Power Resources category: 2047 books
by Nicholas Jenkins, Janaka Ekanayake
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book provides a quantitative yet accessible overview of renewable energy engineering practice and the technologies that will transform our energy supply system over the coming years. Covering wind, hydro, solar thermal, photovoltaic, ocean and bioenergy, the text is suitable for engineering undergraduates...
by Zhigang Liu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This book describes the wave characteristics of contact lines taking wind into consideration and discusses new methods for detecting catenary geometry, pantograph slide fault, and catenary support system faults. It also introduces wire-irregularity detection methods for catenary estimation, and discusses...
Natural Gas Hydrates
Experimental Techniques and Their Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
“Natural Gas Hydrates: Experimental Techniques and Their Applications” attempts to broadly integrate the most recent knowledge in the fields of hydrate experimental techniques in the laboratory. The book examines various experimental techniques in order to provide useful parameters for gas hydrate...
by Ji-Guang Zhang, Wu Xu, Wesley A. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book provides comprehensive coverage of Lithium (Li) metal anodes for rechargeable batteries. Li is an ideal anode material for rechargeable batteries due to its extremely high theoretical specific capacity (3860 mAh g-1), low density (0.59 g cm-3), and the lowest negative electrochemical potential...
by Robert Huggins
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Introduction Energy is necessary for a number of reasons, the most basic and obvious involve the preparation of food and the provision of heat to make life comfortable, or at least, bearable. Subsequently, a wide range of technological uses of energy have emerged and been developed, so that the availability...
Indonesia
Energy Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This latest energy sector assessment, strategy, and road map for Indonesia highlights energy sector performance, major development constraints, and government development plans and strategy. This report reviews previous support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other development partners,...
Tracking Solar Concentrators
A Low Budget Solution
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Harnessing a multitude of complementary green energy sources is the only plausible way to satisfy the energy demands of a greedy global economy. The potential of solar energy (being the most abundant) in fulfilling part of the energy requirements of mankind is immense and constitutes the focal point...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
This book presents a life-oriented approach, which is an interdisciplinary methodology proposed for cross-sectoral urban policy decisions such as transport, health, and energy policies. Improving people’s quality of life (QOL) is one of the common goals of various urban policies on the one hand,...
by Andrei A. Kulikovsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
In fuel cell research, the gap between fundamental electrochemical processes and the engineering of fuel cell systems is bridged by the physical modelling of fuel cells. This relatively new discipline aims to understand the basic transport and kinetic phenomena in a real cell and stack environment,...
Urban Environment
Proceedings of the 11th Urban Environment Symposium (UES), held in Karlsruhe, Germany, 16-19 September 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Over half of the global population now lives in cities. This ongoing urbanisation is making it increasingly important to adequately manage urban systems and preserve urban environments. This book is the outcome of the 11th Urban Environment Symposium (UES) held on 16-19 September 2012 in Karlsruhe,...
Computational Methods and Models for Transport
New Challenges for the Greening of Transport Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This volume addresses challenges and solutions in transport and mobility of people and goods with respect to environment, safety, security and socio–economics issues, exploring advanced computational research work and the latest innovations in transport.
This book brings together lectures...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Global Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics collects chapters on recent developments in global analysis of non-linear dynamical systems with a particular emphasis on cell mapping methods developed by Professor C.S. Hsu of the University of California, Berkeley. This collection of contributions prepared...
Advanced Transport Systems
Analysis, Modeling, and Evaluation of Performances
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
This book provides a systematic analysis, modeling and evaluation of the performance of advanced transport systems. It offers an innovative approach by presenting a multidimensional examination of the performance of advanced transport systems and transport modes, useful for both theoretical and practical...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Two important publications by the U.S. Department of Energy provide great information about ethanol. Guidebook for Handling, Storing and Dispensing Fuel Ethanol - This guidebook is intended as firsthand information for fuel distributors and retailers who have not had any experience or formal training...