Renewable Energy

Advances in Renewable Energy Research comprises papers delivered at an international workshop by authors from Poland, Germany, Ukraine, China, Japan and Taiwan. The papers describe the development of renewable energy technologies in these countries, with a main focus on the generation of biogas, and..

Deals with the availability method and its application to power plant system design and energy conversion. The first part of the book describes the development and the formulation of the availability method. The second part presents its applications to energy conversion processes. Examples for eac..

Exploring the new wide-ranging landscape of nuclear function, this book details the breakthroughs in nanoscale applications and methodologies that are revolutionizing power production, biotechnology, and material science as they apply to the nuclear industry. The author addresses higher economic and..

Energy is one of the prime needs of the modern world, and energy demands have been rapidly increasing in the recent years owing to rapid advancements in industrialization and population explosion. Conventional fossil fuels are being depleted at rapid rates, and the use of conventional sources such a..

This book describes various components and systems of a building and their effect on energy consumption, with the help of an energy simulation tool. The book explains simulation input parameters, along with how to do analysis of the simulation output. With minimal use of mathematical equations, the ..

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PC fired boilers have highly turbulent flow, complex gas-solid flow, coal combustion, and radiative heat transfer. Over the years, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools have evolved as powerful design and predictive tools for simulating complex equipment. This book describes the methodology neede..

Geothermal heat is a viable source of energy and its environmental impact in terms of CO2 emissions is significantly lower than conventional fossil fuels. Shallow geothermal systems are increasingly utilized for heating and cooling of buildings and greenhouses. However, their utilization is inconsis..

Geothermal heat is a viable source of energy and its environmental impact in terms of CO2 emissions is significantly lower than conventional fossil fuels. Shallow geothermal systems are increasingly utilized for heating and cooling of buildings and greenhouses. However, their utilization is inconsis..

This book offers an analysis and generalization of various thermal-hydraulic coolant flow instabilities that occur in power equipment components of thermal and nuclear stations and have been reported in the published technical literature. The authors examine numerous examples of instability expressi..

Microgeneration is a substantial improvement over the current decentralised and detached energy model employed the world over. Domestic Microgeneration is the first in-depth reference work for this exciting and emerging field of energy generation. It provides detailed reviews of ten state-of-the-art..

People involved in decisions about electric power often have misconceptions regarding how electric utilities operate their systems of power plants and how they plan for the future. This book explains how utilities "work" and how utility planning is (or should be) conducted. It leads readers through ..