http://scitation.aip.org/ Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/063102/1&agg=rss W. Alonso-Pippo, Carlos A. Luengo, F. Fonseca Felfli, Pietro Garzone, and Giacinto Cornacchia<br/> The lack of an alternative energy carrier to electricity with storage capability for use in off-season has to date been an unsolvable question for the sugar agroindustry. The improvement in cogeneration capacity via implementation of condensing extraction steam turbines or biomass integrated gasifie ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 063102 (2009)] published Fri Nov 6, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/062701/1&agg=rss Vladimir Leonov and Ruud J. M. Vullers<br/> In this paper, we present our vision of what kind of wearable devices and how they can be powered by the heat of human beings and by using ambient light. The basic principles of designing body-powered devices and ways of their hybridizing with photovoltaic cells are discussed. The mechanisms of ther ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 062701 (2009)] published Fri Nov 6, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/063101/1&agg=rss Kenthorai Raman Jegannathan, Leong Jun-Yee, Eng-Seng Chan, and Pogaku Ravindra<br/> In this study, an eco-friendly immobilized lipase was designed for biodiesel production process. Lipase enzyme was encapsulated in kappa-carrageenan by coextrusion technique. The various parameters, such as catalytic activity, stability, reusability, shape, and size of the encapsulated lipase, were ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 063101 (2009)] published Thu Nov 5, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/053104/1&agg=rss V. J. J. Prasad, N. Hari Babu, and B. V. Appa Rao<br/> Biodiesels are alternative fuels for petroleum-based diesel without major modifications of engine. In the environmental aspect, also biodiesel gives fewer pollutants than petroleum diesel. However, the NO level is slightly higher. To reduce NO, some of the methods are being used, which include direc ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 053104 (2009)] published Fri Oct 30, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/053103/1&agg=rss F. Winterberg<br/> The recently proposed super-Marx generator pure deuterium microdetonation ignition concept is compared to the Lawrence Livermore National Ignition Facility (NIF) Laser deuterium-tritium fusion-fission hybrid concept (LIFE). In a super-Marx generator, a large number of ordinary Marx generators charge ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 053103 (2009)] published Thu Oct 29, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/052701/1&agg=rss Yue-Guang Deng and Jing Liu<br/> The recent energy crisis and environmental burden are becoming increasingly urgent and drawing enormous attention to solar-energy utilization. Direct solar thermal power generation technologies, such as thermoelectric, thermionic, magnetohydrodynamic, and alkali-metal thermoelectric methods, are amo ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 052701 (2009)] published Fri Oct 2, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/053102/1&agg=rss J. Selvaraj and N. A. Rahim<br/> This paper presents a single-phase five-level grid-connected photovoltaic inverter with a novel dual reference modulation technique. Two reference signals identical to each other with an offset equivalent to the amplitude of the triangular carrier signal were used to generate pulse width modulation ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 053102 (2009)] published Fri Sep 18, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/053101/1&agg=rss Abdeen Mustafa Omer<br/> Globally, buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of the total world annual energy consumption. Most of this energy is for the provision of lighting, heating, cooling, and air conditioning. Increasing awareness of the environmental impact of CO and NO emissions and chlorofluorocarbons trigge ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 053101 (2009)] published Fri Sep 18, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043112/1&agg=rss John L. Richter<br/> This is a guide for solar collector use. Section II shows the effective number of sunlit hours per day at the solstices and equinox captured by several solar collector types: stationary flat, sun tracking flat, east-west parabolic and two-trough concentrators and a north-south, sun tracking, two-tr ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043112 (2009)] published Mon Aug 31, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043111/1&agg=rss M. Moawed and E. Ibrahim<br/> Free convection heat transfer from the inside surface of a horizontal elliptic tube of different axis ratios and different orientation angles with a uniformly heated surface is investigated experimentally. The axis ratio is changed from 1.5 to 3.5 and the orientation angle is changed from 0 degrees ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043111 (2009)] published Mon Aug 31, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043110/1&agg=rss V. I. Krinichnyi and E. I. Yudanova<br/> Composites of conjugated polymers with fullerenes are perspective materials for polymer photovoltaics. Light-induced EPR (LEPR) study of magnetic, relaxation, and dynamic parameters of polaron-fullerene radical pairs photoinduced in fullerene-modified poly(3-alkylthiophenes) is described. Weak inter ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043110 (2009)] published Tue Aug 25, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043109/1&agg=rss R. K. Aggarwal<br/> A new correction factor (CF) depending upon the longitude and altitude of a location has been introduced in place of the clearness index (K) used for the estimation of solar irradiation H. Thirty different geographical locations have been taken for comparing the values of K and CF. The results show ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043109 (2009)] published Fri Aug 7, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043108/1&agg=rss Nan Zhou and Michael A. McNeil<br/> Transportation mobility in India has increased significantly in the past decades. From 1970 to 2000, motorized mobility (passenger-kilometer) has risen by 888%, compared to an 88% population growth (S. K. Singh, India: Implications For Energy Demand and CO2 Emission (Transport Policy, 2006)). This h ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043108 (2009)] published Wed Jul 22, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043107/1&agg=rss L. E. Juanico and G. F. Rinalde<br/> A comparative economic analysis between photovoltaic (PV) and thermoelectric (TE) generators used to provide lighting for isolated rural homes is presented. Although panel costs are similar in both cases, appreciable lower generation costs are obtained by TEs. The difference is due to greater availa ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043107 (2009)] published Wed Jul 22, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043106/1&agg=rss N. V. Ogueke, E. E. Anyanwu, and O. V. Ekechukwu<br/> A review of solar water heating systems for domestic and industrial applications is presented. They are grouped into two broad categories as passive and active solar water heating systems. Each of them operates in either direct or indirect mode. Their performances, uses and applications, and factors ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043106 (2009)] published Fri Jul 17, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043105/1&agg=rss Quanhua Liu, Qinxian Miao, Jue J. Liu, and Wenli Yang<br/> Energy and environmental issues are among the most important problems of public concern. There are increasing debates about whether to resort to drilling more oil and mining more coal or to using renewable, sustainable, and clean resources such as solar and wind energies. Through our analyses and mo ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043105 (2009)] published Wed Jul 15, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043104/1&agg=rss Vinod Kumar, R. C. Bansal, and R. R. Joshi<br/> During various faults in a high voltage direct current (HVDC) system, the voltage gets reduced, which in turn results into commutation failure, which can deteriorate the availability of HVDC links and thus affect the performance of the power system. In this paper, efforts are made to ride through th ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043104 (2009)] published Thu Jul 9, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043103/1&agg=rss R. B. Hiremath, Bimlesh Kumar, P. Deepak, P. Balachandra, N. H. Ravindranath et al.<br/> Decentralizedenergy planning (DEP) is in the interest of efficient utilization of resources. DEP is one of the options to meet the rural and small scale energy needs in a reliable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable way. The main aspect of the energy planning at the decentralized level woul ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043103 (2009)] published Wed Jul 8, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/042701/1&agg=rss Ishan Purohit and Pallav Purohit<br/> Wind energy, with an average growth rate of 30%, is the fastest growing source of renewable energy in the world. India occupies the fifth place in the world in wind energy generation after USA, Germany, Spain, and China and has an installed capacity of more than 9756 MW as of January 31, 2009. New t ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 042701 (2009)] published Wed Jul 8, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043102/1&agg=rss Masahiro Ide and Hironosuke Ikeda<br/> The use of auxiliary power and the cost of using main power decrease when the reactive gas is applied at low humidity for the operation of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. The electrolyte membrane and the three-phase boundary of the electrode need to be improved to maintain this low humidity ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043102 (2009)] published Wed Jul 1, 2009. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSE/1/043101/1&agg=rss M. S. Soylemez<br/> A thermoeconomic feasibility analysis is presented yielding a simple algebraic optimization formula for estimating the optimum length of a typical air heating collector per unit depth. A simple economic optimization method is used in the present study by combining it with an integrated overall heat ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 043101 (2009)] published Wed Jul 1, 2009.