N. Amin, M. I. Hossain, N. R. Hamzah, P. Chelvanathan
{"title":"Physical and optical properties of In2S3 thin films deposited by thermal evaporation technique for CIGS solar cells","authors":"N. Amin, M. I. Hossain, N. R. Hamzah, P. Chelvanathan","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041437","url":null,"abstract":"Indium sulphide is an promising buffer material with higher bandgap for CIGS solar cells. Promising results on the optical properties and morphology of deposited InxSy were found. In2S3 thin films were deposited onto glass substrates using thermal evaporation technique. Indium (In) and sulphur (S) powder were evaporated with different In/S ratio, where the stoichiometry and non-stoichiometry composition of InxSy influenced the optical bandgap and surface morphology. The films were structurally and optically characterized by X-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy and UV measurements. It has been found that, the optical direct bandgap varied from 2.3 eV to 2.5 eV with the different composition ratio of InxSy. The X-ray diffraction data shows that the films have cubic ß-In2S3 structure onto the glass substrates. AFM images illustrate the surfaces quite smooth and uniform with a low surface roughness. These results can be explained in the practical work as non-stoichiometric composition of indium sulphide may result in different band gaps. Hence, a specific stoichiometric composition which results in the highest band gap is desirable to achieve high efficiency InxSy-CIGS solar cell. This is due to the lesser photon loss in the buffer layer as the light passes into the absorber layer. From the fabrication results, numerous influences of In2S3 buffer layer are investigated that can be implemented to the fabrication of high efficiency CIGS solar cells.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131129567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of energy, exergy and energy savings of a fire tube boiler","authors":"M. Hasanuzzaman, N. Rahim, R. Saidur","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041499","url":null,"abstract":"Energy efficiency improvement as well as energy savings is the major concern in most of the development countries all over the world. In this study, the useful concept of energy and exergy utilization is analyzed to investigate the energy and exergy efficiency, energy and exergy losses and energy savings of boilers. The energy and exergy efficiencies of a combustion chamber and stream production chamber of the boiler have been analyzed as well. The exergy efficiency of the combustion chamber is found to be 49.6 %. The energy and exergy efficiencies of the stream production chamber are found to be 55.4 % and 34.6 % respectively. The overall boiler energy and exergy efficiencies are found to be 60.3 % and 19.9 % respectively. It has been found that the combustion chamber is the major contributor for exergy destruction followed by stream production chamber of the boiler. By using heat recovery system, the savings will be 5278 L/year fuel that is about 7917 RM/year.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128760593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
lordi Cravioto, Mahmoud Bakr, Saizo Aoyagi, Seungwon Park, Agya Utama
{"title":"Community acceptance of nuclear power generation in Japan and relevant influencing factors","authors":"lordi Cravioto, Mahmoud Bakr, Saizo Aoyagi, Seungwon Park, Agya Utama","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041491","url":null,"abstract":"Acceptance for NPP in Japan was approximately supported by half of the population. This was composed by 11% in favour of expansion and 42% in favour for at least maintaining the current plants in operation. In comparison to previous reports, there is virtually no change in the percentage of those supporting NPP expansion but the remaining have shifted to a more sceptical or opposed view towards NPP.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116696834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative performance evaluation of karanja vegetable oil and karanja biodiesel blends with diesel in C.I. engine","authors":"R. Misra, M. Murthy","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041449","url":null,"abstract":"Karanja oil (a non edible straight vegetable oil) and karanja biodiesel (methyl ester of karanja oil) were blended with petroleum diesel in various proportions to evaluate and compare the performance and emission characteristics of a single cylinder direct injection constant speed diesel engine. Diesel and karanja oil and karanja biodiesel (10%, 20%, 30% and 40%) fuel blends were used to conduct engine performance and emission tests at varying loads in terms of 25% load increments from no load to full loads. Tests were carried out for engine operation and engine performance parameters such as fuel consumption, brake thermal efficiency, and exhaust emissions (smoke, CO, HC, NOx, and O2) were recorded. Among the blends KO10 and KB20 have shown a better performance with respect to BTE and BSEC. All KO blends have shown higher HC emissions after about 75% load. KB blends have shown 40–50% reduction in CO emissions compared to diesel at different loads. KO 40 blend showed a 21% reduction in NOx emission. KO10 and KB20 have an overall better performance with regards to both engine performance and emission characteristics.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126784797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"U.S. subsidy effects on production of solar technology research: Using a new measure to assess policy impacts","authors":"Eileen Hlavka","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041493","url":null,"abstract":"Solar technology has advanced substantially in recent years, and policymakers interested in reducing climate change hope these improvements will continue. Nevertheless, only one measure, patent counts, has been widely used to identify the rate of improvement, and scant research has assessed the effectiveness of efforts to increase it. In this paper, the number of articles published on solar energy during each month in 1986-2009 is calculated to create a more detailed supplement to patent counts, and these article counts are used to assess certain relevant subsidies. A combination of counting articles manually and naïve Bayesian classification is used to overcome the difficulties of identifying which articles are relevant. The resulting monthly article counts are modeled as a function of two major subsidy types. The largest U.S. subsidy for renewable energy, the Production Tax Credit, appears to be as much as half as effective at encouraging solar technology research as federal solar research subsidies, despite the fact that the tax credit is given to electricity producers rather than to researchers and goes mostly to non-solar energy sources. This finding may be considered a preliminary example of the use of monthly solar article counts.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"2 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126144270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photovoltaic power generation: A review","authors":"S. Moosavian, N. Rahim, J. Selvaraj","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041509","url":null,"abstract":"Renewable power generation's increased importance is owed to increased population and pollution concerns, global warming, and need for new energy resources. Solar energy is a completely clean energy resource and can be used almost anywhere; its application the focus of most research on it. Photovoltaic generation systems are reviewed here, in single-resource implementation and in various hybrid systems, and related past works on sizing and reliability issues are surveyed.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121897406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Muhammed Ali, A. Muchtar, N. Muhamad, A. Sulong
{"title":"A review on preparation of SDC-carbonate as composite electrolyte material for intermediate temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (IT-SOFC)","authors":"S. Muhammed Ali, A. Muchtar, N. Muhamad, A. Sulong","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041504","url":null,"abstract":"Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) is a promising technology with unique characteristics to generate electricity by combining fuel and oxygen ions in an electrochemical reaction. However, ceramic based fuel cells generally operate at high temperatures above 800°C. Recent researches have given much improvement in reducing the temperature and lowering the manufacturing costs by developing new materials to commercialize SOFCs. The overall performance of the cell depends on each component in the cell. Composite electrolytes based on a mixture of samarium-doped ceria (SDC)-carbonate is the most commonly used electrolyte for SOFCs operating at low temperatures. High conductivity and electrical insulation are the two important needs for an electrolyte to yield better performance based on the purity of prepared SDC powders. This paper reviews several different methods for preparing pure SDC powders. The advantages and disadvantages of each method and its electrical chemical performance at low temperature are discussed.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129871596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}