Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

This book explores the crucial role of public acceptance in advancing green growth, decarbonization, and rapid advancements of renewable energy technologies.

This book analyses solar-assisted ground-source heat pump systems, a technology meant for producing heating and cooling energy for buildings.

In addition to describing core concepts and principles, this book reveals professional methodologies and tools used by national agencies and private corporations to predict sites' potential for wind and solar power generation.

This book provides an in-depth overview of marine greens and their environmental and biotechnological applications.

Electric drive vehicles (EDVs) are seen on American roads in increasing numbers.

Microbial Biotechnology for Bioenergy presents the new and emerging biotechnological and microbiological approaches in bioenergy and their economic, social, and environmental implications.

This book examines the characteristics and opportunities for farm energy in the northeast quadrant of the United States, with attention to energy use, strategic energy management, and energy production by solar, wind, biomass, and other means.

This thesis presents the fundamental research and latest findings on novel flexible/wearable photovoltaic technology, and comprehensively summarizes the rapid developments in flexible photovoltaics, from traditional planar solar cells to fiber solar cells.

This book collects high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Computing Applications in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, held at Rajkiya Engineering College, Sonbhadra, India, on August 30-31, 2019.

In diesem Buch wird eine genauere Analyse auf der Basis von viertelstündlichen Zeitreihen des Dargebots von Windenergie und Photovoltaik durchgeführt.

This volume is the third of a set of seven on the topic of photovoltaics.

This practical guide identifies the technical challenges of transitioning to battery electric vehicles in Australia, reviews the impacts of life cycle emissions on passenger transport systems, and presents government, institutional and personal requirements for reducing passenger vehicle mode share.

The Climate Energy Nexus: Understanding the Relationship between Energy Production Systems and Climate Trends offers fundamental material on energy and climate systems, progressing to establishing advanced and integrated energy-climate models.

Originally published in 1975, Energy provides a comprehensive bibliography of energy in the context of the social sciences.

This book provides an innovative, realistic and reliable solution to the common problem of Indian water and energy sector due to the onset of the Impact of Climate Change and Large-Scale Urbanization.

The book encodes a vision for the actively sustainable management and development of the built environment by referring to the application of timber-based construction systems as additive solutions for the multi-purpose improvement of existing buildings.

Providing up-to-date numerical data across a range of topics related to renewable energy technologies, Renewable Energies and CO2 offers a one-stop source of key information to engineers, economists and all other professionals working in the energy and climate change sectors.

How to design a solar power plant, from start to finish In Step-by-Step Design of Large-Scale Photovoltaic Power Plants, a team of distinguished engineers delivers a comprehensive reference on PV power plants and their design for specialists, experts, and academics.

This book gathers papers presented and discussions held at the Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts in Melbourne, Australia on 9th October 2012.

This book examines recent progress and new technological developments in sustainable aviation.

Microgrids: Modeling, Control, and Applications presents a systematic elaboration of different types of microgrids, with a particular focus on new trends and applications.

Renewable Energy Resources is a numerate and quantitative text.

Advanced Simulation of Alternative Energy: Simulations with Simulink(R) and SimPowerSystems(TM) considers models of new and promising installations of renewable energy sources, as well as the new trends in this technical field.

Hundreds of million tonnes of agricultural and food waste are produced each year around the world, most of which is just that, waste.

This 2006 book controversially argues that fossil fuels will play a key role in a sustainable energy system.

This book is a systematic compilation of the most recent body of knowledge in the rapidly developing research area of greenhouse gas interaction with clay systems.

Desalination Technology: Health and Environmental Impacts covers the latest developments in desalination, examining the environmental and public health-related impacts of these technologies.

Are electrochemical methods like asking the crystal ball?

Degradation, Mitigation and Forecasting Approaches in Thin Film Photovoltaics covers detailed descriptions of cell to module level fundamentals of photovoltaics including thin-film materials, performance, maintenance procedures and performance forecasting approaches.

Does energy consumption influence architectural style?

Ammonia holds great promise as a carbon-neutral liquid fuel for storing intermittent renewable energy sources and power generation due to its high energy density and hydrogen content.

Advances in Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering collects papers resulting from the conference on Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering (AEECE 2022), Dali, China, 24-26 June, 2022.

This book compiles the best selected research papers presented during the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computing Techniques for Smart Energy Systems (ICTSES 2023), held at Manipal University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

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

Sustainable Energy Development: A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach discusses sustainable energy development, the main path for achieving carbon neutrality, and the use of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in assessing energy transition in both operational and socio-political forms.

Linear induction accelerators are successfully used as power supplies for numerous devices of relativistic high-frequency electronics.

Yet another book on the topic of 'Sustainable Forest Management' can only be justified by new information that is of direct relevance.

When the Nobel Prize Committee recognized the importance of green chemistry with its 2005 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, this relatively new science came into its own.

The book provides an encompassing overview of all aspects relating to the sharing economy paradigm in different fields of study, and shows the ongoing research efforts in filling previously identified gaps in understanding in this area.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the role of fossil-based economies in the global energy transition toward sustainability.

Microwave Claddings presents an effective approach for improving the surface properties of materials, providing distinct advantages compared to conventional procedures such as flame spraying or arc welding.

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to various energy transformation technologies and their influences on the environment.

Industrial Piping and Equipment Estimating Manual, Second Edition delivers a comprehensive overview of information that engineers, estimators, and managers need to develop estimates and create bids.

This book examines what lies behind the uncertainties surrounding the fuel and power markets.

Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings.

Algae Refinery: Up- and Downstream Processes offers complete coverage of algae refinery, including up- and downstream processes while proposing an integrated algal refinery for the advancement of existing technologies and summarizing the strategies and future perspectives of algal refinery.

Greenhouse Gases Balance of Bioenergy Systems covers every stage of a bioenergy system, from establishment to energy delivery, presenting a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of all the relevant issues and environmental risks.

This fundamental book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary view on the biobased economy.

Power electronic devices and systems are attracting growing attention due to the electrification of energy conversion systems being a key factor in efforts to reduce fuel combustion and achieve carbon neutrality.