Energy

This book presents the evolution of biodiesel technologies along with government policies of major biodiesel producing countries with their backgrounds, impacts, changes, and other energy forms.

This edited book is intended to serve as a resource for engineers, scientists and specialists engaged in becoming familiarized with green energy conversion for a clean atmosphere with an adaption of 'more-renewable' for power generation.

Accessible to anyone with an engineering background, this text reveals the importance of understanding rock and fluid properties in petroleum engineering.

First released in 2007, the bestselling Transport Revolutions argued that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions.

Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines is the established essential text for the fundamental solutions to efficient wind turbine design.

Almost all mechanical devices used in every industry require lubrication.

This new book, Advances in Energy Materials and Environment Engineering, covers the timely issue of green applications of materials.

Sustainability and technological advancements are rapidly gaining traction on a global scale and are becoming increasingly prominent across a wide range of industries, as evidenced by current market trends.

The purpose of this second edition is to provide an overview of important principles in the fields of finance and accounting, and the application of those principles for financial analysis of energy and non-energy capital investments.

Reissuing works originally published between 1964 and 1994, this set of ten volumes is an excellent collection of works on energy - production and consumption, economics and policy, conservation and the crisis.

The increasing importance of biomass as a renewable energy source has led to an acute need for reliable and detailed information on its assessment, consumption and supply.

With the ever-increasing demand for energy worldwide, nations are looking for suitable options to solve the energy crisis, a matter of serious global concern.

Over the last few years, the energy sector in Europe has undergone rapid change.

As an equivalent counterpart of topological research on photonics and condensed matter physics, acoustic metamaterials create an opportunity to explore the topological behaviors in phononics and physics of programmable acoustics.

Introduction to Biomass Energy Conversions explores biomass energy conversions and characterization using practical examples and real-world scenarios.

This book provides an overview of the most recent advances and innovations in the subject of hydrogen separation, its applications, and the role of membranes in this process.

The vast majority of the countries of the world are now facing an imminent energy crisis, particularly the USA, China, India, Japan and EU countries, but also developing countries having to boost their economic growth precisely when more powerful economies will prevent them from using the limited supply of fossil energy.

HVAC Fundamentals, System Design, Operation, Selection, and Optimization fully covers the full range of HVAC systems used in today's facilities and how they operate.

Alcohol Fuels in Advanced Combustion Strategy Mode Diesel Engines investigates the utilization of alcohol-based fuels in diesel engines with specific emphasis on advanced combustion modes, including homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI), premixed charge compression ignition (PCCI), partially premixed compression ignition (PPCI), and dual fuel reactivity-controlled compression ignition (RCCI).

Civil Engineering and Energy-Environment focuses on the research of civil engineering, environment resources and energy materials.

The importance of biofuels in greening the transport sector in the future is unquestionable, given the limited available fossil energy resources, the environmental issues associated to the utilization of fossil fuels, and the increasing attention to security of supply.

East Asian nations through the dialogue between ASEAN and its partners have been promoting energy market integration (EMI) for a decade.

Wind Energy: An Introduction covers wind energy system types, operation, modeling, analysis, integration, and control.

This book provides an overview of crude oil refining processes and presents a deep analysis of the current context and challenges imposed on players in the downstream industry.

Maintaining a question-and-answer format, this second edition provides simplified means of solving nearly 200 practical problems that confront engineers involved in the planning, design, operation and maintenance of steam plant systems.

A handbook of sustainable energy, covering entire energy aspects from present status to future alternatives under one umbrella This book takes an interdisciplinary system approach to evaluating energy systems so that readers can gain the necessary technical foundation to perform their own performance evaluations and understand their interactions with socioeconomic indicators.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the processes and technologies utilized for producing hydrogen from renewable sources.

Power Electrical Systems are an indespensable feature of the exploitation and diagnostics of elecrical machines and energy resources.

Do you have data on occupant behaviour, indoor environment or energy use in buildings?

The precipitation and deposition of solids are a major challenge in the production of oil and gas.

This book explores the intrinsically multiscale issue of renewable energy transition from a local, national and transnational perspective, and provides insights into current developments in the Upper Rhine Region that can serve as an international model.

The more than 90 refereed papers in this volume continue a series of biannual benchmarks for technologies that maximize energy conversion while minimizing undesirable emissions.

As an increasing number of professionals and graduate students enter the field of solid-based power generation, they all require an command of process and equipment, as well as the theory behind it all.

Radiation Detection: Concepts, Methods, and Devices provides a modern overview of radiation detection devices and radiation measurement methods.

What role will biofuels play in the scientific portfolio that might bring energy independence and security, revitalize rural infrastructures, and wean us off of our addiction to oil?

The Routledge Handbook of Energy Law provides a definitive global survey of the discipline of Energy Law, capturing the essential and relevant issues in Energy today.

Suitable for readers from broad backgrounds, Graphene: Energy Storage and Conversion Applications describes the fundamentals and cutting-edge applications of graphene-based materials for energy storage and conversion systems.

Energy demands of cities need to be met more sustainably.

Marine Bioenergy: Trends and Developments features the latest findings of leading scientists from around the world.

This third edition of Renewable Energy is undoubtedly one of the most complete accounts of the subject, from source through to extraction and use.

This book addresses learnings from the energy transition in the Netherlands.

In this textbook, a variety of transient cases that have occurred or are possible to occur in power systems are discussed and analyzed.

Green Energy is increasingly becoming an important component for all individuals and governments of the world.

The Propagation of Gamma Quanta in Matter deals with various problems of the propagation and absorption of gamma quanta in matter, including the occurrence of multiple scattering of radiation.

The book investigates various MPPT algorithms, and the optimization of solar energy using machine learning and deep learning.

Algae play an important ecological role as oxygen producers and carbon sequesters and are the food base for all aquatic life.

The latest edition features a new chapter on implementation and operation of an integrated smart grid with updates to multiple chapters throughout the text.

We are entering a new era in production agronomics.

'offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries' Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEP From technology to financing issues, Renewable Energy offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the determining factors that drive worldwide dissemination of renewable energy technologies.

This text covers the four forms of fire: diffusion flames, smoldering, spontaneous combustion, and premixed flames.