2014 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)

EFEA 2014 topics include (but are not limited to): 1. Policy: Renewable Energy Technology Roadmap; R&D; Finance; Supply Chain; Marketing 2. Low Energy Building and Architecture: Green Building; Bioclimatic Architecture; Comfort and Indoor Climates; New Materials; Smart HVAC systems 3. Advanced Power Systems: Distributed Energy Resources; Smart Grid; Micro-grid; Power Electronic Convertors 4. Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Electric Cars; Hybrid Engines; Regenerative Brake Systems; Power/Electric Transmission Systems; Battery Charge/Energy Management 5. Control: Smart Electrical Energy Metering; Fault Tolerated Control Systems; Demand/Power Control 6. Wind and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems: Wind Turbine Aerodynamics and Structure; Wind Turbine Load and Power Control; On-grid and standalone Hybrid System; Power/Demand Management Systems; Resource Modelling 7. Solar Thermal and Geothermal: Solar thermal collectors; Solar desalination; Solar Heat Pump; Combined Heat and Power; Air-Conditioning; Geothermal Heat Pump; Geothermal Direct Use 8. Hydrogen & Fuel Cell: Fuel Cell Power Plants; Fuel Cell for Transportation; Hydrogen Production 9. Hydropower and Marine Energy: Micro & Pico Hydro System; Ocean Thermal Energy; Wave Energy; Tidal Energy 10. Energy Storage: High voltage batteries; Battery charge balancing and cooling; Charge/energy management; Ultrabatteries; Thermal, Unconventional and Hybrid energy storage systems 11. Biomass: Biofuel; Biomaterials; Biomass Gasification; Biomass heating systems 12. Materials in Renewable Energy Technologies: Composite materials; Smart materials; Shape memory alloys 13. Education and Career: Higher education; Life-long learning; Prospects in green job opportunities; Continuing professional development