Energy Books

Smart grid (SG), also called intelligent grid, is a modern improvement of the traditional power grid that will revolutionize the way electricity is produced, delivered, and consumed. Studying key concepts such as advanced metering infrastructure,...

This book will help you understand the concepts of heat and light, not just in theory but also through examples. At the end of this book, you should be able to identify the objects that emit heat and light. You should also have a solid understanding of...

The obvious answer to the question of where heat comes from is the sun. But that's not all there is to it. In this book, you will learn about how heat can be produced through chemical reactions, electrical machines and friction. Are you keen to know...

Learn to appreciate the sun as a renewable source of heat and light energy. This book discusses the role of the sun, and the different forms of solar energy too. By learning scientific facts, you can become an advocacy for truth. You will also become...

Is it really possible to measure energy? Of course, it is and this book will teach you how. Discussed in this book are the different tools used to measure the gain or loss of energy. Proper identification of each tool and how it's used will aid in...

By the end of this book, you should be able to explain the concept of heat transference. That is because the concept is succinctly discussed in a manner that is appropriate for third graders. Understand how a hot object can have the same temperature as a...

This book will focus on the three types of energy - heat, light and sound. At the end of this book, you should demonstrate competence in identifying types and sources of energy. You should also be able to give examples of how each of these three types of...

With the help of this educational book, your third grader will learn to correctly identify renewable and non-renewable sources of energy. It's important to know the differences in making informed decisions on energy consumption. Information has been...

This volume reviews advances and innovative applications in this field. It will encourage the use of new works and even unpublished works to use biomass or its components for the production of bioproducts and biofuels.

This book discusses biomass as a raw material for the production of liquid or gaseous biofuels and valuable chemicals. The authors show how its volume and composition can be predicted, by which form of processing it can be converted into valuable...

This monograph presents several key issues related to the actions aimed at mitigating the negative impact on the environment connected with the acquisition and transport of energy, management of municipal and industrial wastes, as well as the impact of...

"Divya Shakti Kya Hai" "Har Cheez Ke Vigyaan" ki ek avishwasneey roop se gehan lekin seedhi vyakhya hai.Is aitihasik karya mein, Dr. Vipin Gupta divya shakti ko samajhne aur jeevan ko anandapoorvak prabandhit karne ke liye sarvottam prashnon ki jaanch ke...

Este livro é uma colecção dos 26 artigos científicos, energéticos e sócio-económicos publicados entre 2008 e 2012

Questo libro, primo di una trilogia energetica, nasce dall'esigenza di conciliare, in unico scritto strutturato, le differenti relazioni che l'energia ha nei confronti della società, della politica, dell'economia, dell'ambiente e della tecnologia...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Energiewissenschaften, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Institut für elektrische Anlagen und Energiewirtschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Energiebranche ist derzeit gezeichnet von...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften - Energietechnik, Note: 1,3, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Fakultät Technik und Informatik, Department Maschinenbau und Produktion), Veranstaltung: Erneuerbare...

The use of renewable energy sources (RESs) is a need of global society. This editorial, and its associated Special Issue "Grid-Connected Renewable Energy Sources", offers a compilation of some of the recent advances in the analysis of current power...

In the first decades of the current millennium, the contribution of photovoltaic and wind energy systems to power generation capacity has grown extraordinarily all around the world; in some countries, these systems have become two of the most relevant...

Although the compression ignition (C.I.) engine, invented by Rudolf Diesel, was originally intended to work with pure vegetable oils as fuel, more than a century ago, it was adapted to be used with a fuel of fossil origin, obtained from oil. Therefore,...

Rising pollution, climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels are leading many countries to focus on renewable-based energy conversion systems. In particular, recently introduced energy policies are giving high priority to increasing the use of...

This book explains the engineering required to bring geothermal resources into use. The book covers specifically engineering aspects that are unique to geothermal engineering, such as measurements in wells and their...

This practical book deals with the technology of small-power wind turbines as opposed to widely diffused industrial wind turbines and wind farms. It covers the most common wind turbine technologies in the small power segment: horizontal axis both for...

HVAC Water Chillers and Cooling Towers: Fundamentals, Application, and Operation, Second Edition explores the major improvements in recent years to many chiller and cooling tower components that have resulted in improved performance and lower operating...

This book focusses on designing, implementing, and verifying performance of energy efficiency and conservation (EE&C) projects in relevant industries from a practitioner's perspective. Various techniques and approaches are presented using case...

This book thoroughly covers the fundamentals of the QFT robust control, as well as practical control solutions, for unstable, time-delay, non-minimum phase or distributed parameter systems, plants with large model uncertainty, high-performance...

Ford Goes Looking for the Sun is the story about a boy who goes looking for the Sun because he wants to ask the Sun a question. I describe the style of the book as "story text". Story text because the story is a simple one, but its...

This guide to wave energy harvesting systems focuses on current analytical and numerical modelling methods for their convertor technologies. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.routledge.com/ has been made available under a...

Equilibria In Systems Containing Alcohols, Salts And Water: Including A New Method Of Alcohol Analysis (1912) is a scientific book written by George Bell Frankforter. The book focuses on the study of chemical equilibria in systems that contain alcohols,...

"After Oil"explores the social, cultural and political changes needed to make possible a full-scale transition from fossil fuels to new forms of energy. Written collectively by participants in the first After Oil School, "After Oil"explains why the...

This book explores the reality, promise and ongoing suppression of breakthrough clean and free energy research, from the perspective a veteran futurist and energy scientist, who has witnessed and reported on the experiments first-hand.

This book explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and democracy, especially in the global South. Dilemmas...

Design of Hydrodynamic Machines provides a broad, yet concise, theoretical background on the relationship between fluid dynamics and geometry. It covers the most important types of turbomachinery used in power generation industrial processes, utilities,...

This book explores a wide range of energy storage devices, such as a lithium ion battery, sodium ion battery, magnesium ion battery and supercapacitors. Providing a comprehensive review of the current field, it also discusses the history of these...

This book covers the design, analysis, and optimization of the cleanest, most efficient fossil fuel-fired electric power generation technology at present and in the foreseeable future.The book contains a wealth of first principles-based calculation...

""Contribution Towards A History Of Electro-Metallurgy: Establishing The Origin Of The Art"" is a book written by Henry Dircks in 1863. The book is a detailed historical account of the development of electro-metallurgy, a field that involves the use of...

Materials Science and Fuel Technologies of Uranium and Plutonium Mixed Oxide offers a deep understanding of MOX properties for nuclear fuels that will be useful for performance evaluation. It also reviews fuel property simulation technology and an...

Frederick C. Weber's Solution Of The Centuries' Old Problem: Is There A Creative Power In Disintegration In The Universe, published in 1920, is a book that explores the concept of disintegration in the universe and whether it can be considered a creative...

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts presents the theoretical basis for the various impacts of wind turbines on humans. These impacts include noise (in the audible, low-frequency, and infrasound ranges), visual effects (shadow flicker and light...

Heat Recovery with Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial Heat Pumps presents the basic concepts and thermodynamic behavior of mechanical vapor compression and recompression. It covers both ammonia-water absorption and compression/resorption heat...