Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

Using classic thermodynamic principles as the point of departure, this new edition of a popular resource supplies the understanding and tools required to measure process ef ciency and sustainability with much improved accuracy.

Focusing on the business implications of green innovation, this book describes the sheer impact, spread, and opportunities arising every day, and how business leaders can implement green innovative practices today to realize tangible as well as intangible business advantages in the future.

The support for polygeneration lies in the possibility of integrating different technologies into a single energy system, to maximize the utilization of both fossil and renewable fuels.

Sustainability of Methylic and Ethylic Biodiesel Production Routes: Social and Environmental Impacts via Multi-criteria and Principal Component Analyses using Brazilian Case Studies presents an innovative, quantitative methodology for the assessment of the social and environmental sustainability of methylic and ethylic production routes.

This book presents an overview of state-of-the art approaches to determine thermal safety margins in nuclear reactors.

The text comprehensively highlights the latest methodologies, models, techniques, and applications along with a description of modeling, optimization, and experimental works in the energy sector.

India is the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, which makes it an important player whose climate mitigation actions and inactions are closely scrutinised.

Low-carbon transition is a shift from an economy that depends heavily on fossil fuels to a sustainable, low-carbon energy economy.

Focusing on the business implications of green innovation, this book describes the sheer impact, spread, and opportunities arising every day, and how business leaders can implement green innovative practices today to realize tangible as well as intangible business advantages in the future.

Algae Based Bioelectrochemical Systems for Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Storage, Bioremediation and Bioproduct Generation explores the integration of carbon capture, storage and sequestration technologies with bioelectrochemical fuels cells (BEFC), showing how conventional technologies can be renovated to aid in the reduction in GHG emissions and simultaneously optimize BEFC performance.

Algae Based Bioelectrochemical Systems for Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Storage, Bioremediation and Bioproduct Generation explores the integration of carbon capture, storage and sequestration technologies with bioelectrochemical fuels cells (BEFC), showing how conventional technologies can be renovated to aid in the reduction in GHG emissions and simultaneously optimize BEFC performance.

Food Industry Wastes: Assessment and Recuperation of Commodities presents emerging techniques and opportunities for the treatment of food wastes, the reduction of water footprint, and creating sustainable food systems.

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

The text comprehensively discusses smart grid operations and the use of big data analytics in overcoming the existing challenges.

In 2012, using easy-to-understand text and examples, the first edition of this book explained how electric utilities "e;work,"e; and how they plan (or should plan) for the future, by: "e;Creating"e; a hypothetical electric utility Explaining how (and why) this utility will operate its system of generating units Guiding readers through a planning analysis for the utility, examining various resource options (solar, new gas-fueled generation, and conservation) Introducing four Fundamental Principles of Resource Planning that should guide utilities as they plan for the future The first edition material, with significant updates, now appears as Part I of the second edition of this book.

Renewable energy sources interface with the ac grids via inverters are termed inverter-based resources (IBRs).

More than two billion people worldwide have currently no access to grid electricity or other efficient energy supply.

This edited book on "e;Advances in Electrical Systems and Innovative Renewable Energy Techniques"e; is an outcome of the selected papers presented at the International Conference on Electrical Systems & Automation, (ICESA 2023) held from 29 to 30, May 2023 at the Faculty of Sciences and technologies, Al Hoceima, Morocco.

This book provides detailed information on the methods and techniques that can be used to process coir, cocopeat and other coconut byproducts for developing various bioproducts.

In the era of propelling traditional energy systems to evolve towards smart energy systems, including power generation, energy storage systems, and electricity consumption have become more dynamic.

This text emphasizes the importance of sustainable material, design, and manufacturing processes, and how the needs are changing day by day.

This text emphasizes the importance of sustainable material, design, and manufacturing processes, and how the needs are changing day by day.

Hydrogen is an almost ideal fuel and its wider use will result in an improvement in the environment due to factors including decreased air pollution.

Biofuels for a More Sustainable Future: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-criteria Decision Making provides a comprehensive sustainability analysis of biofuels based on life cycle thinking and develops various multi-dimensional decision-making techniques for prioritizing biofuel production technologies.

This book presents selected papers from the International Conference on Renewable Energy Systems (ICRES 2020).

This book is a concise but comprehensive guide to the history, present and possible futures of carbon capture and storage policy and action in the United Kingdom (UK).

Global Bioethanol: Evolution, Risks, and Uncertainties explores the conceptual and methodological approaches for the understanding of bioethanol technologies, policies and future perspectives.

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Primers is a series focused on Energy applications.

More than 20 countries generate electricity from geothermal resources and about 60 countries make direct use of geothermal energy.

This book provides an analysis of the problem of high energy consumption of mobile networks and describes methods for improving the energy efficiency of mobile networks.

This comprehensive and up-to-date textbook discusses fundamental aspects of air pollution with the help of solved and case examples within the chapter and review questions at the end of each chapter.

This book discusses current challenges in Japan, focusing on the nation's rapidly aging population and low birth rate, along with persistent public bond issues with heavy interest payments, the potential collapse of social security systems, and income inequality, as well as the global picture.

In human factors and ergonomics, professionals play a key role in shaping the compatibility between tasks, products, and environments with the needs of individuals.

Technological advancements frequently hinder the progress of women in the business sphere.

This book summarizes recent advances in the processing of waste biomass resources to produce biofuels and biochemicals.

Proper waste disposal is still a serious concern worldwide.

This book provides comprehensive recommendations and insights into the fundamentals, innovations, and industrial applications of microalgae-based processes.

Desalination is to the water industry what renewables are to the electricity sector.

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted increasing interest from researchers due to their superb power conversion efficiencies.

Advanced Bioseparation of Industrial Wastes: Sustainable Recovery of High-Value Metal Ions examines resource recovery from a variety of industrial waste streams, including sludge and wastewater, with an emphasis on both the fundamentals and the more advanced concepts involved.

This book presents a review of the state-of-the-art knowledge on the interactions between biodiversity and wind energy development, focused on the Portuguese reality.

"e;Although technological innovation is undoubtedly crucial for addressing climate change, low-carbon innovation policies and politics have hardly been studied.

This book discusses the production of bioethanol from water hyacinth, a potential source of lignocellulosic biomass.

In 2017, nearly 60 million households in Indonesia were connected to the national power grid.

This book brings together the papers presented at the Smart and Sustainable Built Environments Conference, 2018 (SASBE).

This book comprises interdisciplinary topics including consolidating research activities in all experimental and theoretical aspects of natural advanced materials in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine including structure, synthesis, processing, physico-chemical properties, and applications.

Sustainable Biodiesel: Real-World Designs, Economics, and Applications offers a unique, integrated approach that combines cutting-edge research results and the day-to-day aspects of biodiesel production at the industrial level.

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

To provide for a sustainable future, the potential synergies at the dynamic intersection of renewable energy (RE) incorporated with smart energy and artificial intelligence (AI) must be exploited.

A fully up-to-date, comprehensive wind energy engineering resourceThis thoroughly updated reference offers complete details on effectively harnessing wind energy as a viable and economical power source.