Power Resources category: 2047 books
The Eighth Element
A Report on Thorium
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Thorium is a better, safer, cheaper and more prolific replacement for uranium. It deserves to be given the title ‘The Eighth Element’, following Lord Browne’s book ‘Seven Elements That Have Changed the World’. He lists iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium and silicon. This report...
Solar Technology
The Earthscan Expert Guide to Using Solar Energy for Heating, Cooling and Electricity
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Solar energy is free, abundant and sustainable, with many methods existing to harness it. This guide is the essential introduction to the subject, explaining how the technologies work, how best they should be employed, and the costs and benefits of using them. It provides detailed yet accessible coverage...
Renewable Energy
Prospects for Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Renewable Energy: Prospects for Implementation contains papers that were originally commissioned by the journal Energy Policy for a series on renewable energy appearing between January 1991 to September 1992. In view of the fast-changing demands on conventional energy supply to meet environmental...
Smart Grids
Opportunities, Developments, and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
A Smart Grid delivers renewable energy as a main source of electricity from producers to consumers using two-way monitoring through Smart Meter technology that can remotely control consumer electricity use. This can help to storage excess energy; reduce costs, increase reliability and transparency,...
Sustainable Energy Technology and Policies
A Transformational Journey, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book presents a state-of-the-art compilation focusing on both technological and policy aspects of sustainable energy production and consumption, which deals with issues like the need for and planning of smart cities, alternative transport fuel options, sustainable power production, pollution...
by Lingling Fan, Zhixin Miao
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Wind Energy Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Control with DFIG provides key information on machine/converter modelling strategies based on space vectors, complex vector, and further frequency-domain variables. It includes applications that focus on wind energy grid integration, with analysis and control...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Absorption-Based Post-Combustion Capture of Carbon Dioxide provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of the use of absorbents for post-combustion capture of carbon dioxide. As fossil fuel-based power generation technologies are likely to remain key in the future, at least in the short- and...
Solid Fuels and Heavy Hydrocarbon Liquids
Thermal Characterization and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Solid Fuels and Heavy Hydrocarbon Liquids: Thermal Characterisation and Analysis, Second Edition integrates the developments that have taken place since publication of the first edition in 2006. This updated material includes new insights that help unify the thermochemical reactions of biomass and...
Install Your Own Solar Panels
Designing and Installing a Photovoltaic System to Power Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Labor and related costs account for more than half of the price of the average home solar installation. But homeowners can save thousands of dollars with this user-friendly manual, which follows the same process professional contractors use. Through detailed directions and step-by-step photos, veteran...
by Abdelhay A. Sallam, Om P. Malik
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
A comprehensive review of the theory and practice for designing, operating, and optimizing electric distribution systems, revised and updated
Now in its second edition, Electric Distribution Systems has been revised and updated and continues to provide a two-tiered approach for designing, installing,...
by Krzysztof Iniewski
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
A complete guide to smart grid networking and communications for energy engineers
With contributions from more than 30 experts, Smart Grid Infrastructure & Networking describes cutting-edge technologies for connecting the electrical power infrastructure to modern, computerized communications networks....
Sustainable Energy Technology and Policies
A Transformational Journey, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This book presents a state-of-the-art compilation focusing on both technological and policy aspects of sustainable energy production and consumption, which deals with issues like the need for and planning of smart cities, alternative transport fuel options, sustainable power production, pollution...
Advances in Solar Energy: Volume 16
An Annual Review of Research and Development in Renewable Energy Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
'Essential for any serious technical library' Professor Martin Green, University of New South Wales, Australia The Advances in Solar Energy series offers state-of-the-art information on all primary renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind and biomass, bringing together invited contributions...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
In order to avoid the potentially catastrophic impacts of global warming, the current 3% CO2 global emission growth rate must be transformed to a 1 to 3% declining rate, as soon as possible. This will require a rapid and radical transformation of the world’s energy production and end use systems....