Showing papers in "Energy for Sustainable Development in 2009"

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the important decentralised renewable energy options, related case studies of successful deployment of renewable energy technologies in India and resulting lessons learnt is presented, which shows the feasibility of decentralised energy options for the residential and small scale applications in a village or a cluster of villages.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented an optimal design of a solar PV-diesel hybrid mini-grid system for a fishing community in an isolated island in Bangladesh, which is optimized using genetic algorithms.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of existing conversion technologies for cellulosic ethanol production, both hydrolysis and thermochemical, have been discussed along with their present adoption status and economics of ethanol production by using different conversion technologies has been discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated and assessed the factors that affect the adoption and sustainability of the technology by dairy cattle farmers in Nakuru and Nakuru North districts, and concluded that while a farmer's socioeconomic status significantly influenced the decision to adopt the technology, it did not influence the sustainability of constructed plants.

TL;DR: The Yasuni-ITT initiative as mentioned in this paper proposes to keep almost a billion barrels of petroleum underground, if the international community contributes with at least half of the opportunity cost of exploiting the petroleum.

TL;DR: In this paper, an optimal autonomous hybrid photovoltaic-diesel-battery system was designed to meet the load of an off-grid house, located in a remote Jordanian settlement.

TL;DR: In this article, the CleanCook stove was tested in three locations in Ethiopia: the city of Addis Ababa and the Bonga and Kebribeyah Refugee Camps, while a wood-burning rocket stove, the Gyapa, was evaluated in Accra, Ghana.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors survey Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) that have been established in the Eastern Province of Zambia and show that a well-articulated public-private partnership can deliver a cost-effective energy service in rural areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the technology, economics and CO2 emissions of kerosene-based lamps with modern bio-energy systems and solar photovoltaics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the possible application of solar energy to deep well water pumps for water supply in rural or isolated zones, where they considered a small village composed of 10 families with a daily consumption of 100 l each, a well with a depth of 100m, a reservoir 10m above ground level, an autonomy of 6 days and a permitted loss of load of 2%.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a framework to direct Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) towards national sustainable development priorities, through the identification of sustainable energy technology priorities for electricity generation in five examined developing countries, namely Chile, China, Israel, Kenya and Thailand.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a framework which assesses aspects of the institutional and governance aspects of renewable energy technologies (RET) implementation in specific islands in order to test if classification of islands is possible on the basis of the renewable energy approach used, if there is a certain degree of correlation between renewable energy and sustainable tourism development, and if a path towards thematic tourism development might be opened through strategies and infrastructures based on renewable energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Savonius type rotor, which is a rotor based on a modification of the S rotor, is selected as it best fitted the design criteria, and a small prototype 1.5 meters tall with a rotor diameter of 0.65 meters is designed and built.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the necessity of complementary services such as sensitisation campaigns or business development services by reporting experiences gained during the preparation of a grid based electrification project in rural Benin.

TL;DR: The main conclusions are that the reasons behind program success or lack of success are complex, but that program success could be improved in many instances by following best practice guidelines, specifying program objectives in terms of outcomes for users, ensuring that adequate funding and policy support is available and that program implementers have adequate training in program management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the linkages between government energy policies and energy use for rural development and concluded that the low contribution of energy toward rural development is to a large extent driven by an energy policy that inhibits the delivery and use of modern energy sources in rural Ghana.

TL;DR: In this article, an experimental investigation on the effect of internal and external reflectors inclined at angles 0° (vertical), 10°, 20° and 30° on the output of simple-basin solar stills in summer, autumn and winter is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a broad methodological framework for assessing the cost-effectiveness of voluntary energy efficiency programs is presented, where the authors draw on lessons from the economic welfare theory and behaviourral economics literature to discuss the scope for market failures in industrial sector's energy use.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the real barriers hindering the utilisation of geothermal resources in Saudi Arabia and identify some enablers that might make this technology viable in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

TL;DR: In this article, an attempt was made to test the feasibility of crude rice bran oil methyl ester (CRBME) which is derived from high free fatty acid (FFA) crude rice BRAN oil (CRBO) by a two-step transesterification process as a fuel for a heavy-duty automotive compression ignition (CI) i.e. diesel engine in blended form.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method is investigated for increasing the utilization efficiency of energy resources and reducing environmental emissions, focusing on utility-scale cogeneration and the contributions of nuclear energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) to test for the presence of long memory or persistence in oil price series using weekly data from 1978 to 2007.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the performance of the industrial sector in terms of energy intensity, value of production, value added, fuel sources and energy costs in the German and Colombian industrial sectors between 1998 and 2005.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a framework to address this challenge and apply it in the case of a building manufacturer in Thailand, where three different perspectives were used to evaluate the technologies: technological, organizational and marketing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make plain that the conception of the project, availability of water, system configuration, estimation of water demand, technology transfer process, and form of management can be decisive for the longevity of a project.

TL;DR: In this paper, the suitability of neat ethanol (95%) as an alternative fuel in an engine converted from diesel to ethanol, and experimentally determine the effect of different main fuel jets at carburetor on engine exhaust emissions and fuel consumption at high engine compression ratio (CR) of 14.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take into consideration opportunities of emerging polygeneration schemes intended for the electric power sector with inclusion of additional yields like synthetic fuels, chemicals and heat, and reference is made to European-based initiatives pertaining to the capture and storage of carbon dioxide (CCS) - especially a Sino-European project COACH 1 that is operated under the auspices of the European Commission and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the effect of pressure increase across the compressor, column heat loss and the overall heat transfer coefficient of reboiler-condenser as an explicit function of Prandtl, Reynolds and Nusselt numbers.

TL;DR: The relationship between the energy contribution of an 11.07kWp grid-connected photovoltaic system and the particularities of its operation in parallel with a conventional electric distribution grid was investigated in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated modeling approach to support climate policy evaluation, consisting in the threshold 21 (T21) model and other methodologies, is employed to carry out a countrywide, cross-sectoral analysis of Ecuador's energy, social, economic and environmental sectors.