Power Resources category: 2047 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Handbook of Materials Failure Analysis: With Case Studies from the Oil and Gas Industry provides an updated understanding on why materials fail in specific situations, a vital element in developing and engineering new alternatives.
This handbook covers analysis of materials failure in the oil...
A New Method
from heavy to light crude oil
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
This book is about to accomplish the implementation and development of a method for the production and modification of the molecular structure of heavy crude oil and extra heavy crude oil in the same oil field.
I hope to show that under a clearly defined system of optimization, production and...
by Brian F. Towler
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Using the principle that extracting energy from the environment always involves some type of impact on the environment, The Future of Energy discusses the sources, technologies, and tradeoffs involved in meeting the world's energy needs. A historical, scientific, and technical background set the stage...
50 Climate Solutions from Cities in the People's Republic of China
Best Practices from Cities Taking Action on Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This publication showcases 50 innovative case studies from cities in the People's Republic of China that are mitigating against and adapting to climate change. Solutions being implemented in these cities are proving that reducing carbon dioxide emissions and protecting the environment need not sacrifice...
Securing Electricity Supply in the Cyber Age
Exploring the Risks of Information and Communication Technology in Tomorrow's Electricity Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
This book presents the contributions from a workshop entitled "Electricity security in the cyber age: Managing the increasing dependence of the electricity infrastructure on ICT," which was organized in the Netherlands in May 2009.
Solar Energy Markets
An Analysis of the Global Solar Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This groundbreaking new book features holistic coverage of technological breakthroughs, financing trends, workforce development issues, and comparative regional case studies in solar energy. It provides a global bird's-eye view of the industry for scientists, engineers, business leaders, and policymakers...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book promotes the use of mathematical optimization and operations research methods in rail transportation. The editors assembled thirteen contributions from leading scholars to present a unified voice, standardize terminology, and assess the state-of-the-art.
There are three main clusters...
Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2016
Smart Systems for the Automobile of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book contains the papers presented at the 20th anniversary edition of the AMAA conference held in Brussels, Belgium in 2016. The theme of the conference was “Smart Systems for the Automobile of the Future”. The automobile is currently being reshaped at unprecedented pace. Automation and electrification...
Carbon Footprint and Urban Planning
Incorporating Methodologies to Assess the Influence of the Urban Master Plan on the Carbon Footprint of the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This book analyzes the relationship between urban development, greenhouse gases and the carbon footprint, and presents the main preventive measures that can be implemented at the design stage. Readers are provided with the knowledge needed to devise a strategy for calculating the carbon footprint...
by Frank Vignola, Joseph Michalsky, Thomas Stoffel
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
The rather specialized field of solar and infrared radiation measurement has become more and more important in the face of growing demands by the renewable energy and climate change research communities for data that are more accurate and have increased temporal and spatial resolution. Updating decades...
Energy and the Environment
Into the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
As the governments and peoples of the world come to face the global impact of the technological revolution, it is appropriate to consider the future of world energy supplies. This conference approached the task not only of developing the means of tapping renewable energy sources, but also of showing...
Organic Solar Cells
Materials and Device Physics
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Organic solar cells have emerged as new promising photovoltaic devices due to their potential applications in large area, printable and flexible solar panels. Organic Solar Cells: Materials and Device Physics offers an updated review on the topics covering the synthesis, properties and applications...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Greenhouse Gases Balance of Bioenergy Systems covers every stage of a bioenergy system, from establishment to energy delivery, presenting a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of all the relevant issues and environmental risks. It also provides an understanding of how these can be practically...
World in Transition 3
Towards Sustainable Energy Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
'The publication of World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy Systems is timely indeed. The World Summit on Sustainable Development gave great prominence to this challenge, but failed to agree on a quantitative, time-bound target for the introduction of renewable energy sources. The German Advisory...