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Renewable Energy Production and Distribution Volume 2

Solutions and Opportunities

  • 1st Edition - April 16, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Mejdi Jeguirim, Patrick Dutournie
  • Language: English

Renewable Energy Production and Distribution: Solutions and Opportunities, Volume Four, the latest release in the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies series, looks at the pro… Read more

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Description

Renewable Energy Production and Distribution: Solutions and Opportunities, Volume Four, the latest release in the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies series, looks at the production performance of renewable energy sources and emerging production processes. Containing all major renewable energy technologies in individual chapters, this reference includes some of the most dynamic developments, good practices and future concepts in solar energy systems, energy storage, geothermal energy, bioenergy and hydrogen production. By reviewing these advances, considering them in real world applications and analyzing key challenges, this book provides readers with an up-to-date resource on renewable energy grid integration and its importance.

This newest volume will be of interest to sustainability, energy and engineering graduates, researchers, professors as well as industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector.

Key features

  • Highlights best practices and future ideas for a range of renewable energy technologies, including solar energy, energy storage and geothermal energy
  • Discusses the latest challenges in emerging energy production processes
  • Presents real-world applications to bridge the gap between energy research and practice

Readership

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

Table of contents

1: SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY
Solar collector performance improvement by Thermoelectric heat pumping

2: SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY
PV Technology Actions Plans (TAPS) of Countries Undertook Climate Change (TNAs)

3: BIOENERGY PRODUCTION
Conversion of macroalgal biomass into value-added products

4: HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
Photocatalysis as an emergent Hydrogen production process: State-of-the-art of photocatalytic nanostructures, principles, and challenges

5: WIND ENERGY
An Overview of the Role of Solid-State Transformer in Grid Connected Wind Farms.

6: GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
Solar-Assisted Geothermal Heat Pump Systems: Current Practice and Future Development

7: HYDROPOWER
i) Innovative technologies for the refurbishment of hydropower plants
ii) An overview of small-scale hydropower and its recent development
iii) Key challenges of sustainable hydropower in the context of energy transition

8: ENERGY STORAGE/FUEL CELL
i) New development in carbon-based electrodes and electrolytes for enhancement of supercapacitor performance and safety
ii) Membrane and catalyst-based material in fuel cell application

9: SMART GRIDS
i) A GIS Agent Based Modeling Environment for Blockchain Based Energy Trading
ii) Optimization of renewable energy utilization for operational cost minimization in distributed green data centers"

10: SUSTAINABILITY, POLICIES AND REGULATIONS
Sustainability policies and regulations for renewable energy development in Taiwan

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 16, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

MJ

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, France

PD

Patrick Dutournie

Patrick Dutournié is a Professor at the University of Lower Alsace and part of the Institute of Materials Science of Mulhouse, France.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, University of Lower Alsace, and Institute of Materials Science of Mulhouse, France

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