Energy category: 1670 books
Renewable Synthetic Fuels and Chemicals from Carbon Dioxide
Fundamentals, Catalysis, Design Considerations and Technological Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book outlines the most recent progress in the development of technologies for carbon dioxide utilization into renewable synthetic fuels and platform chemicals via chemical and biological routes. Various processes are discussed, including thermocatalytic, electrocatalytic, photocatalytic, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The objective of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012) is to facilitate an exchange of information on best practices for the latest research advances in the area of communications, networks and intelligence applications. These mainly involve computer...
by Meherwan P. Boyce
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Written by one of the field’s most well known experts, the Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook has long been the standard for engineers involved in the design, selection, maintenance and operation of gas turbines. With far reaching, comprehensive coverage across a range of topics from design specifications...
The Radiation Legacy of the Soviet Nuclear Complex
An Analytical Overview
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A study of the legacy of nuclear contamination in the Soviet Union. It gives the location and characteristics of the accumulated radioactive material and wastes by each sector, from ore and mining to use and disposal. It describes types of storage, capacity and utilization, age and location. It gives...
Unconventional Methods for Oil & Gas Exploration in Cuba
The Redox Complex
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book studies the “Redox Complex”, a complex of unconventional geophysical-geochemical exploration techniques used for the indirect detection, characterization and evaluation of various metal targets, while also illustrating selected applications of unconventional geophysical-geochemical methods...
Superphenix
Technical and Scientific Achievements
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
For the first time a book has been written on the technological and scientific knowledge, acquired during, buiding , operation and even dismantling of the Superphenix plant. This reactor remains today the most powerful sodium fast breeder reactor operated in the world.(1200 MWe). The last fast breeder...
by Sujay Kumar Dutta, Dharmesh R. Lodhari
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book presents a comprehensive overview of non-ferrous metallurgy, especially its core principles and fundamental aspects, in a concise form. The book covers all basic concepts and definitions related to metal extraction, and provide succinct summaries of relevant metallurgical processes. It also...
Handbook of Membrane Reactors
Fundamental Materials Science, Design and Optimisation
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Membrane reactors are increasingly replacing conventional separation, process and conversion technologies across a wide range of applications. Exploiting advanced membrane materials, they offer enhanced efficiency, are very adaptable and have great economic potential. There has therefore been increasing...
Safety of VVER-440 Reactors
Barriers Against Fission Products Release
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Safety of VVER-440 Reactors endeavours to promote an increase in the safety of VVER-440 nuclear reactors via the improvement of fission products limitation systems and the implementation of special non-destructive spectroscopic methods for materials testing. All theoretical and experimental studies...
Green Infrastructure Financing
Institutional Investors, PPPs and Bankable Projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book explores the role of governments and international financial institutions (IFIs) in mitigating the perceived risks in green infrastructure markets of emerging and developing countries. Although green infrastructure is designed to enhance a country’s wealth, the author sheds light on the...
by J. C. Das
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
As new technologies are created and advances are made with the ongoing research efforts, power system harmonics has become a subject of great interest. The author presents these nuances with real-life case studies, comprehensive models of power system components for harmonics, and EMTP simulations.
Comprehensive...
How Green are Electric or Hydrogen-Powered Cars?
Assessing GHG Emissions of Traffic in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Have you ever wondered by how much CO2 emissions can be reduced by running cars electrically or with hydrogen as fuel? This Brief provides a quantitative answer to this question using the example of the combined road traffic in Spain. The authors calculate the resulting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...
by Nadarajah Mithulananthan, Duong Quoc Hung, Kwang Y. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book introduces several simple analytical approaches to aid the seamless integration of renewable distributed generation. It focuses on the idea of intelligent integration, which involves locating and developing suitable operational characteristics of renewable distributed generation. After reviewing...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The objective of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012) is to facilitate an exchange of information on best practices for the latest research advances in the area of communications, networks and intelligence applications. These mainly involve computer...