Books by Keyword: Grid

Description: We present our readers with the 42nd volume of "International Journal of Engineering Research in Africa". This volume contains articles describing the research results in the fields of materials science, applied mechanics, mechanical engineering, power distribution and power efficiency, construction materials and technologies, biodiesel production, information technologies, and industrial engineering. The articles will be useful for many engineers as well as for academic teachers and students majoring in these fields of engineering science.

Description: These are the proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advanced Mechanical Engineering (AME 2012), held on July 7-8th 2012 in Wuhan, China.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The 92 peer-reviewed papers are grouped into 4 chapters:
Advanced Mechanical Engineering;
Advanced Materials Science;
Advanced Digital Enterprises;
Advanced Manufacturing Processes

Description: The world of today must face up to two contradictory energy problems: on the one hand, there is the sharply growing consumer demand in countries such as China and India. On the other hand, natural resources are dwindling. Moreover, many of those countries which still possess substantial gas and oil supplies are politically unstable. As a result, renewable natural energy sources have received great attention. Among these, solar-cell technology is one of the most promising candidates. However, there still remains the problem of the manufacturing costs of such cells. Many attempts have been made to reduce the production costs of “conventional” solar cells (manufactured from monocrystalline silicon using diffusion methods) by instead using cheaper grades of silicon, and simpler pn-junction fabrication. That is the ‘hero’ of this book; the heterojunction solar cell.