Energy technology and engineering

This book provides the first comprehensive state-of-the-art research on tree (dendritic) fluid flow and heat transfer.

This book presents a range of nanocatalysts, together with their primary environmental applications and use in chemical production processes.

This book presents a complete framework for energy harvesting technologies based on graded elastic metamaterials.

The focus of this book is the application of artificial neural networks in uncertain dynamical systems.

This monograph addresses the spectrum-scarcity problem by providing a comprehensive overview of spectrum resource management in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs).

This book presents novel findings concerning the systems, materials and processes used in solar energy conversion in communities.

This book shows possible solutions to how a profitable energy supply can be implemented with almost no population resistance.

This book presents a modified model reference adaptive system (MRAS) observer for sensorless vector control of a wind driven doubly fed induction generator (DFIG).

This book has been designed for helping students and other interested readers to solve first- and second order circuits problems in the time domain, and to use the Laplace transform.

This contributed volume analyses and discusses how atmospheric carbon emissions can be prevented using carbon capture and removal technology and how renewable energies can be used to reduce carbon emissions.

This book provides users, pump manufactures, engineers, researchers and students with extensive information about pump's behavior in reverse operation.

This book focuses on the use of nanotechnology and nanomaterials in the production of biofuels.

Bringing together conceptual, theoretical and evidence-based contributions from a diverse set of experts, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of energy in Africa, from a management perspective.

This Brief offers a comprehensive study covering the different aspects of gas allocation optimization in petroleum engineering.

This book discusses heat transfer in underground energy systems.

The book covers a wide range of applied engineering research compactly presented in one volume, and shows innovative practical engineering solutions for automotive, marine and aviation industries, as well as power generation related to nonlinear vibrations excited by limited power sources.

This book offers a compact guide to geological core analysis, covering both theoretical and practical aspects of geological studies of reservoir cores.

This book offers a concise introduction to the analysis of electrical transients aimed at students who have completed introductory circuits and freshman calculus courses.

This edited volume seeks to identify the sustainability issues currently affecting the energy business and finance.

The 7th installment of the REWAS conference series held at the TMS Annual Meeting& Exhibition focuses on developing tomorrow's technical cycles.

This book addresses the potential of the transformation of biomass into a wide range of marketable products, and examines the biological, biochemical, physical and thermal processing of biomass into products such as fuels, power, heat, feeds, chemicals and materials.

Addressing the applications of computational intelligence algorithms in energy, this book presents a systematic procedure that illustrates the practical steps required for applying bio-inspired, meta-heuristic algorithms in energy, such as the prediction of oil consumption and other energy products.

This book offers a timely review of wave energy and its conversion mechanisms.

This book gathers the latest innovations and applications in the field of resource-saving technologies and advanced materials in civil and environmental engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Scientific Conference EcoComfort and Current Issues of Civil Engineering, held in Lviv, Ukraine on September 14-16, 2022.

This book gives an accessible overview of the 70-year history of nuclear fusion research and the vain attempts to construct an energy-generating nuclear fusion reactor.

This book provides a review of all types of silicon solar cells.

This book provides a comprehensive study on state-of-the-art developments in the control, operation, and market participation of active buildings (ABs).

This book constitutes the proceedings of the XXX Conference on Electrical and Electronic Engineering (JIEE 2021), held in Quito, Ecuador, on December 15 - 17, 2021, proudly organized by Facultad de Ingenieria Electrica y Electronica in Escuela Politecnica Nacional in collaboration with GDEON.

This book is devoted to the analysis and applications of energy, exergy, and environmental issues in all sectors of the economy, including industrial processes, transportation, buildings, and services.

This book addresses recycling technologies for many of the valuable and scarce materials from spent lithium-ion batteries.

This book focuses on developing strategies for ultra-lean combustion of natural gas and hydrogen, and contributes to the research on extending the lean flammability limit of hydrogen and air using a hot supersonic jet.

This book is a concise introductory guide to understanding the field of modern batteries, which is fast becoming an important area for applications in renewable energy storage, transportation, and consumer devices.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the electricity industry in China, the world's largest power producer and carbon emitter.

This book introduces several simple analytical approaches to aid the seamless integration of renewable distributed generation.

This book addresses the evaluation and optimization of key elements in concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies, such as solar receivers and working fluids, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling.

This book contains selected papers presented during technical and plenary sessions at the World Renewable Energy Congress, the world's premier conference on renewable energy and sustainable development.

This book presents new techniques and methods for distributed control and optimization of networked microgrids.

This multidisciplinary handbook explores concrete case studies which illustrate how sustainability science and research can contribute to the realization of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This book presents modern approaches to improving the energy efficiency, safety and environmental performance of industrial processes and products, based on the application of advanced trends in Green Information Technologies (IT) Engineering to components, networks and complex systems (software, programmable and hardware components, communications, Cloud and IoT-based systems, as well as IT infrastructures).

This book explains how and where copper and fossil fuels were formed and the likely future for the extraction of copper and coal.

This book provides extensive and comprehensive knowledge to researchers and academics who work on strontium contaminated areas.

This book provides a succinct overview on the application of rate and pressure transient analysis in unconventional petroleum reservoirs.

Demonstrating the potential of building strong brands in the energy sector, this book explores the challenges of shifting the perception of energy from a commodity business into a consumer brand.

This book is devoted to the development of complex methods and means of their implementation with using UAVs aimed for improving the safety and efficiency of the energy system.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th ECML PKDD Workshop on Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration, DARE 2016, held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in September 2016.

This textbook fosters information exchange and discussion on all aspects of introductory matters of modern mechanical engineering from a number of perspectives including: mechanical engineering as a profession, materials and manufacturing processes, machining and machine tools, tribology and surface engineering, solid mechanics, applied and computational mechanics, mechanical design, mechatronics and robotics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, renewable energies, biomechanics, nanoengineering and nanomechanics.

This book elucidates what it means to transition to alternative sources of energy and discusses the potential for this energy transition to be a more democratic process.

This thesis investigates the use of blade-pitch control and real-time wind measurements to reduce the structural loads on the rotors and blades of wind turbines.

This book is a concise reader-friendly introductory guide to understanding renewable energy technologies.

This handbook offers all aspects of Overhead Transmission Lines as the backbone of networks of electrical power.