Brazil, Bioenergy, Electricity, Land use, Integrated models, Optimisation

Lyrio de Oliveira, Lucas, García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , de Oliveira Ribeiro, Celma, Oller do Nascimento, Claudio Augusto, Rego, Erik Eduardo, Giarola, Sara and Hawkes, Adam (2020) Modelling the technical potential of bioelectricity production under land use constraints: A multi-region Brazil case study. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 123:109765. ISSN 1364-0321 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.109765)

Energy systems model; Reforestation; Agriculture; Land-use; Mechanisation; Brazil

García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Giarola, Sara and Hawkes, Adam (2019) A novel energy systems model to explore the role of land use and reforestation in achieving carbon mitigation targets: A Brazil case study. Journal of Cleaner Production, 232. pp. 796-821. ISSN 0959-6526 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.345)

building energy retrofit, exergy, exergoeconomics, building simulation software, optimisation

García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Raslan, Rokia, Ruyssevelt, Paul and Morillón Gálvez, David (2017) ExRET-Opt: An automated exergy/exergoeconomic simulation framework for building energy retrofit analysis and design optimisation. Applied Energy, 192. pp. 33-58. ISSN 0306-2619 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.02.006)

building envelope, mathematical model, organic phase change material, passive system, transparent thermal insulation

Torres-Rodríguez, Agustín, Morillón-Gálvez, David, Aldama-Ávalos, Daniel, Hernández-Gómez, Víctor Hugo and García Kerdan, Ivan ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X (2020) Thermal performance evaluation of a passive building wall with CO2-filled transparent thermal insulation and paraffin-based PCM. Solar Energy, 205. pp. 1-11. ISSN 0038-092X (Print), 1471-1257 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.04.090)

building simulation, exergy, optimisation, genetic algorithms, building retrofits, non-domestic buildings

García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Raslan, Rokia and Ruyssevelt, Paul (2016) An exergy-based multi-objective optimisation model for energy retrofit strategies in non-domestic buildings. Energy, 117 (2). pp. 506-522. ISSN 0360-5442 (Print), 1873-6785 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2016.06.041)

energy analysis, exergy analysis, bottom-up model, stock modelling, non-domestic sector, mexico

García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Morillón Gálvez, David, Raslan, Rokia and Ruyssevelt, Paul (2014) Modelling the energy and exergy utilisation of the Mexican non-domestic sector: A study by climatic regions. Energy Policy, 77. pp. 191-206. ISSN 0301-4215 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2014.10.024)

energy conservation, exergy, stock model, retrofit scenarios, non-domestic, low-exergy buildings

García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Raslan, Rokia, Ruyssevelt, Paul and Morillón Gálvez, David (2017) The role of an exergy-based building stock model for exploration of future decarbonisation scenarios and policy making. Energy Policy, 105. pp. 467-483. ISSN 0301-4215 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.020)

energy system model, agriculture, land-use, projections, natural gas, bioenergy, Brazil

Garcia Kerdan, Ivan ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Giarola, Sara and Hawkes, Adam (2020) Implications of future natural gas demand on sugarcane production, land use change and related emissions in Brazil. Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 8 (2). pp. 304-237. ISSN 1848-9257 (doi:https://doi.org/10.13044/j.sdewes.d7.0300)

energy systems model, optimisation, gas infrastructure, infrastructure cost, natural gas, brazil

García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Jalil-Vega, Francisca, Toole, James, Gulati, Sachin, Giarola, Sara and Hawkes, Adam (2019) Modelling cost-effective pathways for natural gas infrastructure: A southern Brazil case study. Applied Energy, 255:113799. ISSN 0306-2619 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113799)

energy systems modelling, spatially-resolved, transport, district cooling, heating, decarbonisation

Jalil-Vega, Francisca, Garcia Kerdan, Ivan ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X and Adam, Hawkes (2020) Spatially-resolved urban energy systems model to study decarbonisation pathways for energy services in cities. Applied Energy, 262:114445. ISSN 0306-2619 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114445)

energy, agriculture, modelling, mechanisation, land use, China

Garcia Kerdan, Ivan ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Giarola, Sara, Skinner, Ellis, Tuleu, Marin and Hawkes, Adam (2020) Modelling future agricultural mechanisation of major crops in China: an assessment of energy demand, land use and emissions. Energies, 13 (24):6636. ISSN 1996-1073 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/en13246636)

energy, exergy, exergoeconomics, retrofits, building simulation, passivhaus

García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Raslan, Rokia, Ruyssevelt, Paul, Vaiciulyte, Sandra and Morillón Gálvez, David (2017) Thermodynamic and exergoeconomic analysis of a non-domestic Passivhaus retrofit. Building and Environment, 117. pp. 100-117. ISSN 0360-1323 (Print), 1873-684X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.03.003)

exergy, artificial neural network, genetic optimisation, surrogate modelling, low-energy buildings

Garcia Kerdan, Ivan ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X and Morillon Galvez, David (2020) Artificial neural network structure optimisation for accurately prediction of exergy, comfort and life cycle cost performance of a low energy building. Applied Energy, 280:115862. ISSN 0306-2619 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115862)

exergy, exergoeconomics, building simulation, retrofits, parametric study, cost-benefit analysis

García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Raslan, Rokia, Ruyssevelt, Paul and Morillón Gálvez, David (2016) An exergoeconomic-based parametric study to examine the effects of active and passive energy retrofit strategies for buildings. Energy and Buildings, 133. pp. 155-171. ISSN 0378-7788 (Print), 1872-6178 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.09.029)

exergy, waste heat, exergy losses, building simulation

Garcia Kerdan, Ivan ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Raslan, Rokia and Ruyssevelt, Paul (2015) An exergy-based simulation stock model: A new approach for policy making. In: Proceedings of BS 2015: 14th International Building Performance Simulation Association. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 2213-2220.

geothermal heat pumps, sand, grain size, moisture, mathematical model, temperature

Torres-Rodríguez, Agustín, Morillón-Gálvez, David, Aldama-Ávalos, Daniel, Morales-Ramírez, José Diego and García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X (2019) Predicting the thermal behaviour of sands considering its moisture content and grain size with applications to geothermal heat pump installations. Energy and Buildings. ISSN 0378-7788 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.04.005)

land use, energy systems model, sugarcane, reforestation, carbon sequestration, brazil

García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Giarola, Sara, Jalil-Vega, Francisca and Hawkes, Adam (2019) Carbon sequestration potential from large-scale reforestation and sugarcane expansion on abandoned agricultural lands in Brazil. Polytechnica, 2 (1-2). pp. 9-25. ISSN 2520-8497 (Print), 2520-8063 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s41050-019-00012-3)

low-energy building, optimisation, solar design, exergy analysis, thermal breeze, thermal comfort

García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Morillón Gálvez, David, Sousa, Gustavo, Suárez de la Fuente, Santiago, Silva, Rodolfo and Hawkes, Adam (2019) Thermodynamic and thermal comfort optimisation of a coastal social house considering the influence of the thermal breeze. Building and Environment, 155. pp. 224-246. ISSN 0360-1323 (Print), 1873-684X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.03.015)

optimisation, building simulation, energy, exergy, low carbon buildings, exergoeconomics

García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Raslan, Rokia, Ruyssevelt, Paul and Morillón Gálvez, David (2017) A comparison of an energy/economic-based against an exergoeconomic-based multi-objective optimisation for low carbon building energy design. Energy, 128. pp. 244-263. ISSN 0360-5442 (Print), 1873-6785 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.03.142)

shipping, arctic, efficiency, co2 emission reductions, air-cooling, waste heat recovery systems, organic rankine cycle

Suárez de la Fuente, Santiago, Larsen, Ulrik, Pawling, Rachel, García Kerdan, Iván ORCID: 0000-0002-0566-555X , Greig, Alistair and Bucknall, Richard (2018) Using the forward movement of a container ship navigating in the Arctic to air-cool a marine organic Rankine cycle unit. Energy, 159. pp. 1046-1059. ISSN 0360-5442 (Print), 1873-6785 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.06.143)