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Magnetic Fusion Energy

From Experiments to Power Plants

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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016

Magnetic Fusion Energy: From Experiments to Power Plants is a timely exploration of the field, giving readers an understanding of the experiments that brought us to the threshold of the ITER era, as well as the physics and technology research needed to take usbeyond ITER to commercial fusion power...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013

Governments are setting challenging targets to increase the production of energy and transport fuel from sustainable sources. The emphasis is increasingly on renewable sources including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass based biofuel, photovoltaics or energy recovery from waste. What are the environmental...
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Offshore Energy Structures

For Wind Power, Wave Energy and Hybrid Marine Platforms

by Madjid Karimirad
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014

This book provides all the key information needed to design offshore structures for renewable energy applications successfully. Suitable for practicing engineers and students, the author conveys design principles and best practices in a clear, concise manner, focusing on underlying physics while eschewing...
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by José Ramón San Cristóbal Mateo
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012

Decision makers in the Renewable Energy sector face an increasingly complex social, economic, technological, and environmental scenario in their decision process. Different groups of decision-makers become involved in the process, each group bringing along different criteria therefore, policy formulation...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017

This book focuses on solar-energy-based renewable energy systems and discusses the generation of electric power using solar photovoltaics, as well as some new techniques, such as solar towers, for both residential and commercial needs. Such systems have played an important role in the move towards...
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Energy and Culture

Perspectives on the Power to Work

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

How will humanity continue to meet its energy needs without destroying the conditions necessary to sustain human life on earth? The search for an answer to this question depends as much on the past as on the present; and as much on the physical sciences as on the social sciences. This book offers...
Cover of Heterogeneous Catalysis at Nanoscale for Energy Applications
by Franklin (Feng) Tao, William F. Schneider, Prashant V. Kamat
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015

This book presents both the fundamentals concepts and latest achievements of a field that is growing in importance since it represents a possible solution for global energy problems. It focuses on an atomic-level understanding of heterogeneous catalysis involved in important energy conversion processes....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017

This book shows the different molecular devices used for solar energy conversion and storage and the important characterization techniques for this kind of device. It has five chapters describing representative molecule-based solar cells, such as organic solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells and...
Cover of Developments in Sustainable Chemical and Bioprocess Technology
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013

Environmental sustainability and development is of critical importance. Technological advances in the production of new energy sources are making their way into our lives in more and more depth every day. However, there is an urgent need to address the technological challenges and advancement of the...
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Energy and the Quality of Life

Understanding Energy Policy

by Peter Victor, Robert Macdonald, Clifford Hooker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981

As the supply/cost crunch tightens, issues related to energy become increasingly compelling. This is a guide for the general public to the fossil fuel crisis facing Canada, and Ontario in particular. It is also about other long-term matters of greater importance: the economic, socio-political, and...
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Introduction to Wind Energy Systems

Basics, Technology and Operation

by Hermann-Josef Wagner, Jyotirmay Mathur
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017

This monograph addresses the needs of readers interested in wind energy converters. The authors achieve to strike a balance between a concise presentation of the material and a detailed book for experts in the field. The book covers aspects such as design and technical challenges of wind converters,...
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Up-to-Date Waste-to-Energy Approach

From Idea to Industrial Application

by Petr Stehlik
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016

Putting forward an up-to-date waste-to-energy approach that combines experience, sophisticated modeling and technical-economic analysis, this book examines the current need for the maximum utilization of energy from waste and the associated environmental impacts. It outlines step-by-step procedures...
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Advances in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy

Proceedings of ETAEERE-2016

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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017

This volume comprises select proceedings of ETAEERE-2016. The volume offers state-of-the-art chapters on energy management systems (EMS), renewable energy resources, micro-generation, green communications architectures and frameworks, green computing and education as well as energy-aware process optimization....
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by Lei Yang, Miao He, Junshan Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014

This SpringerBrief presents spatio-temporal data analytics for wind energy integration using stochastic modeling and optimization methods. It explores techniques for efficiently integrating renewable energy generation into bulk power grids. The operational challenges of wind, and its variability are...
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