Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Photovoltaic-Green Roofs: Critical Factors, Experimental Studies and Life-Cycle Environmental Profile
Chr. Lamnatou and D. Chemisana (Applied Physics Section of the Environmental Science Department, Polytechnic School, University of Lleida, Spain)

Chapter 2. Benefits of Green Roof Systems: Energy Savings, Stormwater Control, and Economic
Serdar Celik, Susan Morgan and William Retzlaff (Mechanical Engineering, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA, and others)

Chapter 3. Technical Management and Automation Systems Applied for Energy Efficiency Improvement in Service Buildings
Octávio Alves, Paulo Brito, Pedro Romano, and Eliseu Monteiro (Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal)

Chapter 4. Encapsulated Phase Change Materials for use in High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage
Laura Solomon and Alparslan Oztekin (Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA)

Chapter 5. Effect of Thermal Energy Storage on Combined Heat and Power System Applications
Pedro J. Mago, Rogelio Luck and Alta Knizley (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, MS, USA)

Chapter 6. Investigation into the Effect of Water Inlet Temperature and Flow Rate on the Cooling Tower Performance
Hassam Ghumran, Mbuyu G. Ntunka and Amir H. Mohammadi (Discipline of Chemcal Engineering, School of Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, King George V Avenue, Durban, South Africa)

Chapter 7. Harvesting Power from Bamboo Charcoal
Rishika Haynes and Chikashi Sato (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, USA)

Chapter 8. Power Aspects of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Atmosphere Coupling
P.A. Sedykh and I.Yu. Lobycheva (Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ISTP, Irkutsk, Russia)

Index