Renewable Energy Production and Distribution Volume 2
Solutions and Opportunities
- 1st Edition - April 16, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Mejdi Jeguirim, Patrick Dutournie
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 4 3 9 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 4 4 0 - 6
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Request a sales quoteRenewable 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.
- 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
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
- List of contributors
- Section 1. Solar thermal energy
- Chapter 1. Solar thermal systems: applications, techno-economic assessment, and challenges
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Solar thermal applications
- 3. Techno-economic assessment of solar thermal systems
- 4. Challenges and recommendations
- Chapter 2. Solar-operated vapor absorption cooling system
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Vital factors influencing performance of VACS
- 3. Case study to show the performance of VACS
- 4. Results obtained from the first law analysis
- 5. Conclusions
- Section 2. Solar photovoltaic energy
- Chapter 3. Quantum efficiency as a tool for defect analysis in solar photovoltaic modules
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Module quantum efficiency
- 3. Experimental results
- 4. Employment in solar industry
- 5. Conclusion
- Section 3. Hydrogen production
- Chapter 4. Carbon nitrides and titanium dioxide-based photocatalysis outlook and challenges: an overview of hydrogen production, transport, storage, safety, and principles
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Photocatalysis the emergent technology
- 3. Conclusions and outlook
- Section 4. Wind energy
- Chapter 5. Economic analysis of the wind energy generation: overview and current perspectives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Materials and methods
- 3. Results and discussion
- 4. Research agenda
- 5. Conclusion
- Section 5. Geothermal energy
- Chapter 6. Solar-assisted geothermal heat pump systems: current practice and future development
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Recent advances in SAGHP system
- 3. SAGHP system energy analysis
- 4. SAGHP system economy analysis
- 5. SAGHP system environment analysis
- 6. Conclusion and insights
- Section 6. Hydropower
- Chapter 7. An overview of small-scale hydropower and its recent development
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Technological routes for small-scale hydropower plant
- 3. Design of turbines producing small-scale hydropower
- 4. Software used in hydropower analysis
- 5. Summary
- Chapter 8. Key challenges of sustainable hydropower in the context of energy transition: a Brazilian contribution
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Key challenges
- 3. Proposed solutions per theme
- 4. Proposed solutions per stage
- 5. Conclusion
- Section 7. Energy storage/fuel cell
- Chapter 9. New development in carbon-based electrodes and electrolytes for enhancement of supercapacitor performance and safety
- 1. General introduction
- 2. Supercapacitors: state of the art
- 3. Electrode materials
- 4. Electrolytes
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Membrane and catalyst in direct methanol fuel cell and direct borohydride fuel cell application
- 1. Introduction to direct methanol fuel cell and direct borohydride fuel cell application
- 2. SPEEK-based composite membrane in DMFC applications
- 3. SPEEK-based membrane in DBFC
- 4. Alginate-based material in fuel cell application
- 5. Ni-based catalyst in DBFC
- 6. Conclusion
- Section 8. Smart grids
- Chapter 11. Optimizing the use of renewable energy to minimize operational costs in distributer green data centers
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Energy-saving approaches for IT equipment in GDCs
- 3. Related work to task scheduling in distributed green data centers
- 4. Problem formulation
- 5. Problem solving and optimization
- 6. Performance evaluation
- 7. Conclusions
- Section 9. Sustainability, policies, and regulations
- Chapter 12. Sustainability policies and regulations for renewable energy development in Taiwan
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Energy environment indicators in Taiwan
- 3. Status of energy supply and energy consumption in Taiwan
- 4. Status of electricity supply and electricity consumption in Taiwan
- 5. Status of renewable energy power in Taiwan
- 6. Sustainability policies for promoting renewable energy power in Taiwan
- 7. Regulatory incentives for promoting renewable energy power in Taiwan
- 8. Conclusions and prospects
- Chapter 13. The Methodological approaches to investigate the impact of financial development on renewable energy consumption
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Proxies of financial developments
- 3. The relationship between financial development and renewable energy consumption: a literature review
- 4. Proposed methodology
- 5. Empirical evidence for lower-middle-income countries
- 6. Discussion and policy implication
- 7. Conclusion
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 16, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 582
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443184390
- eBook ISBN: 9780443184406
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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, FrancePD
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, FranceRead Renewable Energy Production and Distribution Volume 2 on ScienceDirect