Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

This book offers a comprehensive review of current systems for fish protection and downstream migration.

This book summarises the advanced CO2 capture technologies that can be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, especially those from large-scale sources, such as power-generation and steel-making plants.

This book provides an essential overview of wind science and engineering, taking readers on a journey through the origins, developments, fundamentals, recent advancements and latest trends in this broad field.

This book is designed to provide wide understanding of lignin carbon fiber processes, chemistry, mechanisms, and techniques that will help in further development of lignin carbon fiber for automobile, aerospace, marine, and sports equipment applications.

Sugarcane exhibits all the major characteristics of a promising bioenergy crop including high biomass yield, C4 photosynthetic system, perennial nature, and ratooning ability.

This book contains selected papers presented during the World Renewable Energy Network's 28thanniversary congress at the University of Kingston in London.

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 highlights the latest advancements in the planning and operation of plug-in electric vehicles (PEV).

"e;Although technological innovation is undoubtedly crucial for addressing climate change, low-carbon innovation policies and politics have hardly been studied.

This book, based on the research experience and outcomes of a group of international contributors, addresses a range of advanced energy efficiency technologies and their applications in solar heating, cooling and power generation, while also providing solutions for tackling recurring low efficiency problems in today's systems.

This book reports on a comprehensive study addressing the dynamic responses of hydropower plants under diverse conditions and disturbances, and analyzes their stability and oscillations.

This book outlines the underlying principles on which interior lighting should be based, provides detailed information on the lighting hardware available today and gives guidance for the design of interior lighting installations resulting in good visual performance and comfort, alertness and health.

This book provides detailed information on how to set up Deep Energy Retrofits (DERs) in public buildings, and shares in-depth insights into the current status of the major technologies, strategies and practical best practice examples of how to cost-effectively combine them.

This book is devoted to CO2 capture and utilization (CCU) from a green, biotechnological and economic perspective, and presents the potential of, and the bottlenecks and breakthroughs in converting a stable molecule such as CO2 into specialty chemicals and materials or energy-rich compounds.

This fundamental book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary view on the biobased economy.

Progressive increases in consumer demands along with aggressive industrial consumption led the world to proximate resource depletion, weather changes, soil and air degradation and water quality deterioration.

This book discusses various renewable energy resources and technologies.

This book bringing together leading researchers in the field of renewable energy to discuss sustainability on a broad scale and to examine the status quo of renewable energy industry development in a global context.

This book provides readers with a basic understanding of the concepts and methodologies of sustainable aviation.

This volume collects selected papers of the 5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, 2018.

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

This book presents numerical and experimental research in the field of wind energy exploitation in urban environments.

This volume includes selected contributions presented during the 2nd edition of the international conference on WaterEnergyNEXUS which was held in Salerno, Italy in November 2018.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of wind engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the XV Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (IN-VENTO 2018), held in Naples, Italy on September 9-12, 2018.

This book offers comprehensive information on the main techniques for measuring water-oxidation-catalyst (WOC) performance, with a particular focus on the combined use of sacrificial oxidants and dyes within closed-batch reactors.

Due to growing energy demands, the development of high energy storage density dielectric materials for energy storage capacitors has become a top priority.

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 provides a comprehensive, hands-on approach to bioclimatic building design in Africa.

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of state-of-the-art concentrating solar power (CSP) generation.

The book presents novel Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques to compute offshore wind and tidal applications.

This is the first book to describe the development of and state of the art in solar shading devices in buildings, detailing all methods of evaluating shading systems according to thermal and visual comfort.

This book explores the use of biomass as an energy source and its application in energy conversion technologies.

This book discusses the biorefinery of biomass feedstocks.

This book aims to be the reference book in the area of oxyfuel combustion, covering the fundamentals, design considerations and current challenges in the field.

This book highlights the current limitations of biogas production and yield and new avenues to improving them.

This book describes an original improvement in power quality of photovoltaic generation systems obtained by the use of a multilevel inverter implemented with level doubling network (LDN).

This collection addresses the need for sustainable technologies with reduced energy consumption and pollutants and the development and application of alternative sustainable energy to maintain a green environment and energy supply.

This book analyses the economic and environmental aspects of installing photovoltaic facilities for residential electricity users and determines whether the installation of photovoltaic units "e;behind the meter"e; makes sense, and if so, the best economic size to install.

This book describes in detail different types of vibration signals and the signal processing methods, including signal resampling and signal envelope, used for condition monitoring of drivetrains.

This book reveals key challenges to ensuring the secure and sustainable production and use of energy resources, and provides corresponding solutions.

This book introduces and analyses the latest maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques, which can effectively reduce the cost of power generated from photovoltaic energy systems.

This book provides a state-of-art overview of the significant advances in understanding the impacts of wind energy on wildlife.

This book describes the risks, impacts, measures, actions and adaptation policies that have developed globally as a result of the severe impacts of global climate change.

This book offers a complete guide to designing Linear Fresnel Reflector Systems for concentrating solar radiation.

The book includes the best extended papers which were selected from the 3rd International Conference of Electrical and Information Technologies (ICEIT 2017, Morocco).

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of plasma catalysis, regarded as a promising alternative to thermal processes for energy and environmental applications.

This book presents photocatalysis as a state-of-art technology in energy production and conversion.

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This book features cutting-edge research presented at the second international conference on Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energetic Systems, IC-AIRES2018, held on 24-26 November 2018, at the High School of Commerce, ESC-Kolea in Tipaza, Algeria.

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