Power Resources category: 2047 books
The Colours of Energy
Essays on the Future of Energy in Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
In The Colours of Energy – Essays on the Future of Energy in Society, leading energy thinkers explore the future of energy in society. In 36 provoking and inspiring essays, they question established truths and chart possible paths towards a more sustainable future. They share their insights on how...
Vanishing Points
Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Deftly deploying Derrida’s notion of the ‘unexperienced experience’ and building on Paul Virilio’s ideas about the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishing Pointsexplores the aesthetic character of presence and absence as articulated in contemporary art, photography, film, and emerging media....
Stand-alone Solar Electric Systems
The Earthscan Expert Handbook for Planning, Design and Installation
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
One of the best ways to get power to remote, off-grid locations, whether in developed or developing countries, is through the use of solar electric systems. This practical guide describes how to plan, design and install solar electric systems in a manner that is hands-on, graphic and technically complete....
Betting on Famine
Why the World Still Goes Hungry
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
“The seminal book on global poverty and hunger . . . How rapacious speculators and complicit bureaucrats are starving a billion people” (Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch and author of Foodopoly).
Few people know that world hunger was very nearly eradicated in...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This unique handbook presents both the theory and application of biomass combustion and co-firing, from basic principles to industrial combustion and environmental impact, in a clear and comprehensive manner. It offers a solid grounding on biomass combustion, and advice on improving combustion systems....
Fuel Flexible Energy Generation
Solid, Liquid and Gaseous Fuels
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Fuel Flexible Energy Generation: Solid, Liquid and Gaseous Fuels provides updated information on flexible fuel energy generation, the process by which one or more fuels can be combusted in the same boiler or turbine to generate power. By adapting or building boilers and turbines to accept multiple...
Solar Energy Engineering
Processes and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
As perhaps the most promising of all the renewable energy sources available today, solar energy is becoming increasingly important in the drive to achieve energy independence and climate balance. This new book is the masterwork from world-renowned expert Dr. Soteris Kalogirou, who has championed solar...
by Christoph Lehmann, Olaf Kolditz, Thomas Nagel
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Thermochemical gas-solid reactions, as well as adsorption processes, are currently of significant interest for the design of heat storage systems. This book provides detailed models of these reactions and processes that account for heat and mass transport, chemical and physical reactions, and possible...
Biorefineries
Targeting Energy, High Value Products and Waste Valorisation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
This book addresses the potential of the transformation of biomass into a wide range of marketable products, and examines the biological, biochemical, physical and thermal processing of biomass into products such as fuels, power, heat, feeds, chemicals and materials. Respective chapters explore various...
by Trent Tschirgi
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book is all about making devices that run on energy from the Sun. In 1869, the era of Jules Verne, there were no electronic components. There were no solar panels, no wiring, no plastic or high-end manufacturing techniques. Yet, the engineers of that era designed mechanical devices, often partly...
Renewable Energies and European Landscapes
Lessons from Southern European Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This book provides timely, multidisciplinary cross-national comparison of the institutional and social processes through which renewable energy landscapes have emerged in Southern Europe. On the basis of case studies in these countries, it analyzes the way in which and the extent to which the development...
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell
Technologies and Market Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
This book introduces readers to hydrogen as an essential energy carrier for use with renewable sources of primary energy. It provides an overview of the state of the art, while also highlighting the developmental and market potential of hydrogen in the context of energy technologies; mobile, stationary...
AETA 2016: Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering and Related Sciences
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
These lecture notes present selected topics concerning a wide range of electrical and electronics applications, highlighting innovative approaches and offering state-of-the-art overviews.
The book is divided into 14 topical areas, including e.g. telecommunication, power systems, robotics, control...
Coal Combustion Products (CCPs)
Characteristics, Utilization and Beneficiation
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Coal Combustion Products (CCPs): Their Nature, Utilization and Beneficiation is a valuable resource for engineers and scientists from the coal, cement, concrete, and construction industries seeking an in-depth guide to the characteristics, utilization, beneficiation, and environmental impacts of coal...