Energy category: 1670 books
Energy Storage Devices for Electronic Systems
Rechargeable Batteries and Supercapacitors
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Energy storage devices are a crucial area of research and development across many engineering disciplines and industries. While batteries provide the significant advantage of high energy density, their limited life cycles, disposal challenges and charge and discharge management constraints undercut...
Tomorrow's Energy
Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
How the use of nonpolluting, zero-emission hydrogen as fuel could be the cornerstone of a new energy economy.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. An invisible, tasteless, colorless gas, it can be converted to nonpolluting, zero-emission, renewable energy. When burned in an...
Modern Energy Markets
Real-Time Pricing, Renewable Resources and Efficient Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Energy has moved to the forefront in terms of societal and economic development. Modern Energy Markets is a comprehensive, economically oriented, exploration of modern electricity networks from production and distribution to deregulation and liberalization processes. Updating previous work by the...
Transition Towards 100% Renewable Energy
Selected Papers from the World Renewable Energy Congress WREC 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
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. All papers were rigorously peer reviewed.The Congress, held at Murdoch University in Perth, Western...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This book gathers an in-depth collection of 45 selected papers presented at the Global Conference on Global Warming 2014 in Beijing, China, covering a broad variety of topics from the main principles of thermodynamics and their role in design, analysis, and the improvements in performance of energy...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
A comprehensive text covering all aspects of wave and tidal energy
Wave and Tidal Energy provides a comprehensive and self-contained review of the developing marine renewable energy sector, drawing from the latest research and from the experience of device testing. The book has a twofold objective:...
Towards 100% Renewable Energy
Techniques, Costs and Regional Case-Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This volume collects papers presented at the International 100% Renewable Energy Conferences (IRENEC) from 2011 to 2015. Given the time span, the chapters have been updated to ensure they are timely, and pertinent. These proceedings are the outcome of an international group of research scientists...
Sustainable Energy and Transportation
Technologies and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book presents an integrated approach to sustainably fulfilling energy requirements, considering various energy-usage sectors and applicable technologies in those sectors. It discusses smart cities, focusing on the design of urban transport systems and sources of energy for mobility. It also shares...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent and advanced research findings on energy production and management in the important Ural industrial region of Russia. The authors consider economic problems of energy development, management systems for sustainable energy, and investment...
Changing Energy
The Transition to a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Changing Energy outlines how humanity established the current energy economy through three previous transitions, and how we now stand poised for a necessary fourth transition. Human societies around the globe have received immense benefits from uses of coal, oil, gas, and uranium sources, yet we...
Magnetocaloric Energy Conversion
From Theory to Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
This book provides the latest research on a new alternative form of technology, the magnetocaloric energy conversion. This area of research concerns magnetic refrigeration and cooling, magnetic heat pumping and magnetic power generation. The book’s systematic approach offers the theoretical basis...
Why We Need Nuclear Power
The Environmental Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Nuclear power may just be the most important solution to our search for clean, sustainable energy sources. Although wind and solar can contribute to our energy mix, we need a reliable source to meet large-scale energy demands and break our dependence on fossil fuels. However, most people are wary,...
Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
This book explains the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy and its storage. It covers the basic background; interface modeling at the reacting surface; energy conversion with chemical, electrochemical and photoelectrochemical approaches and energy conversion using applied photosynthesis....
by Stanislaw Sieniutycz, Jacek Jezowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells, Third Edition covers the optimization and integration of energy systems, with a particular focus on fuel cell technology. With rising energy prices, imminent energy shortages, and the increasing environmental impacts of energy production, energy...