Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are interdisciplinary fields that bring together physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and engineers to meet the potential future challenges that humankind will face, including the search for renewable energies for sustainable development and new technologies for carbon capture and environmental protection.

While the sustainability of our world is being endangered or destroyed by the misguided activities of artificial human entities, real people have begun to expand their moral sympathies sufficiently to prioritize protecting our world's interests.

The impending energy crisis brought on by the running out of finite and non-homogenously distributed fossil fuel reserves and the worldwide increase in energy demand has prompted vast research in the development of sustainable energy technologies in the last few decades.

Agricultural and food industry waste materials have been an important feedstock for activated carbon production for many years.

Traditional Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodologies affect the public health and environmental impacts from a material, product, process or activity.

This book highlights the outstanding role of hydrogen in energy processes, where it is the most functional element due to its unique peculiarities that are highlighted and emphasized in the book.

This book disseminates and discusses relevant best case examples and research practices that show how nanomaterial research and related engineering concepts may provide answers and viable solutions to a variety of socioeconomic issues and concerns.

This book covers how magnesium can be used for metal-air-fuel cells for automobiles and powerplants.

The book comes in three parts: "e;The Rising Sun in a Developing World"e;, "e;Solar Power for the World"e; and "e;PV Today and Forever"e;.

This book highlights the design of a new type of solar chimney that has lower height and bigger diameter, and discusses its applications.

This book provides recent trends and innovation in solar energy.

This book introduces the electromagnetic compatibility(EMC) of electric vehicle(EV), including EMC of the whole vehicle, electromagnetic interference(EMI) prediction and suppression of motor drive system, EMI prediction and suppression of DC-DC converter, electromagnetic field safety and EMC of wireless charging system, signal integrity and EMC of the vehicle controller unit(VCU), EMC of battery management system(BMS), electromagnetic radiated emission diagnosis and suppression of the whole vehicle, etc.

This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2020).

This book presents a series of new topologies and modulation schemes for soft-switching in isolated DC-DC converters.

This book highlights the significance of urban agricultural production, the technologies and methods for supplying organic materials to the farmland, recovering plant nutrients and energy in cities, and systems for sustaining farmlands in order to produce agricultural crops and supply safe food to citizens.

The book focuses on a global issue-municipal solid waste management (MSWM) and presents the most effective solutions based on energy recovery processes.

This book features selected papers from the 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology (AOSFST 2018), held in Taipei, Taiwan.

Volume II presents the latest advances in catalytic hydrodeoxygenation and other transformations of some cellulosic platform chemicals to high value-added products.

Volume I mainly focuses on the current understanding of the reaction pathways and mechanisms involved in several important catalytic conversions of cellulose and carbohydrates.

This book includes selected papers from the ICGSCE 2014 with focus on the current trends of global resources used to meet the growing demands to improve life style coupled with environmental and social problems related to the resource consumption with emphasize to move towards sustainable development.

This book analyzes the effects of power generated by renewable energy sources, renewable energy production technologies, energy efficiency, and market regulation of carbon emissions.

The increase in GHG gases in the atmosphere due to expansions in industrial and vehicular concentration is attributed to warming of the climate world wide.

This biannual conference in Pahang, Malaysia, is a clearing house for many of the latest research findings in a highly multidisciplinary field.

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.

This book is an attempt to provide an account of biomass recalcitrance and available physical and chemical methods for biomass pretreatment and hydrolysis.

This book will attempt to provide an account of knowledge on biomass available for biomass-based biorefineries.

This book discusses generalized applications of energy storage systems using experimental, numerical, analytical, and optimization approaches.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 focuses on the thermal management technology of lithium-ion batteries for vehicles.

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.

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 provides an overview of how efficient building energy management can be done, considering the increasing importance of renewable energy integration.

This book which is the second part of two volumes on 'Control of Electrical and Electronic Systems"e; presents a compilation of selected contributions to the 1st International Conference on Electrical Systems & Automation.

This edited volume on "e;Recent Advances in Renewable Energy"e; presents a selection of refereed papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Electrical Systems and Automation.

This book comprises the proceedings of the International Symposium on Sustainable Energy and Power Engineering (SUSE) 2021.

This edited book presents nanotechnology-based approaches to improve quality of biofuels production.

This edited book is a comprehensive collection of chapters on various clean energy technology such as solar energy, waste biomass as energy, hydro-electricity generation, biodiesel production from biomass and strategies to cater the demand of clean renewable energy.

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

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

This book covers sustainable recycling processes (e.

The book is a study of the cooperation of Brazil and India on renewable energy.

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Renewable Technologies in Engineering (ICRTE 2021) organized by Manav Rachna International Institute of Research & Studies, Faridabad, Haryana, India, during 15-16 April 2021.

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Renewable Technologies in Engineering (ICRTE 2021) organized by Manav Rachna International Institute of Research & Studies, Faridabad, Haryana, India, during 15-16 April 2021.