Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

Waste-to-Energy: Multi-criteria Decision Analysis for Sustainability Assessment and Ranking offers a comprehensive view of the technologies and processes for energy generation as a path for waste treatment, presenting all the necessary information and tools for selecting the most sustainable waste-to-energy solution under varying conditions.

Increasing corporate social responsibility demands professionals possess the necessary knowledge, abilities, and competencies to answer the needs of a diverse organization's stakeholders.

This book discusses power electronics, signal processing and communication systems applications in smart grids (SG).

Originally published in 1999, The Kyoto Protocol provides a detailed discussion on the history, terms and implications of the Kyoto Protocol 1997.

Distributed Renewable Energies for Off-Grid Communities: Empowering a Sustainable, Competitive, and Secure Twenty-First Century, Second Edition, is a fully revised reference on advances in achieving successful energy transition.

Biomass in Small-Scale Energy Applications: Theory and Practice presents the current trends in the development of selected biomass-based technologies for distributed energy generation.

Advances in Bioenergy, Volume Eight highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Chemical synthesis of platform chemical from lignocellulosic biomass for fuels and polymers application, Current technologies and applications of CO2 utilization into bio-products, Synthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from renewable resources, Biocomposite, Production and application of biochar, Conversion of biomass to functional materials, MSW characterization and preprocessing for biofuels and bioproducts, and Thermal chemical conversion of municipal solid waste to fuels and chemicals.

Fundamentals of Heat and Fluid Flow in High Temperature Fuel Cells introduces key-concepts relating to heat, fluid and mass transfer as applied to high temperature fuel cells.

Solar energy will play an important role in our future energy supply, to the advantage of both the environment and the economy.

This book explores the potential of renewable energy sources to promote sustainable development in Africa, with a specific focus on Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, and Algeria.

This brief provides a comprehensive introduction on the flow-induced instabilities (e.

Renewable energy sources (RES) are one of the important instruments that human beings can use to tackle problems created by climate change.

This book describes recent breakthroughs that promise major cost reductions in solar energy production in a clear and highly accessible manner.

Currently, the reliance on fossil fuels raises concerns on the increasing global energy demand, the rapid anthropogenic climate changes and growing environmental problems.

This book provides a brief insight of various challenges and its mitigation techniques in microgrid due to power quality (PQ) issues.

Green and Social Economy Finance is a compilation of chapters by experts, linking research and practice.

Environmental Ergonomics: Principles, Methods, and Applications provides the philosophy, principles and application of environmental ergonomics as a universal concept and considers total environments as an integration of environmental factors to which people are exposed.

This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.

Control of Standalone Microgrid looks at a practical and systematic elaboration of the architecture, design and control of standalone microgrids.

Advances in Yeast Biotechnology for Biofuels and Sustainability: Value-Added Products and Environmental Remediation Applications showcases the uses for engineered yeast in environmental applications, especially as an innovative source of biofuels.

This book, now in its second expanded and updated edition, is dedicated to solar gas turbines, providing fundamental knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in the field.

The Heat Pump Planning Handbook contains practical information and guidance on the design, planning and selection of heat pump systems, allowing engineers, designers, architects and construction specialists to compare a number of different systems and options.

Our book, "e;Solar PV System: Design, Installation, Operation and Maintenance,"e; describes the concepts of the Solar PV system which is considered an important alternative to fossil fuels.

This book is intended to be used by materials and device physicists and also solar cells researchers.

This book 'Extremophiles: Wastewater and Algal Biorefinery' explores the potential of extremophiles/extremotolerant organisms in wastewater treatment, biorefining of algal biomass and in the treatment of industrial waste effluent.

This second edition of the well-received volume addresses a diverse selection of topics in green chemistry, highlighting the potential and scope of green chemistry for clean and sustainable development.

Handbook of Multiphase Flow Assurance allows readers to progress in their understanding of basic phenomena and complex operating challenges.

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Present energy systems are undergoing a radical transformation, driven by the urgent need to address the climate change crisis.

This book showcases the strengths of Linear Programming models for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), such as the Smart Grids.

Wastewater Treatment by Reverse Osmosis Process provides a one-stop-shop for reverse osmosis (RO), outlining its scope and limitations for the removal of organic compounds from wastewater.

Erneuerbare Energien und nachhaltige Energiesysteme stehen auf Grund der Klimaveränderungen im Mittelpunkt der gesellschaftlichen Diskussion.

This definitive guide to developing renewable energy CDM projects in Latin America - the largest market on the doorstep of the United States - provides business leaders, investors, project developers and host country offices with the one-stop guide to successful CDM renewable energy project development.

Practical Approaches to Reliability Theory in Cutting-Edge Applications Probabilistic Reliability Models helps readers understand and properly use statistical methods and optimal resource allocation to solve engineering problems.

Provides authoritative guidance on statistical analysis techniques and inferential methods for one-shot device life-testing Estimating the reliability of one-shot devices electro-expolsive devices, fire extinguishers, automobile airbags, and other units that perform their function only once poses unique analytical challenges to conventional approaches.

This book argues that law has a vital role in shaping the electricity system to enable a more active role for consumers in liberalizsed electricity industries.

This book is the proceedings of the papers presented during the International Renewable Energy Days on May 28-30, 2024, in Algiers (IrenDays'2024).

Biomass Gasification, Pyrolysis, and Torrefaction: Practical Design, Theory, and Climate Change Mitigation, Fourth Edition explores the role of biomass conversion in climate change mitigation.

As the availability of fossils fuels becomes more limited, the negative impact of their consumption becomes an increasingly relevant factor in our choices with regards to primary energy sources.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

In part 2 of Wind Power for the World, the editors have collected reports and overviews of wind power status and history in various countries, several written by individuals who have made valuable contributions to the successful emergence of wind power.

This book includes the latest research presented at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energetic Systems held in Tipaza, Algeria on October 22-24, 2017.

Introduction to Transfer Phenomena in PEM Fuel Cells presents the fruit of several years of research in the area of fuel cells.

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This book focusses on climate change and sustainable scientific and technological solutions.

This book presents a selection of new insights in understanding and mitigating impacts on wildlife and their habitats.

The depletion of fossil resources and an ever-growing human population create an increasing demand for the development of sustainable processes for the utilization of renewable resources.

Presenting a comprehensive overview of a rapidly burgeoning field blending solar cell technology with nanotechnology, the book covers topics such as solar cell basics, nanotechnology fundamentals, nanocrystalline silicon-based solar cells, nanotextured-surface solar cells, plasmon-enhanced solar cells, optically-improved nanoengineered solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells, 2D perovskite and 2D/3D multidimensional perovskite solar cells, carbonaceous nanomaterial-based solar cells, quantum well solar cells, nanowire solar cells and quantum dot solar cells.