Meet the editors

In the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation, Eng Hwa Yap is the Acting Associate Dean: Teaching and Learning (Operations). He also leads the Bachelor of Technology and Innovation (BTi) as the Course Director. His research at the university focuses on curated multidisciplinary and mixed approaches of enquiry to understand and respond to complex problems surrounding technology, environmental sustainability, and future energy

systems. In his research, Eng Hwa uses methods centering on systems thinking to investigate emerging and contemporary issues in technologies and their interaction with society, the environment, economics, and policy.

Andrew Huey Ping Tan has extensive engineering experience in both Motorola Solutions and Agilent Technologies, where he specializes in ensuring high quality and timely manufacture of industrial products for downstream customers. By implementing systems thinking and knowledge, life-cycle assessments, and technical improvisations, he specializes in product line setup and process improvements for new product developments. Andrew

completed his PhD at the University of Nottingham where he developed a systemic measurement for the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus in Malaysia using a transdisciplinary and systems approach. He also graduated with MEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering with First Class Honors from the same university.

Contents

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 45**

**Chapter 4 67**

**Chapter 5 89**

**Chapter 6 115**

Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing of Printed Electronics:

Techno-Economic Optimization and Benchmarking of a Solar-Only Powered Combined Cycle with High-Temperature TES Upstream the

*Benoît Valentin Jean-Florian Brau, Frédéric Siros, Jonathon McGuire* 

The Emerging of Hydrovoltaic Materials as a Future Technology:

*by Jiale Xie, Liuliu Wang, Xiaoying Chen, Pingping Yang, Fengkai Wu* 

A Circular Economy of Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems: Critical Review of SOH/RUL Estimation Methods for Second-Life

Leveraging Integrated Model-Based Approaches to Unlock Bioenergy

*by Simon Montoya-Bedoya, Laura A. Sabogal-Moncada, Esteban Garcia-Tamayo and Hader V. Martínez-Tejada*

Potentials in Enhancing Green Energy and Environment *by Fabrice Abunde Neba, Prince Agyemang, Yahaya D. Ndam,* 

*by Andrea Majlingová, Martin Lieskovský, Maroš Sedliak* 

*Endene Emmanuel, Eyong G. Ndip and Razak Seidu*

Energy Potential of Biomass Sources in Slovakia

*by Bilge Nazli Altay, Martin Bolduc and Sylvain G. Cloutier*

*by Fritz Zaversky, Iñigo Les, Marcelino Sánchez,* 

An Environmental Consideration

Gas Turbine

*and Flavien Berard*

*and Yuelong Huang*

*and Marián Slamka*

Batteries

A Case Study for China

## Contents


Preface

Energy is a vital element in sustaining our modern society but the future of energy is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous; especially when facing a continuous drive to ensure a sustained and equitable access as well as mounting pressures to reduce its emissions. Traditional approaches in developing energy technologies have always been in isolation with distinct and unique contexts. However, we cannot afford to work in silos any longer. Future energy systems and their relationship with the society and the environment will have to be conceived, designed, developed, commissioned, and operated alongside and within contemporary geo-political, ethical, and socio-economic contexts. This has posed an unprecedented volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), where systemic and holistic approaches are often warranted. This book aims to focus on the VUCA of addressing the future of energy and environment by considering contemporary issues and insights from diverse contexts, viewed as a system, and anchored upon emerging and smart

*Green Energy and Environment* contributes to this on-going discourse and the role these energy technologies play in the society's effort to address climate change, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions in a holistic and inclusive manner, by considering green energy technologies' key roles along a critical path to decarbonization

*Green Energy and Environment* is a collection of timely efforts to address the complexity of developing energy technologies within these unprecedented contexts, each contributing to the main theme and the on-going discussion from diverse lenses and a holistic viewpoint. Topics covered in the book range from green electronics, techno-economic optimization of solar-only powered combined cycle power plants, a case study of hydrovoltaic materials for China, to circular economy of electro-chemical energy storage. Each chapter addresses an important aspect of energy technologies and serves as a vital building block towards constructing a timely and relevant body of knowledge on

We hope you will find this book useful and the topics relevant. This book is a result of many months of hard work by all contributing authors, who have worked tirelessly and passionately. Without them, this work would not have seen the light of day. It is in this regard that we would like to acknowledge the professionalism and commitment from all chapter authors – thank you! We are also grateful to IntechOpen for this opportunity, and the Publishing Process Managers Lada Bozic and Danijela Pintur for their wisdom, friendship, encouragement, and assistance throughout the process of editing this book – thank you!

**Eng Hwa Yap** 

Australia

Malaysia

University of Technology Sydney,

**Andrew Huey Ping Tan** KDU University College,

energy technologies.

and responsible innovation.

green energy and environment.
