...Boris Papkov; Pavel Ilyushin; Aleksandr Kulikov; Konstantin Suslov; Olga Shepovalova Purpose This paper aims to develop the original approach to assessing the reliability and efficiency of network topologies that incorporate hybrid renewable energy systems (HRESs) to ensure sustainable production...

...Yu Dong; Qiong Xu Purpose Inclusive economic growth with efficiency, equity and green escorts the sustainable development of the global economy. The purpose of this study is to provide international evidence regarding the influence of the digital economy on inclusive economic growth. Design...

...João Eduardo Sampaio Brasil; Fabio Antonio Sartori Piran; Daniel Pacheco Lacerda; Maria Isabel Wolf Morandi; Debora Oliveira da Silva; Miguel Afonso Sellitto Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of a Brazilian steelmaking company’s reheating process of the hot rolling...

...Shuting Fang; Xiang Ji; Xinghua Ji; Jie Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a suitable framework of sustainable urbanization performance evaluation from the view of efficiency for mitigating the unbalance between the theoretical research of sustainable urbanization and the practical...

... buildings are already constructed, it is urgent to reconvert them to lower the use of energy and emissions using technologies based on renewable energy, boosting the use of local resources. Over the past few years, in the framework of the Portuguese National Plan of Action for Energy Efficiency...

... for Efficient Use of Energy at University of São Paulo (PURE-USP), a pioneer initiative of its kind active since 1997. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the actions and results of PURE-USP. Findings – The energy savings promoted by PURE's actions are estimated in about 25 percent...

... motivated life‐cycle studies have not improved ongoing design projects towards eco‐efficient offerings. Corporate product units need time and cost‐effective procedures and guidelines to enable front‐end design. As a consequence, resources for life‐cycle assessments (LCAs) have decreased while materials...

...Roger Burritt; Stefan Schaltegger Any measure of eco‐efficiency requires financial information, for calculating the numerator, and physical information about the environment, for calculating the denominator. Accounting and finance staff provide key financial information about the numerator in eco...

...R. Saravanane; T. Sundararajan; S. Sivamurthy Reddy The removal efficiency of lead [Pb(II)], zinc [Zn(II)], nickel [Ni(II)] and chromium [Cr(VI)] from aqueous solutions by adsorption on non‐conventional materials (rice husk and sawdust) in its natural form and on their chemically modified form...

...Lester R. Brown; Michael Renner; Brian Halweil Vital Signs 2000 . Washington DC : W.W. Norton and Co.   2000 . 200 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 0393320227   US$13.00 Renewable energy Efficiency This book is the ninth volume in the series from the Worldwatch Institute...

... for business, but until recently business was in a reactive not proactive mode. In order to be able to use the environment as a competitive weapon, business needs to begin where it should always begin, its customers. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Customers Efficiency Environment Profit...

.... Renewable energy sources, such as biomass, and hydro, solar and wind power, will no doubt have an increasingly important role to play. Yet until technology has released their potential at far lower resource costs, the answer has to lie elsewhere; in energy efficiency– the “fifth fuel”. Economics...