Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

This book is a study of the making of foreign policy of China, a rising power in the 21st century.

Renewable energies reduce dependence on fossil fuels and minimize the carbon footprint.

The Environmental Design Pocketbook 2nd ed places the information you need for sustainable, low energy building design at your fingertips.

This book presents and facilitates the interchange of new research and development results concerned with hot topics in thermoelectric generators (TEGs) research, development and production.

This book presents an in-depth examination of the challenges facing the port industry in reducing CO2 emissions.

This volume covers concepts and innovative approaches to sustainable development with respect to environmental health, looking at issues such as climate change, pollution control, liquid waste, solid waste management, toxic chemical exposure, food and agro-industrial waste, etc.

The perception of Central Asia and its place in the world has come to be shaped by its large oil and gas reserves.

The demands placed on land, water, energy and other natural resources are exacerbated as the world population continues to increase together with the expectations of economic growth.

Evaluating building materials for environmental sustainability is a complex prospect.

This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.

This book provides the reader with essential tools needed to analyze complex societal issues and demonstrates the transition from physics to modern-day laws and treaties.

Oil and Gas Engineering for Non-Engineers explains in non-technical terms how oil and gas exploration and production are carried out in the upstream oil and gas industry.

This unique book provides the first comprehensive overview of wood based bioenergy in the northern hardwood forests of the Eastern United States.

Ever-increasing population growth, combined with ongoing climate change signals that agriculture will face great challenges in ensuring global food security by 2050.

This book features extensive coverage of all Distributed Energy Generation technologies, highlighting the technical, environmental and economic aspects of distributed resource integration, such as line loss reduction, protection, control, storage, power electronics, reliability improvement, and voltage profile optimization.

Smart grid technologies include sensing and measurement technologies, advanced components aided with communications and control methods along with improved interfaces and decision support systems.

This textbook provides in-depth treatment of all systems associated with wind energy, including the aerodynamic and structural aspects of blade design, the flow of energy and loads through the wind turbine, the electrical components and power electronics including control systems.

Hybrid Power Cycle Arrangements for Lower Emissions is an edited book that explores the state-of-the-art for creating effective hybrid power cycles for power generation with lower emission while utilizing different energy sources.

In diesem Buch werden die Grundlagen für die Ermittlung von Kurzschlussströmen behandelt.

Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy.

The book captures the essence of the First International Conference on Frontiers of Biological Sciences and Environmental Health (FBSEH 2023).

This book contains select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Technologies for Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development (ICSTEESD 2020).

Cutting-edge technologies, finance, and implementation for real-world renewable energy storage applicationsPlan, fund, and successfully implement renewable energy storage projects using the expert information contained in this comprehensive guide.

Conventional coal, oil and gas resources used worldwide for power production and transportation are limited and unsustainable.

To date all books on geothermics have emphasized its use for generating electricity, with applications of lower grade resources for direct heating meriting only a brief chapter.

This easy accessible textbook provides an overview of solar to electric energy conversion, followed by a detailed look at one aspect, namely photovoltaics, including the underlying principles and fabrication methods.

This text emphasizes the importance of sustainable material, design, and manufacturing processes, and how the needs are changing day by day.

The recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on 19 May 2010.

This book covers evolution, concept and applications of modern semiconductor devices such as tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs), vertical super-thin body MOSFETs, ion sensing FETs (ISFETs), non-conventional solar cells, opto-electro mechanical devices and thin film transistors (TFTs).

The limited available of fossil energy carriers and the environmental impacts of energy consumtion demand mid-and long-term strategies both for the rational use of energy and for increased renewable energy utilization.

This expert volume provides specialized coverage of the current state of the art in carbon gels.

The book summarizes the current state of the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology in power generation applications.

Modern Computational Techniques for Engineering Applications presents recent computational techniques used in the advancement of modern grids with the integration of non-conventional energy sources like wind and solar energy.

Sustainable aviation fuels have the potential to make an essential contribution to decarbonizing the aviation sector and play an important role in strengthening the circular bioeconomy.

Sodium Fast Reactors with Closed Fuel Cycle delivers a detailed discussion of an important technology that is being harnessed for commercial energy production in many parts of the world.

The Arctic region contains large amounts of natural resources considered necessary to sustain global economic growth, so it is unsurprising that it is increasingly susceptible to political, economic, environmental, and even military conflicts.

The purpose of this textbook is to provide a well-rounded working knowledge of both climate change and environmental sustainability for a wide range of students.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Microalgae can be future resource for industrial biotechnologyIn current energy crisis era, microalgae are under tremendous research focus for the production of biodiesel due to their high photosynthetic efficiency, growth rate and high lipid content compared to territorial plants.

This book provides a thorough understanding of the basic principles, synthesis, analysis, and control of virtual inertia systems.

This multi-disciplinary volume presents information on the state-of-the-art in sustainable energy technologies key to tackling the world's energy challenges and achieving environmentally benign solutions.

This book will provide readers with a good overview of some of most recent advances in the field of technology for perovskite materials.

This book addresses a range of solutions and effective control techniques for Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs), intended as a response to the increased energy consumption and wastewater production stemming from globalization.

This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018).

This book is a collection of research findings presented at 2023 2nd International Joint Conference on Frontiers of Energy and Environmental Engineering (CFEEE 2023), held in Sanya, China on September 1-3, 2023.

Model Predictive Control of Wind Energy Conversion Systems addresses the predicative control strategy that has emerged as a promising digital control tool within the field of power electronics, variable-speed motor drives, and energy conversion systems.

This book presents original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 4th Purple Mountain Forum -International Forum on Smart Grid Protection and Control (PMF2019-SGPC), held in Nanjing, China on August 17-18, 2019.

The term "e;climate justice"e; began to gain traction in the late 1990s following a wide range of activities by social and environmental justice movements that emerged in response to the operations of the fossil fuel industry and, later, to what their members saw as the failed global climate governance model that became so transparent at COP15 in Copenhagen.

This book presents selected peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Mechanical and Energy Technologies, which was held on October 28-29, 2021, at Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, India.