Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

This book provides detailed calculated values for the thermal radiative and thermodynamic functions of black-body radiation in finite spectral ranges.

State of the art in sustainability thinking, inspired by interdisciplinary ideas of ecological economics.

This brief is a clear, concise description of the main techniques of time series analysis -stationary, autocorrelation, mutual information, fractal and multifractal analysis, chaos analysis, etc.

This book covers fundamentals of organometal perovskite materials and their photovoltaics, including materials preparation and device fabrications.

This expansive reference on the use of clean energy technologies in the aviation industry focuses on tools and solutions for maximizing the energy efficiency of aircrafts, airports, and other auxiliary components of air transit.

This book presents an extensive review of the context and an analysis of the market for clean energy technologies, with batteries as the primary case study.

This book sheds new light on how microbes can be used as effective and sustainable resources to produce green energy in the form of biogas, algal diesel, ethanol, hydrogen and direct electricity.

This book provides a detailed analysis of absorption refrigeration systems, covering single effect to multi-effect systems and their applications.

This book focuses on the basic science recently produced in Brazil for the improvement of sugarcane as a bioenergy crop and as a raw material for 2nd generation bioethanol production.

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

This book discusses the promising area of perovskite-based solar cells.

This book introduces wireless traffic steering as a paradigm to realize green communication in multi-tier heterogeneous cellular networks.

Have you ever wondered by how much CO2 emissions can be reduced by running cars electrically or with hydrogen as fuel?

This book analyses how socially responsible investments as well as the rising importance of Islamic finance are linked to the shift towards renewable energy.

This book offers an essential compendium on theanalysis and design of synchronous motors for variable-speed applications.

This book is a comprehensive volume dealing with climate change impacts on agriculture, and which can help guide the redesign of agricultural management and cropping systems.

This book presents the unique mechanical, electrical, and optical properties of nanomaterials, which play an important role in the recent advances of energy-related applications.

This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so.

This diverse resource on renewableenergy and sustainable technologies highlights the status, state of the art,challenges, advancements and options in areas such as energy recovery systems,turbine ventilators, green composites, biofuels andbio-resources for energy production, wind energy, integrated energy-efficientsystems, thermal energy storage, natural ventilation & day-lightingsystems, and low carbon technologies for building and environmentalapplications.

This monograph features what happens when light meets molecules.

This book documents the advantages and limitations of various electricity generation methods.

This book presents an economic cost-benefit assessment of the penetration of renewable power generation in Cyprus up to 2030.

The work demonstrates a techno-economic model of power generation for the cost-effective integration of renewable energy sources, with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.

This introduction to geothermal modeling deals with flow and heat transport processes in porous and fractured media related to geothermal energy applications.

This book provides an in-depth economic analysis of the challenges associated with bioenergy use and production.

This book presents key recent developments in biofuel policy, products, processes, patents and innovative technologies.

This book presents a holistic view of climate change by examining a number of energy and transportation technologies and their impact on the climate.

This monograph presentsa wider spectrum of researches, developments, and case specific studies in thearea of smart power systems and integration of renewable energy systems.

This book analyzes the main problems in the real-timecontrol of parallel hybrid electric powertrains in non-road applications thatwork in continuous high dynamic operation.

Expanding on the first edition, 'Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling (2nd Ed.

This book explores the conversion for solar energy into renewable liquid fuels through electrochemical reactions.

This book examines state-of-the-art techniques for using recycled materials for structural concrete production, and explores the use of concrete with metallurgical slag, rheology of fresh recycled concrete, and life-cycle analysis of building materials.

This book reports on a novel approach for generating mechanical energy from different, external heat sources using the body of a typical piston engine with valves.

This volume presents the results of a multi-year research programme funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council), which explains how organic solar cells work.

This book covers the topic of vibration energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials.

This resource is the first-ever compilation of industry-authored case studies on how power companies are making strides toward achieving sustainable electricity in North America.

Presenting a comprehensive analysis of the use of alternative sources of energy and technologies to produce fuels and power, this book describes the energy value chain from harvesting the raw material, (i.

This book provides anexcellent overview of the legal issues surrounding climate change mitigationand international trade law.

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT).

This book provides an overview of floating offshore wind farms and focuses on the economic aspects of this renewable-energy technology.

This bookconstitutes revised selected papers from the third ECML PKDD Workshop on DataAnalytics for Renewable Energy Integration, DARE 2015, held in Porto, Portugal,in September 2015.

This book provides insights into the current status of waste management in India and research approaches to minimize waste and convert useful waste into energy alternatives towards achieving environmental sustainability.

This book provides a technical overview of low-costparabolic trough collector (PTCs) prototypes for low-temperature heat demand.

This book gathers an in-depth collection of 45 selected papers presented at the Global Conference on Global Warming 2014 in Beijing, China, covering a broad variety of topics from the main principles of thermodynamics and their role in design, analysis, and the improvements in performance of energy systems to the potential impact of global warming on human health and wellbeing.

Tourism is an activity that anyone can take part in, regardless of their age, gender, nationality or level of income.

This book presents a concise framework for assessing technical and sustainability impacts of existing biorefineries and provides a possible road map for development of novel biorefineries.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th D-A-CH Conference on Energy Informatics, D-A-CH EI 2015, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, in November 2015.

This book presents theory-driven discussion on the link between implementing green shipping practices (GSP) and shipping firm performance.

Thisbook reports on cutting-edge findings regarding harmonic stability assessmentfor offshore wind power plants (OWPPs).

This book develops a comprehensive framework for creating sustainable new business approaches on a massive scale.