Energy and Sustainability

Section 1: Energy resources Transport demand management and energy consumption in urban areas; Management of electricity generation using the Taguchi approach; Micro cogeneration with a price-variable heat storage switch; Clean energy saving: applied research into Etna's water supply systems in Catania, Italy; The UK Energy Research Centre Meeting Place: a transferable model for international energy research collaboration and networking?; Relationship between electric demand and CDD and the forecast of daily peak electric load in Beijing; An optimization of effective energy management as a tool to facilitate managers Section 2: Energy efficiency Elastic heat exchanger in Stirling cycle machines; Advantages of foam flow usage for heat transfer process; Identifying and capturing energy savings in an integral motor-drive system; Synergy between exergy and regional planning; Efficiency improvement of the hot blast generating system by waste heat recovery; Applying the Path Analysis Method to determine the significance of input parameters on the output of Derbendikhan power station Section 3: Energy and life cycle analysis Life cycle impact assessment of the DRAM chip industry in Taiwan; Energy-using products as embodying heterogeneous requirements; Life-cycle energy analysis of wind turbines - an assessment of the effect of size on energy yield; The use of the life cycle assessment (LCA) conception for Mittal Steel Poland SA energy generation - Krakow plant case study Section 4: Energy and the environment High temperature stability of n-decanethiol by adsorption on nickel powders used as reforming catalysts in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC); Comparing renewable energies: estimating area requirement for biodiesel and photovoltaic solar energy; Comparison of energy performance between passenger cars and motorcycles in Taiwan by decomposition analysis; Barriers to energy crops in Poland - from the farmers' perspective; The energy industry and environmental challenges; Decoupling effects among energy use, economic growth and CO2 emission from the transportation sector; Existing power generation and network facilities improvement against seismic damage; Estonian oil shale power plants' ash handling problems Section 5: Energy and built environment Energy saving analysis of double roofs incorporating a radiant barrier system; Waste equals energy: decentralised anaerobic waste treatment and local reuse of return flows; Towards large-scale implementation of cogeneration for a more sustainable energy supply of households in The Netherlands; Building skin and energy efficiency in a hot climate with particular reference to Dubai, UAE; Embodied transport energy analysis of imported wood pellets Section 6: Renewable energy technologies Ground temperature gradients surrounding horizontal heat pump collectors in a maritime climate region; Motivating student interest in sustainable engineering and alternative energy research through problem based learning Section 7: Computer modelling Study on optimal operational planning of an advanced co-generation system on a hotel's energy demand; The role of numerical modelling in development of new refrigeration systems and equipment Section 8: Nuclear fuels Innovative oxide fuels doped with minor actinides for use in fast reactors; Some aspects of simplified modeling of tokamak plasmas in a computational electromagnetic environment Section 9: Hydrocarbon exploration and recovery A physical basis for Hubbert's decline from the midpoint empirical model of oil production; Correlation development for the viscosity reducing effect of solvent in an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process Section 10: Energy markets and policy Using the Triptych model for future burden sharing - a case study for Flanders; A GIS-based decision support system for facilitating the investment on exploiting local wind energy sources; The European gas market: the effects of liberalization on retail prices; Power plants on the liberalized Croatian electricity market and environmental protection.