Encylopedia of Energy Research & Policy

Preface; Energy Markets; Three-Dimensional Simulation of Base Carrier Transport Effects in Back Side Point Contact Silicon Solar Cells; Multiple Effect Distillation of Seawater using Solar Energy: The Case of Abu Dhabi Solar Desalination Plant; Solid State Organic Photoelectrochemical Solar Energy Conversion Based on Conjugated Substituted Polythiophenes; A New Approach to Hybrid Systems of Renewable Energy Utilization; Dye-Sensitized NANO SnO2: TiO2 Solar Cells; Strategies for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions: The Case of Botswana Rural Communities; The Applying of Coatings & Surface Thermal Treatment of Materials in Solar Furnaces: Theory & Experiments; Transparent Conductive Layers of Tin, Indium & Cadmium Oxides for Solar Cells; Dynamic Impedance Characterization of Solar Cells & PV Modules Based on Frequency & Time Domain Analyses; Wind Energy Technology Overview; Federal & State Regulatory Requirements Potentially Applicable to Wind Energy Projects; Commercial Wind Energy Projects; Biomass & Bioenergy Research in Tropical Africa: State of the Art, Challenges & Future Directions; Poplar Biomass of Short Rotation Plantations as Renewable Energy Raw Material; Biobased Polymers by Chemical Valorization of Biomass Components; Experimental Analysis of Small Combustion Thermal Systems Based on Pellets; Negative Emission Biomass Technologies in an Uncertain Climate Future; A Review of the Socio-Economic & Environmental Benefits of Biomass Gasification Based Power Plant: Lessons from India; The Energy Balance & Fuel Properties of Biodiesel; An Experimental Study on Performance & Exhaust Emissions of a Diesel Engine Fuelled with Various Biodiesels; New Materials From Lignin; Offgas Recycle for Increased Heat Production from Aerobic Thermophilic Treatment of Swine Waste -- Pilot Studies & Full-Scale Design; Nuclear Dynamics Modelling by Recurrent Neural Networks; Primary Cosmic Ray Studies Based on Atmospheric Cherenkov Light Technique at High-Mountain Altitude; Development of Sub-channel Analysis Code for CANDU-SCWR; Application of Best Estimate Computational Tools for Safety Accident Analysis in Nuclear Plants; Advanced Fuel Fusion Reactors: Towards a Zero-waste Option; Solar Thermal Power Generation on Mars; Equlibrium Phases in Zirconium Alloys concerning to Nuclear Industry - Isothermal Sections of the Zr-Cr-Sn & Zr-Cr-Ti Systems; Nuclear Nonproliferation IAEA Safeguards & Other Measures to Halt the Spread of Nuclear Weapons & Material; Radial-Bias-Combustion & Central-Fuel-Rich Swirl Pulverized Coal Burners for Wall-Fired Boilers; Fuel Cell Combined Cycle Power Generation System Installed into Micro-Grid; Electricity from Renewable Energy Sources: A Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework of Technologies; Gas Turbines & Electric Distribution System; Micro-CCHP: Future Residential Energy Center; Sensitivity Calculation in Real Time Transmission Network & Energy Markets; Wide-Area Monitoring & Analysis of Inter-Area Oscillations using the Hilbert-Huang Transform; Unconventional Problems in Power Systems Protection; BME-Generated Temperature Maps of the Nea Kessani Geothermal Field; Advances in Studies of Thermal-Fluid Geochemistry & Hydrothermal Resource in China; A Comparative Analysis of the Geothermal Fields of Larderello & MT Amiata, Italy; Sedimentary Characteristics of Coal Beds in Intramontane Basins; Coupling of Thermal & Chemical Simulations in a 3-D Integrated Magma Chamber-Reservoir Model: A New Geothermal Energy Research Frontier; Determination of the Damage Effect in Geothermal Wells using Inflow Type Curves; Index.