Energy and Sustainability
WIT Press (Verlag)
978-1-84564-508-3 (ISBN)
Contents Section 1: Renewable energy technologies Design guidelines for a robust and reliable solar thermal heating and cooling system;Systems dynamics modelling to assess the sustainability of renewable energy technologies in developing countries; How small island governments are responding to the development of energy technologies; Experimental and economical study of sustainable electricity generation by solar PV/diesel hybrid systems without storage for off grid areas; Photovoltaic energy and the environment; Improving building energy efficiency: a case study; Numerical modeling as a basic tool for evaluation of using mine water as a heat source Section 2: Biomass processes and biofuels High yields of sugars via the non-enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose; On the future relevance of biofuels for transport in EU-15 countries; Biomass char production at low severity conditions under CO2 and N2 environments; From biomass-rich residues into fuels and green chemicals via gasification and catalytic synthesis; Anaerobic digestion of cattle manure: effect of phase-separation; Biodiesel reforming with a NiAl2O4/Al2O3-YSZ catalyst for the production of renewable SOFC fuel Section 3: Energy management Energy management and sustainable development; Investigation of energy management in an Iranian construction project; Optimization of the pumping station of the Milano water supply network with Genetic Algorithms; Case study: energy audit and implementation at the Russell Medical Center; Wave potential of the Greek seas Section 4: Energy policies The role of district energy in greening existing neighborhoods: a primer for policy makers and local government officials; Subsidising renewable electricity in Estonia; Promoting electricity from renewable energy sources in emerging and developing countries - lessons learned from the EU; Socio-economic and energy scenario development in Vietnam; Renewable energy policy landscape in South Africa: moving towards a low carbon economy Section 5: Energy and the environment Environmental balance study for the construction of a biomass plant in a small town in Piedmont (Northern Italy); Bioenergy for regions - alternative cropping systems and optimisation of local heat supply; Sustainability of nuclear energy with regard to decommissioning and waste management; How dematerialization contributes to a low carbon society? Recovery of combustible matter from waste fine Chinese coals by a waste vegetable oil agglomerating process and its combustion characteristics; Long-term CO2 emissions abatement in the power sector and the influence of renewable power; Energy recovery of a rotary kiln system in a calcium oxide plant; Nonthermal plasma-assisted catalytic methanation of CO and CO2 over nickel-loaded alumina; Family size solar dryer for an estimation of the heat transfer coefficient; Energy recovery of grass biomass Section 6: Energy analysis Effect of H2 enrichment on the explosive limits of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in conventional combustion; Embodied energy analysis of multi-storied residential buildings in urban India Section 7: Energy efficiency Learn to save: sustainable schools; Experimental study of a waste heat recovery system for supplemental heaters; Energy performance assessment of building systems with computer dynamic simulation and monitoring in a laboratory; Investigating the impact of track gradients on traction energy efficiency in freight transportation by railway Section 8: CO2 sequestration and storage CO2 transport modelling, conversion and storage; Influence of heat treatment on the corrosion behavior of steels exposed to CCS environment
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2011 |
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Reihe/Serie | WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment ; No. 143 |
Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
Verlagsort | Southampton |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-84564-508-1 / 1845645081 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84564-508-3 / 9781845645083 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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