Search for dissertations about: "estonia energy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words estonia energy.
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1. Energy Use, Efficiency Gains and Emission Abatement in Transitional Industrialised Economies: Poland and the Baltic States
Abstract : This thesis is a study of how energy use and air pollution in Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been affected by the economic transition after 1989. It consists of six articles, which examine three different aspects of these changes. READ MORE
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2. Survival of the Unfit : Path Dependence and the Estonian Oil Shale Industry
Abstract : Estonia is the only country in the world, which is totally dependent on oil shale in its energy system. Although this fossil fuel exists in enormous quantities around the world, it has so far not been utilized on a larger scale. The reasons for this have been both economic and, in recent times, ecological. READ MORE
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3. Communities of microalgae and bacteria in photobioreactors treating municipal wastewater
Abstract : Everyone who uses water produces wastewater. This inevitability creates several problems that increase with the growth of the population and industry. READ MORE
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4. European bioenergy markets : integration and price convergence
Abstract : Energy market integration is beneficial in several ways: it can increase competition, reduce the risk of local shortages or oversupply and can also reduce price volatility. As demand for renewable energy is growing, bioenergy from solid biomass fuels is changing from its traditional role as a locally utilized form of energy into an internationally traded energy commodity. READ MORE
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5. Simulating the palaeorecord of northern European lakes using a coupled lake-catchment model
Abstract : A coupled lake-catchment model was developed to examine the controls on lake-level changes in currently overflowing lakes during Holocene. The lake energy-balance is simulated as the one-dimensional vertical heat transfer by eddy diffusion and convective mixing. READ MORE