Energy, power generation, distribution and storage

The proliferation of renewable energy enhances the sustainability of power systems, but the inherent variability also poses great challenges to the planning and operation of large power grids.

This book highlights the advances and trends in the safety analysis of sodium-cooled fast reactors, especially from the perspective of particle bed-related phenomena during core disruptive accidents.

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Renewable Technologies in Engineering (ICRTE 2021) organized by Manav Rachna International Institute of Research & Studies, Faridabad, Haryana, India, during 15-16 April 2021.

This book presents the select proceedings of International Conference on Innovations in Thermo-Fluid Engineering and Sciences (ICITFES 2020).

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Renewable Technologies in Engineering (ICRTE 2021) organized by Manav Rachna International Institute of Research & Studies, Faridabad, Haryana, India, during 15-16 April 2021.

This book presents a concise and insightful view of the knowledge on fractional-order electrical circuits, which belongs to the subject of Electric Engineering and involves mathematics of fractional calculus.

This book focuses on energy efficiency concerns in fog-edge computing and the requirements related to Industry 4.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Sustainable Technologies (ICAST 2020), organized by Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India.

This book covers the theory, modeling, and implementation of different RF energy harvesting systems.

This book presents a very useful and readable collection of chapters in nanotechnologies for energy conversion, storage, and utilization, offering new results which are sure to be of interest to researchers, students, and engineers in the field of nanotechnologies and energy.

This book covers various aspects of thermal energy storage.

This book describes comprehensively theories and methods of the power system voltage stability.

This book highlights a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the fundamental principles related to nuclear engineering.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Renewable Energy Systems (ICRES 2020).

This book demonstrates the basic and fundamental aspects of nanotechnology and potential application as a photocatalysis in multiple application especially in environment and energy harvesting.

This book presents device design, layout design, FEM analysis, device fabrication, and packaging and testing of MEMS-based piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters.

Applications of solar energy have been expanding in recent years across the world.

This book addresses and disseminates state-of-the-art research and development in the applications of intelligent techniques for smart grids and renewable energy systems.

This book highlights the main advances in fiber electronics, like fiber-shaped solar cells, batteries, supercapacitors, sensors, light-emitting devices, memristors and communication devices from the standpoints of material synthesis, structure design and property enhancement.

This book discusses about the new techniques of power generation control of oscillating water column (OWC) using airflow control and maximum power point tracking of OWC using rotational speed control.

This book includes novel and state-of-the-art research discussions that articulate and report all research aspects, including theoretical and experimental prototypes and applications that incorporate sustainability into emerging applications.

This book focuses on the advanced control of reduced dc-link capacitance AC motor drives.

This book explores the scientific basis of the photovoltaic effect, solar cell operation, various types of solar cells, and the main process used in their manufacture.

This book provides a consolidated description of the process of electro-spinning and detailed properties and applications of electro-spun electrodes and electrolytes in energy storage devices.

This book presents best selected papers presented at the International Conference on Advances in Energy Technology (ICAET 2020) organized by Gandhi Institute for Education and Technology (GIET), Bhubaneswar, India, during 17-18 January 2020.

This book focuses on a safety issue in terms of leakage current, builds a common-mode voltage analysis model for TLIs at switching frequency scale and develops a new modulation theory referred as "e;Constant Common-Mode Voltage Modulation"e; to eliminate the leakage current of TLIs.

This book analyzes multi-MHz high frequency resonant DC-DC power converters with operating frequencies ranging from several MHz to tens of MHz in detail, aiming to support researchers and engineers with a focus on multi-MHz high frequency converters.

This book examines a broad range of advances in hydrogen energy and alternative fuel developments and their role in the energy transition.

This volume presents papers from International Meeting on Energy Storage Devices (IMSED 2018).

This book presents fundamental theories, design and testing methodologies, and engineering applications concerning spacecraft thermal control systems, helping readers gain a comprehensive understanding of spacecraft thermal control systems and technologies.

This book contains selected and peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Efficient Solar Power Generation and Energy Harvesting (ESPGEH 2019).

This book comprehensively and systematically introduces the principles, key technologies and main types of new energy utilization based on the analysis and prospect of global energy development trend and energy transformation law.

This book presents selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2017), which cover topics ranging from energy optimization, generation, storage and distribution, and emerging technologies, to energy management, policy, and economics.

This book presents selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2017), which cover topics ranging from energy optimization, generation, storage and distribution, and emerging technologies, to energy management, policy, and economics.

This book covers challenges and opportunities related to solar-energy based systems.

This book comprehensively discusses the basic principles and working mechanism of all kind of batteries towards clean energy storage devices.

This book systematically introduces readers to the core algorithms of battery management system (BMS) for electric vehicles.

This book focuses on two of the most important aspects of wind farm operation: decisions and control.

This book focuses on two of the most important aspects of wind farm operation: decisions and control.

This book highlights recent research and developments in floating structures on rivers, lakes, seas and oceans for energy harvesting, aquaculture and farming, leisure activities, infrastructure, industrial plants, real estate and cities, with a focus on sustainably living, relaxing and working offshore.

This book provides a comprehensive review of functional nanomaterials for electrochemical applications, presenting interesting examples of nanomaterials with different dimensions and their applications in electrochemical energy storage.

This book investigates the evolution process of rockburst based on the energy dissipation theory and proposes appropriate active prevention and control technologies.

This book discusses the roles of nanostructures and nanomaterials in the development of battery materials for state-of-the-art electrochemical energy storage systems, and provides detailed insights into the fundamentals of why batteries need nanostructures and nanomaterials.

This book covers major technological advancements in, and evolving applications of, thermal and photovoltaic solar energy systems.

This book presents the latest research on the area of nano-energetic materials, their synthesis, fabrication, patterning, application and integration with various MEMS systems and platforms.

This book introduces the fundamental concepts of thermal cloaking based on transformation theory and bilayer theory, under the conduction and convection heat transfer modes.

This book describes important findings in intensive studies conducted in Japan on ammonia as an energy carrier.

This proceedings volume gathers selected papers presented at the Chinese Materials Conference 2017 (CMC2017), held in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, China, on July 06-12, 2017.

This book discusses the latest developments of the synthesis, preparation, characterization, and applications of nano/microstructure-based materials in biomedical and energetic fields.

This textbook covers essential electrochemistry and materials science content and provides an extensive collection of examples in order to bridge the gap between engineering students' basic knowledge and the concrete skills they need to handle practical problems in fuel cells.