Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

The ultimate guide to creating, storing and utilizing lifesaving power in the most critical circumstances.

Progressive increases in consumer demands along with aggressive industrial consumption led the world to proximate resource depletion, weather changes, soil and air degradation and water quality deterioration.

This book discusses various renewable energy resources and technologies.

Multifunctional Inorganic Nanomaterials for Energy Applications provides deep insight into the role of multifunctional nanomaterials in the field of energy and power generation applications.

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses on renewable energy technology targetted at upper undergraduate or graduate students.

Harness the power of permaculture to thrive, not just survive, the great transition from fossil fuels Caught between climate change and a fossil fuel-driven economy that demands ever more growth, the world faces a great transition-by design or disaster-away from fossil fuels to an alternative renewable energy future.

This book offers readers an extensive insight into advanced nanomaterials and their applications in the realm of energy generation and utilization.

The renewable and alternative energy markets and energy policy have evolved rapidly in recent years.

This book provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals and current state of the art in thermoelectrics.

Applications of nanotechnology are the remarkable sizes dependent on physiochemical properties of nanomaterials that have led to the developed protocols for synthesizing nanomaterials over a range of size, shapes and chemical compositions.

Demonstrating how to apply financial formulas to prove or disprove the utility of 100% Nondesctructive testing (NDT), this book helps readers build the financial case for their NDT projects.

A clean and simple introduction to generating electricity from the wind.

Waterpower is the largest source of renewable energy in the world today, and microhydro is a mature, proven technology that can provide clean, inexpensive, renewable energy with little or no impact on the environment.

This book discusses different types of alternative fuels, including biodiesel, alcohol, synthetic fuels, compressed natural gas (CNG) and its blend with hydrogen, HCNG, and provides detailed information on the utilization of these alternative fuels in internal combustion (IC) engines.

This book offers a practical, application-oriented introduction to computational fluid dynamics (CFD), with a focus on the concepts and principles encountered when using CFD in industry.

The text comprehensively highlights the key issues surrounding the implementation of waste-to-energy systems, such as site selection, regulatory aspects and financial, and economic implications.

This book deals with quantifying and analyzing the risks associated with sustainable energy technology growth in electric power systems, and developing appropriate models and methodologies to mitigate the risks and improve the overall system performance.

This book explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on material science and construction practices in the Industry 4.

Addressing occupational exposure assessment for air contaminants as a coherent body of knowledge, this is the first book to explore occupational air contaminant measurement and properties, human exposure assessment, design of exposure strategies, and the statistical interpretation of exposure measurements in one comprehensive source.

This book provides an overview of the most recent advances and innovations in the subject of hydrogen separation, its applications, and the role of membranes in this process.

Dieses Lehrbuch beschreibt ausführlich das Vorgehen und die Methodik von Anlagenbilanzierungen in der Energietechnik.

This book presents research dedicated to solving scientific and technological problems in many areas of electronics, photonics and renewable energy.

Nanofluids provides insight to the mathematical, numerical, and experimental methodologies of the industrial application of nanofluids.

This book deals with the combustion and exhaust emissions of gas engines fueled with green biogas.

This book discusses the supervision of hybrid systems and presents models for control, optimization and storage.

Unlock the transformative potential of deep learning in your professional and academic endeavors with Deep Learning in Engineering, Energy and Finance: Principals and Applications.

This book analyzes the economic and technical effects of demand response programs in smart grids.

New Zealand and Australia are broadly considered to be countries in which sustainability and responsibility discourses are being pursued by governments and business alike, and in which incentives and initiatives are helping confront and overcome sustainability-related challenges.

This book describes the development, functioning, and results of a successful binational program to promote significant scientific advances in Earth-abundant photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP), advanced process/manufacturing technologies, multiscale modeling and reliability testing, and analysis of integrated solar energy systems.

Immense efforts are being made to develop efficient energy-storage devices to cater to the constantly increasing energy demand due to population growth.

Responding to a heightened awareness of the possible adverse effect of treated wood, this book presents multidisciplinary research results and fundamental information on regulations, wood treatment alternatives, and documentation of environmental releases.

This edited volume explores the world of clean energy, diving into technological innovations and advancements.

This book illustrates past and recent advances in radiation-based technologies for their application in waste biomass valorization.

With the exponential growth of science and technology, the delivery of dental care has shifted from conventional methods to intelligent techniques.

Providing a complete and in-depth overview of the available knowledge in the area of low energy and low carbon architecture.

This book discusses recent work on the use of nanoparticles in energy and environment-related work.

Value-Chain of Biofuels: Fundamentals, Technology, and Standardization presents the fundamental aspects of biofuel production, from biomass conversion technologies and biofuels' end products to related policy regulation and standardization.

Catalysis for Sustainability: Goals, Challenges, and Impacts explores the intersection between catalytic science and sustainable technologies as a means to addressing current economic, social, and environmental problems.

Used lubricating oil is a valuable resource.

This book gathers contributions from a multidisciplinary research team comprised of control engineering and economics researchers and formed to address a central interdisciplinary social issue, namely economically enabled energy management.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advancements in Mechanical Engineering (ICRAME 2020).

This book covers sustainable recycling processes (e.

Nanoscale metallic and ceramic materials, also called nanomaterials, have held enormous attraction for researchers over the past few years.

This book is a novel attempt at describing the fundamental aspects of and advancements in the field of biohythane production.

With the phenomenal development of electromagnetic wave communication devices and stealth technology, electromagnetic wave absorbing materials have been attracting attention as antielectromagnetic interference slabs, stealth materials, self-concealing technology, and microwave darkrooms.

Energy from solar radiation, fixated by self-assembling plant structures, creates biomass that is converted to energy carriers fit for application in today's and tomorrow's energy-generating equipment.

As an emerging material platform, multifunctional coordination materials offer many advantages such as remarkable porosity, structural flexibility, crystallinity, and modifiable functionalities that render them highly suited to generate and store green energy.

This book is a great opportunity to make the research community discuss the dangerous environmental challenges such as climate change and its huge effects in addition to the world's reliance on fossil fuel and non-renewable resources.