Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

Clean and sustainable energy is of paramount importance for industrial activities, economic development, environment, and welfare of civilians.

Faced with the climate change phenomena, humanity has had to now contend with numerous changes, including our attitude environment protection, and also with depletion of classical energy resources.

The utilization of sun light is one of the hottest topics in sustainable energy research.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of current energy policy in Scotland focussing on non-fossil fuel energy options: renewables, nuclear power and energy efficiency.

Science and Engineering of Hydrogen-Based Energy Technologies explores the generation of energy using hydrogen and hydrogen-rich fuels in fuel cells from the perspective of its integration into renewable energy systems using the most sound and current scientific knowledge.

Fungi are distinct eukaryotic organisms renowned for their remarkable biodiversity and extensive habitat range.

In recent years, the concept of energy has been revised and a new model based on the principle of sustainability has become more and more pervasive.

This book shows the different molecular devices used for solar energy conversion and storage and the important characterization techniques for this kind of device.

Handbook and reference for industrial statisticians and system reliability engineers System Reliability Theory: Models, Statistical Methods, and Applications, Third Edition presents an updated and revised look at system reliability theory, modeling, and analytical methods.

Miscanthus has been enthusiastically promoted as a second generation biomass crop, and this book provides a comprehensive review of this knowledge.

This directory has become a valued source of information for energy-efficient building designers and specifiers throughout Europe and the details and scope of product, service and supplier listings have again been extensively updated for this edition.

In addition to domestic animals the earliest records of mankind indicate that slavery, until the use of coal became widespread, has always been a significant aspect, or part, of nearly every society.

Climate change has become a major international issue and the British Government is committed to meeting ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the present decade and beyond.

Cellulosic Energy Cropping Systems presents a comprehensive overview of how cellulosic energy crops can be sustainably produced and converted to affordable energy through liquid fuels, heat and electricity.

Local Energy Governance: Opportunities and Challenges for Renewable and Decentralised Energy in France and Japan examines the extent of the energy transition taking place at a local level in France and Japan, two countries that share ambitious targets regarding the reduction of GHG emissions, their share of renewable energy and their degree of market liberalization.

Since the mid-seventies, electric utilities were faced with escalating construction costs, growing environmental plus siting constraints and increasing uncertainty in demand forecasting.

Solar Power Generation is a concise, up-to-date, and readable guide providing an introduction to the leading renewable power generation technology.

This book consists of selected and peer-reviewed papers of 2022 5th International Conference on Green Energy and Environment Engineering (CGEEE 2022), held in Jeju Island, Korea during July 28-30, 2022.

The concerns relating to global warming, climate change, and increasing energy demands have led to significant research towards the development of alternative energy to substitute the fossil energy sources.

PEM Fuel Cell Failure Mode Analysis presents a systematic analysis of PEM fuel cell durability and failure modes.

Compendium of Hydrogen Energy Volume 4: Hydrogen Use, Safety and the Hydrogen Economy focuses on the uses of hydrogen.

The book constitutes proceedings of the International Conference on Green Energy and Sustainable Technology, ICGEST 2023.

This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively analyse and problem-solve how to manage the decline of fossil fuels as the world tackles climate change and shifts towards a low-carbon energy transition.

Distributed power generation is a technology that could help to enable efficient, renewable energy production both in the developed and developing world.

Focuses on the application of membrane technologies in removing toxic metals\metalloids from water.

This proceedings book showcases the latest research and developments in materials sciences and their applications for solving environmental and energy-related challenges.

The most comprehensive and thorough volume on the environmental aspects of energy from biofuels and biofeedstocks Biomass is a renewable resource whose utilization has received great attention due to environmental considerations and the increasing demands of energy worldwide.

Environmental Nexus Approach: Management of Water, Waste, and Soil establishes linkages between environmental resources, such as water, waste, and soil, in order to facilitate sustainable management of these resources.

Renewable energy has enjoyed relatively good - and sometimes extraordinary - growth in recent years, in particular photovoltaics and wind; but it will be difficult to sustain such rates of diffusion on a global basis.

This book discusses the manufacturing processes of photovoltaic solar cells, from conventional silicon cells, to thin-film technologies and ending with the cutting-edge technologies of third-generation photovoltaics.

This book presents a detailed look at high-lift aerodynamics, which deals with the aerodynamic behavior of lift augmentation means from various approaches.

Energy and water are essential parts of sustainability considerations.

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

Drawing on the experience of some of the foremost experts in the field, this easy-to-use and affordable pocket reference includes a wealth of information relating to solar energy and solar energy technologies.

This book provides a deep insight into the energy usage in the energy intensive metal industry and the methodology for efficiency assessment.

Photovoltaics for Commercial and Utilities Power Generation is an in-depth review of the solar industry development, and present day state-of-the-art.

This book provides the definitive account of a decade-long transformation of energy policy in California with rippling consequences.

Exponential growth of the worldwide population requires increasing amounts of water, food, and energy.

Scarcity of resources and increasing population and energy demands are important issues of the twenty-first century.

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "e;green technology.

Subcritical water is a green extraction solvent compared to conventional extraction solvents.

Build high-performance, energy-efficient circuits with this cutting-edge guide to designing, modeling, analysing, implementing and testing new mm-wave systems.

Scarcity of resources and increasing population and energy demands are important issues of the twenty-first century.

This book focuses on building air conditioning demand response and power storage batteries as the resources that make up the virtual power plant.

This book presents the methodology and mathematical models for dual-fuel coal-gas power plants in two basic configurations: systems coupled in parallel and in series.

This book examines the characteristics of Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells with a focus on deriving realistic finite element models.

This book explores the complex relationship between energy and development and discusses the core issues and concepts surrounding this growing area of research and policy.

This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state of the current art and science of food waste from multiple perspectives.