Recent Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies
Volume 1
- 1st Edition - August 31, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Mejdi Jeguirim
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 0 9 3 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 9 5 1 - 7
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Request a sales quoteRecent Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies is a comprehensive reference covering critical research, laboratory and industry developments on renewable energy technological, production, conversion, storage, and management, including solar energy systems (thermal and photovoltaic), wind energy, hydropower, geothermal energy, bioenergy and hydrogen production, and large-scale development of renewable energy technologies and their impact on the global economy and power capacity. Technological advancements include resources assessment and deployment, materials performance improvement, system optimization and sizing, instrumentation and control, modeling and simulation, regulations, and policies.
Each modular chapter examines recent advances in specific renewable energy systems, providing theoretical and applied aspects of system optimization, control and management and supports them with global case studies demonstrating practical applications and economical and environmental aspects through life cycle analysis.
The book is of interest to engineering graduates, researchers, professors and industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector and advanced engineering courses dealing with renewable energy, sources, thermal and electrical energy production and sustainability.
Each modular chapter examines recent advances in specific renewable energy systems, providing theoretical and applied aspects of system optimization, control and management and supports them with global case studies demonstrating practical applications and economical and environmental aspects through life cycle analysis.
The book is of interest to engineering graduates, researchers, professors and industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector and advanced engineering courses dealing with renewable energy, sources, thermal and electrical energy production and sustainability.
- Focuses on the progress and research trends in solar, wind, biomass, and hydropower and geothermal energy production and conversion
- Includes advanced techniques for the distribution, management, optimization, and storage of heat and energy using case studies
Engineering graduates, researchers, professors and industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector. Advanced engineering courses dealing with renewable energy, sources, thermal and electrical energy production and sustainability
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter 1. Solar cooling research and technology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Technology implementation
- 3. Energy, economic, and environmental assessment of solar cooling systems
- 4. Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Energy analysis of hybrid solar thermal plants (PV/T)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. PV/T collectors
- 3. PV/T system design
- 4. Modeling and characterization of PV/T collectors
- 5. Description of the performance of the PV/T pilot plant installed in Catania, experimental results and comparative analysis
- Chapter 3. Technological and design solutions for enhancement of photovoltaic producibility
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Enhancement of production due to higher-density power: the bifacial module
- 3. Enhancement of production due to higher efficiency: floating, cooling, and PV/T modules
- 4. Enhancement of production to higher reliability: monitoring and diagnostics
- Nomenclature
- Chapter 4. Application of hydrothermal processes to biomass and organic wastewaters to produce sustainable energy
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Hydrothermal processes applied to organic wastewaters and biomass
- 3. Supercritical water oxidation
- 4. Hydrothermal liquefaction
- 5. Conclusions
- Chapter 5. Recent advances and technology trends of wind turbines
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Current scenario and outlook of global wind energy
- 3. Recent advances and technology trends in wind turbine manufacturing
- 4. Technology trends in the operation and maintenance of wind turbines
- 5. Recycling aspects of wind turbines
- 6. Conclusions
- Chapter 6. Underground energy: utilization of geothermal shallow heat pumps
- 1. Background of geothermal energy
- 2. Shallow geothermal technologies with GSHP
- 3. Perspectives and challenges
- Chapter 7. Worldwide research trends on hydropower
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data
- 3. Results
- 4. Conclusions
- Chapter 8. Recent progress in thermochemical heat storage: materials and applications
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Solid–gas TCHS reaction systems
- 3. Conclusion and perspectives
- Chapter 9. Polymer electrolyte membranes in fuel cell applications
- 1. Introduction to fuel cells: brief history and basics
- 2. Types of polymer electrolyte membrane
- 3. Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Design and implementation of a power supervisory of a controlled greenhouse in the north of Tunisia
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Problematic and solution
- 3. Materials and methods
- 4. Modeling of the controlled greenhouse
- 5. Mathematical modeling of the HPS
- 6. Simulation results
- 7. Conclusions
- Chapter 11. Pakistan energy situation, policy, and issues
- 1. Energy sector overview
- 2. Main problems faced by the energy sector
- 3. Energy policy framework, reforms, laws, and regulations
- 4. Recent projects and development
- 5. Conclusions
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 31, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 456
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323910934
- eBook ISBN: 9780323919517
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Mejdi Jeguirim
Dr. Mejdi Jeguirim is a Professor at the University of Haute Alsace (France) in the field of energy, process engineering, and kinetics modeling. He has two main research interests, namely biomass valorization (pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion) and exhaust gas treatment (NOx and soot abatement as well as volatile organic compounds’ elimination). He is a prolific author of journal articles and book chapters and is a member of the editorial board of the following international journals: Energy (Elsevier), Energies (MDPI), Energy for Sustainable Development (Elsevier), Biofuels (Taylor & Francis), International Journal of Green Energy (Taylor & Francis). He has received the French National Research Excellence Award for researchers with a high level of scientific activity for the 2009-2012, 2013-2016, 2017-2020 and 2021-2024 periods. Since 2019, Dr. Jeguirim has been added to the World’s Top 2% Scientists list established by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier. For Elsevier, he is also the series editor of the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies series.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Institut de Sciences des Matériaux, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, FranceRead Recent Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies on ScienceDirect