April 2012 conference – Low-cost, electricity generating heat engines for rural areas

October 27, 2011 · 0 comments

International Conference on “Low-cost, electricity generating heat engines for rural areas”

  • On 2-3 April 2012,
  • Nottingham, UK

Call for papers

This conference invites papers that discuss technology, mass manufacturing or the social context associated with the supply of electricity to rural areas using heat engines (Photo-Voltaic implementations are excluded from this call, but other solar technologies are eligible). Papers may be complete implementable solutions or technologies based on heat engines that form part of an electrical generating product in the 10We to 5 kWe range.

Categories

  • Social or other lessons learned from rural electricity supply.
  • Novel technologies; thermo-acoustics, thermo-piles etc.
  • Low cost design techniques, material and methods, high temperature combustion etc.
  • Mass Manufacturing applications and products to aid rural electrification.
  • Financing for rural electrification.

See http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/lmh for more details.

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Paul H. Riley
Score Project Director
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

Web: http://www.score.uk.com

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