Power Resources category: 2047 books
Energy Harvesting Autonomous Sensor Systems
Design, Analysis, and Practical Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Energy Harvesting Autonomous Sensor Systems: Design, Analysis, and Practical Implementation provides a wide range of coverage of various energy harvesting techniques to enable the development of a truly self-autonomous and sustainable energy harvesting wireless sensor network (EH-WSN). It supplies...
by Sioe T Mak
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
As power generation and demand develops, adopting and integrating communication and information technology to improve the reliability, efficiency and sustainability of power networks becomes essential. With the US smart grid market having doubled in size between 2009 and 2014, this succinct book,...
Thermal System Optimization
A Population-Based Metaheuristic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
This book presents a wide-ranging review of the latest research and development directions in thermal systems optimization using population-based metaheuristic methods. It helps readers to identify the best methods for their own systems, providing details of mathematical models and algorithms suitable...
Advanced Gas Turbine Cycles
A Brief Review of Power Generation Thermodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Primarily this book describes the thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles. The search for high gas turbine efficiency has produced many variations on the simple "open circuit" plant, involving the use of heat exchangers, reheating and intercooling, water and steam injection, cogeneration and...
Regenerative Energiesysteme
Grundlagen, Systemtechnik und Analysen ausgeführter Beispiele nachhaltiger Energiesysteme
Language: German
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Erneuerbare Energien und nachhaltige Energiesysteme stehen auf Grund der Klimaveränderungen im Mittelpunkt der gesellschaftlichen Diskussion. Das Ziel dieses Lehrbuches ist es, wesentliche Funktionsmechanismen wichtiger nachhaltiger Energiesysteme darzustellen, Einflussparameter zu erläutern und...
by Johannes Fink
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The oil and gas engineer on the job requires knowing all the available oil field chemicals and fluid applications that are applicable to the operation. Updated with the newest technology and available products, Petroleum Engineer’s Guide to Oil Field Chemicals and Fluids, Second Edition, delivers...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Third Edition, provides you with the best, state-of-the-art coverage for every aspect of petroleum and natural gas engineering. With thousands of illustrations and 1,600 information-packed pages, this handbook is a handy and valuable reference....
What the Frack?
Everything You Need to Know About Coal Seam Gas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Australia has a new $50 billion industry; it carries unprecedented environmental risks, but could be the path to energy salvation: cleaner than coal, safer than nuclear, a complement to renewables. While big oil and gas companies believe Australia could be the biggest liquid natural gas exporter in...
Passion of the Reel
Cinematic versus Modernist Political Fictions in Cameroon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reelprovides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe shows that, far from an empty receptacle for colonial legacies, Cameroon – and Africa –...
Urban Energy Systems
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Energy demands of cities need to be met more sustainably. This book analyses the technical and social systems that satisfy these needs and asks how methods can be put into practice to achieve this.
Drawing on analytical tools and case studies developed at Imperial College London, the book presents...
Fundamentals of Applied Reservoir Engineering
Appraisal, Economics and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Fundamentals of Applied Reservoir Engineering introduces early career reservoir engineers and those in other oil and gas disciplines to the fundamentals of reservoir engineering. Given that modern reservoir engineering is largely centered on numerical computer simulation and that reservoir engineers...
Energy for Development
Resources, Technologies, Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
This collection of contributions from a diverse group of prominent international scientists and policy makers brings together their in-depth analyses and innovative ideas about how to resolve the ‘energy for development’ predicament. It includes studies quantifying the role of energy in socioeconomic...
Mobilisation of Forest Bioenergy in the Boreal and Temperate Biomes
Challenges, Opportunities and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Mobilisation of Forest Bioenergy in the Boreal and Temperate Biomes: Challenges, Opportunities, and Case Studies features input from key international experts who identify and analyze the main opportunities and roadblocks for the implementation of sustainable forest biomass supply chains in the boreal...
Cold, Hungry and in the Dark
Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will trigger a crisis that will cause prices to skyrocket, damage the economy,...