Sustainable Technology Research Research Articles

Sustainable Technology Maps in MENA Country

This paper provides an overview of sustainable technology research in the Middle East, Egypt, Kuwait, Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Jordan, and North Africa. It focuses on key areas such as freshwater resource management, renewable energy, economic growth, environmental policy, and carbon emissions. The research highlights the region's commitment to mitigating water scarcity, reducing carbon emissions, and enhancing energy sustainability through innovative technologies and sustainable management strategies. The paper also discusses the challenges and limitations faced in sustainable technology research and offers recommendations for future studies.

The Sustainable Technology Research on High-Efficiency Conversion and Utilization of Biomass-Based Energy

This study delves into the sustainability of biomass-based energy as an alternative energy source, its technical conversion methods, and its environmental and economic impacts. Biomass resources, including plants, agricultural residues, and forestry residues, are not only widely distributed and renewable but also exhibit significant potential in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change. The research focuses on three primary conversion technologies for biomass energy: physical conversion, chemical conversion, and biological conversion. It further explores key technologies for enhancing the sustainability of biomass-based energy, including biomass pretreatment, optimization techniques, and the integration of efficient energy conversion systems. The results indicate that, despite challenges, with continuous technological innovation and improvement, biomass energy can become a more sustainable energy option.

Synergizing Solar Cell Technology, Radio Waves, AI, and Business: A Comprehensive Review

This thorough review article reveals the amazing possibilities for innovation, sustainability, and connectedness by examining the revolutionary synergy of solar cell technology, radio waves, artificial intelligence (AI), and business. A new era of possibilities has emerged from the merging of these dynamic sectors, ranging from using AI to optimize solar energy generation to utilizing 5G technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) to revolutionize wireless communication. These technologies' convergence provides an ideal environment for entrepreneurship, as demonstrated by successful examples like Verizon's 5G-enabled smart cities and Sun Power’s AI-enhanced solar panels. Although this convergence offers ground-breaking potential, it also brings with it difficult problems. These include the effective management of electromagnetic spectrum, ethical AI concerns, and regulatory difficulties. In order to effectively manage this constantly changing environment, stakeholders need to support international collaboration, STEM education, flexible regulatory frameworks, and interdisciplinary research. To fully realize the revolutionary potential of these technologies, workforce development, incentives for sustainable habits, and sustainable technology research are crucial. In addition, in order to spur innovation in green AI, energy-efficient wireless communication, and renewable energy, governments and organizations need to make investments in green technology. It is critical to comprehend the main lessons in light of the changing environment at the nexus of these dynamic disciplines. These include the necessity of inclusivity, the value of sustainability, and the importance of ethical AI. Adopting these tenets will direct us toward a future marked by continuous progress, convergence of technology, and a flourishing innovation environment. Lessons from this review article will act as a compass for people who want to create positive change, maximize synergy, and take advantage of the endless opportunities that lie ahead as we navigate this environment. By working together, we can build a more affluent, connected, and sustainable future for everybody.

The cyclical impact of green and sustainable technology research on carbon dioxide emissions in BRICS economies.

This paper explored the asymmetrical relationships between green and sustainable technology research and environmental sustainability among the BRICS states from 1990 to 2018. The data was analyzed by second- and third-generation economic techniques such as slope heterogeneity and cross-section independence test, unit root test, structural break unit root test, panel cointegration with structural breaks cointegration tests, cross-section autoregressive distributed lags technique, augmented mean group, and Dumitrescu-Hurlin panel causality test. First, the results validated a long-run cointegration among variables. Second, the results showed that renewable energy consumption and positive shocks to green and sustainable technology research are proper to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions (short- and long-run). Third, gross domestic product, foreign direct investment, exports, and negative shocks to green and sustainable technology research increase carbon dioxide emissions. Fourth, the nexus between green and sustainable technology research and carbon dioxide emissions was counter-cyclical during economic expansion and contraction periods. Fifth, the impact of positive shocks to green and sustainable technology research on carbon dioxide emissions was more than the impact of negative shocks to green and sustainable technology research on carbon dioxide emissions.

A bibliometric study of sustainable technology research

Sustainable technology is a rather new subject in sustainability which is paying academics’ attention recently. This article provides a bibliometric review of sustainable technology studies in the sustainability area. Data from the Web of Science (WoS), database relating to 1122 publications available between 1970 and 2019 is used. Numerous bibliometric methods are used to do this indication. The VOSviewer software is used to graph the bibliographic documents. The findings revealed that publications around this area have been enhanced considerably in the last decade and the USA is the most dominant country. Furthermore, the co-citation network of references revealed five clusters; the competitive advantage of environmental innovation, the development of sustainable technologies, environmental policy tools, undesirable output solutions, and innovative environmental activities. This is the initial research toward proposing a bibliometric study of sustainable technology investigation in the sustainability area with definite theoretical and applied consequences.

Developmental research of sustainable technologies to minimise problematic road embankment settlements

Challenging, problematic and non-uniform ground conditions are a night mare to geotechnical engineers tasked with the design and construction of buildings and transport infrastructure. These often suffer undesirable structural settlements. Designing within the current understanding of geotechnics; settlement in peat and organic soils need to be recognised to include the known “primary and secondary consolidation characteristics” and the lesser known “tertiary consolidation phase”. These eventually contribute cumulatively to the consequential uneven and hazardous “bumpy road” surfaces. Undulating flexible road pavements result primarily from the transference of the heavy self-weight of the embankment fill to yielding and non-uniform subgrade. The adoption of conventional design/repair methods such as pile, vertical drain, soil replacement and soil stabilisation are expensive and inappropriate in very soft ground conditions. These then lead to unjustifiably high and repetitive maintenance costs. There being no one quick fix solution for all; pragmatic research must necessarily identify the best/progressively improved practical and sustainable solution. A viable solution is to develop criteria and explore the concept of a “masonry arch bridge structure/lintel-column structure” and adopting sustainable materials through pragmatic searching for appropriate recyclable waste materials. This will lead to the basis for a sustainable, innovative, strong, stiff, permeable composite mat structure that can be used on soft and/or yielding ground conditions. Conceptual lightweight fill technology including the popularly used expanded polystyrene (EPS) and the innovative composite mats recently being developed by the research team are outlined.

Sustainable Technology Research and Demonstration Center for Earth Structures

This is a discussion paper that the authors presented at the International Workshop on Rammed Earth Materials and Sustainable Structures and Hakka Tulou Forum 2011: Structures of Sustainability, 28–31 October 2011, Xiamen University, China. A Sustainable Technology Research and Demonstration Center for Earth Structures is proposed to study, preserve, advance, promote, and implement rammed earth structures. The Center concept including the objectives, scope of activities and benefits of the proposed center are outlined. The Center for Alternative Technology in Wales, UK has been examined as a good base model along with a few successful environmental sustainability initiatives in China. The funding options to establish the proposed center have been discussed. The breadth of activities ultimately depends on funding capability. It is believed that the proposed center development will require significant government support at the initial stage but once corporate sponsorships are in place, the proposed center will potentially become self-supporting. The strategies, for the establishment of the proposed center are also addressed.