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Concerns on environmental waste problems caused by non-biodegradable petrochemical-based plastic packaging materials as well as the consumer's demand for high quality food products has caused an increasing interest in developing biodegradable packaging materials using annually renewable natural biopolymers. Biopolymers that are biodegradable are sustainable, environmentally friendly and improve public perception of the supplier. This e-book explores opportunities for biopolymers to replace traditional petrochemical-based polymers in packaging.
This e-book addresses the outlook for bio-based polymers and the drivers and challenges for these materials in the market. It addresses production economics, regulations, and investment and incentives. It details the state of the biopolymer industry, feedstocks and production processes used and key applications.
The world possesses an abundance of bio-based resources that can be used to create biomass-derived sugars, fuels and high-value chemicals. This e-book examines key raw material resources and bioprocessing technologies that can produce an array of high-value chemicals while improving the productivity and efficiency of biorefineries through energy reduction and maximum use of feedstocks, by-products, and waste streams.
The world CSP industry is booming, with predictions of over 15 GW of installed capacity by 2014. Parabolic trough systems still remain as the leading CSP technology; however, central receiver, dish engine, and other CSP technologies are quickly gaining commercial momentum and will likely capture market share from troughs in the near term. This e-book provides a snapshot of these developments and forecasts technology trends to 2015.
Dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs) – a promising third generation PV technology – has the potential to supply affordable solar energy for a variety of applications, including portable electronics, remote power and building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV). This e-book assesses this exciting new technology, with a forecast to 2020.
Touch screen technology for cellphones has made significant commercial progress in the last three years, but it is being followed up rapidly by developments in 2D and 3D gesture recognition, immersive and large format touch screen displays. This e-book examines Human-Device Interface (HDI) is an area of high investment and intense R&D as the technology enables exciting opportunities in applications ranging from consumer electronics to automotive safety, and the military.
High performance image sensors have already made an enormous contribution to industrial processes including yield and safety, and this is likely to improve further as manufacturers seek to implement more efficient processes. This e-book looks at technologies and applications across the industrial sector.
Confidence in specific technologies is a key driver, and thin film and flexible PV needs to prove its value to investors, project managers and installers if it is to compete with c-Si on efficiency and long-term performance. The market and manufacturers need to work out which modules are best suited to which applications, and the thin film and flexible industry needs to develop materials and create new applications to drive its own success. This e-book assesses the state-of-the-art for thin film PV with forecasts to 2020.
While touch screen technology has rapidly been adopted as standard in the high-end PDA and cameraphone marketplace, it is still costly and several alternative technologies are fighting for market share. This e-book explores the many opportunities will arise as the dust settles and the price point reduces, from large format products such as the iPad through innovation in computing, advertising, and other user interface applications.
Energy-efficient lighting, defined as electric lighting systems that deliver the highest ratio of luminous energy output, in lumen-hours, per watt of electrical input, has excellent prospects within the global lighting industry. This e-book provides a comprehensive overview of competing technologies fighting for space in this market, with long-term forecasts and scenarios to 2020.