GreenTechWatch Web portal introduces sixty innovative technologies for making our world sustainable. Current content includes collective intelligence formulated by Spring’2020 KAIST’s CE 560 class participants (RIYA ANILKUMAR, LUCIA GONZALEZ ESTEBAN, Chanho Kim, Haneul Lee, Stacy Kwamboka Achoki, Ibrahim Alahmad, Mahmud Ado Dandawaki, ABDULLAHI HASSAN, TUNU VALENTINE KAIJAGE, Asalia Widjaja, Chulwoog Park, Jiseon Lee, Shinhyung Choi, […]

Smart and Sustainable Environment Design Laboratory(https://ssel.kaist.ac.kr) Smart and Sustainable Environment Design Laboratory (SSEL) at KAIST aims at executing various cross-disciplinary researches on the technologies and methodology for constructing ubiquitous technology augmented built environment in various levels starting from smart building up to smart city by integrating core information technologies such as next generation mobile communication, […]

Primary Definition: Growing demand around the world is driving interest in renewable energy. Reduced and increased reserves of primary energy and fossil fuels Concerns about climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Broadly defined biofuels as bio renewable resources, solid, gas or liquid fuels generated from biomass, are a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels [1]. Secondary […]

The smart appliances are electronic devices in the household environment, which are applicable to smart grid services like so-called demand response activities, remote monitoring, scheduling, energy consumption adaptation programs, etc. The interactive communication to the smart grid service is provided via various (wireless) protocols like Bluetooth, NFC1 , WiFi, 3G, etc. The automated control of […]

Primary Definition : A heat pump is a device that receives heat from one source and moves it to another place through electrical or mechanical means. Heat pumps can be used for heating or cooling. [1]. Secondary Definition: Heat pump technology includes phase change, thermoelectric, thermoacoustic and magnetic coolers. HVAC and other phase change cooling […]

Primary definition Micro wind turbines are wind turbines used for microgeneration as they are much smaller than conventional wind turbines. [1] Secondary definition Micro wind turbines belong to the category of small wind turbines, which encompass wind turbines from 400 watts up to 100 kW. The definition of micro wind turbines vary, but they are […]

Primary Definition: Combined heat and power technology (CHP), also known as cogeneration, is an energy efficient technology that captures the heat released when generating electricity and uses it as thermal energy for space heating, hot water or industrial processes; instead of discarding it as waste. [1]. Secondary Definition: CHP is a type of generation characterized […]

Primary Definition: Vacuum Insulating Glass (VIC) is composed of two conventional insulating glazing with an evacuated space in-between, which enables high levels of thermal insulation [1]. Secondary Definition: Its objective to meet the severe thermal performance requirements aims towards net-zero energy windows [2]. 2. Background         Technology History: The concept was first proposed in Germany in […]

Primary Definition: Artificial photosynthesis refers a process that harvests sunlight and uses the photons to separate charges that are used to (1) split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel (2).An artificial leaf or a solar cell can accomplish the purpose of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen in ambient conditions (3). As a result, artificial […]

Primary Definition: Seasonal thermal energy storage (or STES) is the storage of heat or cold for periods of up to several months. The thermal energy can be collected whenever it is available and be used whenever needed, such as in the opposing season. Secondary Definition: Heat from solar collectors or waste heat from air conditioning […]