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Brexit as postindustrial critique (2020)
Journal Article
Ringel, F. (2020). Brexit as postindustrial critique. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 10(2), 361-366. https://doi.org/10.1086/709780

Anthropologists and other commentators struggle to make sense of pre-COVID-19 political developments in the postindustrial Global North. Various narratives were created to explain these dramatic events and changes, deploying an armory of social scien... Read More about Brexit as postindustrial critique.

Data-driven Pricing and Control for Low Carbon V2G Charging Station with Balancing Services (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hernandez Cedillo, M., & Sun, H. (2020). Data-driven Pricing and Control for Low Carbon V2G Charging Station with Balancing Services. . https://doi.org/10.1109/smartgridcomm47815.2020.9303018

The transition to a low carbon transportation system has brought many challenges for researchers, one major challenge is how to ensure power system reliability as a result of high load demands to supply energy to Electric Vehicles (EVs) while coping... Read More about Data-driven Pricing and Control for Low Carbon V2G Charging Station with Balancing Services.

Sensing late-liberal state failure: Ecologies of resistance in a post-industrial German city (2020)
Book Chapter
Ringel, F. (2020). Sensing late-liberal state failure: Ecologies of resistance in a post-industrial German city. In A. Dundon, & R. Vokes (Eds.), Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure, and Political Affect. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086673

Harbour cities smell differently: the sea mixes its own odours of fish and seaweed with the exhaust gases of heavy ships and marine industries. In one of those major seaports, the German city of Bremerhaven, my informants noticed a different smell in... Read More about Sensing late-liberal state failure: Ecologies of resistance in a post-industrial German city.

Cash cows? Assembling low-carbon agriculture through green finance (2020)
Journal Article
van Veelen, B. (2021). Cash cows? Assembling low-carbon agriculture through green finance. Geoforum, 118, 130-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.12.008

‘Green’ forms of finance are deemed increasingly important in mitigating climate change. Despite growing calls to make financial flows consistent with Paris Agreement goals, to date little is known about the impact of ‘green finance’. Drawing on lite... Read More about Cash cows? Assembling low-carbon agriculture through green finance.

Can subsidies rather than pollution taxes break the trade-off between economic output and environmental protection? (2020)
Journal Article
Renström, T. I., Spataro, L., & Marsiliani, L. (2021). Can subsidies rather than pollution taxes break the trade-off between economic output and environmental protection?. Energy Economics, 95, Article 105084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.105084

We build a general equilibrium dynamic model in which individual investors are endowed with “warm-glow” preferences a la Andreoni (1990) so that they feel partly responsible for the pollution content of their portfolio. Through investors’ portfolio c... Read More about Can subsidies rather than pollution taxes break the trade-off between economic output and environmental protection?.

Effect of the stroke-to-bore ratio on the performance of a dual-piston free piston engine generator (2020)
Journal Article
Zhang, Z., Feng, H., Jia, B., Zuo, Z., Smallbone, A., & Roskilly, A. P. (2021). Effect of the stroke-to-bore ratio on the performance of a dual-piston free piston engine generator. Applied Thermal Engineering, 185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2020.116456

The free piston engine generator (FPEG) is considered as one of the next generation efficient energy conversion device because of its compact structure, high geometric power ratio and low pollution. This paper investigated the effect of stroke-to-bor... Read More about Effect of the stroke-to-bore ratio on the performance of a dual-piston free piston engine generator.

Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques (2020)
Journal Article
Payne, W., Knuth, S., & Mahmoudi, D. (2020). Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques. Urban Geography, 41(8), 1033-1036. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1820678

The production, perception, and representation of urban space and urban property relations have been urgent “technological” questions since before the birth of urban geography as a discipline. The growth and differentiation of cities worldwide has be... Read More about Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques.

Applications and technological challenges for heat recovery, storage and utilisation with latent thermal energy storage (2020)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Lu, Y., Huang, R., Chang, J., Yu, X., Jiang, R., …Roskilly, A. P. (2021). Applications and technological challenges for heat recovery, storage and utilisation with latent thermal energy storage. Applied Energy, 283, Article 116277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.116277

Thermal energy storage (TES) technology is considered to have the greatest potential to balance the demand and supply overcoming the intermittency and fluctuation nature of real-world heat sources, making a more flexible, highly efficient and reliabl... Read More about Applications and technological challenges for heat recovery, storage and utilisation with latent thermal energy storage.

The theoretical potential for large-scale underground thermal energy storage (UTES) within the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Gluyas, J., Adams, C., & Wilson, I. (2020). The theoretical potential for large-scale underground thermal energy storage (UTES) within the UK. Energy Reports, 6(7), 229-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2020.12.006

Large scale storage of heat is critical for the successful decarbonisation of the UK’s energy mix and for grid-balancing. Heat generation currently accounts for 50% of all energy use in the UK and most of this is produced by burning fossil natural ga... Read More about The theoretical potential for large-scale underground thermal energy storage (UTES) within the UK.

Exploring the synergistic potential of response surface methodology based multi-objective optimization in the performance–emission-stability trade-off envelope of an existing diesel engine (2020)
Journal Article
Biswas, S., Kakati, D., Roy, S., Chakraborti, P., & Banerjee, R. (2020). Exploring the synergistic potential of response surface methodology based multi-objective optimization in the performance–emission-stability trade-off envelope of an existing diesel engine. Energy Sources Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, https://doi.org/10.1080/15567036.2020.1840670

The present study reveals synergistic possibilities of split-injection techniques under different exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) profiles to meet the emission-performance-stability trade-off from existing diesel engines under the Bharat Stage constr... Read More about Exploring the synergistic potential of response surface methodology based multi-objective optimization in the performance–emission-stability trade-off envelope of an existing diesel engine.

Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale (2020)
Journal Article
Knuth, S., Stehlin, J., & Millington, N. (2020). Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale. Urban Geography, 41(10), 1335-1343. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1850024

In the face of climate destabilizations and breakdowns, debates about (de)growth and scale have been particularly significant within critical scholarship. These debates counterpose radically different political positionings, with implications for how... Read More about Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale.

Structure Analysis from Powder Diffraction Data: Rietveld Refinement in Excel (2020)
Journal Article
Evans, J. S., & Radosavljevic Evans, I. (2021). Structure Analysis from Powder Diffraction Data: Rietveld Refinement in Excel. Journal of Chemical Education, 98(2), 495-505. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c01016

Powder diffraction is one of the most widely used analytical techniques for characterizing solid state materials. It can be used for phase or polymorph identification, quantitative analysis, cell parameter determination, or even full crystal structur... Read More about Structure Analysis from Powder Diffraction Data: Rietveld Refinement in Excel.

Multi-helical Lamb Wave Imaging for Pipe-like Structures Based on a Probabilistic Reconstruction Approach (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, Z., Huang, S., Wang, S., Wang, Q., & Zhao, W. (2020). Multi-helical Lamb Wave Imaging for Pipe-like Structures Based on a Probabilistic Reconstruction Approach. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 70, Article 6002510. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2020.3038474

The special form of pipe-like structure provides the helical route for ultrasonic guided wave. Considering the pipe as a flattened plate but with periodical replications, the helical wave becomes intuitional and a corresponding imaging algorithm can... Read More about Multi-helical Lamb Wave Imaging for Pipe-like Structures Based on a Probabilistic Reconstruction Approach.

Inelastic Scattering in Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging (2020)
Journal Article
Mendis, B. G., Barthel, J., Findlay, S. D., & Allen, L. J. (2020). Inelastic Scattering in Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 26(6), 1147-1157. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1431927620024605

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and electron channeling contrast imaging (ECCI) are used to extract crystallographic information from bulk samples, such as their crystal structure and orientation as well as the presence of any dislocation and... Read More about Inelastic Scattering in Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging.

CEO Hometown Identity and Firm Green Innovation (2020)
Journal Article
Ren, S., Wang, Y., Hu, Y., & Yan, J. (2021). CEO Hometown Identity and Firm Green Innovation. Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(2), 756-774. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2652

Drawn on the upper echelons theory, this study investigates how chief executive officer (CEO) hometown identity drives firm green innovation. We propose that CEO hometown identity has a positive impact on a firm's green innovation performance. Furthe... Read More about CEO Hometown Identity and Firm Green Innovation.

A model for permeability evolution during volcanic welding (2020)
Journal Article
Wadsworth, F. B., Vasseur, J., Llewellin, E. W., Brown, R. J., Tuffen, H., Gardner, J. E., …Marone, F. (2021). A model for permeability evolution during volcanic welding. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 409, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107118

Volcanic ash and pyroclasts can weld when deposited hot by pyroclastic density currents, in near-vent fall deposits, or in fractures in volcano interiors. Welding progressively decreases the permeability of the particle packs, influencing a range of... Read More about A model for permeability evolution during volcanic welding.