Energy, power generation, distribution and storage

Explore a Viable Resource for DesalinationThe world's freshwater supplies are rapidly depleting and seawater is being positioned as a major feasible replacement in the search for a sustainable water source.

In this book, a more detailed analysis is performed on the basis of quarter-hourly time series of the supply of wind energy and photovoltaics.

This book explores the use of nanomaterials as diesel fuel additives.

People rarely stop to think about where the energy they use to power their everyday lives comes from and when they do it is often to ask a worried question: is mankind's energy usage killing the planet?

People rarely stop to think about where the energy they use to power their everyday lives comes from and when they do it is often to ask a worried question: is mankind's energy usage killing the planet?

This comprehensive handbook covers all fundamentals of electrochemistry for contemporary applications.

This book assesses how low-carbon generation, the advance of energy storage and consumer-based models can help decarbonise electricity supplies at a national level.

Converter-Based Dynamics and Control of Modern Power Systems addresses the ongoing changes and challenges in rotating masses of synchronous generators, which are transforming dynamics of the electrical system.

Multi-level Inverters (MLIs) are widely used for conversion of DC to AC power.

This thesis introduces a figure of merit for light trapping with photonic nanostructures and shows how different light trapping methods compare, irrespective of material, absorber thickness or type of nanostructure.

Students preparing to work with mechatronics, particularly with highly precise and smart actuators, face the challenge of designing and analyzing devices without formal and practical guidance in computer techniques.

What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series?

This book provides new techniques for recovering exhaust heat from gas turbines, natural gas combined cycle power plants, biomass boilers, and waste heat recovery from compost and wastewater treatment plants The book provides modeling for the study and comparison of combined cycle power plants with a heat recovery boiler of three pressure levels with reheating, inserting a technological improvement of solar hybridization and partial regeneration in the gas turbine.

This book provides a complete overview of the theory, design, and applications of unmanned aerial vehicles.

This book is a collection of selected papers submitted to the 2022 International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Engineering Applications organized in Tokyo, Japan, May 13-15, 2022 (ISDEA2022).

Intended for energy managers, electrical engineers, building managers, lighting designers, consultants, and other electrical professionals, this book provides a practical description of major lighting controls types and how to apply them.

Wood Pellet Heating Systems is a comprehensive handbook covering all aspects of wood pellet heating technology.

In this book, recent developments, the future outlook, and advanced and analytical modeling techniques of smart electric and hybrid vehicles are explained with examples backed by experimental and numerical data.

This book is a comprehensive and analytical perspective on the future of electricity demand in a low-carbon world.

Many elements and inorganic compounds play an extraordinary role in daily life for numerous applications, e.

With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world.

The revised second edition of this practical book reviews the fundamentals of cryogenic liquid behaviour in small and large scale storage systems.

This book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered?

This book explores the transformative power of swarm intelligence and digital innovations in shaping the cities of the future.

This comprehensive account of the past, present and future of the automobile examines the key trends, key technologies and key players involved in the race to develop clean, environmentally friendly vehicles that are affordable and that do not compromise on safety or design.

Electricity Decentralization in the European Union: Towards Zero Carbon and Energy Transition, Second Edition examines progress in decentralization across the European Union, with each chapter focusing on developments and innovations in a specific country.

Achieving a sustainable building is not just a matter of design and construction: what happens once the building is occupied is absolutely critical.

This book introduces the working principle, materials, and design of seawater batteries and reviews the current state-of-the-art technologies in cells and modules.

The second edition of a bestseller, this definitive text covers all aspects of testing and maintenance of the equipment found in electrical power systems serving industrial, commercial, utility substations, and generating plants.

The authors of this text aim to educate the reader on nuclear power and its future potential.

A practical guide to facilitate statistically well-founded decisions in the management of assets of an electricity grid Effective and economic electric grid asset management and incident management involve many complex decisions on inspection, maintenance, repair and replacement.

This book provides the connection between the growing body of literature on sustainability and the topics of energy and ICT.

Generously illustrated with over 1600 dispaly equations and more than 145 drawings, diagrams and photographs, this book is a handy, single-source reference suited to readers with a wide span of educational backgrounds and technical experience.

Distributed Energy Resources in Local Integrated Energy Systems: Optimal Operation and Planning reviews research and policy developments surrounding the optimal operation and planning of DER in the context of local integrated energy systems in the presence of multiple energy carriers, vectors and multi-objective requirements.

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Clean and sustainable energy is of paramount importance for industrial activities, economic development, environment, and public welfare.

Progress in Floating Photovoltaic Systems reflects the huge growth underway in floating photovoltaic (PV) systems, covering the latest technologies, new ideas, and practical solutions-currently available in the sector-to support further development and implementation.

This book provides the connection between the growing body of literature on sustainability and the topics of energy and ICT.

Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) are popular in the electric vehicle industry due to their high-power density, large torque-to-inertia ratio, and high reliability.

 This book gathers the proceedings of the 7th International Conference and Exhibition on Sustainable Energy and Advanced Materials (ICE-SEAM), held on November 2021, a virtual conference organized in Melaka, Malaysia.

This four-volume set, edited by a leading expert in the field, brings together in one collection a series of papers that have been fundamental to the development of renewable energy as a defined discipline.

This book presents research developments and novel methodologies on data-rate-constrained control and state estimation for complex networked systems with different kinds of encoding-decoding mechanisms.

This book summarizes achievements and technology of China's underground gas storage in the past 20 years based on years of experience and technology accumulated in the construction and operation of gas storages.

This book offers a rigorous analysis of the achievements in the field of traffic control in large networks, oriented on two main aspects: the self-similarity in traffic behaviour and the scale-free characteristic of a complex network.

This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions.

Power Systems Analysis, Second Edition, describes the operation of the interconnected power system under steady state conditions and under dynamic operating conditions during disturbances.

The Second Edition of the bestselling Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook brings together all aspects of the design and implementation of measurement, instrumentation, and sensors.

Following the success of its predecessor, this second edition of The Future of Energy Use provides essential analysis of the use of different forms of energy and their environmental and social impacts.