Renewable Energy Production and Distribution
Recent Developments
- 1st Edition - June 16, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Mejdi Jeguirim
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 8 9 2 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 4 9 7 - 3
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Request a sales quoteRenewable Energy Production and Distribution: Recent Developments covers critical research and industry developments on renewable energy, including technological, production, conversion, storage and management. This updated volume provides recent developments in solar energy systems (thermal and photovoltaic), wind energy, hydropower, geothermal energy, bioenergy production and hydrogen production, with the addition of fuel cell technology for this new release. Technology advancements include resources assessment and deployment, materials performance improvement, system optimization and sizing, instrumentation and control, modeling and simulation, and regulations and policies. Each chapter examines advances in specific renewable energy systems, providing theoretical and applied aspects of system optimization, control and management.
Global case studies demonstrate practical applications and economical and environmental aspects through lifecycle analysis. The book will be 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.
- Addresses the advantages and disadvantages of all renewable technologies
- Includes global case studies that demonstrate the practical applications of renewable energy production and distribution
- Features videos and slideshows in the online e-Book for application tutorials
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
- Dedication
- List of contributors
- Part I. Solar thermal energy
- Chapter 1. Utilization of mono and hybrid nanofluids in solar thermal collectors
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Performance of flat plate solar collector (FPSC) using hybrid nanofluids
- 3. Performance of evacuated tube solar collectors (ETSC) using nonfluids
- 4. Performance of concentrated solar collectors using hybrid nanofluids
- 5. Conclusions
- Chapter 2. Solar air heater performance improvement by photovoltaic-powered thermoelectric heat pumping
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Materials and methods
- 3. Results and discussions
- 4. Conclusions
- Part II. Solar photovoltaic energy
- Chapter 3. A grid connected PV system based on a reduced delta inverter
- 1. Introduction
- 2. PV system
- 3. Modeling of the conventional DC/AC inverter connected to the grid
- 4. Modeling of the delta inverter connected to the grid
- 5. Simulation results
- 6. Experimental results
- 7. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. An experimental test bench for emulating the standard characteristics of photovoltaic (PV) systems
- 1. Introduction
- 2. PVS general overview
- 3. Proposed PV emulator design
- 4. Real-time (RT) digital simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test of the PVE
- 5. Experimental test bench and results
- 6. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Part III. Bioenergy production
- Chapter 5. Green pellets production and applications in energy sector
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Biomass pellets production
- 3. Pellets combustion
- 4. Conclusion
- Part IV. Hydrogen production
- Chapter 6. Hydrogen production by supercritical water gasification: a review
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Supercritical water gasification process
- 3. Hydrogen production reactors in supercritical gasification
- 4. Effect of operating parameters on hydrogen production in supercritical water gasification
- 5. Hydrothermal gasification challenges
- 6. Conclusion
- Part V. Wind energy
- Chapter 7. Wind energy in Jordan and Palestine: current status and future perspectives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Wind energy potentials in Jordan and Palestine
- 3. Pilot and commercial projects in Jordan and Palestine
- 4. Future perspectives of wind energy in Jordan and Palestine
- 5. Conclusions
- Part VI. Geothermal energy
- Chapter 8. Tapping hot rocks: a review of petrothermal energy and Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGSs)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Technological retrospective
- 3. Methodology
- 4. EGS in the context of global deep geothermal energy
- 5. The technical potential of the example of Germany
- 6. Discussion and comparison
- 7. Environmental aspects
- 8. Conclusion
- Part VII. Hydropower
- Chapter 9. Retrofitting and Refurbishment of hydropower plants: case studies and novel technologies∗
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Benefits of hydropower modernization [104]
- 3. Dam heightening
- 4. Waterways and penstocks
- 5. Inflow increase and larger equipment
- 6. Efficiency increase at best efficiency point (BEP)
- 7. Efficiency improvement at part load
- 8. Digitalization and flow forecast
- 9. Integration with other energy sources
- 10. Environmental and practical considerations
- 11. Conclusions
- Part VIII. Energy storage
- Chapter 10. Thermocline packed bed thermal energy storage system: a review
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Packed bed thermal energy storage system components
- 3. Performance evaluation and influence factors
- 4. Types of thermocline packed-bed systems
- 5. Numerical models
- 6. Conclusion
- Part IX. Smart grids
- Chapter 11. Long-term load forecasting in the smart grid framework using time series and econometric approaches
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Dataset
- 3. Time series approaches
- 4. Econometric approaches
- 5. Performance measurement criteria
- 6. Simulation results and discussion
- 7. Conclusion
- Chapter 12. A short review of grid voltage sags and current control techniques of voltage source inverters in distributed power generation systems
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Grid faults and voltage sags characteristics
- 3. Voltage support concept and strategies to determine active and reactive power injected by the VSI during the fault and postfault operation
- 4. Current control methods
- 5. Conclusion
- Part X. Sustainability, policies, and regulations
- Chapter 13. Sustainable renewable energy policies and regulations, recent advances, and challenges
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Energy planning policy advances
- 3. Renewable energy policy challenges
- 4. Conclusion and recommendations
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 16, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 496
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323918923
- eBook ISBN: 9780323984973
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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 Renewable Energy Production and Distribution on ScienceDirect