Energy technology and engineering

Extremum-seeking control tracks a varying maximum or minimum in a performance function such as output or cost.

Wind Energy Conversion System covers the technological progress of wind energy conversion systems, along with potential future trends.

Information technology is the enabling foundation for all of human activity at the beginning of the 21st century, and advances in this area are crucial to all of us.

Limited availability of grid-based electricity is a major challenge faced by many developing countries, particularly the rural population.

Combustion is very much an interdisciplinary topic, drawing together elements of chemistry, fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

The demand for renewable energies from biomass is growing steadily as policies are enacted to encourage such development and as industry increasingly sees an opportunity to develop bio-energy enterprises.

The first volume in a new Springer Series on Shipping and Transport Logistics, Oil Transport Management provides a full historical account of the evolution of the oil transport industry since the 1800's.

Joe Engelberger, the pioneer of the robotics industry, wrote in his 1989 book Robotics in Service that the inspiration to write his book came as a reaction to an industry-sponsored forecast study of robot applications, which predicted that in 1995 applications of robotics outside factories - the traditional domain of industrial robots - would amount to less than 1% of total sales.

In this comprehensive and systematically presented text, the various aspects of modern power system operation and control are discussed.

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

ACRI'96 is the second conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry; the first one was held in Rende (Cosenza), on September 29-30, 1994.

Modern manufacturing systems involve many processes and operations at various hierarchical levels of decision, control and execution.

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Ever since the beginnings of mankind eons ago, the desire to control, regulate, and track even under persistent disturbances has been a dominating influence in the development of human civilization.

This is the third Workshop on Self-Organising Maps (WSOM) and its related techniques.

Solar Energy Technology deals with all aspects of solar energy systems.

This book addresses issues concerning the engineering of system prod- ucts that make use of computing technology.

Genetic Algorithms (GA) as a tool for a search and optimizing methodology has now reached a mature stage.

The purpose of this book is to present a self-contained and coordinated de- scription of several design methods for nonlinear control systems, with special emphasis on the problem of achieving stability, globally or on arbitrarily large domains, in the presence of model uncertainties.

The application of intelligent imaging techniques to industrial vision problems is an evolving aspect of current machine vision research.

This book is the product of a 15-month intensive investigation of the European artificial network scene, together with a view of the broader framework of the subject in a world context.

In the increasingly competitive modern world, the industrial sector faces new challenges such as improving productivity and reducing costs while taking into account the process operational constraints.

This book is written for students at bachelor and master programs and has four different purposes, which split the book into four parts: 1.

This book provides students and professionals, including pulsed power designers, with a complete overview of advanced semiconductor devices that can improve the performance of pulsed power systems.

This book examines biomass mixture modeling and optimization.

This book explores the urgent quest for sustainable energy solutions by examining potential renewable energy sources that meet global demands.

This extensive and expansive book focuses on three core areas of detail: the design, construction, and classification criteria for offshore bottom-load wind turbines; offshore floating-load wind turbines; and the global performance and integrated load analysis of offshore wind turbines.

Protection Improvement of Electrical Network-Connected Wind Energy Systems: Case Studies, Strategies, and Techniques from the Egyptian Power System focuses on improving the protection of wind energy systems linked to an electrical network.

This book brings together state-of-the-art advances in intelligent data analytics as driver of the future evolution of PaE systems.

The proceedings presents a comprehensive collection of carefully selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Smart Electrical Grid and Renewable Energy (SEGRE 2024).

This extensive and expansive book focuses on three core areas of detail: the design, construction, and classification criteria for offshore bottom-load wind turbines; offshore floating-load wind turbines; and the global performance and integrated load analysis of offshore wind turbines.

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.

This book introduces recent developments in green propellants and green propulsion systems by various worldwide research groups.

This book presents data-driven algorithms used in the context of wind farm modelling and exploits their relation with concepts from non-linear dynamical system theory.

The proceedings presents a comprehensive collection of carefully selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Smart Electrical Grid and Renewable Energy (SEGRE 2024).

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of radiation present in the environment, its sources, dose measurement techniques, exposures in natural and man-made radiation environments, policies governing radiation safety, societal applications of radiation technology, radiological and nuclear events, preparedness, response, and mitigation of radiation emergencies.

Technological Advancements and Future Directions in Green Energy: Selected Papers from ICGET 2024 offers readers selected and expanded papers from the 9th International Conference on Green Energy Technologies.

Technological Advancements and Future Directions in Green Energy: Selected Papers from ICGET 2024 offers readers selected and expanded papers from the 9th International Conference on Green Energy Technologies.

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

This book presents the need for Renewable Energy Technologies (RET) in the context of providing a solution for the depletion of conventional resources, protecting the environment and enhancing the economic situation of a country by way of providing employment opportunities for many people may be as employees in various roles or initiating their own enterprise.

Polypropylene film is the most widely used dielectric material in HVDC capacitors.

Polypropylene film is the most widely used dielectric material in HVDC capacitors.

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 16th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC2024), held in Datong, Shanxi, China on Aug.

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 16th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC2024), held in Datong, Shanxi, China on Aug.

This book is the 2nd volume of proceedings of the 1st Smart Nuclear Power Technology Forum and the 8th China Nuclear Power Plant Digital Technology and Application Seminar held in Shenzhen, China in June 2024.

This book presents current research, recent advances, and emerging technologies on sustainable development issues, engineering materials, and energy technology advancements, particularly in developing countries.

This book is a comprehensive guide to methodologies for analyzing reliability and optimizing maintenance in complex systems, spanning from initial design to operational stages.