"The story of the Roman Empire's enormous wine industry told through the remarkable ceramic storage and shipping containers that made it possible. The average resident of ancient Rome drank two-hundred-and-fifty liters of wine a year, almost a bottle a day, and the total annual volume of wine...

Post-Harvest Losses (PHL) are considered to pose important economic losses for farmers in developing countries. This paper examines the effects of an intervention in Tanzania, aimed at reducing PHL of maize growing farmers during maize storage. Farmers were invited to attend a training on best...

System cost reductions and development of standardised plug-and-function systems are some of the most important goals for solar heating technology development. Retrofitting hot water boilers in single-family houses when installing solar collectors has the potential to significantly reduce both...

The use of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a ship fuel is expected to increase significantly from its current marginal share in the coming years. This will require new facilities where ships can take on board the LNG. Japan is positioning itself as a potential hub in Asia for LNG refuelling. This...

One of the biggest obstacles to economic profitability of solar water heating systems is the investment cost. Retrofitting existing domestic hot water heaters when a new solar hot water system is installed can reduce both the installation and material costs. In this study, retrofitting existing...

This paper examines whether Underground Storage Tank (UST) regulations had uneven impacts on petroleum retail outlets, and explores the reasons why some outlets are more likely to exit the market than others under UST regulations. The analyses suggest that both the economies of scale and the...

Current policies in the U.S. and other countries are trying to stimulate electric transportation deployment. Consequently, plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) adoption will presumably spread among vehicle users. With the increased diffusion of PEVs, lithium-ion batteries will also enter the market on...

In this article we present both a theoretical framework and a solved example for pricing an European gas storage facility and computing the optimal strategy for its operation. As a representative price index we choose the Dutch TTF day-ahead gas price. We present statistical evidence that the...

The phenomenon of volcanic fallout ash from Mt. Etna in Sicily (Italy) is well known and frequent in recent years, as in the period 2001–2004. As a consequence, significant problems for the population, road, rail and air traffic and production activities have occurred. The industrial areas of...

A fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) hot water storage tank was developed in the present study. The main object for the development of the tank was to provide a long term storage unit that can efficiently retain and deliver stored hot water from solar collectors, and several other sources of...

The use of thermal energy storage (TES) systems for solar heating and cooling applications has received considerable attention in recent decades because it has a high potential in energy savings. Phase change materials (PCMs) can store large amount of energy per mass unit compared with other TES...

Cover -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 - What are Bunkers? -- Types of fuel -- Residual fuel -- Distillate fuel -- Daily consumption -- The size of the bunker market -- Chapter 2 - Who buys and who sells? -- Buyers -- Sellers...

A technique for leakage reduction is pressure management, which considers the direct relationship between leakage and pressure. To control the hydraulic pressure in a water distribution system, water levels in the storage tanks should be maintained as much as the variations in the water demand...

Cover -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Figure 1. Bunker price history (380 cSt) - Rotterdam (February 2004 to July 2010) -- Data courtesy of Bunkerspot (www.bunkerspot.com) -- Figure 2. The price collapse of...

The thermodynamic solar power plant of the National Institute for Scientific Research in Tunisia has been in operation since 1984. The plant served as a pilot unit for exploring the technical reliability and evaluating the economic feasibility of the process of converting solar thermal energy...

This paper presents the modelling and simulation of a solar water heating system using a time marching model. The results of simulations performed on an annual basis for a solar system, constructed and operated in Yugoslavia, which provides domestic hot water for a four-person family are...