College: Engineering | Department: Mechanical Engineering
Title of Research: Sustainable Energy: Research Pathways, Impact and Relevance to SDGs
Research Summary:
Since the SDGs were approved in 2015, they have inspired thinking and writing about how they can help maximize research and societal impact. As a result, since 2015, my research team and I have published over 45 journal articles highlighting SDGs 1, 7, & 13. Examples of research relevant to the SDGs include:
- Assessment & impact of solar-electrified facilities in off-grid Ghanaian communities (SDG 1 & 7)
- Energy efficiency as a tool for minimizing electricity consumption in SMEs & institutions (SDG 7)
- Optimization of industrial energy consumption for sustainability using regression and gradient descent algorithm (SDG 7 &13)
- Coconut waste as a bio-resource for sustainable energy: quantifying waste, calorific values, & emissions (SDG 7 & 13)
The use of machine learning for analytics of redundant solar PV energy for cooking applications (SDG 7 &13) is an innovation in the era of artificial intelligence. The research impact and publications on sustainable energy is corroborated by Elsevier - one of the world’s leading scientific publishers who writes – “Congratulations, George Yaw Obeng, for publishing four open-access articles with Elsevier between 2020 and 2022. Four of your articles were linked to the United Nations SDGs, helping to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges.”
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