In this study, the domestic electricity demand of Mozambique is estimated to grow from 7 TWh in 2022 to 26 TWh in 2032. In the Low Renewables scenario, the total solar, wind …
Energy security casts energy planning at the national level. In contrast, energy sovereignty brings energy questions close to people''s homes. This paper focuses on Chamanculo C, …
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From the territorial re-composition of the different plans, different readings of the spatial planning system in the Maputo Province emerged.
Mangroves are critical to maintaining human well-being and global biodiversity. Eastern and western African shores present major environmental contrasts that reflect on mangrove forests'' structure and the ecosystem services they provide to human communities. This study compares the mangrove forest structure and condition, …
Rather than an integrated project of modernity, the provision of energy in Mozambique is characterized by social and territorial fragmentation. Our concern in this …
New techniques and methods for energy storage are required for the transition to a renewable power supply, termed "Energiewende" in Germany. Energy storage in the geological subsurface provides large potential capacities to bridge temporal gaps between periods of production of solar or wind power and consumer demand and …
empirical sections which examine how heterogeneity emerges across divergent spatial conditions within Maputo through a socio-spatial analysis of the four neighborhoods. The following sections then explore the dynamic nature of energy access in Maputo
The increased population and the fast expansion of urbanization were some of the global main characteristics in the past decades. This expansion has shaped the diverse spatial structure in metropolitan areas worldwide. However, these studies have been focused on one or some metropolitan areas within countries or continents and no …
Underground reservoir technology for coal mines can realize the coordinated development of coal exploitation and water protection in water-shortage-prone areas. The seepage effect of the floor seriously affects the safety of underground reservoirs under the action of mining damage and seepage pressure. Focusing on the problem of …
Phase-Field Simulations: For the phase field simulation of the nanocomposites, the spatial distribution of the E in steady-state system under the 2D AC/DC module is modeled; for the dynamic breakdown process, the scalar phase field s(x, t) is introduced using a modified phase-field model to describe it. As detailed in the …
On the one hand, with the change of urban spatial form, the urban internal population and industrial spatial structure will be dynamically adjusted, and the corresponding energy consumption scale and structure will also be adjusted accordingly (Zeng et al., 2021; Wu et al., 2021a). It can be seen that the effect of urban spatial form …
Section snippets CFD model. Two heat exchanger geometries are considered. The first is a transverse cylindrical tube-fin geometry with heat transfer fluid (HTF) flowing axially through a central channel surrounded by a metal (aluminum) wall, which is surrounded by a composite layer consisting of axially alternating metal …
By 2050, the EU aims to become a Union where buildings will no longer emit greenhouse gases. The traditional building design process is becoming ineffective in meeting new sustainability challenges, which calls for a fundamentally different and more advanced design process [].The building sector accounts for 30% of global final energy …
When decarbonizing a state-wide energy system by introducing a growing share of renewable energies, underground energy storage can help to deal with fluctuating electric grid feed-in from renewables like wind power. Since besides energy storage other subsurface usages can claim or effect possible scarce suited underground …
The spatial dynamics and structure of mangrove forests in peri-urban, rural and rural island settings in Mozambique was investigated to test the hypothesis that peri-urban forests are more impacted.
Soil–structure interaction (SSI), which characterizes the dynamic interaction between a structure and its surrounding soil, is of great significance to the seismic assessment of structures. Past research endeavors have undertaken analytical, numerical, and experimental studies to gain a thorough understanding of the influences …
Current cities are not concrete jungles and deserts with sparse vegetation. Urban green space (UGS) appears widely in human activity areas and plays an important role in improving the human living environment and accumulates carbon storage. However, given the scattered distribution of UGS, studies on both the refined spatial estimation of …
Looking at the spatial structures on a larger scale, the spatial archetypes urban, rural, suburban areas as well as rural or suburban small towns highly influence the possibilities to shape the energy transition (Stoeglehner et al. 2011, 2016): urban centers are characterized by a high energy demand and density with a limited number of …
In Fig. 2 it is noted that pumped storage is the most dominant technology used accounting for about 90.3% of the storage capacity, followed by EES. By the end of 2020, the cumulative installed capacity of EES had reached 14.2 GW. The lithium-iron battery accounts for 92% of EES, followed by NaS battery at 3.6%, lead battery which …
Energy efficiency has proved to be effective in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and is significant to carbon neutrality targets. Urban agglomeration is the major engine of urbanization supporting …
Understanding the impact mechanisms of territorial space composition and landscape pattern changes on carbon storage is critical to balance the development and utilization of territorial space and the conservation of the ecosystem. Thus, taking the Fujian Delta urban agglomeration (FDUA) of China as an example, this paper analyzed the …
A systematic review method was used to answer the research''s main goal. A systematic review is a review of a formulated question that uses systematic and explicit methods to identify, select, and analyze the data obtained from the studies included in the review (Moher et al., 2009).To this end, the systematic review was performed in four …
In the field of spatial planning in Mozambique, there are many complex challenges. ... Abstract The spatial and demographic configuration of today''s Maputo–with one million people living in the city and about 1.8 million in the metropolitan area-is more the creation of those who inhabit the city than of those supposedly in charge of it ...
In particular, the 2D nuclear overhauser effect (NOE) technique was used to investigate the inclusion structure, in which the associated protons are named H a, H b, H c for CPL and H α, H β, H γ for HP-β-CD, respectively (Fig. 1 b). Clear H α-H a,b and H α-H c cross-peaks, highlighted by the colored rectangles, are observed, implying the formation …
This paper focuses on Chamanculo C, a neighbourhood in Maputo (Mozambique). The analysis illustrates three dimensions of energy sovereignty. First, …
China has attached great importance to technology innovation of lithium battery and expects to enhance its efficiency in distributed energy storage systems. The driving factors of technological innovation are often closely related to regional resources, spatial elements and intellectual factors. This has been confirmed by previous research such as in smart …
Yet, if the question is one of addressing spatial and environmental injustices associated with the provision of energy services in Chamanculo C, and …
An increasing number of reviews focused this field from different perspectives, for example, specific electrochemical applications of the intensively-studied 2D COFs ... the rational combination of linkages and π conjugated bonds in a COF could significantly improve the energy storage capability and structure stability under working conditions.
The social network analysis is innovatively introduced into the field of energy research, providing a new perspective for the research on the spatial association of renewable energy technology innovation. Our method breaks through the limitations of traditional econometric methods, no longer limited to the geographical proximity.
The water storage space is divided into "sphere" voids and "stick" throats to analyze its spatial structure characteristics. The specific construction process of the void network model for water storage space is shown in Figure 11. The water storage space (void structure) of the packing system of crushed rock was extracted first.
Physisorption based on porous materials offers cost- and energy-efficient alternatives toward promising solutions to global challenges in carbon dioxide (CO 2) capture 1,2, energy gas storage 3 ...
This review provides insights into optimizing PV systems and policy frameworks for a clean and inclusive energy production future in Africa, to synthesize the …
Excellent energy storage properties and superior stability achieved in lead-free ceramics via spatial sandwich structure design strategy Fei Yan, Xia He, Hairui Bai, Bo Shen, Jiwei Zhai* ... (t0.9) as a function of electric field for S2 Figure S8 Polarization of Pmax, Pr and Pmax – Pr as a function of (a) frequency, (b) cycle numbers, and (c ...
The energy storage or discharge rate of a TES module containing PCMs is dictated by its dynamic response to a transient thermal load, which depends on the module geometry and dimensions, the internal distribution and orientation of PCMs and thermally conductive elements, the thermophysical properties of the materials composing …
The state of national energy development affects a country''s politics and economy [], and energy security is related to a country''s social development and is an important part of national security [2,3].As the world''s largest developing country, China is rich in coal resources but poor in oil and gas [].Due to its high energy consumption, …
Exploring urban spatial structures through spatial coupling analysis methods is an important method to provide theoretical support for the construction of sustainable urban structures. In order to make up for the neglect of POI species differences in previous studies, information entropy was introduced to calculate POI confusion, and a …
In the past few decades, electricity production depended on fossil fuels due to their reliability and efficiency [1].Fossil fuels have many effects on the environment and directly affect the economy as their prices increase continuously due to their consumption which is assumed to double in 2050 and three times by 2100 [6] g. 1 shows the current …
In Maputo, spatial expansion has been substantiated through new housing developments (with distinct infrastructure systems) either explicitly constructed for the …
Tourist flows, crucial information within online travelogues, reveal the interactive relationships between different tourist destinations and serve as the nerve center and link of the tourism system. This study takes Hangzhou, China, as a case to investigate the spatial network structure of its tourist flows. Firstly, a BERT-BiLSTM-CRF model …
It can be seen from Fig. 11 that the standard deviation ellipses of the spatial mismatch among new energy consumption, industrial structure upgrading, and carbon carrying capacity in 2010, 2015, and 2019 were mainly located in the eastern and central regions of China; besides, it had the characteristics of moving to the west by …
Underground reservoir technology for coal mines can realize the coordinated development of coal exploitation and water protection in water-shortage-prone areas. The seepage effect of the floor …
This article concerns the relationship between uneven peri-urban growth and heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Metropolitan Maputo, Mozambique. Much research has …
Urban agglomerations (UAs) have become the urbanized "growth poles", especially against the background of increasing population flow to cities. The spatial structure of UAs has been deemed the essential factor affecting regional function and sustainable development. Although there have been many meaningful studies on spatial …
As mentioned above, since hierarchically structured porous materials can provide an efficient solution to the practical problems of energy storage, such as capacity loss, poor rate capability, volume expansion and limited cycle life, encountered in commercial application of reversible batteries and supercapacitors, their synthesis and …
RESEARCH ARTICLE Influence of spatial structure migration of overlying strata on water storage of underground reservoir in coal mine Zhiguo Cao1, Suolin Jing ID 2*, Lujun Wang1, Fanbao Meng3*, Yanning Han4 1 State Key Laboratory of Water Resource Protection and Utilization in Coal Mining, Beijing, China, 2 College of Energy …
