Energy, power generation, distribution and storage

This book entitled "e;Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives - Select Proceedings of EPREC-2023 provides rigorous discussions, case studies, and recent developments in the emerging areas of power electronics, especially in power inverters and converters, electrical drives, regulated power supplies, electric vehicle and its charging infrastructure, etc.

Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines is the established essential text for the fundamental solutions to efficient wind turbine design.

This book presents a methodology for the design, construction, monitoring, optimization, and post-occupancy evaluation of net-zero and positive-energy communities based on the experiences gained in the EU Horizon 2020 ZERO-PLUS project.

This book discusses how the excess value, of the products using braid, is captured in prosthetic limbs, aircraft and automotive components, commercial furniture, and trenchless sewer repair structures.

The objective of this book is to provide a collection of solved problems on control systems, with an emphasis on practical problems.

The Industrial Electronics Handbook, Second Edition combines traditional and newer, more specialized knowledge that will help industrial electronics engineers develop practical solutions for the design and implementation of high-power applications.

This textbook is a comprehensive review of many different areas in solar-pumped lasers design and characterization.

This book provides coverage of generation, effects, and control of harmonics, including interharmonics and measurements, measurements and estimation of harmonics, harmonic resonance and limitations, according to standards.

This book offers a distinctive and comprehensive view of the energy transition of Japan, with a particular focus on the rise of smart cities.

The book presents efficient numerical methods for simulation and analysis of physical processes exhibiting fractional order (FO) dynamics.

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.

Models of dynamical systems are required for various purposes in the field of systems and control.

Blade Element Rotor TheoryThis book presents an extension of the conventional blade element rotor theory to describe the dynamic properties of helicopter rotors.

Surveying the technologies used to satisfy the world's demand for open, efficient, and clean electricity, Variable Speed Generators provides an in-depth examination of variable-speed generators for both stand-alone and grid-connected applications.

This multi-authored volume presents selected papers from the Eighth Workshop on Dynamics and Control.

This book presents the defining hallmark of 2023's energy panorama which lies in the resounding impetus toward sustainability-a seismic paradigm shift echoing across industries, policies, and societal aspirations.

This textbook introduces methods of accelerating transient stability (dynamic) simulation and electromagnetic transient simulation on massively parallel processors for large-scale AC-DC grids - two of the most common and computationally onerous studies done by energy control centers and research laboratories for the planning, design, and operation of such integrated grids for ensuring the security and reliability of electric power.

This book provides a brief research source for optical fiber sensors for energy production and storage systems, discussing fundamental aspects as well as cutting-edge trends in sensing.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the current state of the art in silicon compounds for thermoelectric applications.

This book presents an introductory coverage of fuzzy logic, including basic principles from an interdisciplinary perspective.

A discussion of robust control and filtering for time-delay systems.

This book will guide Photovoltaics researchers in a new way of thinking about harvesting light energy from all wavelengths of the solar spectrum.

This book investigates and evaluates the opportunities and limitations of network governance in building local capacity for energy infrastructure governance.

A comprehensive work in finite-value systems that covers the latest achievements using the semi-tensor product method, on various kinds of finite-value systems.

This book thoroughly covers the fundamentals of the QFT robust control, as well as practical control solutions, for unstable, time-delay, non-minimum phase or distributed parameter systems, plants with large model uncertainty, high-performance specifications, nonlinear components, multi-input multi-output characteristics or asymmetric topologies.

The Third Edition of Switching Power Converters goes beyond the design and analysis of conventional power converter circuits to discuss the actual use of industrial technology, covering facets of implementation otherwise overlooked by theoretical textbooks.

Hybrid-Renewable Energy Systems in Microgrids: Integration, Developments and Control presents the most up-to-date research and developments on hybrid-renewable energy systems (HRES) in a single, comprehensive resource.

Due to a huge concentration of electromagnetic fields and eddy currents, large power equipment and systems are prone to crushing forces, overheating, and overloading.

This book supplements the comprehensive coverage of high voltage engineering with solved examples followed by a set of problems.

This book contains technical papers, presented at the third joint Canada-Japan workshop on Composites held in Japan in 2000, on topics, including smart composites, composites in civil construction, toughened composites, textile composites, braided composites, and thermoplastic composites.

In order to address the twenty-first-century challenges of decarbonisation, energy security and cost-effectiveness it is essential to understand whole energy systems and the interconnection and interaction between different components.

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 focuses on the usage of geothermal energy in countries with low-enthalpy reservoirs.

This highly informative and carefully presented book offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of thermal engineering.

Five case studies on mitigation actions (MAs) in developing countries illustrate the rich diversity of climate action.

The book contains select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Grid Energy Systems and Control (SGESC 2021).

Electric Vehicle Integration in a Smart Microgrid EnvironmentThe growing demand for energy in today's world, especially in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, has been met with massive exploitation of fossil fuels, resulting in an increase in environmental pollutants.

More and more, the advanced technological systems of today rely on sophisticated control systems designed to assure greater levels of safe operation while optimizing performance.

Thanks to the advent of inexpensive computing, it is possible to analyze, compute, and develop results that were unthinkable in the '60s.

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.

The book presents an integrated planning concept for heat flows in production systems comprising various short term and long term related models.

This book provides a succinct account of the ways in which nano technology is being applied to improve energy efficiency.