Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 – Energy Efficient Appliances and Energy Efficient Behaviors: From Consumer‘s Assessment to Behavior Intervention (pp. 1-30)
Dalila Antunes, Rui Gaspar and Joana Lino (Factor Social, Consultoria em Psicossociologia e Ambiente, Lda., Lisboa, Portugal, and others)
Chapter 2 – Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Development (pp. 31-54)
Abdeen Mustafa Omer (Energy Research Institute (ERI), Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Chapter 3 – Demand for Clean Energies Efficient Development in Building Technologies (pp. 55-76)
Abdeen Mustafa Omer (Energy Research Institute (ERI), Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Chapter 4 – Recent Advances in Biomass and Biogas Development and Perspectives: Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations (pp. 77-98)
Abdeen Mustafa Omer (Energy Research Institute (ERI), Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Chapter 5 – Development and Evaluation of a Direct Expansion Heat Pump System (pp. 99-114)
Abdeen Mustafa Omer (Energy Research Institute (ERI), Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Chapter 6 – Assessment of the Measured Data with Respect to Renewable Energy Technologies (pp. 115-128)
Abdeen Mustafa Omer (Energy Research Institute (ERI), Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Chapter 7 – Capacity of MANETs Employing a Continuous Interference Model with a Propagation Channel Considering the Law of Conservation of Energy (pp. 129-148)
Lucas Rodrigues de Paula and Renato Mariz de Moraes (University of Brasília, Brazil)
Chapter 8 – Assessing the Sustainability of Bioenergy Systems (pp. 149-188)
Silvina M. Manrique and Judith Franco (Non Conventional Energy Resources Investigation Institute (INENCO) of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), National University of Salta, Salta, Argentina)
Chapter 9 – Multi-Objective Optimization of a Stirling Engine with Irreversibility Consideration Using Finite Speed Thermodynamics (pp. 189-210)
Mohammad H. Ahmadi, Saeed Dehghani, Amir H. Mohammadi and Michel Feidt (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and others)
Chapter 10 – Optimization of Heat Exchanger Networks Using an Evolutionary Method (pp. 211-228)
Abolfazl Ghiasvand, Alireza Fazlali, Tayebeh S. Ghiasi, Mahdi Aliyari-Shoorehdeli and Amir H. Mohammadi (Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Arak University, Arak, Iran, and others)
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