This book contains precisely referenced chapters, emphasizing environment-friendly polymer nanocomposites with basic fundamentals, practicality and alternatives to traditional nanocomposites through detailed reviews of different environmental friendly materials procured from different resources, their synthesis and applications using alternative green approaches.
This book contains precisely referenced chapters, emphasizing environment-friendly polymer nanocomposites with basic fundamentals, practicality and alternatives to traditional nanocomposites through detailed reviews of different environmental friendly materials procured from different resources, their synthesis and applications using alternative green approaches.
This book shares the latest developments and advances in materials and processes involved in the energy generation, transmission, distribution and storage.
This book addresses in detail multifaceted approaches to boosting nutrient use efficiency (NUE) that are modified by plant interactions with environmental variables and combine physiological, microbial, biotechnological and agronomic aspects.
This volume provides a systematic framework for energy suppliers, policy makers, academics, students, and all others interested in energy security, and analyzes key issues concerning energy, security and sustainability with the help of a wealth of data.
This book is a compilation of case studies from different countries and covers contemporary technologies including electric vehicles and solar thermal power plants.
The National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF), announced in the Government of India's Budget 2010-11, is seen as a major step in India's quest for energy security and reducing the carbon intensity of energy.
The volume presents the research work in understanding, modeling and quantifying the risks associated with different ways of implementing smart grid technology in power systems in order to plan and operate a modern power system with an acceptable level of reliability.
The world is witnessing a rapid growth in wind and other renewable based electricity generation due to environmental concerns associated with electricity generation from the conventional sources.
A number of driving forces, including the soaring global crude oil prices and environmental concerns in both developed and developing nations has triggered a renewed interest in the recent years on the R&D of biofuel crops.
Energy-Efficient Electrical Systems for Buildings, Second Edition offers a systematic and practical approaches to design and analyze electrical distribution and utilization systems in buildings.
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, edited by members of the Committee of Future Energy and Social Systems, The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, describes energy technology roadmaps for Japan post-Fukushima.
This book focuses on three major means of achieving a low carbon society: conservation of the ecosystem complex, changes of arrangement of landscapes, and creation of biodiversity.
This book is for all graduate students who are specializing in any environmental issue and who wish to grasp the fundamentals of physics that are required in various fields of science and engineering.
Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) at Kyoto University, Japan, has been engaged in a program called "e;Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming-Toward a CO2 Zero-Emission Energy System.
Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) at Kyoto University, Japan, has been engaged in a program called "e;Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming-Toward a CO2 Zero-Emission Energy System.
The Global COE is setting out a zero-emission technology roadmap and is promoting socioeconomic studies of energy, studies of new technologies for renewable energies, and research for advanced nuclear energy.
Since the low energy efficiency and rise in emissions by using fossil fuels, the hydrogen economy has been considered as a unique approach to resolve these problems, making hydrogen an attractive fuel.
Sonne, Wind, Wasser und Biomasse gelten als Hoffnungsträger für eine nachhaltige Energieversorgung der Zukunft: Anders als die bisherigen Hauptenergielieferanten Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle sind sie nicht endlich, sondern theoretisch unbegrenzt verfügbar, und ihre Anwendung geht mit geringeren Umweltgefahren einher als der Einsatz der Kernenergie.
Dieses Buch ist im Rahmen der vierstündigen Vorlesung "Alternative Energietechnik" herangewachsen, die ich an der Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt seit 1990 jeweils im Sommersemester gehalten habe.
In dem Lehrbuch werden die technisch wichtigen Auslegungs- und Sicherheitskriterien für konventionelle, nukleare und regenerative Energiesysteme betrachtet.
In eine unterhaltsame Geschichte verpackt, lässt der Autor die beiden jugendlichen Entdecker auf eine weltumspannende Reise gehen und dabei die Herausforderungen der zukünftigen Generation erleben.
Die Energiewirtschaft wird unter Berücksichtigung der Aspekte Versorgungssicherheit, Wirtschaftlichkeit sowie Klima- und Umweltschutz in den nächsten Jahrzehnten durch umfassende Veränderungen geprägt sein.
Recovery of Lithium from Secondary Resources: Recycling Technologies of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries presents a state-of-the-art review of recent advances in the lithium recovery from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs).
