Renewable Energy Focus Handbook
- 1st Edition - December 29, 2008
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Gianfranco Pistoia, Mukesh Doble, Shang-Tian Yang, Harsh K. Gupta, Aldo Vieira da Rosa, Paul Breeze, Truman Storvick, Soteris Kalogirou, Roy Sukanta, Preben Maegaard, Bent Sorensen
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 7 4 7 0 5 - 1
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Request a sales quoteA one-stop desk reference, for engineers involved in renewable energies, this book will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. The full range of renewable energies are explored, including solar, wind, geothermal and bioenergy.
- A hard-working desk reference, providing all the essential material needed by energy and environmental engineers on a day-to-day basis
- Fundamentals, key techniques, engineering best practice and rules-of-thumb together in one quick-reference sourcebook
- Definitive content by the leading authors in the field, including Bent Sorensen, Paul Breeze, Galen Suppes and Truman Storvick
Renewable energy engineers and managers; Professionals in environmental engineering, chemical engineering and mechanical engineering; Energy providers; equipment designers and manufacturers;
Author Biographies
Section 1 Introduction
1.0 Introduction
Section 2 Energy Perspectives
2.1 Energy Perspectives
Section 3 Alternate Energy Sources
3.1 Alternate Energy Sources
3.2 Energy Reserves and Renewable Energy Sources
3.3 The Individual Energy Sources
Section 4 Energy Conversion
4.1 Energy Conversion Processes
Section 5 Fuel Cells
5.1 Fuel Cells
Section 6 Solar Power
6.1 Solar Power
6.2 Solar Thermal Collectors and Applications
Section 7 Ocean, Wave and Tidal Power
7.1 Ocean Power
7.2 Tidal Energy
Section 8 Geothermal Power
8.1 Geothermal Power
Section 9 Wind Power
9.1 Wind Power
Section 10 Hydropower
10.1 Hydropower Resources
Section 11 Power from Waste
11.1 Power from Waste
Section 12 Bioenergy
12.1 Bioenergy
12.2 Biodiesel Fuels
Section 13 Storage Technologies
13.1 Storage Technologies
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 29, 2008
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780123747051
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Gianfranco Pistoia
Affiliations and expertise
formerly Research Director, National Research Council, Rome, ItalyMD
Mukesh Doble
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Biotechnology, I.I.T. Madras, Chennai, IndiaSY
Shang-Tian Yang
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio State University, OH, USAHG
Harsh K. Gupta
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Ocean Development, New Delhi, IndiaAd
Aldo Vieira da Rosa
Dr. da Rosa taught the perennially popular Renewable Energy course at Stanford University for over 30 years. Former Chairman of the Brazilian National Research Council, Director of the Aeronautical Technical Center, and founder of Brazilian NASA, he also served as the CEO of a tech start-up, Chairman of the Board for a microprocessor manufacturer, and as a member of Siemens Corporation’s scientific advisory board.
Affiliations and expertise
Stanford University, Professor Emeritus (deceased), USAPB
Paul Breeze
Paul Breeze is a journalist and freelance science and technology writer and consultant in the United Kingdom. He has specialised in power generation technology for the past 30 years. In addition to writing Power Generation Technologies, Second Edition, he has contributed to journals and newspapers such as The Financial Times and The Economist and has written a range of technical management reports covering all the aspects of power generation, transmission and distribution.
Affiliations and expertise
Freelance Science and Technology Writer/Consultant, UKTS
Truman Storvick
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri, Columbia, USASK
Soteris Kalogirou
Professor Soteris Kalogirou obtained his PhD and DSc from the University of Glamorgan, UK. For more than 30 years, he has been actively involved in research of solar energy and in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination, photovoltaics and absorption cooling in particular. He has many books and book contributions and has published large number papers in international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Energy, as well as Editorial Board Member of another eleven journals. He is the author of the book Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems and Thermal Solar Desalination, both published by Academic Press of Elsevier. He has been a member of World Renewable Energy Network (WREN), American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Institute of Refrigeration (IoR) and International Solar Energy Society (ISES).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, CyprusPM
Preben Maegaard
Dr. Maegaard is Director of the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, an institute for the development and implementation of renewable energies located in Denmark. The center has, under his leadership, provided transfer of renewable energy technology to many countries. Dr. Maegaard was appointed the first president of the World Wind Energy Institute, first president of the World Wind Energy Association, and has served as a Renewable Energy Adviser to the President of Mali. For over three decades, Dr. Maegaard has been a director, organizer, and speaker at numerous international seminars, workshops and conferences. He has authored numerous reports, books, and articles in Danish, English, German and Japanese on renewables and sustainable development.
Affiliations and expertise
Danish Center for Renewable Energy, Hurup Thy, DenmarkBS
Bent Sorensen
Bent Sørensen is professor emeritus in physics at Roskilde University, Denmark). He has held academic positions at University of California in Berkeley, Yale University, The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden (US), Kyoto University (Japan), University of Grenoble (France) and University of New South Wales (Australia) and served as advisor for the OECD, the Japanese and Australian governments, and various UN agencies, including as lead author the IPCC working group on climate change mitigation. He has published nearly 1000 scientific articles and many books, including two volumes on hydrogen and fuel cells. He served as chairman of the Danish Energy Agency’s Solar Energy and Hydrogen Energy Committees, and received prizes such as the Australian-European Award for Eminent Scholars (1982) and the European Solar Prize (2002).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark; Independent Consultant, NOVATOR Advanced Technology Consulting, Denmark