New Developments in Energy Research

Preface; Competition in Electricity Market; Power Supply & Demand in Electricity Market; Effects of Fibres Pre-Treatment on Strength & Thermal Conductivity on Green Coconut Fibre Cement Panel; Energetic & Exergetic Characterization of a New Type of Polypropylene Capillary Heat Exchanger; Influence of Fluid Flow Regimes on the Performances Analysis of Solar Chimney Power Plants; Study of Low Energy Consumption Air Conditioning Solutions for Future Green Data Centres; A Study of the Use of Thermal Inertia in Simple Layer Walls & Its Application to the Use of a Vegetal Fiber Material in Buildings; An Analysis of a Closed Cycle Gas Turbine Using CF4 & the Working Fluid; Fuzzy Sets for Assessing the Profitability of Hydrogen Production by the Sulphur-Iodine Thermochemical Cycle; Biofuels Incentives: A Summary of Federal Programs; Issues in Green Building & the Federal Response: An Introduction; Clean Air Issues in the 111th Congress; Optimum Economic Dispatch of Real Power Generation in Two-Generator Power Plant; The Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism & its Application in an Emerging Market: The Case of South Africa; Recipe Adaptation & New Recipe Development for High Temperature Heat Treatment of North American Wood Species; Variations of the Biomass Fuel Consumption & its Expenditure in the Rural & Semi-Urban Households in the Meghna Floodplain Area of Bangladesh; U.S. Energy: Overview & Selected Facts & Numbers; Index.