scholarly journals Nanotechnology and Environment Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 249-260
Author(s):  
Nisreen Kadhim Jawad ◽  
Ebaa A. Hamooshy
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Environment Study

Nanotechnology has begun to be used to solve or at least mitigate environmental pollution problems, and in turn has provided a great opportunity to develop some strategies to protect the environment from pollution. Nanotechnology enables having the possibility to increase the efficiency of energy consumption, produce clean energy sources, solve the problem of water and air pollution and other environmental problems by developing new ways to provide and treat drinking water and discover air pollution. This stimulated the United Nations to pay attention to it and to monitor a plan to benefit from its applications in various fields. This paper reviews the impacts of nanotechnology on such environmental issues.

scholarly journals Use of Renewable Energy in Buildings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
İzzet Yüksek ◽  
İlker Karadağ
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Geothermal Resources ◽  
Public Building ◽  
The Right

Owing to factors such as high living standards and digitalization, energy use is growing. However, the proportion of renewable energy sources is also rising in all energy consumption. Given this use of renewable energy, global warming and environmental issues are still rising. Fossil-based energy species are more polluting and resource-stricken than others. Studies on environmental pollution show that fossil-based energies are the most important pollutants. Fossil-based energy source is still the most consumed type of energy. Besides, the renewable energy sources’ consumption is very low. Therefore, it is important to increase the use of renewable energy, which creates cleaner and less emissions. Buildings should have the right clean energy use incentives. The needs such as heating, refrigeration, and lighting can be met by renewable energy. This research aims to explore and demonstrate how renewable energy can profit when fulfilling public building functions. Through using both conventional methods and creative methods together, the rate of use of renewable resources such as solar, wind, and geothermal resources in buildings can be increased. Therefore, major contributions to reducing the environmental issues caused by energy consumption can be made.

scholarly journals Assessment of the Progress towards the Management of Renewable Energy Consumption in the Innovativeness Context—A Country Approach

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (16) ◽  
pp. 5064
Author(s):  
Monika Sipa ◽  
Iwona Gorzeń-Mitka
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Petroleum Products ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Renewable Sources ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Decisive Action

The fact that European Union (EU) countries have adopted an ambitious plan to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 requires decisive action within the scope of innovation and of the level of energy consumption, especially of the energy from renewable sources. Being directed toward innovation within the scope of renewable energy technology, as well as the proper management of renewable energy consumption, are the main actions aimed at increasing the efficiency of using clean energy, and which also bring the EU closer to the implementation of the assumptions adopted in the European Green Deal. The aim of our study was to assess the progress toward the management of renewable energy consumption in the innovativeness context and the relationship between energy consumption and selected indicators of innovativeness in European Union countries. We present an original ranking assessment of the progress toward the management of renewable energy consumption and identify relationships between the energy consumption of selected energy sources (both renewable and non-renewable) and of selected innovation assessment indicators. The data used to develop the original rating were optimized using the procedures of the MULTIMOORA method, while the relationships between variables were identified through correlation analysis. Our findings provide evidence of significant relationships between the consumption of selected energy sources (in the group of non-renewable sources, e.g., peat and peat products and oil and petroleum products, and in the group of renewable sources, e.g., wind, biofuels, and renewable waste) and of selected indicators of innovation evaluation (e.g., human resources, finance, and support).

scholarly journals Do Renewable Energy Policies Can Decrease The Deaths From Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution? Empirical Evidence From Latin American and Caribbean Countries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matheus Koengkan ◽  
José Alberto Fuinhas ◽  
Emad Kazemzadeh ◽  
Nooshin Karimi Alavijeh ◽  
Saulo Jardim Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Indoor Air Pollution ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Sources

Abstract This investigation analysed the effect of renewable energy incentive policies on deaths caused by outdoor and indoor air pollution in fifteen countries from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over the period from 1990 to 2017. The results from the Panel quantile model regression showed that in the 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 quantiles, the variables carbon dioxide emissions, electricity consumption from new renewable energy sources economic instruments-fiscal/financial incentives policies to enable clean energy deployment, economic growth, and social globalisation reduces the air pollution deaths, while the variables electricity consumption from non-renewable energy sources, urbanisation, and economic globalisation encourages the increase of these deaths caused by outdoor and indoor air pollution in the LAC region.

The Influence of Air Pollution and Clean Energy on Tuberculosis: The Moderating Role of Urbanization

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzan YAHYA ◽  
Muhammad RAFIQ
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
System Gmm ◽  
Moderating Role

Background: Air pollution is one of the major threats to human health and well-being. This study aimed to explore the effect of renewable energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions on tuberculosis (TB) incidences. It further investigates the moderating role of urbanization on the relationship between underlying factors and TB. Methods: The data of 183 countries over the period 2000 to 2014 were collected and a two-step system GMM technique was utilized to reduce the endogeneity issue. Additionally, we divided the sample into two sub-panels based on country risk for more robust estimates. Results: Carbon dioxide emissions increase the incidences of TB while renewable energy consumption could restrict these cases. On the other hand, urbanization is positively associated with TB in high-risk. System-GMM estimates also indicated that urbanization further strengthens the positive association between CO2 emissions and tuberculosis. Conclusion: Climate-friendly energy technologies, surveillance, and adequate city planning can act as effective mechanisms to improve public health.

scholarly journals Clean-energy development in China

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-532
Author(s):  
Jane Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Associate Editor ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
Primary Energy Consumption ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
National Science

Abstract In June, China announced its 2030 target to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 60%–65% from 2005 levels. To achieve the goal, it would increase the share of non-fossil fuels as part of its primary energy consumption to 20% by 2030 and aim to peak emissions around the same time. As world's largest carbon emitter, the announcement is widely hailed not only as a strong impetus for the UN climate talks, which are convened in Paris this month, but a solution to the country's unprecedented choking pollution. In a forum chaired by National Science Review's executive associate editor Mu-ming Poo, four panelists from diverse backgrounds discuss how clean-energy development could help China to fight against air pollution and meet its 2030 target, what sorts of policies need to be in place, and what the main challenges are.

scholarly journals Environmental and Efficiency Analysis of Simulated Application of the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Co-Generation System in a Dormitory Building

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 3893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han Chang ◽  
In-Hee Lee
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Fuel Cell ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Traditional Method ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Solid Oxide ◽  
Oxide Fuel ◽  
Annual Amount

The problem of air pollution in Korea has become progressively more serious in recent years. Since electricity is advertised as clean energy, some newly developed buildings in Korea are using only electricity for all energy needs. In this research, the annual amount of air pollution attributable to energy under the traditional method in a dormitory building, which is supplying both natural gas and electricity to the building, was compared with the annual amount of air pollution attributable to supplying only electricity. The results showed that the building using only electricity emits much more air pollution than the building using electricity and natural gas together. Under the traditional method of energy supply, a residential solid oxide fuel cell cogeneration system (SOFC–CGS) for minimizing environmental pollution of the building was simulated. Furthermore, as a high load factor could lead to high efficiency of the SOFC–CGS, sharing of the SOFC–CGS by multi-households could increase its efficiency. Finally, the environmental pollution from using one system in one household was compared with that from sharing one system by multi-households. The results showed that the environmental pollution from sharing the system was relatively higher but still similar to that when using one system in one household.

scholarly journals Dynamic Linkages among Economic Development, Energy Consumption, Environment and Health Sustainable in EU and Non-EU Countries

Healthcare ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongqi Feng ◽  
Xinye Yu ◽  
Yung-ho Chiu ◽  
Tzu-Han Chang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Health Expenditure ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
The Eu

There is a close and important relationship between environmental pollution and public health, and environmental pollution has an important impact on the public health. This study employed the two-stage meta-frontier dynamic network data envelopment analysis (TMDN-DEA) model to explore the environment pollution effects from energy consumption on the mortality of children and adult, tuberculosis rate, survival rate and health expenditure efficiencies in 28 EU countries and 53 non-EU countries from 2010 to 2014. We calculated the overall efficiency scores and the technology gap ratios of each EU and non-EU countries and the efficiencies of input and output variables in the production and health stage. The average overall efficiencies each year in EU countries are higher than in the non-EU countries. But EU countries have higher energy efficiency than non-EU countries, and non-EU countries have higher health efficiency than EU countries. The health expenditure efficiencies in the EU countries are obviously lower than those in non-EU countries. The renewable energy efficiencies are obviously higher than the non-renewable energy efficiencies; PM2.5 efficiencies are obviously higher than the CO2 efficiencies and the children’s mortality rate efficiencies are higher than the adult’s mortality rate efficiencies for EU countries and non-EU countries. The government management in the EU and non-EU countries should be strengthened to reduce the air pollutant and carbon dioxide emissions and raise energy transformation to the clean energy in renewable energy and improve health efficiencies in medical and health care field.

scholarly journals Environmental Pollution Effects on Mortality in an Industrial and a Non-industrial Municipality, in Voiotia Prefecture, Greece

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Eirini Saranti-Papasaranti ◽  
Elena Riza ◽  
Konstantinos Hadjistavrou ◽  
Demosthenes Panagiotakos ◽  
Athena Linos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Direct Method ◽  
Cerebrovascular Diseases ◽  
Pollution Effects ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Contaminated Drinking Water ◽  
Rate Ratios

In the Oinofita region, there was strong evidence of air pollution and hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI))-contaminated drinking water due to the increased number of industries, in contrast to the closely-located region of Arachova, which served as a control. To examine the health effects of environmental pollution, we performed an ecological study to compare the all-cause and cause-specific mortality. We considered the registered citizens of both study areas during an 11-year period (1999-2009) and we used the direct method of standardization to calculate the age, gender and period standardized rates (ASRs) and the standardized rate ratios (SRRs), using the greater Prefecture of Voiotia as the standard population. Statistically significantly higher rates of all-cause mortality (SRR = 1.22, 95% confidence intervals (CI) 1.1-1.4), cardiovascular (SRR = 1.36, 95% CI 1.1-1.7) and cerebrovascular diseases (SRR = 2.93, 95% CI 1.8-4.8) were identified for Oinofita compared to Arachova. Furthermore, suggestive results were found for cardiopulmonary diseases among males (SRR = 1.52, 95% CI 1.0-2.4) and leukaemias (SRR = 4.65, 95% CI 0.9-25.3). Elevated SRRs, not statistically significant though, were also observed for respiratory diseases, all cancers and specific cancer sites (lip, oral cavity and pharynx, liver, stomach, pancreas, lung, prostate, colon and kidney and other genitourinary organs among females). Increased mortality rates in the Oinofita region support the hypothesis of adverse health effects association with air pollution and Cr(VI)-contaminated drinking water. Further studies are needed to determine if this association is causal and to establish preventive guidelines and public health recommendations.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Effects on Regional Production and Employment in Spain of the Renewable Energy Plan 2011–2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3587
Author(s):  
Miguel Blanco ◽  
Marcos Ferasso ◽  
Lydia Bares
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Regional Production ◽  
Final Energy Consumption ◽  
General Goal ◽  
Constant Shift

The Renewable Energy Plan for the period 2011–2020 established as a general goal to ensure that renewable sources represent at least 20% of final energy consumption in 2020, together with a minimum contribution of 10% from renewable energy sources in transportation for that year. Then, the goal of this research is to evaluate the effects of the regional production of clean energy, identifying the employment generated in the renewable sector. The adopted methodology was the shift-share analysis, frequently used by researchers to analyze territorial differences. Main results showed important differences, at regional level, in the production of this type of energy. Likewise, we used constant shift and constant share methodology to make a forecast on the evolution of the sector from the data of last published years. Pending the approval of the new Renewable Energy Plan for the period 2021–2030, the results obtained in this research allow the identification of the regions that showed a favorable evolution to the energy change and identifies the projects that generate employment and production in the sector.

scholarly journals Study on the measurement method of environmental pollution loss based on shadow price model of waste gases emission from energy consumption in China's industrial parks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiuyan Han ◽  
Tao Sun ◽  
Taiyi Cao
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Shadow Price ◽  
Exhaust Emission ◽  
Price Model ◽  
Gas Emission ◽  
Waste Gas ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
Consumption Waste

Abstract Background: China's industrial parks are areas where energy consumption is relatively concentrated and air pollution is relatively serious. Air pollution threatens the living environment, health and even life of the residents around the industrial park. Therefore, the measurement of air pollution loss and its application have been raised, and gradually become an important problem to be solved.Results: In order to explore the measurement method of environmental pollution loss from energy consumption waste gas emission in industrial parks, this paper, based on literature review, draws lessons from the latest research results at home and abroad, fully considers the actual situation of energy consumption waste gas emission and environmental pollution control in China's industrial parks, and constructs the shadow price measurement model of environmental pollution loss from energy consumption waste gas emission. Taking Nanjing MV industrial park as an example, the application test of environmental pollution loss of energy consumption waste gas emission is carried out by using the relevant statistical data of the park, and the validity of the model is verified.Conclusions: The results show that the shadow price model is more effective for the Measurement of environmental pollution loss of exhaust gas emissions from energy consumption in industrial parks. The research results are of great significance to guide exhaust emission enterprises to strengthen environmental pollution loss control and support local governments to formulate energy consumption and exhaust emission standards and relevant policies for industrial parks

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