Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

Due to growing energy demands, the development of high energy storage density dielectric materials for energy storage capacitors has become a top priority.

This book highlights the current limitations of biogas production and yield and new avenues to improving them.

This unique volume on wind energy features contributions from the world's leading research and development pioneers in the field of renewable energy.

This book focuses on the development of novel combustion approaches and burner designs for clean power generation in gas turbines.

This book discusses, for the first time, wireless power transfer in the ocean environment.

This book bringing together leading researchers in the field of renewable energy to discuss sustainability on a broad scale and to examine the status quo of renewable energy industry development in a global context.

This book presents readers with an integrated modeling approach for analyzing and understanding the interconnection of water, energy, and food resources and discusses the relationship between resilience and sustainability of the food- energy -water (FEW) system.

This book is the first of its kind to comprehensively describe the principles of demand response.

This book describes in detail different types of vibration signals and the signal processing methods, including signal resampling and signal envelope, used for condition monitoring of drivetrains.

This book examines real-time models and advanced online applications that enhance reliability and resilience of the grid in real-time and near real-time environments.

This book addresses the developing area of biomass for technological applications.

This book consists of two parts, the first of which focuses on combustible solids, and the second on the industrial position concerning these materials.

This book offers a comprehensive review of current systems for fish protection and downstream migration.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 6th ECML PKDD Workshop on Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration, DARE 2018, held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2018.

This book introduces and analyses the latest maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques, which can effectively reduce the cost of power generated from photovoltaic energy systems.

This book discusses dynamic modeling, simulation, and control strategies for Photovoltaic (PV) stand-alone systems during variation of environmental conditions.

This book presents in-depth information on the state of the art of global biodiesel production and investigates its impact on climate change.

This book covers solar energy and the use of solar radiation in connection with lighting.

This book provides an insight into how a country contributes to the GHG emissions reductions required to keep global warming within the limits set by the Paris Agreement arrived at COP21 in 2015.

This book presents cutting-edge work on the energy efficiency and environmental sustainability of buildings, examining EU policies, regulations and technologies for complex systems such as passive buildings, sustainable buildings and, as part of the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD), nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) requirements.

This book reflects the current state of knowledge on sustainability in a wide range of fields, from engineering to agriculture, to education.

This book explores key parameters, properties and fundamental concepts of electrocatalysis.

This book offers comprehensive information on the main techniques for measuring water-oxidation-catalyst (WOC) performance, with a particular focus on the combined use of sacrificial oxidants and dyes within closed-batch reactors.

This book offers an introduction to the topic for professionals and students with a diverse range of backgrounds.

This book focuses on solar energy conversion systems that can be implemented in the built environment, at building or at community level.

This book, based on the research experience and outcomes of a group of international contributors, addresses a range of advanced energy efficiency technologies and their applications in solar heating, cooling and power generation, while also providing solutions for tackling recurring low efficiency problems in today's systems.

This book presents the most up-to-date technologies for the transformation of biomass into valuable fuels, chemicals, materials, and products.

This book provides an overview of the current and emerging industrial applications of ionic liquids, covering the core processes, the practical implementation and technical challenges involved, and exploring potential future directions for research and development.

This book highlights the latest advancements in the planning and operation of plug-in electric vehicles (PEV).

This book describes the role and fundamental aspects of the diverse ranges of nanostructured materials for energy applications in a comprehensive manner.

This book discusses the recent developments in robust optimization (RO) and information gap design theory (IGDT) methods and their application for the optimal planning and operation of electric energy systems.

This book analyses the economic and environmental aspects of installing photovoltaic facilities for residential electricity users and determines whether the installation of photovoltaic units "e;behind the meter"e; makes sense, and if so, the best economic size to install.

Due to the huge quantity and diverse nature of their metabolic pathways, fungi have great potential to be used for the production of different biofuels such as bioethanol, biobutanol, and biodiesel.

This collection addresses the pressing needs for sustainable technologies with reduced energy consumption and environmental pollutions and the development and application of alternative sustainable energy to maintain a green environment and efficient and long-lasting energy supply.

This book presents the design and operation of DC wind systems and their integration into power grids.

This vivid introduction to economic geology not only describes the most important deposit types, but also the processes involved in their formation.

This book offers a comprehensive review of renewable energy sources and optimization strategies in hybrid power systems (HPSs).

This book gathers the proceedings of the Energy and Sustainability 2018 Symposium (EAS 2018) held in Windsor, Canada in June 2018.

This book aims to be the reference book in the area of oxyfuel combustion, covering the fundamentals, design considerations and current challenges in the field.

This book describes the risks, impacts, measures, actions and adaptation policies that have developed globally as a result of the severe impacts of global climate change.

This book is an outcome of the 33rd International Conference EnviroInfo 2019, held at the University of Kassel, Germany.

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This book brings together several aspects of hosting capacity (HC) assessment and enhancement of modern electrical power systems, HC is a key enabler for affordable, reliable and renewable energy sources, that will aid in transitioning away from traditional high-carbon energy sources.

This is the first book to describe the development of and state of the art in solar shading devices in buildings, detailing all methods of evaluating shading systems according to thermal and visual comfort.

This book brings together the state-of-the-art in energy and resources research.

The book collects the latest research and thinking from international experts on green computing and the smart city.

This book reports on a comprehensive study addressing the dynamic responses of hydropower plants under diverse conditions and disturbances, and analyzes their stability and oscillations.

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 presents innovative techniques and approaches to maintaining dynamic security of modern power systems that have a high penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs).

This book discusses the role of energy in agriculture which reaches 30%, and the role of agriculture in energy where the water shred by 17% in total electricity generation in addition to the role of bioenergy as a source of liquid energy.