energy source of current human activity, concerns about the environment and the greenhouse effect brought ... -
Driving Renewable Energy Growth Through Effective Public Policy: A Financial and Policy Analysis of Cash Grants, Tax Credits and Pass-Through Tax Structures (MLPs and YieldCos)
(2014-12-30)Energy and environmental concerns have motivated policymakers to support renewable energy technology development through various tax policies. Currently, the majority of renewable energy projects in the U.S. benefit from ... -
Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment Modeling Approaches for Transboundary Energy Feedstocks
(2016)The rise of the twenty-first century has seen the further increase in the industrialization of Earth’s resources, as society aims to meet the needs of a growing population while still protecting our environmental and natural ...
