Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

This book is intended to assist in the development of smart and efficient green energy solutions.

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

As the application of smart technologies for monitoring environmental activities becomes more widespread, there is a growing demand for solutions that can help analyze the risk factors and impacts on the environment by focusing on energy consumption, storage, and management.

This volume is third part of the five-part set on bioenergy research.

This book explores the role of governments and international financial institutions (IFIs) in mitigating the perceived risks in green infrastructure markets of emerging and developing countries.

Sustainable Alternatives for Aviation Fuels presents a technical and economic guide on the development of sustainable aviation fuels from renewable sources.

This book presents selected peer-reviewed proceedings from the International Conference on Advanced Materials, Sustainable Energy, and Engineering (ICAMSEE2023), held at Ecole Normale Superieure, University Moulay Ismail Meknes, Morocco, from November 27 to 29, 2023.

This book reviews Metaverse, the possibilities and difficulties of sustainable development, and policy suggestions, especially within the context of the 2030 Agenda.

This book discusses new trends in nanotechnology.

Microbial ecology is pivotal in wastewater treatment, where microorganisms play a vital role in breaking down organic matter and ultimately reduce the levels of contaminants in treated water, making it safe for reuse in agriculture, industry, and other applications.

This book presents mathematical models of various renewable energy sources (RESs) such as wind energy systems, solar PV systems, battery energy storage systems, pumped-storage hydropower, biomass, and electric vehicles (EVs).

This book explores the scientific basis of the photovoltaic effect, solar cell operation, various types of solar cells, and the main process used in their manufacture.

This book presents the latest findings and ongoing research in connection with green information systems and green information & communication technology (ICT).

State climate and clean energy policy will play a critical role in the future of the political dialogue and economic development.

This book addresses the challenges of planning sustainable freight transport systems (road and air) in a time when the industry faces increasing pressure from environmental limits, climate change, carbon emission targets, bottlenecks in oil supply, infrastructure shortages and urban congestion.

This handy pocket reference contains a wealth of information on a range of topics including the principles of passive solar building and passive house, a ten-step design and build strategy, calculating solar irradiance, factors affecting the choice of building materials, passive heating and cooling principles and techniques in different climates, the Passivhaus Standard and natural and augmented lighting and notes on technology and building occupation.

This book performs a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis to examine the current food crisis and how it relates to the use of crops for energy.

The generation of offshore energy is a rapidly growing sector, competing for space in an already busy seascape.

This book includes the proceedings of the Sustaining Tomorrow 2020 symposium and summit which bring together research from experts in academia, industry, and policy arenas to uncover the challenges and to forge solutions to sustain tomorrow.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of effective methods of calculation, resource-saving technologies and advanced materials in civil and environmental engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the XVII International Scientific Conference Current Issues of Civil and Environmental Engineering "e;Lviv- Kosice - Rzeszow"e;, held in Lviv, Ukraine on September 11-13, 2019.

Tritium is used by all nuclear weapons states to increase the explosive yield of atomic bombs and to miniaturize them.

Fuzzy logic has vast applications in power and electrical engineering.

Model-driven individual-based forest ecology and individual-based methods in forest management are of increasing importance in many parts of the world.

This book presents a detailed description, analysis, comparison of the latest research and developments in photovoltaic energy.

This edited book analyses and discusses the current issues of integration of wind energy systems in the power systems.

As a step toward ultimate low-power computing, this book introduces normally-off computing, which involves inactive components of computer systems being aggressively powered off with the help of new non-volatile memories (NVMs).

This book describes different control strategies adapted to heat pumps, at the purpose of increasing energy flexibility in buildings.

This book shares the latest market developments and advances in natural gas demand, supply, transmission, distribution, and consumption, with a special emphasis on the Indian context.

This book contains the proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on 'Pathways to Sustainability: Energy, Mobility and Healthcare Engineering' that was held on October 13-14, 2015 in New Delhi.

This book opens with a brief introduction to renewable energy and the advantages of solar energy systems, an overview of concentrated solar power (CSP) system technologies and modeling, and the application of artificial neural network (ANN) technologies in various solar field systems.

With the widespread adoption of photovoltaic (PV) systems across the world, many researchers, industry players, and regulators have been exploring the use of reactive power from PV to support the grid.

This book presents an overview of various types of lignin and their unique structures and properties, as well as utilizations of crude or modified technical lignin for high-value bioproducts such as lignin-based PF resins/adhesives, epoxy resins, PF foams, PU foams, rubber reinforcement and carbon fibers and as dispersants in drilling fluids in the oil and gas industry.

Den Kern des Buches bildet die Darstellung einer systematischen, durchgehenden und logischen Kette in das gekoppelte Gesamtenergiesystem (GES) der Zukunft, die zur vollständig-nachhaltigen Nutzung der regenerativen Energien führen wird.

This book provides a detailed overview of aspects related to the overall provision chain for biokerosene as part of the global civil aviation business.

This complete reference to marine renewable energy covers aspects of resource characterization and physical effects of harvesting the ocean's vast and powerful resources-from wave and tidal stream to ocean current energy.

Gathering selected, revised and extended contributions from the conference 'Forecasting and Risk Management for Renewable Energy FOREWER', which took place in Paris in June 2017, this book focuses on the applications of statistics to the risk management and forecasting problems arising in the renewable energy industry.

This book introduces the reader to the state of the art in nanostructured anode and cathode electrocatalysts for low-temperature acid and alkaline fuel cells.

This book amalgamates the facts on carbon dioxide capture from ethanol fermentation of sugarcane molasses and its impact on climate changes.

This book discusses the increase in number and capacity of wind farms in Germany and how this is affecting birds of prey.

This book offers a review of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and its application in online condition monitoring of electrochemical devices, focusing on the practicalities of performing fast and accurate EIS.

This book focuses on carbon dioxide and its global role in our everyday life.

This book explores the use of biomass as an energy source and its application in energy conversion technologies.

This book provides a thorough understanding of the basic principles, synthesis, analysis, and control of virtual inertia systems.

This book presents a panoramic look at the transformation of the transmission network in the context of the energy transition.

This textbook provides an introduction to probabilistic reliability analysis of power systems.