Energy technology and engineering

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this part is supported by two useful appendices on some of the mathematical tools used and the physical units of plasma physics.

"e;Power Electronics in Smart Electrical Energy Networks"e; introduces a new viewpoint on power electronics, re-thinking the basic philosophy governing electricity distribution systems.

"e;Stability Augmentation of a Grid-connected Wind Farm"e; introduces a comprehensive approach to stabilizing the power output from wind farms, covering both fixed and variable speed wind turbine generator systems.

Electrical energy is one of the main elements for the economical development of society.

Electrical power is ubiquitous and continuously increasing in demand, with the result that power systems often operate close to their stability and thermal ratings.

Providing an in-depth treatment of neural network models, this volume explains and proves the main results in a clear and accessible way.

A mobile agent is a software program which can suspend its execution and resume it on another computer.

Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers are the most adopted controllers in industrial settings.

One of the main requirements of power quality management is the guarantee of an adequate sinusoidal voltage waveform profile at each node of a network.

Renewable energy technologies have been used on a small scale for many years now.

Control Design Techniques in Power Electronics Devices deals specifically with control theories relevant to the design of switched power electronics, for the most part, DC-DC converters and supplies, rectifiers of different kinds and inverters with varying topologies.

The topics of control engineering and signal processing continue to ?

Environmental and political concerns are generating a growing interest in alternative engine fuels such as biodiesel.

Although the transfer function approach is widely used in classical control theory, computer-controlled continuous-time processes are a very important subset of periodic sampled-data systems which are not treatable using ordinary transfer functions.

In electronics manufacture, the expanding range of products and the smaller-and-smaller scale of increasingly integrated components is producing a trend towards complex and fault-susceptible processes.

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering.

Internet traffic is increasing by at least 200% per year and the world's largest Internet Service Provider expects traffic on its regional trunks to grow to a 1-10 petabit range over the next four to five years.

Recently, there have been significant developments in robust control of time-delay systems.

The topics of control engineering and signal processing continue to flourish and develop.

This book is written based upon VEE Pro Version 6.

Robust Control Design with MATLAB(R) helps you learn how to use well-developed robust control design methods in practical cases.

Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of sensors in the non-visible bands.

The extraordinary development of digital computers (microprocessors, microcontrollers) and their extensive use in control systems in all fields of applications has brought about important changes in the design of control systems.

Recognising the benefits of improved control, the second edition of Autotuning of PID Controllers provides simple yet effective methods for improving PID controller performance.

Receding Horizon Control (RHC) introduces the essentials of a successful feedback strategy that has emerged in many industrial fields.

A complete course in self-tuning control, beginning with a survey of adaptive control and the formulation of adaptive control problems.

Actuator saturation is probably the most frequent nonlinearity encountered in control applications and causes "e;controller"e; windup and "e;plant"e; windup calling for distinct remedies.

"e;Acrobat(R) and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction"e; is a practical guide focusing on the applications of PDF in the solution of "e;engineering"e; problems which may arise in various disciplines from architecture to construction.

Stochastic geometry is a relatively new branch of mathematics.

Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines is an exposition of models developed to assist in the motion control of various types of mini-aircraft: Planar Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft; helicopters; quadrotor mini-rotorcraft; other fixed-wing aircraft; blimps.

Taking a three-pronged approach - test engineering from traditional-test, design and manufacturing view-points - Integrated Circuit Test Engineering encapsulates the subject as it stands today.

Distributed control systems offer the advantages of local control, while retaining the ease of control at a single centralized location.

Fuel cells are electrochemical devices that convert the energy of a fuel (such as hydrogen, natural gas or other hydrocarbon-based fuels) directly into electricity.

Over the past several years, significant advances have been made in developing the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for applications in fluid flow and heat transfer.

This book includes papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy (ICEERE 2024), held in Saidia, Morocco, which focus on the application of artificial intelligence techniques, emerging technology, and the Internet of things in electrical and renewable energy systems, including hybrid systems, micro-grids, networking, smart health applications, smart grid, mechatronics, and electric vehicles.

The book combines two interrelated lines of research.

This book introduces the mathematical foundations of distributionally robust optimization (DRO) for decision-making problems with ambiguous uncertainties and applies them to tackle the critical challenge of energy storage sizing in renewable-integrated power systems, providing readers with an efficient and reliable approach to analyze and design real-world energy systems with uncertainties.

With cities and regions moving away from fossil-nuclear energy sources, the importance of energy-ecological urban transformation is growing.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 4th International Conference on Biomass Utilization and Sustainable Energy 2024 (ICoBiomasSE 2024) organized by the Centre of Excellence for Biomass Utilization (COEBU), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), held at Penang in MalaysiaThis book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 4th International Conference on Biomass Utilization and Sustainable Energy 2024 (ICoBiomasSE 2024) organized by the Centre of Excellence for Biomass Utilization (COEBU), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), held at Penang in Malaysia from 2nd to 3rd of Sept.

This book provides a comprehensive global coverage of energy management as it relates mostly to developing countries.

This book discusses the recent advancements in chemical engineering and their role in achieving the United Nations' 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book provides the potential advantages of adaptive impedance converters in different applications, such as power quality compensations, AC/DC microgrids, co-phase railway traction supply systems, and underwater electroacoustic transduction systems.

This book, belonging to energy discipline, summarized the latest research progress in the development of microbial lipids and biodiesel technologies.

This proceedings contains peer-reviewed papers from International Conference on Renewable and Clean Energy 2025 which was held in Fukuoka, Japan, Feb 15-17, 2025.

This volume comprises the select peer reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Evolutions in Energy, Drives and e-Vehicles (REED-EV 2022).

With the growth of the installed capacity and the proportion of REG, mainly including wind power and PV power generation, the stable operation of REG and AC/DC transmission systems has become a technical bottleneck for the sustainable development of REG.

Digital technology contributes to sustainability as it positively impacts society and environment, improves efficiency, and minimizes waste.