Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

This book provides a systematic overview of transmission network investment in liberalized power markets.

This book focuses on biodiesel combustion, including biodiesel performance, emissions and control.

This book focuses on understanding the characteristics of the marine environment; overall characteristic of the marine resources (especially the marine new energy) and their current utilization; important routes, channels, and ports; and the Maritime Silk Road from the perspective of international law.

Production of Biodiesel from Non-Edible Sources: Technological Updates offers a step-by-step guide to the production of biodiesel, providing comparisons of existing methods, new and state-of-the-art technologies, and real-world examples of implementation.

This book discusses the microbiology of fermentation for the production of bioethanol from sugarcane.

This book focuses on the performance optimization of fault diagnosis methods for power systems including both model-driven ones, such as the linear parameter varying algorithm, and data-driven ones, such as random matrix theory.

Progress in Sustainable Aviation looks at recent progress and new technological developments in sustainable aviation, presenting readers with engineering solutions and methodologies for efficiency and cost savings, performance improvement, and emission reduction.

This multidisciplinary book provides new insights and hope for sustainable prosperity given recent developments in economics - but only if swift and strong actions consistent with Earth's biophysical limits and principles of justice are universally taken.

This book addresses challenges and opportunities in the Energy-Water-Environment (EWE) nexus, with a particular focus on research and technology development requirements in harsh desert climates.

This book provides a detailed life cycle assessment of photovoltaic technologies in order to analyse the environmental and socioeconomic impacts that a large deployment of solar photovoltaic systems will produce in the near future.

Protection of Wind Turbine Generators Using Microcontroller-Based Applications focuses on the application of microcontrollers in the protection of wind turbine generators.

This book presents a profile of the majority of hot springs in and around tourist destinations in Nepal.

This book focuses on holistic approaches of applying sustainable practices in all sectors of building, infrastructure, and energy to achieve a best-balanced global energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technology (EBITW) regime.

This book provides the latest research on bioethanol production from first- and second- generation feedstock.

Modern Optimization Techniques for Smart Grids presents current research and methods for monitoring transmission systems and enhancing distribution system performance using optimization techniques considering the role of different single and multi-objective functions.

This book raises awareness about environmental issues that result from energy production, extraction and conversion, and examines the attitudes people have about these issues.

This book focuses on the technologies developed for the conversion of all three biomass components, i.

Two-stage single-phase converters, including two-stage single-phase dc-ac inverters and two-stage single-phase PFC converters, are interfacing power converters between dc and ac voltage/current sources, which have been widely applied for dc-ac and ac-dc power conversion.

This book describes the hydrogen fuel generation from water via photoelectrochemical process.

This book is a collection of extended versions of papers presented at the KES Covid-19 Challenge international summit.

The depletion of fossil fuel reserves and concerns for environmental degradation due to the fossil fuel burning have led the scientific community to look for alternative renewable energy sources.

This book focuses on various challenges, solutions, and emerging technologies in the operation, control, design, optimization, and protection of microgrids in the presence of hybrid renewable energy sources and electric vehicles.

This book is an outcome of the 35th International Conference EnviroInfo 2021, held at Humboldt University Berlin, organized by the technical committee for Environmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society.

This book presents the select proceedings of the first International Conference on Energy and Materials Technologies (ICEMT) 2021, organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, India.

The book investigates the fractional calculus-based approaches and their benefits to adopting in complex real-time areas.

This compact text is a powerful introduction to the Excel/VBA computing environment.

This book focuses on the current situation of two technologies for electricity production from renewable energy sources, wind and solar photovoltaic energy, analysing and describing both technologies in detail.

This book provides recent development in thin-film solar cells (TFSC).

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.

Das Buch beantwortet die Frage, wie Windkraftanlagen durch Regelung und Führung von Turbinen und Generatoren den Eigenschaften konventioneller Kraftwerke näher gebracht werden und zukünftig gestellte Aufgaben erfüllen können.

This book presents selected articles presented at the 2nd Energy Security and Chemical Engineering Congress (ESChE 2021).

This edited book covers all the existing possibilities of using food waste as a potential, alternative and 'ready to use', feed stock for biofuels production.

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The book's objective is to present the energy transition process in Brazil over time and offer new perspectives on this process in the eyes of a sustainable future.

This book evaluates China's energy diplomacy across the globe and how it transcends the barriers to maintain both its security and its Chinese characteristics.

This book provides insights into practical aspects of electric circuits.

This book looks at how digital economy can help energy businesses to meet their sustainability goals.

This book approaches the design of functionally superior optoelectronic devices through the use of bio-inspired nanostructures and multiscale material structures through a step-by-step approach.

This book presents the select proceedings the 2nd International Conference on Mechanical and Energy Technologies (ICMET 2021).

This book explains the challenges and barriers of island energy systems in the European Union.

This book presents smart energy management in the context of energy transition.

This book presents an overview of geothermal heating systems using ground source heat pumps in different countries.

This editor believes the public finally understands that bioenergy should be a critical new 39 component of our world's future energy supply.

Sustainable development has been gaining momentum in the modern world, and the use of nanomaterials in various applications is expanding.

Sustainable development has been gaining momentum in the modern world, and the use of nanomaterials in various applications is expanding.

This book is a compendium of knowledge about nanomaterials and strategies for bioremediation over hazardous environmental pollutants.

Understand the science and engineering behind conventional and renewable heat loss recovery techniques with this thorough reference.

This book focuses on nanotechnology for the preparation of metal oxide-based carbon nanocomposite materials for environmental remediation.

This book compiles research aspects of second-generation (2G) biofuel production derived specifically from lignocellulose biomass using biorefinery methods.

Generally, sources for power generation are broken down into two categories: thermal and non-thermal.