Renewable and sustainable energy : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2011 International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (ICEESD 2011), October 21-23, 2011, Shanghai, China / edited by Weiguo Pan, Jianxing Ren and Yongguang Li.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy; Preface and Committees; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Development and Utilization of Solar Energy; Estimating Pore Pressure in HPHT Wells in Yinggehai Basin, China Based on Hierarchical Eaton's Method; Does Agriculture Responds Asymmetrically to Oil Price Change; Based on Artificial Neural Network Modeling of White Birch Natural Forest at Daqing Mountain in Inner Mongolia; Analysis of the Electromagnetic Characteristics and Study on Measuring the Hysteresis Torque Experiment for the Yarn Tensioner.

Data Acquisition and Remote Transmission System for Solar Chimney Power Generation Testing ApparatusEmipirical Evidence of Causality between Electricity and Economy; Research on Toxicity Character of Cathode Ray Tubes Using Modified Dynamic Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure; Effect of Top-Layer Thickness on Residual Stresses of Plasma-Spraying Sm2Zr2O7/YSZ Thermal Barrier Coatings; Determination of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters in Biodiesel Catalyzed by Shell based on Gas Chromatography.

Construction and Evaluation of Recombinant Strains for Ethanol Production from Lignocellulosic HydrolysateCdS-Intercalated Nanocomposites for Hydrogen Production of Photocatalytic Water-Splitting; Controls of Short-Term Base-Level Cycle on Macroscopic Heterogeneity of Reservoir: a Case Study of the Major Oil Layer of Liuzan Oilfield in Nanpu Sag; Experimental Study of Triaxial Test of Gravel Soil in Yili's First Coal Mine; Experimental Study of Spray Penetration under High Pressure Common Rail Condition.

A Simple Analysis of the Influence on Power Quality from Grid Photovoltaic Power Generation SystemCombustion Properties of Mixed Biomass Fuel in Thermogravimetric Analyzer; Application of PV Window for Office Building in Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone of China; Adsorption of Sn (II) from Aqueous Solutions on Expanded Graphite; Effect of Heat Treatment on the Crystal Structure and Optical Band Gap of Cigs Thin Films; China Oil Price-GDP Elasticity Coefficient and Optimal Strategic Petroleum Reserve Scale Analysis.

Based on Heating Network Load Forecasting of Steam Measurement Monitoring SystemCharacteristics of Coarse Woody Debris in Different-Age Natural Larix gmelinii Forests in Daxing'anling Mountains; A Solar Thermal Power System with Gas-Liquid Injector and Hydroturbine; Capture of CO2 by [bmim]PF6 Ionic Liquid under Normal Temperature and Pressure Conditions; A New Fault Current Limiter and its Application in Micro-Grid; A Polymer Gel Electrolyte Based on P(MMA-NVP) for Quasi-Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell; Analysis of Conditional Parameters in the Hydraulic Impactor.

The extensively peer-reviewed contents of this book cover the development and use of solar energy, nuclear energy engineering, development and use of wind energy, development and use of biomass energy, storage technology, energy-saving technology, hydrogen and fuel-cells, energy materials, energy chemical engineering, energy security and clean use, new energy vehicles, electric vehicles, energy-efficient lighting products and technologies, green building materials and energy-saving buildings. This makes the work a veritable handbook on these topics. Review from Book News Inc.: The first three.

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