Energy, power generation, distribution and storage

An examination of key issues in electric utilities restructuring.

This book describes numerous issues and brings an improved understanding of a key agenda item for the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

This book concentrates on improving the prediction of a vehicle's future trajectory, particularly on non-straight paths.

This book covers issues associated with smart systems due to the presenceof onboard nonlinear components.

This book presents selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2019), providing a comprehensive coverage encompassing all fields and aspects of energy in terms of generation, storage, and distribution.

The book presents design methods for analog integrated circuits with improved electrical performance.

A comprehensive data analytics program is the only way utilities will be able to meet the challenges of modern grids with operational efficiency, while reconciling the demands of greenhouse gas legislation, and establishing a meaningful return on investment from smart grid deployments.

This book reviews the past, present and future generation and use of electricity.

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

This book provides a comprehensive overview of protection schemes used for power transformers and describes the internal fault conditions and external abnormalities that may disrupt the operation of a power transformer.

The book focuses on a very important area of Smart Grids - cyber security.

This book discusses how to reduce the impact of dust and heat on photovoltaic systems.

Photovoltaics, the direct conversion of light from the sun into electricity, is an increasingly important means of distributed power generation.

Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering fills a need for those seeking insight into the design procedures of the air and missile defense system engineering process.

To meet the demands of students, scientists and engineers for a systematic reference source, this book introduces, comprehensively and in a single voice, research and development progress in emerging metamaterials and derived functional metadevices.

This book is the first on Smart Grid 3.

This book describes a computational system for designing linear feedback control laws and filters for linear time-variant multivariable differential or difference equation state vector models.

This book offers a thorough analysis of the mechanical properties, heat transfer, and flow characteristics as well as the monitoring techniques during the construction and operation of underground salt cavern gas storage, with an emphasis on the geological features of layered salt rocks.

Cyber and Electromagnetic Threats in Modern Relay Protection provides a detailed overview of the vulnerabilities of digital protection relays to natural and intentional destructive impacts, including cyber attacks and electromagnetic intrusions.

This book systematically introduces the bionic nature of force sensing and control, the biomechanical principle on mechanism of force generation and control of skeletal muscle, and related applications in robotic exoskeleton.

Energy Production Systems Engineering presents IEEE, Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA), and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards of engineering systems and equipment in utility electric generation stations.

Discusses the requirements for establishing, maintaining and revitalizing an efficient engineering documentation control system for use by technical and manufacturing personnel in private industry.

Recognizing the need for improved control measures in the manufacturing process of highly sensitized semiconductor technology, this practical reference provides in-depth and advanced treatment on the origins, procedures, and disposal of a variety of contaminants.

Electrical Safety and the Law describes the hazards and risks from the use of electricity, explaining with the help of case studies and accident statistics the types of accidents that occur and how they can be prevented by the use of safe installations, equipment and working practices.

Various factors affect the performance of electrical contacts, including tribological, mechanical, electrical, and materials aspects.

With distributed generation interconnection power flow becoming bidirectional, culminating in network problems, smart grids aid in electricity generation, transmission, substations, distribution and consumption to achieve a system that is clean, safe (protected), secure, reliable, efficient, and sustainable.

Dieses praxisnahe Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk zeigt anschaulich die Welt der elektrochemischen Energiewandler und ihre modernen Anwendungen für nachhaltige Energiekonzepte.

This book deals with the design of CMOS compatible analog circuits using current mode techniques.

This edited book proposes a collection of recently undertaken technical work on topics from various aspects of power engineering, energy systems as well as integrated smart technologies and related challenges.

Real-time and embedded systems are essential to our lives, from controlling car engines and regulating traffic lights to monitoring plane takeoffs and landings to providing up-to-the-minute stock quotes.

The transition to renewable energy is essential for ensuring energy supply, and to mitigate environmental effects of fossil fuels, particularly climate change.

Exploring methods and techniques to optimize processing energy efficiency in process plants, Energy and Process Optimization for the Process Industries provides a holistic approach that considers optimizing process conditions, changing process flowschemes, modifying equipment internals, and upgrading process technology that has already been used in a process plant with success.

This book presents new approaches to R&D of piezoelectric actuators and generators of different types based on established, original constructions and contemporary research into framework of theoretical, experimental, and numerical methods of physics, mechanics, and materials science.

Providing innovative efficient, clean, and safe solutions and research for interfacing internet technology with energy power grids for smart cities and smart transportation, this new volume discusses the use and automation of electricity infrastructures for energy producers and manufacturers, integrating the implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology for distributed energy systems in order to optimize energy efficiency and wastage.

The comprehensive textbook will help readers to develop analytic reasoning of power quality aspects in distribution power systems.

This book focuses on the risk modeling, analysis and control of multi-energy systems considering cross-sectorial failure propagation.

Microgrid Protection and Control is the result of numerous research works and publications by R&D engineers and scientists of the Microgrid and Energy Internet Research Centre.

This book considers the issues of constructing mathematical probabilistic models of diagnostic signals, the development of statistical methods of their analysis in order to make diagnostic decisions and, finally, the technical implementation of the proposed diagnostic methods.

Introduction to the Calculus of Variations and Control with Modern Applications provides the fundamental background required to develop rigorous necessary conditions that are the starting points for theoretical and numerical approaches to modern variational calculus and control problems.

Hazardous energy present in systems, machines, and equipment has injured, maimed, and killed many workers.

The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power.

Now in its Third Edition, Alternative Energy Systems: Design and Analysis with Induction Generators has been renamed Modeling and Analysis with Induction Generators to convey the book's primary objective-to present the fundamentals of and latest advances in the modeling and analysis of induction generators.

Highlighting the capabilities, limitations, and benefits of wind power, Wind Turbine Technology gives you a complete introduction and overview of wind turbine technology and wind farm design and development.

Cooling buildings is a major global energy consumer and the energy requirement is growing year by year.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the stability of modern power systems through advanced nonlinear analysis frameworks.

This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018.