In this chapter we provide a selective survey of experiments to investigate the potential of social motivations in explaining labour market phenomena. We argue that laboratory experiments are a useful instrument to explore issues in labour market theory and personnel economics. Our starting...

The paper presents results from model testing of a self-rectifying radial-flow air turbine, that is being developed as an alternative to the axial-flow self-rectifying turbines for applications in wave energy conversion. In the new machine, named biradial turbine, the flow into, and out of, the...

Conventional Savonius rotors have low performance such as low coefficient of power and low coefficient of torque. In order to increase this performance, a helical Savonius rotor with a twist of 180° is proposed. In this paper, we are interested in studying the aerodynamic behavior of the...

The efficiency of any thermal power plant is related to the maximum working temperature that some components can reach. Examples of material constraints are the first stage blades of a gas turbine or the receiver of a solar tower plant, but there are other temperature constraints, such as the...

Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is considered an alternative energy production technology that uses the degradation ability of microbes toward organic matters. The resultant products are electrons that will be transferred to the electrode and flows to cathode of the MFC through an external circuit to...