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Increasing fossil fuel consumption has led to serious problems in energy supply and environmental issues such as global warming, air pollution, ozone depletion, and security issues. A strategy to improve energy consumption requires recycling wasted energy and preventing it from being released into the environment. A wide range of available heat sources such as heat dissipation in the transportation industry, solar heat, biomass and geothermal have low-temperature, which contain large amounts of energy but they do not have enough temperature to make them economically viable and cost-effective. Several applied technologies have been proposed to utilize these resources, among which the organic...