Table of Contents

Section 1: Energy and Sustainability
1. Potential Energy Solutions for Better Sustainability
2. Net Zero Energy Residential Building Architecture in the Future
3. Achieving Green Building Standards via Energy Efficiency Retrofit: A Case Study of an Industrial Facility
4. A New Approach for a Control System of an Innovative Building Integrated Photobioreactor
5. Multi-criteria Selection Factors for Evaluation of Intelligent Buildings; A Novel Approach for Energy Management 6. The Place of Coal Production and Consumption in Turkey’s Economy
7. Long Term Energy Demand and Supply Projections and Evaluations for Turkey
8. Comparison of ANN, Regression Analysis and ANFIS Models in Estimation of Global Solar Radiation for Different Climatological Locations
9. Production Planning Using a Day Ahead Prices in a Cement Plant
10. The importance of the ships in the next-generation electric power system, called “Smart Grid”
11. Ventilation Strategies for the Preventive Conservation of Manuscripts in Necip Paşa Library
12. Effect of Double Skin Façade on Thermal Energy Losses in the Buildings: A Case Study in Tabriz

Section 2: Energy Systems and Analyses
13. Energy and Exergy Analyses of a Geothermal Based Integrated System for Trigeneration
14. Comparative Assessment of Three Integrated Trigeneration Systems for Dairy Farms
15. Performance Assessment of a Biomass Fired Regenerative ORC System Through Energy and Exergy Analyses
16. Thermal Design and Modeling of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers Combining PTSC and ORC Systems
17. CFD Analysis of a Solar-Geothermal Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger
18. Numerical Investigation of Fixed Bed Downdraft Woody Biomass Gasification
19. Passive Thermal Management of a Photovoltaic Panel: Influence of Fin Arrangements
20. Reduction of Entropy Production by Using of Solar Cooling Systems Based on SOLITERM Parabolic Trough Collectors Combined with Double Effect Absorption Chillers
21. Thermal Performance of a Solar Room Heater with Evacuated Tubes
22. Thermodynamic Assessment of an Integrated Solar Collector System for Multi-Generation Purposes
23. Energy-Exergy and Exergoeconomic (3E) Analysis of A Solar Photovoltaic Module
23. Exergetic and Energetic Performance Evaluation of a Flat Plate Solar Collector in Dynamic Behavior
24. Performance Assessment of Various Greenhouse Heating Systems; a Case Study in Antalya
25. Energy, Exergy And Exergoenvironmental Assessments of Solar Assisted Absorption Cooling Systems And Conventional Air-Conditioning System: A Comparative Study
26. Comparative Study of Two Solar Cascade Absorption Refrigeration Systems Based On Energy And Exergy Methods
27. Comparative Study of Active and Passive Cooling Techniques for Concentrated Photovoltaic Systems
28. Optimization of Slope Angles of Photovoltaic Arrays for Different Seasons
29. Design, Energy and Exergy Analyses of Linear Fresnel Reflector
30. Integration of reflectors to improve energy production of hybrid PVT collectors
31. Thermodynamic and Thermoeconomic Comparisons of Two Trigeneration Systems
32. Comparative Evaluation of Possible Desalination Options with Various Nuclear Power Plants
33. Comparative Evaluation of Possible Desalination Options for Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant
34. Determination of Flow Characteristics of Multiple Slot-Jets Impingement Cooling
35. A Numerical Study on Phase Change inside a Spherical Capsule
36. Energy and Exergy Analyses of Nitrogen Liquefaction Process
37. Thermodynamic Performance Analysis of a Raw Mill System in Cement Plant
38. Experimental and numerical investigations of condensation heat transfer in multi-port tubes
39. Heat and Fluid Flow Analyses of An Impinging Jet on A Cubic Body
40. Gas Diffusion Layers for PEM Fuel Cells: Ex- and In-situ Characterization




Section 3: Alternative Fuels and Materials
41. Expert Opinions on Natural Gas Vehicles Research Needs for Energy Policy Development
42. An Experimental Study on Adsorption Characteristics of R134a and R404a onto Granular and Pellet Type Activated Carbon
43. MHD Natural Convection and Entropy Generation in a Nanofluid Filled Cavity with a Conductive Partition
44. Fabrication and investigation of silver water nanofluids for long term heat transfer application
45. Microstructure and Oxidation Behavior of Atmospheric Plasma Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings
46. Research on the pyrolysis characteristics of tomato waste with Fe-Al2O3 catalyst
47. Regression Models for Predicting Some Important Fuel Properties of Corn Oil Biodiesel-Diesel Fuel Blends
48. Biodiesel Synthesis by Using the Smart Catalytic Membrane
49. Waste to Energy with a Combine Membrane Technology: Biobutanol Production and Purification
50. A Research on Reaction Parameters About Hazelnut Oil Methyl Ester Production
51. Evaluation of Bio Oils Produced from Pomegranate Pulp Catalytic Pyrolysis




Section 4: Environmental Impact and Assessment
52. Comparative Life Cycle Environmental Impact Assessment of Natural Gas and Conventional Vehicles
53. Life Cycle Assessment of Ammonia Production Methods
54. Mass Transfer Effects in SCR Reactor for NOx Abatement in Diesel Engines
55. An Experimental Study on the Effects of Inlet Water Injection of Diesel Engine Heat Release Rate, Fuel Consumption, Opacity and NOx Emissions
56. Carbon Capture
57. Vacuum Stripping Membrane Desalination for Marmara Sea-Water
58. Removal of Ions Pb2+ and Cd2+ from Aqueous Solution by Containment Geomaterials
59. Investigation of Irreversibility with CO2 Emission Measurement in Industrial Enamel Furnace
60. Environmental Flow Assessment Methods: A Case Study

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About the Author

Dr. Ibrahim Dincer is professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Ontario Tech. University and visiting professor at Yildiz Technical University. He has authored numerous books and book chapters, and many refereed journal and conference papers. He has chaired many national and international conferences, symposia, workshops, and technical meetings. He has also delivered many plenary, keynote and invited lectures. He is an active member of various international scientific organizations and societies, and serves as editor in chief, associate editor, regional editor, and editorial board member for various prestigious international journals. He is a recipient of several research, teaching and service awards, including the Premier׳s Research Excellence Award in Ontario, Canada. For the past seven years in a row he has been recognized by Thomson Reuters as one of The Most Influential Scientific Minds in Engineering and one of the Most Highly Cited Researchers. Can Ozgur Colpan is an full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey. His research areas are organic Rankine cycles, heat exchanger design and modelling, thermodynamic modelling of integrated energy systems and renewable energy systems (including geothermal power plants), multiphysics modelling of fuel cells, and manufacturing and characterisation of fuel cells. Onder Kizilkan received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey in 2008. After a sixteen-year experience at Suleymen Demirel University including research assistantship, he was promoted as full Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Isparta University of Applied Sciences in 2019. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Energy Conversion Research Center at Doshisha University in Japan, focusing on solar assisted supercritical ORC technology. He has also worked as visiting associated professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Canada for one year in 2011. Dr. Kizilkan’s research interests are energy and exergy analyses of thermal systems, solar energy, energy storage systems and refrigeration.