High oil prices affect nearly every household and business in the United States. During the course of 2008, oil prices doubled to over $145 per bar...

This book looks at developments in oil shale which is the largest untapped domestic resource with the greatest potential to decrease our dependence...

Production of oil and natural gas from leases on federal lands and waters is an important part of the nation's energy portfolio and a significant s...

Optimisation is the systematised search for the best action, the procedure used to make a system as effective or functional as possible. In the las...

The last two decades have seen unprecedented research progress made in the fabrication and testing of organic solar cell (OSC) devices due to, amon...

It has been predicted that by 2030 the world's population will be about 1.6 times that of 2004. The energy consumption will increase by 60% by 2030...

Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells are still undergoing intense development, and the combination of new and optimised materials, improved pr...

Hybrid organic and inorganic perovskites (HOIP) have shown remarkable progress since the first realisation of efficient PSCs with a PCE of 3.9% in ...

Uncertainties in the social, economic, and natural environment are changing workplace behaviors and are setting new demands, especially laws that g...

This new and important book focuses on recent research from around the world on petroleum science including the origin and accumulation of petroleu...

The historic account of the Phase-Locked Loops can be traced back from the idea of designing an electromechanical system with the objective of cont...

Unlike traditional energy-production technologies that have ongoing consumables costs, nearly all of the costs of photovoltaic (PV) systems must be...

Presenting a complete guide for the planning, design and implementation of solar PV systems for photovoltaic (PV) applications, this book features ...

The U.S. photovoltaic (PV) industry is forecast to grow in both the short term and the long term. It represents a significant opportunity for econo...

Increasing demands on energy has necessitated the development of large-scale, low-cost, renewable energy. Solar energy is highly attractive and ext...

Photovoltaics (PV) is the field of technology and research related to the application of solar cells for energy by converting sun energy directly i...

The world of nanotechnology has opened a vast array of novel frontiers in materials science, by the exploitation of the properties and phenomena at...

Piezoelectric actuators are simple structures with compact sizes that provide quick and precise responses to an electrical stimulus. The response o...

They criss-cross underneath our cities and country sides, yet most of the time we are not even aware they are there. They deliver critical fuel tha...

Nearly half a million miles of oil and natural gas transmission pipeline criss-cross the United States. While an efficient and fundamentally safe m...