Energy, power generation, distribution and storage

Lead-Acid Batteries: Science and Technology presents a comprehensive overview of the theory of the technological processes of lead-acid battery manufacture and their influence on battery performance parameters.

This book describes how to carry out safely a range of basic servicing checks and replacements, such as they will be asked routinely to carry out in a general motor workshop.

Today's consumers of portable electronics consumers are demanding devices not only deliver more power but also work healthy for the environment.

This book aims to work out the distributed economic operation in smart grids in a systematic way, which ranges from model-based to model-free perspectives.

Dynamos is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on "e;Dynamos"e;.

Power Quality in Power Systems and Electrical Machines, Second Edition helps readers understand the causes and effects of power quality problems and provides techniques to mitigate these problems.

Scientist and engineers working in the field renewable energy must overcome the challenges of conversion, transmission and storage before it can replace more traditional power sources such as oil and gas.

Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells, Second Edition covers the optimization and integration of energy systems, with a particular focus on fuel cell technology.

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Control plays a very important role in all aspects of power plants and power systems.

Fuel cells are, according to some, the answer to the future problems of energy resources.

This book provides a comprehensive practical treatment of the modelling of electrical power systems, and the theory and practice of fault analysis of power systems covering detailed and advanced theories as well as modern industry practices.

Maintaining appropriate power systems and equipment expertise is necessary for a utility to support the reliability, availability, and quality of service goals demanded by energy consumers now and into the future.

Small-scale gas turbines, known as Microturbines, represent an exciting new development in gas turbine technology.

A large number of solar cell and solar cell systems are described in this volume.

Based on the successful first edition, this book gives a general theoretical introduction to electrochemical power cells (excluding fuel cells) followed by a comprehensive treatment of the principle battery types - covering chemistry, fabrication characteristics and applications.

The past decade has witnessed dramatic growth in the diversity and complexity of device applications where vacuum is required to support either high voltages or high electric fields.

This is a guide for the system designers and installers faced with the day-to-day issues of achieving EMC, and will be found valuable across a wide range of roles and sectors, including process control, manufacturing, medical, IT and building management.

For ease of use, this edition has been divided into the following subject sections: general principles; materials and processes; control, power electronics and drives; environment; power generation; transmission and distribution; power systems; sectors of electricity use.

Simplified Design of Micropower and Battery Circuits provides a simplified, step-by-step approach to micropower and supply cell circuit design.

The protection which is installed on an industrial power system is likely to be subjected to more difficult conditions than the protection on any other kind of power system.

Power Electronics Design Handbook covers the basics of power electronics theory and components while emphasizing modern low-power components and applications.

Never before has so much ground been covered in a single volume reference source.

Power transfer for large systems depends on high system voltages.

Electric Vehicle Battery Systems provides operational theory and design guidance for engineers and technicians working to design and develop efficient electric vehicle (EV) power sources.

There is a large gap between what you learn in college and the practical knowhow demanded in the working environment, running and maintaining electrical equipment and control circuits.

This book provides the reader with an understanding of the hazards involved in using electrical equipment in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres.

The book provides technical know-how not covered by most universities and colleges in a subject that is central to the roles of many electrical engineers in industry, focusing on switchgear, power cables, power factor correction, and network studies.

Power Supply Cookbook, Second Edition provides an easy-to-follow, step-by-step design framework for a wide variety of power supplies.

This comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice encountered in the installation and design of transmission and distribution systems for electrical power has been updated and revised to provide the project engineer with all the latest, relevant information to design and specify the correct system for a particular application.

This book is a crash course in the fundamental theory, concepts, and terminology of switching power supplies.

Coal is currently a major energy source in the United States as well as throughout the world, especially among many developing countries, and will continue to be so for many years.

When the first edition of Optical Interferometry was published, interferometry was regarded as a rather esoteric method of making measurements, largely confined to the laboratory.

Fuel cells have been recognized to be destined to form the cornerstone of energy technologies in the twenty-first century.

The design of Switching Power Supplies has become one of the most crucial aspects of power electronics, particularly in the explosive market for portable devices.

Plant operators, electricians, field technicians and engineers will gain a practical understanding of the role and workings of power system protection systems from this work.