Selected Materials and Technologies for Electrical Energy Sector
Ensuring the energy transition in order to decrease CO<sub>2</sub> and volatile organic compounds emissions and improve the efficiency of energy processes requires the development of advanced materials and technologies for the electrical energy sector. The article reviews superconducting...
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| author | Henryka Danuta Stryczewska Oleksandr Boiko Mariusz Adam Stępień Paweł Lasek Masaaki Yamazato Akira Higa |
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| description | Ensuring the energy transition in order to decrease CO<sub>2</sub> and volatile organic compounds emissions and improve the efficiency of energy processes requires the development of advanced materials and technologies for the electrical energy sector. The article reviews superconducting materials, functional nanomaterials used in the power industry mainly due to their magnetic, electrical, optical, and dielectric properties and the thin layers of amorphous carbon nitride, which properties make them an important material from the point of view of environmental protection, optoelectronic, photovoltaic and energy storage. The superconductivity-based technologies, material processing, and thermal and nonthermal plasma generation have been reviewed as technologies that can be a solution to chosen problems in the electrical energy sector and environment. The study explains directly both—the basics and application potential of low and high-temperature superconductors as well as peculiarities of the related manufacturing technologies for Roebel cables, 1G and 2G HTS tapes, and superconductor coil systems. Among the superconducting materials, particular attention was paid to the magnesium di-boride MgB<sub>2</sub> and its potential applications in the power industry. The benefits of the use of carbon films with amorphous structures in electronics, sensing technologies, solar cells, FETs, and memory devices were discussed. The article provides the information about most interesting, from the R&D point of view, groups of materials for PV applications. It summarises the advantages and disadvantages of their use regarding commercial requirements such as efficiency, lifetime, light absorption, impact on the environment, costs of production, and weather dependency. Silicon processing, inkjet printing, vacuum deposition, and evaporation technologies that allow obtaining improved and strengthened materials for solar cell manufacturing are also described. In the case of the widely developed plasma generation field, waste-to-hydrogen technology including both thermal and non-thermal plasma techniques has been discussed. The review aims to draw attention to the problems faced by the modern power industry and to encourage research in this area because many of these problems can only be solved within the framework of interdisciplinary and international cooperation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a18af3b8d7af4e64b8cdd2540b178c612023-11-18T10:10:47ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732023-06-011612454310.3390/en16124543Selected Materials and Technologies for Electrical Energy SectorHenryka Danuta Stryczewska0Oleksandr Boiko1Mariusz Adam Stępień2Paweł Lasek3Masaaki Yamazato4Akira Higa5Department of Electrical Engineering and Electrotechnologies, Lublin University of Technology, 38A Nadbystrzycka Street, 20-618 Lublin, PolandDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Electrotechnologies, Lublin University of Technology, 38A Nadbystrzycka Street, 20-618 Lublin, PolandDepartment of Power Electronics, Electric Drive and Robotics, Silesian University of Technology, 2B Krzywoustego Street, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandDepartment of Power Electronics, Electric Drive and Robotics, Silesian University of Technology, 2B Krzywoustego Street, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of the Ryukyus, 1, Senbaru, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, JapanDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of the Ryukyus, 1, Senbaru, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, JapanEnsuring the energy transition in order to decrease CO<sub>2</sub> and volatile organic compounds emissions and improve the efficiency of energy processes requires the development of advanced materials and technologies for the electrical energy sector. The article reviews superconducting materials, functional nanomaterials used in the power industry mainly due to their magnetic, electrical, optical, and dielectric properties and the thin layers of amorphous carbon nitride, which properties make them an important material from the point of view of environmental protection, optoelectronic, photovoltaic and energy storage. The superconductivity-based technologies, material processing, and thermal and nonthermal plasma generation have been reviewed as technologies that can be a solution to chosen problems in the electrical energy sector and environment. The study explains directly both—the basics and application potential of low and high-temperature superconductors as well as peculiarities of the related manufacturing technologies for Roebel cables, 1G and 2G HTS tapes, and superconductor coil systems. Among the superconducting materials, particular attention was paid to the magnesium di-boride MgB<sub>2</sub> and its potential applications in the power industry. The benefits of the use of carbon films with amorphous structures in electronics, sensing technologies, solar cells, FETs, and memory devices were discussed. The article provides the information about most interesting, from the R&D point of view, groups of materials for PV applications. It summarises the advantages and disadvantages of their use regarding commercial requirements such as efficiency, lifetime, light absorption, impact on the environment, costs of production, and weather dependency. Silicon processing, inkjet printing, vacuum deposition, and evaporation technologies that allow obtaining improved and strengthened materials for solar cell manufacturing are also described. In the case of the widely developed plasma generation field, waste-to-hydrogen technology including both thermal and non-thermal plasma techniques has been discussed. The review aims to draw attention to the problems faced by the modern power industry and to encourage research in this area because many of these problems can only be solved within the framework of interdisciplinary and international cooperation.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/12/4543superconductivitythermal and nonthermal plasmamaterial processingnanomaterialspower engineeringenvironment protection |
| spellingShingle | Henryka Danuta Stryczewska Oleksandr Boiko Mariusz Adam Stępień Paweł Lasek Masaaki Yamazato Akira Higa Selected Materials and Technologies for Electrical Energy Sector Energies superconductivity thermal and nonthermal plasma material processing nanomaterials power engineering environment protection |
| title | Selected Materials and Technologies for Electrical Energy Sector |
| title_full | Selected Materials and Technologies for Electrical Energy Sector |
| title_fullStr | Selected Materials and Technologies for Electrical Energy Sector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Selected Materials and Technologies for Electrical Energy Sector |
| title_short | Selected Materials and Technologies for Electrical Energy Sector |
| title_sort | selected materials and technologies for electrical energy sector |
| topic | superconductivity thermal and nonthermal plasma material processing nanomaterials power engineering environment protection |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/12/4543 |
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