EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA by IME OKON UTUK, ANIEFIOK BENEDICT UDO, BONIFACE LINUS AKPAN, EDEDET BASSEY EDUNO, INIGBEHE MICHAEL OKON

“…At the same time, climate-smart agricultural innovations to conserve water such as solar-powered drip irrigation and rainwater harvesting should be concentrated on to help farmers cope with droughts. …”
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Method for calculating the range of an electric motorboat using solar energy by Valentina V. Kaplina

“…We have defined the method for calculating the running time of the electrically driven solar powered boat. We obtained as well an approximate amount of the electrical power generated by the solar panels for the area of Tomsk in summer. …”
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Feasibility Study of a Building-Integrated PV Manager to Power a Last-Mile Electric Vehicle Sharing System by Manuel Fuentes, Jesús Fraile-Ardanuy, José L. Risco-Martín, José M. Moya

“…This paper analyzes a model of solar-powered vehicle sharing system using building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), resulting in a zero-emission and zero-energy mobility system for last-mile employee transportation. …”
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Analysis of the Hybrid Power System for High-Altitude Unmanned Aircraft by Kangwen Sun, Ming Zhu, Lifeng Wang, Hu Liu

“…A high-altitude unmanned aircraft was used to analyze the performances of pure solar-powered aircraft and hybrid powered aircraft. The analysis result showed that the hybrid system could reduce the area of wing by 19% and that high-altitude unmanned aircraft with a 35 m or less wingspan could raise the utilization rate of solar energy per unit area after adopting the hybrid power system.…”
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Atomic Layer Deposition of TiO2 Nanocoatings on ZnO Nanowires for Improved Photocatalytic Stability by Emmeline Kao, Hyun Sung Park, Xining Zang, Liwei Lin

“…We present a titanium dioxide (TiO2)/zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowire array using a hybrid hydrothermal/atomic layer deposition (ALD) for use as a solar-powered photoelectrochemical device. The nanowire array consists of single crystalline, wurtzite ZnO nanowires with a 40 nm ALD TiO2 coating. …”
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Integrated Community-Based Nutrition Interventions Improve Diet Quality, Food, and Credit Access among Rural Women in Northern Ghana by Clement Kubreziga Kubuga, Gifty Sienso

“…The experimental group was provided with credit access and solar-powered irrigation facility for dry-season community gardening, while the control group had access to only credit. …”
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Sun-simulated-driven production of high-purity methanol from carbon dioxide by Jiqing Jiao, Yanbin Ma, Xiaoqian Han, Awu Ergu, Chao Zhang, Pingping Chen, Wei Liu, Qiquan Luo, Zhaolin Shi, Han Xu, Chen Chen, Yaguang Li, Tongbu Lu

“…We construct a self-supporting electrocatalyst featuring dual active sites of Ni single atoms and encapsulated Co nanoparticles, which could produce syngas with a constant H2:CO ratio of ~2 via solar-powered CO2 electroreduction. The generated syngas is subsequently fed into the photothermal module, which could produce high-purity CH3OH under 1 sun-light irradiation, with a rate of 0.238 gCH3OH gcat –1 h–1. …”
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Techno-Economic Feasibility of Reverse Osmosis Desalination Scale Coupled with Solar Energy: Case of Algeria by Asma Adda, Salah Bezari, Mohamed Abbas, Salah Hanini

“…This study assessed the techno-economic feasibility of a solar-powered desalination small-scale BWRO with a capacity of 2.016 m3/day. …”
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Modeling and Parametric Analysis of a Large-Scale Solar-Based Absorption Cooling System by Ali Abdullah, Abdullah A. AlZahrani

“…This study investigates the thermodynamic performance of a solar-powered absorption cooling system. The system uses a lithium bromide-water (LiBr-H2O) absorption refrigeration system (ARS) integrated with evacuated solar collectors (ETSC) and thermal energy storage (TES) to provide a 3 kTR cooling capacity for a university campus. …”
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Performance Study of the Direct-Coupled Photovoltaic Water Pumping System for the Rural-Isolated Agricultural Region in Iraq by Mahmood hussein salman, Adel A. Obed, Ahmed J. Abid

“…Renewable energy can limit the use of fossil fuels, particularly by using the solar-powered water pumping system. This article aimed at finding an optimal design for a direct-coupled photovoltaic water pumping system in Iraq. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Smart Hybrid Solar Water Heater Erection Model to Extract Maximum Energy by Bharathi M L, T. Sripriya, B. Muthuraj, D. Sateesh Kumar, V. Venkatesh, Badireddy Satya Sridevi, Munaga Masthan Siva Krishna, K. Rajan, Abdi Diriba

“…Currently, we are trying to get electricity in alternative ways. Many solar powered water heaters have come up to use water heaters. …”
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Waste heat recovery cycles integration into a net-Zero emission solar-thermal multi-generation system; Techno-economic analysis and ANN-MOPSO optimization by Pradeep Kumar Singh, Ali Basem, Rebwar Nasir Dara, Mohamed Shaban, Sarminah Samad, Raymond Ghandour, Ahmad Almadhor, Samah G. Babiker, Iskandar Shernazarov, Ibrahim A. Alsayer

“…This paper presents a novel solar-powered multi-generation system (MGS) integrated with a fuel cell, designed to enhance both sustainability and operational reliability. …”
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Internet of things enabled parking management system using long range wide area network for smart city by Waheb A. Jabbar, Lu Yi Tiew, Nadiah Y. Ali Shah

“…Additionally, the system operates independently, sustained by a solar-powered rechargeable battery. Practical testing of IoT-SPMS-LoRaWAN under various scenarios validates its merits in terms of functionality, ease of use, reliable data transmission, and precision. …”
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Performance analysis of yellow hydrogen production in the UAE by Ahmed Al Makky, Hasan A. Kanjo, Tareq Salameh, Abdul-Kadir Hamid, Mousa Hussein

“…The initial scenario employs a solar-powered electrolyzer for hydrogen production, attaining a competitive levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of $0.1846 per kWh and a hydrogen cost of $4.65 per kg. …”
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Impact of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) in Nigeria, a Review of the Future of Farming in Africa by Mabel Adaeze Nwanojuo, Christian Kosisochukwu Anumudu, Helen Onyeaka

“…Cross-country comparisons with South Africa and Kenya reveal actionable insights for Nigeria’s CEA implementation such as South Africa’s public-private partnerships and Kenya’s solar-powered vertical farms which can serve as actionable blueprints for Nigeria’s CEA adoption and expansion. …”
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Design and Prototyping of Solar Operated Fertilizer Sprayer. by Nduhura, Whycliffee

“…Due to the above shortcomings of the commonly used sprayers, the need for another means which provide output in between the knapsack sprayers and the motorized sprayers calls for the invention of solar powered/operated sprayers. These can have between low to high pressure depending on the capacity of the pump. …”
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Design and maintenance of medical oxygen concentrators in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review by Nahimiya Husen Ibrahim, James Wallace, Davide Piaggio, Leandro Pecchia

“…It also illustrated how the environmental challenges impacted the devices durability, highlighting the need for more locally adapted resilient solutions. Solar-powered systems provide a sustainable option in areas with unstable power supplies, although initial costs remain high. …”
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