Energy category: 1670 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
It is now widely recognized that there is a need for long-term secure and suitable sustainable forms of energy. Renewable energy from the marine environment, in particular renewable energy from tidal currents, wave and wind, can help achieve a sustainable energy future. Our understanding of environmental...
Switchgrass
A Valuable Biomass Crop for Energy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
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. Recent policy changes in the EU, USA and other countries are spurring interest in the cultivation...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the production and use of microalgal biomass and bioproducts for energy generation. It also offers extensive information on engineering approaches to energy production, such as process integration and process intensification in harnessing...
Energy Performance of Buildings
Energy Efficiency and Built Environment in Temperate Climates
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
This book analyzes the trends and technologies of green and energy efficient building, identifying strategies for implementing energy savings and enabling the use of renewable resources in residential, commercial, healthcare and educational building sectors. The authors focus on best practices in...
The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain
Governance, Business and Finance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain. The actual dimension of the Spanish nuclear sector, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2012
Sol-Gel Processing for Conventional and Alternative Energy is a comprehensive source of information on the use of sol-gel processing in materials in energy systems, conversion, storage, and generation. The volume editors include numerous applications, primarily in nuclear fuel processing, electrolytes...
by Joe Briscoe, Steve Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
This book covers a range of devices that use piezoelectricity to convert mechanical deformation into electrical energy and relates their output capabilities to a range of potential applications. Starting with a description of the fundamental principles and properties of piezo- and ferroelectric materials,...
Mediterranean Green Buildings & Renewable Energy
Selected Papers from the World Renewable Energy Network's Med Green Forum
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
This book highlights scientific achievements in the key areas of sustainable electricity generation and green building technologies, as presented in the vital bi-annual World Renewable Energy Network’s Med Green Forum. Renewable energy applications in power generation and sustainable development...
Solar Hydrogen Energy Systems
Science and Technology for the Hydrogen Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
It is just a matter of time when fossil fuels will become unavailable or uneconomical to retrieve. On top of that, their environmental impact is already too severe. Renewable energy sources can be considered as the most important substitute to fossil energy, since they are inexhaustible and have a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the decrease of the available amount of fossil fuels necessitate finding new alternative and sustainable energy sources in the near future. This book summarizes the role and the possibilities of catalysis in the production of new energy carriers...
by Efstathios E. Michaelides
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Energy and the Environment explains in simple terms what the energy demand is at the present, what the environmental effects of energy use are, and what can be accomplished to alleviate the environmental effects of energy use and ensure adequate energy supply. Though technical in approach, the text...
Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energetic Systems
Smart Sustainable Energy Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
This book includes the latest research presented at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energetic Systems held in Tipaza, Algeria on October 22–24, 2017. The development of renewable energy at low cost must necessarily involve the intelligent optimization of energy...
Solar PV and Wind Energy Conversion Systems
An Introduction to Theory, Modeling with MATLAB/SIMULINK, and the Role of Soft Computing Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This textbook starts with a review of the principles of operation, modeling and control of common solar energy and wind-power generation systems before moving on to discuss grid compatibility, power quality issues and hybrid models of Solar PV and Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS). MATLAB/SIMULINK...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Advances in Energy Harvesting Methods presents a state-of-the-art understanding of diverse aspects of energy harvesting with a focus on: broadband energy conversion, new concepts in electronic circuits, and novel materials. This book covers recent advances in energy harvesting using different transduction...