Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

This volume focuses on the prospects of the conversion of biomass into biofuels including ethanol, butanol, biogas, biohydrogen, biodiesel, syn-gas and other useful products.

This edited volume examines strategies to make future cities more sustainable.

This book covers modeling, control and stability aspects of hybrid AC/DC power networks.

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.

The book summarizes the current state of the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology in power generation applications.

This book brings together real-world accounts of using voltage stability assessment (VSA) and transient stability assessment (TSA) tools for grid management.

This book presents a systems thinking approach in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable national development in vulnerable countries.

This book discuss the recent advances and future trends of nanoscience in solar energy conversion and storage.

This book provides a single-source reference to green technologies in advanced biofuel technology.

This book provides a review of the latest advances in anion exchange membrane fuel cells.

This book is a contribution by the presenters of the 2020 International Conference on the Nile and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

The internal heat of the planet Earth represents an inexhaustible reservoir of thermal energy known as Geothermal Energy.

This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing research in bioeconomy and encompasses both technological and economic strategies to master the transformation towards a knowledge- and bio-based production system.

This book explores the use of recent advanced multiple stage conversion technologies.

This book reviews the building renovation process by systematizing the phases of analysis and prior knowledge through a project that not only considers energy savings but also thoroughly examines complex issues, such as defining the correct new functions and answers to new needs.

The 2021 Congress on Research, Development and Innovation in Renewable Energies (CIDiER 2021) aims to promote international collaboration that fosters ideas and dialogue on developing a solution to climate change through research and development that leads to clean energy innovation via renewable energies.

This book discusses recent developments in renewable and sustainable materials from a green technology perspective and how these materials interact with the environment.

This book presents a quantitative description of the physics of solar-cell materials, transport processes, fabrication methods, and offers a scientific understanding of the technology involved.

This volume collects papers presented at the International 100% Renewable Energy Conferences (IRENEC) from 2011 to 2015.

This book provides different engineering, management, economic solutions and methodologies regarding sustainable aviation, giving readers a great sense of how sustainable aviation works at the "e;systems"e; level.

This book identifies the challenges, solutions, and opportunities offered by smart energy grids (SEGs) with regard to the storage and regulation of diversified energy sources such as photovoltaic, wind, and ocean energy.

This leading-edge volume on advances in photovoltaic technology features diverse contributions from experts in every major geographic PV market.

This book discusses the needs of future energy systems with a focus on the electricity and transportation sectors.

This book presents a range of nanocatalysts, together with their primary environmental applications and use in chemical production processes.

This book presents novel findings concerning the systems, materials and processes used in solar energy conversion in communities.

This book shows possible solutions to how a profitable energy supply can be implemented with almost no population resistance.

This book presents a modified model reference adaptive system (MRAS) observer for sensorless vector control of a wind driven doubly fed induction generator (DFIG).

This contributed volume analyses and discusses how atmospheric carbon emissions can be prevented using carbon capture and removal technology and how renewable energies can be used to reduce carbon emissions.

This book focuses on the use of nanotechnology and nanomaterials in the production of biofuels.

This book discusses heat transfer in underground energy systems.

This edited volume seeks to identify the sustainability issues currently affecting the energy business and finance.

The 7th installment of the REWAS conference series held at the TMS Annual Meeting& Exhibition focuses on developing tomorrow's technical cycles.

This book addresses the potential of the transformation of biomass into a wide range of marketable products, and examines the biological, biochemical, physical and thermal processing of biomass into products such as fuels, power, heat, feeds, chemicals and materials.

This book offers a timely review of wave energy and its conversion mechanisms.

This book provides a review of all types of silicon solar cells.

This book is devoted to the analysis and applications of energy, exergy, and environmental issues in all sectors of the economy, including industrial processes, transportation, buildings, and services.

This book focuses on developing strategies for ultra-lean combustion of natural gas and hydrogen, and contributes to the research on extending the lean flammability limit of hydrogen and air using a hot supersonic jet.

This book introduces several simple analytical approaches to aid the seamless integration of renewable distributed generation.

This book contains selected papers presented during technical and plenary sessions at the World Renewable Energy Congress, the world's premier conference on renewable energy and sustainable development.

This book presents modern approaches to improving the energy efficiency, safety and environmental performance of industrial processes and products, based on the application of advanced trends in Green Information Technologies (IT) Engineering to components, networks and complex systems (software, programmable and hardware components, communications, Cloud and IoT-based systems, as well as IT infrastructures).

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th ECML PKDD Workshop on Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration, DARE 2016, held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in September 2016.

This textbook fosters information exchange and discussion on all aspects of introductory matters of modern mechanical engineering from a number of perspectives including: mechanical engineering as a profession, materials and manufacturing processes, machining and machine tools, tribology and surface engineering, solid mechanics, applied and computational mechanics, mechanical design, mechatronics and robotics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, renewable energies, biomechanics, nanoengineering and nanomechanics.

This book elucidates what it means to transition to alternative sources of energy and discusses the potential for this energy transition to be a more democratic process.

This thesis investigates the use of blade-pitch control and real-time wind measurements to reduce the structural loads on the rotors and blades of wind turbines.

This book is a concise reader-friendly introductory guide to understanding renewable energy technologies.

This book includes the proceedings of the Responsible Engineering and Living 2022 Symposium and Industry Summit.

Evaluating building materials for environmental sustainability is a complex prospect.

The objective of this book is to help readers better understand the links between fossil fuel, greenhouse gas, and climate change in a clear, explanatory format.

This book brings together important new contributions covering electric vehicle smart charging (EVSC) from a multidisciplinary group of global experts, providing a comprehensive look at EVSC and its role in meeting long-term goals for decarbonization of electricity generation and transportation.

This book discusses aspects of policy and techno-economic analysis of renewable energy in developing countries.