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Storing Energy

with Special Reference to Renewable Energy Sources

  • 2nd Edition - January 18, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Trevor Letcher
  • Language: English

Storing Energy: With Special Reference to Renewable Energy Sources, Second Edition has been fully revised and substantially extended to provide up-to-date and essential discussio… Read more

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Description

Storing Energy: With Special Reference to Renewable Energy Sources, Second Edition has been fully revised and substantially extended to provide up-to-date and essential discussion that will support the needs of the world’s future energy and climate change policies. New sections cover thermal energy storage, tidal storage, sustainability issues in relation to storing energy and impacts on global energy markets. Various systems are discussed, including mechanical/kinetic, thermal, electrochemical and other chemical, as well as other emerging technologies.

Incorporating advancements described in the book will help the people of the world further overcome the problems related to future energy and climate change.

Key features

  • Covers all types of energy storage systems, allowing and encouraging comparisons to be made
  • Written by world experts in the field to provide the latest developments in this fast moving and vital technology
  • Covers the technical, environmental, social and political aspects related to the storing of energy, and in particular, renewable energy

Readership

Universities - sciences, electrical and mechanical and chemical engineering, environmental, departments and faculties, researchers looking into future energy and storing (private and government), financial investors. Captains of industry and all levels of government decision makers and newspapers editors and reporters

Table of contents

A. INTRODUCTION

1.The Role of Energy Storage in Low-Carbon Energy Systems

B. ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE TECHNIQUES GRAVITATIONAL/ MECHANICAL / THERMOMECHANICAL

2. Pumped Hydro-electricity

3. Novel Hydroelectric Storage Concepts

4. Advance Rail Energy Storage (ARES)

5. Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) in Underground Formations

6. Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) with Underground Storage

7 Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) with Undersea Bags

8. Pumped Hydro Combined with Compressed Air

9. Liquid Air Energy Storage: (LAES)

10. Flywheels

11. Rechargeable Batteries

12. The Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries Thermal

13. Phase Changes

14. Solar Ponds

15. Sensible Thermal Energy Storage: Diurnal and Seasonal Chemical

16. Hydrogen from Water Electrolysis

17. Chemical Reactions

18. Power to Gas

19. Traditional Energy Storage: natural gas, oil and coal

20. Large Scale Hydrogen Storage

C. INTEGRATION

21. Network Integration and Smart Grids

22. Off-Grid Energy Storage

D. INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND THE POLITICS OF INTRODUCING RENEWABLE ENERGY SCHEMES

23. Energy Storage World-Wide

24. Energy Storage in China

25. Politics of Investing in Renewable Energy Systems

26. Pumped Thermal Energy

27. Betavoltaic Devices for Small

28. Batteries (Diamond Plus C14 Graphite)

29. Superconducting Magnets

30. Supercapitors

31. Harvesting Energy from Car Tyres (Friction)

32. Concentrated Solar Energy and Co2 + H2o Catalysed to Liquid Fuel

33. Tidal Storage

34. Molten Salts

35. New Types of Batteries

36. Sustainability Issues in Storing Energy

37. Energy Markets for Storing Energy around the World

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 18, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Trevor Letcher

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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