Energy category: 1670 books
Fuel Cells in the Waste-to-Energy Chain
Distributed Generation Through Non-Conventional Fuels and Fuel Cells
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
As the availability of fossils fuels becomes more limited, the negative impact of their consumption becomes an increasingly relevant factor in our choices with regards to primary energy sources. The exponentially increasing demand for energy is reflected in the mass generation of by-products and waste...
Asia's Energy Trends and Developments
(In 2 Volumes)Volume 1: Innovations and Alternative Energy SuppliesVolume 2: Case Studies in Cooperation, Competition and Possibilities from Central, Northeast and South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
With Asia, — especially China and India, — leading world energy consumption, Asian energy trends are now of global interest, with deep implications for the world economy and geopolitics. Understanding the issues often require real-life case scenarios.
This two-volume compilation presents...
by Gerard M Crawley
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Competition for energy resources worldwide will almost certainly increase because of population growth and economic expansion, especially in countries such as China and India, with large populations. In addition, environmental concerns with the use of certain energy sources add a complicating factor...
Energy Technology 2017
Carbon Dioxide Management and Other Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This collection focuses on energy efficient technologies including innovative ore beneficiation, smelting technologies, recycling and waste heat recovery. The volume also covers various technological aspects of sustainable energy ecosystems, processes that improve energy efficiency, reduce thermal...
Wind Power
Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
In the wake of mass blackouts and energy crises, wind power remains a largely untapped resource of renewable energy. It is a booming worldwide industry whose technology, under the collective wing of aficionados like author Paul Gipe, is coming of age. Wind Power guides us through the emergent, sometimes...
Renewable Energy in the Middle East
Enhancing Security through Regional Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Energy insecurity is not normally associated with the Middle East. However, away from the oil-rich Persian Gulf, the countries of the eastern Mediterranean are particularly vulnerable. Their fossil fuel endowments are low, while their fractious relationships with each other have long fostered wider...
Energy
Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Expanding on the first edition, ‘Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling (2nd Ed.)’ provides readers with a practical understanding of the major aspects of energy. It includes extended chapters with revised data and additional practice problems as well as a new chapter...
Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Global COE Program "Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System"
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) at Kyoto University, Japan, has been engaged in a program called “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward a CO2 Zero-Emission Energy System.” Its aim is to establish an international education and research platform to foster educators,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This book shares the latest developments and advances in materials and processes involved in the energy generation, transmission, distribution and storage. Chapters are written by researchers in the energy and materials field.
Topics include, but are not limited to, energy from biomass, bio-gas...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this important work reviews the history of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). The DNFSB an independent oversight organization within the executive branch, was created by Congress in 1988 to provide advice...
Our Energy Future
Resources, Alternatives and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Presents an overview on the different aspects of the energy value chain and discusses the issues that future energy is facing
This book covers energy and the energy policy choices which face society. The book presents easy-to-grasp information and analysis, and includes statistical data for...
Advances in European Geothermal Research
Proceedings of the Second International Seminar on the Results of EC Geothermal Energy Research, held in Strasbourg, 4–6 March 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The first crisis in energy prices was undoubtedly a strong stimulus for the involvement of the Commission of the European Communities in research and development on alternative energy sources. Indeed, the need to overcome difficulties faced by the Community as a whole, particularly those resulting...
by Ranjan Vepa
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This book addresses the core issues involved in the dynamic modeling, simulation and control of a selection of energy systems such as gas turbines, wind turbines, fuel cells and batteries. The principles of modeling and control could be applied to other non-convention methods of energy generation...
by Brian Norton
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Systems engineered by man to harness solar heat in a controlled manner now include a diverse range of technologies each serving distinctive needs in particular climate contexts. This text covers the breadth of solar energy technologies for the conversion of solar energy to provide heat, either as...