Article
Development Studies
Elisa Pascucci
Summary: This article highlights the significance of logistics in the alignment of global business and global aid in the UN 2030 Agenda era, particularly in the context of refugee aid. It emphasizes the crucial role of logistics in bringing refugee aid in line with emerging standards of sustainability, prioritizing integration of displaced individuals in markets over material goods delivery. The article also argues for the central role of agency in the humanitarian sector in promoting humanitarian logistics partnerships, challenging existing literature which predominantly focuses on corporate involvement.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Adam Plachciak, Jakub Marcinkowski
Summary: The G5 Sahel collaborates with international organizations and countries to manage logistics activities for humanitarian assistance. Despite challenges in macroeconomic development, humanitarian assistance plays an important role in social sustainability. Conflicts, food insecurity, and malnutrition are the main causes of humanitarian emergencies in the region. The state of logistics infrastructure, natural and man-made disasters, and the macroeconomic situation in the G5 Sahel contribute to common problems in organizing humanitarian logistics.
Review
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Christina Sumner, Ichiro Ikuta, Tushar Garg, Jonathan G. Martin, Bahar Mansoori, Majid Chalian, Brian S. Englander, Jocelyn Chertoff, Sean Woolen, Drew Caplin, Michael B. Sneider, Stephane L. Desouches, Tiffany L. Chan, Nadja Kadom
Summary: The health care sector, a resource-intensive industry, is exploring strategies to reduce energy use and waste. This article reviews sustainability concepts that can be supported or implemented by radiologists to minimize energy consumption and waste production.
ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xabier Apaolaza-Pagoaga, Antonio Carrillo-Andres, Celestino Rodrigues Ruivo
Summary: This study experimentally tested four different configurations of Copenhagen solar cookers under the same weather conditions and found that the performance of one configuration is more dependent on the solar altitude angle. The study suggests improving the evaluation procedure for standardized power.
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Ali Anjomshoae, Ruth Banomyong, Amir Hossein Azadnia, Nathan Kunz, Constantin Blome
Summary: This systematic review identifies and categorizes the themes of sustainable humanitarian supply chain management (SHSCM), with a focus on theoretical development based on categorical analysis of research articles. The study reveals that sustainability in humanitarian supply chains encompasses a wide range of aspects, but social sustainability factors are often overlooked in current models. The insights from this review can support the advancement of theory and policy-driven research in SHSCM.
PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Olga Lingaitiene, Aurelija Burinskiene, Vida Davidaviciene
Summary: Through examining the integration between municipal waste and reverse logistics, the researchers found that the level of municipal waste impacts the recycling of biowaste. They provided a dynamic regression model that can forecast the size of recycled municipal waste into biowaste. The study concludes that the variety of components in municipal waste hinders the increase of recycling rates and suggests a need for changing the components to ones with higher recycling rates.
Review
Food Science & Technology
Chiara Battocchio, Fabio Bruni, Giovanni Di Nicola, Tecla Gasperi, Giovanna Iucci, Daniela Tofani, Alessandro Varesano, Iole Venditti
Summary: This review article summarized the current state of solar cookers and dryers used in food processing, focusing on equipment using direct sunlight for cooking and the potential of storing heat with Phase Change Materials. By analyzing case studies, it discussed the impact of solar energy on food quality and highlighted the need for further research in this area.
Article
Thermodynamics
Xabier Apaolaza-Pagoaga, Antonio Carrillo-Andres, Celestino Rodrigues Ruivo
Summary: This study presents a comprehensive experimental characterization of the thermal performance of the Haines 2 solar cooker. It provides useful information about the influence of solar altitude angle on cooker performance and identifies the best range for reflector configurations. The study also conducts water heating tests to examine standardized power, solar altitude angle influence, and the impact of partial loads.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Daniel Oteng, Jian Zuo, Ehsan Sharifi
Summary: The Australian urban construction electricity sector has seen a significant increase in the use of smallscale solar photovoltaic systems, resulting in a growing amount of PV waste. This study forecasts the amount of PV waste in South Australia for the next three decades and estimates the associated pollutant emissions through different routing scenarios. The results highlight the importance of implementing optimized transfer stations and additional recycling facilities to reduce pollutant emissions.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Business
Sara Perotti, Lorenzo Bruno Prataviera, Marco Melacini
Summary: This study proposes a structured model for assessing the environmental impact of logistics facilities. It quantifies both consumptions and greenhouse gas emissions by combining multiple methods. The study provides a replicable methodology that divides consumptions and emissions by warehouses' functional areas, and offers a set of Environmental Performance Indicators to evaluate and compare the environmental performance of warehouses.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Arsalan Yousefloo, Reza Babazadeh, Mehrdad Mohammadi, Amir Pirayesh, Alexandre Dolgui
Summary: This paper proposes a multi-objective scenario-based robust stochastic optimization model for designing a sustainable Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management network. The model considers the dynamic factors influencing MSW management network and integrates sustainability indicators to achieve a balance between quantitative and qualitative evaluation. Additionally, the model investigates waste treatment technologies and emphasizes the importance of fuel consumption on transportation costs and CO2 emissions.
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Navendu Misra, Abhishek Anand, Saurabh Pandey, Karunesh Kant, Amritanshu Shukla, Atul Sharma
Summary: Solar cooking is widely used as an alternative to reduce dependence on oil and gas, increase environmental sustainability, and mitigate global warming threats. This paper discusses the recent development of the box-type solar cooker, including various parameters that affect its performance, energy, and exergy. Economic factors and environmental analysis are also discussed to demonstrate the overall benefits of solar cooking.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xabier Apaolaza-Pagoaga, Antonio Carrillo-Andres, Celestino Rodrigues Ruivo
Summary: In this study, the power values of two funnel cookers were determined using a novel approach that takes into account minor design changes. The new method showed that even small design modifications can have a measurable impact on cooker power. This novel approach shows promise for better understanding the effect of minor design changes on cooker performance.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Valeria Frigerio, Andrea Casson, Sara Limbo
Summary: This paper aims to clarify the impact of two Functional Units (F.U.) on comparative food packaging LCAs and provide consistent methodology for shelf-life inclusion in impact assessment. The results show that the two F.U. require different scopes and modeling methods, leading to different outcomes. It is suggested to use the Inherent F.U. to discriminate packaging solutions based on their attributes and the Explicit F.U. when a predefined time requirement needs to be met.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Maria Besiou, Alfonso J. Pedraza-Martinez, Luk N. Van Wassenhove
Summary: During emergencies, humanitarian efforts may focus on saving lives quickly, but this short-term approach can have long-term negative effects on communities and the planet. Similarly, long-term goals of improving the lives of the poor may be hindered by lack of community involvement and resources. Despite progress towards sustainable development goals, issues such as social equity remain challenging for many countries.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Marco Bortolini, Maurizio Faccio, Mauro Gamberi, Francesco Pilati
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2020)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Marco Bortolini, Lucia Botti, Francesco Gabriele Galizia, Alberto Regattieri
Summary: The study proposed a bi-objective optimization model for RMSs, aiming to improve system design and management by minimizing reconfiguration time and reducing repetitive movements by human operators. Results showed a good trade-off between the two objective functions, demonstrating the potential to enhance ergonomic conditions for human operators without significantly increasing the total time needed for system operations.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Marco Bortolini, Maurizio Faccio, Francesco Gabriele Galizia, Mauro Gamberi, Francesco Pilati
Summary: The research in this paper provides valuable insights for companies and industrial practitioners in transitioning to advanced assembly systems in the Industry 4.0 era. It emphasizes the importance of A3S design and validation, showcasing the productivity and ergonomic improvements resulting from innovative A3S adoption.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Francesca Calabrese, Alberto Regattieri, Marco Bortolini, Mauro Gamberi, Francesco Pilati
Summary: Prognostic Health Management (PHM) is a maintenance strategy based on Condition Monitoring (CM) data for predicting machinery states. Literature divides PHM into methodological and applicative levels, with the latter often relying on historical data for training models, which may be challenging for industries to obtain. A novel framework is proposed in this paper, utilizing edge-cloud infrastructure for real-time streaming analysis and training of more accurate diagnostic and prognostic models from multiple machines, ultimately benefiting both producers and users in the industrial field.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Marco Bortolini, Maurizio Faccio, Francesco Gabriele Galizia, Mauro Gamberi
Summary: This study demonstrates the importance and value of assigning the most suitable production policy to parts within the production mix in an ATO industrial context through a mathematical optimization model and practical case study.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Francesca Calabrese, Alberto Regattieri, Marco Bortolini, Francesco Gabriele Galizia, Lorenzo Visentini
Summary: The paper discusses how to use machine learning techniques for fault diagnosis and novelty detection to improve maintenance approaches in industrial machinery. Results show that the method is simple, fast, accurate, and can enhance the accuracy and generalization ability of classification models.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Riccardo Accorsi, Marco Bortolini, Mauro Gamberi, Beatrice Guidani, Riccardo Manzini, Michele Ronzoni
Summary: This paper proposes a novel framework using simulation to study the effects of environmental stresses on food products and packaging in the food supply chain. It also introduces a fully equipped physical twin for validation. Case studies demonstrate the flexibility of the framework and physical twin in improving the food supply chain.
JOURNAL OF FOOD ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Francesca Calabrese, Alberto Regattieri, Raffaele Piscitelli, Marco Bortolini, Francesco Gabriele Galizia
Summary: Extracting representative feature sets from raw signals is crucial in understanding components' behavior in Prognostics and Health Management (PHM). This paper adopts Genetic Programming (GP) to extract system-level and component-level features, and evaluates their performance through classification accuracy and Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction error.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Francesca Calabrese, Alberto Regattieri, Marco Bortolini, Francesco Gabriele Galizia
Summary: The digital innovation in recent decades has transformed maintenance strategies, with data-driven predictive maintenance receiving significant attention. However, practical issues hinder the implementation of predictive maintenance in manufacturing plants due to data availability, quantity, and completeness.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Marco Bortolini, Francesca Calabrese, Francesco Gabriele Galizia
Summary: Last-mile logistics is the least efficient stage of supply chains, accounting for up to 28% of the total delivery cost, while crowd logistics is a new strategy that entrusts the last-mile delivery management to ordinary people. The study assessed the implementation potential of crowd logistics in northern Italy through a questionnaire, revealing high interest among respondents in this emerging delivery system.
Proceedings Paper
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Janine Tatjana Maier, Matthias Schmidt, Francesco Gabriele Galizia, Marco Bortolini, Emilio Ferrari
Summary: Globalization and technological changes have led to the need for flexible manufacturing systems. Reconfigurable manufacturing systems, supported by genetic algorithms for dynamic management, have shown effectiveness. However, further research is still needed.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING, SDM 2022
(2023)
Proceedings Paper
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Marco Bortolini, Francesco Gabriele Galizia, Ludovica Diletta Naldi
Summary: In recent years, industrial companies have been moving from mass production to mass customization to meet the diverse customer requirements. Traditional production strategies have limitations, leading to the emergence of new hybrid production strategies such as Delayed Product Differentiation (DPD). This paper proposes a preliminary indicator to assess the similarity among product variants, which can help companies determine whether to implement DPD or use traditional production strategies.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING, SDM 2022
(2023)
Proceedings Paper
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Francesca Calabrese, Alberto Regattieri, Marco Bortolini, Francesco Gabriele Galizia
Summary: This paper conducts a bibliometric analysis to study the application of dimensionality reduction techniques in fault diagnosis. Fault diagnosis is a focus of attention in both the industrial and academic fields, and feature extraction from collected signals is the most challenging step in the process, where dimensionality reduction can improve classification accuracy and training time.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING, KES-SDM 2021
(2022)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Marco Bortolini, Francesco Gabriele Galizia, Mauro Gamberi, Francesco Gualano
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
M. Genovese, F. Piraino, P. Fragiacomo
Summary: This research proposes the concept of a hydrogen valley in southern Italy, where hydrogen is produced centrally and delivered via fuel cell hybrid trains to refueling stations, providing transportation services. The analysis from both technical and economic perspectives shows that the cost of hydrogen and energy efficiency reached competitive levels, and hydrogen rail transport offers significant benefits in terms of emissions reduction and economic gains compared to conventional diesel trains and fully electric trains.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Miaomiao Liu, Payam Nejat, Pinlu Cao, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, John Kaiser Calautit
Summary: This article provides a critical review of the performance of windcatchers, pointing out the current research gaps and issues, and proposing directions for further investigation and market prospects.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Solomon Boadu, Ebenezer Otoo
Summary: Despite Africa's vast energy resources, including wind energy, the continent faces challenges in developing its wind energy industry. Northern African countries and South Africa currently dominate the wind energy sector in Africa. To uplift Africa's socio-economic status, strong political will, supportive policies, and institutional frameworks are needed to drive the development of wind energy and overcome existing challenges.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
E. K. Grubbs, S. M. Gruss, V. Z. Schull, M. J. Gosney, M. V. Mickelbart, S. Brouder, M. W. Gitau, P. Bermel, M. R. Tuinstra, R. Agrawal
Summary: As the global population grows, the demand for food, energy, and water will increase significantly. However, limited land availability and competition for solar resources pose challenges to resource generation technologies. In the United States, both agriculture and solar energy production have adopted densification schemes to improve yields and energy output per unit of land. This research proposes an Agrivoltaic food and energy coproduction architecture that optimizes power generation while maintaining crop productivity by implementing ideal anti-tracking during critical growth periods. This technology offers a viable pathway for widespread solar implementation throughout the contiguous United States.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Han Shao, Rui Henriques, Hugo Morais, Elisabetta Tedeschi
Summary: The integration of offshore wind energy into the electric grid provides opportunities in terms of environmental sustainability and cost efficiency, but poses challenges to power quality. This survey offers a deeper understanding of disturbance detection and classification tools, exploring root causes, disturbance locations, and algorithmic solutions. It highlights synchronized waveform measurement and discusses evaluation metrics for detection and classification algorithms. Additionally, a novel system-wide monitoring framework is proposed.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eleni Davidson, Yair Schwartz, Joe Williams, Dejan Mumovic
Summary: A continued upward trend in global greenhouse gas emissions poses risks to global infrastructure and built assets. Maintaining high indoor environmental quality standards is a challenge for higher education institutions under future climates. Passive cooling mechanisms may be insufficient to tolerate predicted temperature increases. Different building typologies have varying energy demand projections.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kexin Pang, Jian Zhou, Stamatis Tsianikas, David W. Coit, Yizhong Ma
Summary: This study proposes a new framework for long-term microgrid expansion planning, using deep reinforcement learning method to consider various uncertainties and constraints. The framework aims to enhance the effectiveness of microgrid expansion planning from the perspectives of economy, resilience, and greenhouse gas emission reduction.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Zhao, Kangyin Dong, Xiucheng Dong
Summary: The continuous growth of global electricity penetration has provided modern energy for alleviating energy poverty, but its impact on carbon neutrality has been overlooked. The research reveals that clean electricity from traditional fossil energy and renewable energy has a positive influence on the greenhouse effect. Eradicating energy poverty can effectively alleviate the greenhouse effect, especially in non-Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) nations.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hossein Shahbeik, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, Mona Dehhaghi, Gilles J. Guillemin, Alireza Fallahi, Homa Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, Hamid Amiri, Mohammad Rehan, Deepak Raikwar, Hannes Latine, Bruno Pandalone, Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Christian Sonne, Luigi Vaccaro, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Su Shiung Lam, Junting Pan, Rafael Luque, Bert Sels, Wanxi Peng, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo
Summary: This review explores the production of biocrude oil from biomass feedstocks through the process of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). It discusses the impact of process parameters on the quality, quantity, cost, and environmental impacts of biofuels. The review also highlights the challenges and prospects for the future development of biocrude oil.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meysam Majidi Nezhad, Mehdi Neshat, Georgios Sylaios, Davide Astiaso Garcia
Summary: Digital twins promise innovation for the marine renewable energy sector by using modern technological advances and the existing maritime knowledge frameworks. This research presents critical aspects of digital twin implementation challenges in marine energy digitalization approaches that use and combine data systems.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yeganeh Sharifian, Hamdi Abdi
Summary: This paper discusses the background and objectives of the multi-area economic dispatch problem, as well as various techniques and methods applied in this field. It also covers comprehensive formulations of the problem and important issues in the field of probabilistic MAED, along with some related concepts and suggestions.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
J. G. B. Churchill, V. B. Borugadda, A. K. Dalai
Summary: The increasing global energy demand and the need to reduce fossil fuel reliance have created a demand for renewable and sustainable fuel sources. This review explores the potential of tall oil, a by-product of the pulping industry, as a feedstock for biofuels. The review provides an overview of tall oil production, purification, and treatment, and investigates recent trends and barriers towards tall oil-derived biofuels.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
David C. Broadstock, Xiangnan Wang
Summary: This study provides a general review of research on district cooling, identifying key topics and themes and highlighting potential research priorities for future studies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
L. Scharnhorst, D. Sloot, N. Lehmann, A. Ardone, W. Fichtner
Summary: This study investigates and analyzes the barriers to demand response in industrial and commercial sectors, highlighting their significance. Concerns about diminished product quality, disruptions to production processes, human resource management, and revenue uncertainty are identified as the most frequently cited barriers. Overcoming these barriers requires bridging knowledge gaps, allocating sufficient resources, and adapting external incentives and policies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tong Feng, Yuechi Sun, Yating Shi, Jie Ma, Chunmei Feng, Zhenni Chen
Summary: Air pollution is a significant global challenge, and policymakers have implemented policies to reduce it. Evaluating the effectiveness of these policies is critical, and our study reveals trends and gaps in air pollution policy research. We found that research has shifted from focusing solely on air pollutants to including methodologies, policies, and health implications. China has emerged as a major contributor in this field of research.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
