Vol.34 No.2 (Serial No.184) 2008

  • Message : Cool Earth with Water / Haruki SATO
  • Special Edition : Biomass Fuel
    • Biomass resources from biofuels / Osamu KITANI and Ryosuke ENDO
    • Biofuel, the significance and the problems / Hiroshi SANO
    • Status and view of biodiesel fuel / Wataru IIJIMA
    • Biofuel production by catalytic pressure-less depolymerization process / Minoru ISHII
    • Energy-efficient dryer for biofuel production from wet biomass / Toshiyuki HINO
  • Lecture – Evaluation Technology for Performance of Solar Cells
    • Performance measurement of solar cells and modules – VII. correction of the I-V characteristics / Yoshihiro HISHIKAWA
  • Technical Paper
    • Economical efficiency evaluation of seawater desalination technology utilizing the temperature difference between seawater and inland atmosphere (Part 1) – requirements for economically feasible target regions for construction / Kento INOUE and Masahide MURAKAMI
    • Economical efficiency evaluation of seawater desalination technology utilizing the temperature difference between seawater and inland atmosphere (Part 2) – case study in target regions for construction which satisfy the requirements / Kento INOUE and Masahide MURAKAMI
    • The evaluation method of MPPT mismatch by using array voltage fluctuation / Sanshiro YAMANAKA, Tatsuya INAMI, Hajime KAWAMURA, Hideaki KAWAMURA and Hideyuki OHNO
    • Numerical analysis of power output of PV module with portable sunlight concentrator / Takafumi UMEMORI, Ryo NISHIMURA, Katsumi NOSHIMORI and Naganori ISHIHARA
  • Solar Salon
    • Research stays and visits to solar energy laboratories in Australia, Germany and United States / Noboru YAMADA
  • News from JSES Committee
    • JSES announcement
    • Conference calendar
    • Library