Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

The book presents the results of the research project Fleets Go Green from different engineering disciplines.

This book details a process of creating a long-term sustainability and resilience plan for local governments to use in designing and implementing sustainability and resilience-related policies, initiatives, and programs.

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

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 collection focuses on energy efficient technologies including innovative ore beneficiation, smelting technologies, recycling and waste heat recovery.

This book discusses building-integrated photovoltaic systems (BIPV) and provides solutions for solving problems related to designing, sizing and monitoring a BIPV that has been used to replace conventional building materials in parts of the building envelope such as the roof, skylights or facades.

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.

This insightful text presents a guide to video distribution networks (VDNs), providing illuminating perspectives on reducing power consumption in IP-based video networks from an authoritative selection of experts in the field.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 5th ECML PKDD Workshop on Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration, DARE 2017, held in Skopje, Macedonia, in September 2017.

This book, which contains a collection of review articles as well as focus on evidence-based policy making, will serve as a valuable resource not just for all postgraduate students conducting research using systems analysis thinking but also for policy makers.

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

This book focuses on the dissemination of information of permanent interest in thermo-mechanics applications and engineering technology.

This book focuses on CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) techniques and the recent developments and research works in energy applications.

This book focuses on CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) techniques and the recent developments and research works in thermo-mechanics applications.

This book examines the characteristics of Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells with a focus on deriving realistic finite element models.

This book discusses innovations in the field of hybrid energy storage systems (HESS) and covers the durability, practicality, cost-effectiveness, and utility of a HESS.

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

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 book surveys state-of-the-art research on and developments in lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.

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 provides a review of all types of silicon solar cells.

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

The purpose of this book is to present a range of cases and comparison of the issues, insights and cases emerging from the Sustainable Energy Mix Summit in the Galapagos that offer a better understanding of energy mix in fragile environments from a variety of International locations and contexts including the Galapagos.

This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the production and use of microalgal biomass and bioproducts for energy generation.

This monograph addresses the needs of readers interested in wind energy converters.

This is the first book dedicated to solar gas turbines, providing fundamental knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in the field.

This one of a kind reference gathers numerous new studies examining the design of buildings in seaside locations.

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 book addresses electronics and the rise of photonics, and asks what the future holds in store for this technology.

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 books focuses on recent break-throughs in the development of a variety of photonic devices, serving distances ranging from mm to many km, together with their electronic counter-parts, e.

This book represents a novel attempt to describe microbial fuel cells (MFCs) as a renewable energy source derived from organic wastes.

This book investigates the role of gas networks in future low-carbon energy systems, and discusses various decarbonisation pathways, providing insights for gas network operators, developers, and policy makers.

This book investigates the main vegetable biomass types, their chemical characteristics and their potential to replace oil as raw material for the chemical industry, according to the principles of green chemistry.

The book integrates the fundamental factors that determine current and future impacts of biofuels production on water supply and demand in the context of climatic changes.

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

The brief gives a comprehensive overview of the polysaccharide applications in the field of battery materials.

This expert volume addresses the practical challenges which have so far inhibited the commercial realization of a rechargeable magnesium battery, placing the discussion within the context of the already established lithium-ion battery.

This book presents a comprehensive definition of smart grids and their benefits, and compares smart and traditional grids.

This edited volume focuses on comprehensive state-of-the-art information about the practical aspects of cultivation, harvesting, biomass processing and biofuel production from algae.

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.

This book focuses on the water-energy-climate nexus, which can be used to improve energy security and quality of life for millions of people in developing countries.

This book addresses the main challenges in implementing the concepts that aim to replace the regular fossil-fuels based energy pattern with the novel energy pattern relying on renewable energy.

This book is a concise review of the current status and future prospects of concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology.

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

This book presents recent advances in the development of biomaterials for industrial applications, and discusses the potential for substituting environmentally hazardous substances with environmentally friendly and degradable components.

This book provides the short history, current state, main problems and historical perspective for the development of electrical power engineering.

This is the first book entirely devoted to providing a perspective on the state-of-the-art of cloud computing and energy services and the impact on designing sustainable systems.

The text describes the main features of currently available heat pumps, focusing on system operation and interactions with external heat sources.

This book outlines the most recent progress in the development of technologies for carbon dioxide utilization into renewable synthetic fuels and platform chemicals via chemical and biological routes.