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    • Design Reliability and Maintainability of Energy Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • May 1, 2026
      • Fausto Pedro Garcia Marquez + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Designing reliable and maintainable energy systems is crucial for ensuring efficiency, longevity, and sustainability in energy production, distribution, and consumption. Reliability focuses on minimizing failures and ensuring continuous operation under varying conditions, while maintainability emphasizes ease of inspection, repair, and upgrades. A well-designed energy system integrates robust components, predictive maintenance strategies, and advanced monitoring technologies to reduce downtime and operational costs. By prioritizing both reliability and maintainability, engineers can develop resilient energy infrastructures that support modern demands while minimizing environmental impact and lifecycle costs.Designing Reliability and Maintainability of Energy Systems is a guide to enhancing the resilience and reliability of modern energy infrastructures. Chapters present fundamental principles of reliability and resilience and new artificial intelligence applications, such as predictive maintenance, advanced analytics, and digital twin technologies for improved efficiency and sustainability in energy systems. Clear chapter objectives, worked problems, and case studies are included to demonstrate real-world applications of these technologies.This book is valuable for researchers, industry professionals, engineers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students focused on energy grids, power system reliability, and AI-driven solutions for sustainable infrastructure.

    • A Microgrid Cluster Management and Internet-of-Things Framework

      • 1st Edition
      • May 1, 2026
      • Veerpratap Meena + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      A Microgrid Cluster Management and Internet-of-Things Framework: Fundamentals, Protocols, and Case Studies presents a cutting-edge guide on leveraging IoT technologies to optimize renewable energy integration through microgrid clusters. The book begins by detailing the fundamental aspects of microgrid clusters, encompassing design, control, and optimization. This comprehensive grounding prepares readers for the exploration of IoT integration to harness big data analytics for energy efficiency, power management, fault monitoring, and cybersecurity. The book further delves into the meticulous analysis of protocol selection for effective operation and control.It covers wired protocols such as Modbus, Profibus, and Ethernet, wireless protocols like Zigbee, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, and IoT protocols including CoAP, MQTT, and HTTP. By outlining an adaptable framework for interdisciplinary opportunities, this book guides researchers and engineers in creating the flexible, renewable grid of the future.

    • Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Sayed Abulanwar + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids: Optimization, Energy Management, and Protection, a new release in the Advances in Sustainable Microgrid Technologies series, offers a comprehensive exploration of modern microgrid technologies, focusing on the integration of alternating and direct current systems. This book serves as a practical guide for foundational principles and advanced applications, addressing the complexities of design, operation, and management. By examining energy generation methods such as wind, solar, and hydrogen, the text prepares readers for real-world challenges. Detailed case studies, hands-on objectives, and worked problems foster practical learning, making this resource invaluable for students, researchers, and industry engineers invested in sustainable energy solutions.The book not only covers power management and quality control, but also delves into risk assessment and resilience strategies for microgrids. It highlights advanced modeling techniques, fault detection, and protection using both physical and artificial intelligence methods. Guidance is provided for grid protection in normal and abnormal conditions, emphasizing the need to maintain reliable energy systems amid climate change. Clear formatting, including objectives and case studies, enhances comprehension and application.

    • Artificial Intelligence-Based Renewable Energy Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Kashif Naseer Qureshi + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Artificial Intelligence-Based Renewable Energy Systems: Standards, Communication Systems, and Data Networks, a new release in the Advances in Intelligent Energy Systems series, presents a thorough exploration of how artificial intelligence is transforming the landscape of renewable energy. Focusing on both the theoretical underpinnings and hands-on applications, this book serves as a valuable resource for students, researchers, and practicing engineers aiming to understand the integration of AI with sustainable energy solutions. It systematically breaks down the evolution of energy-efficient systems, the role of advanced applications, current architectural frameworks, and industry standards.In addition to foundational concepts, the book highlights critical subjects such as distributed renewable energy networks and the latest advancements in data communication systems. Readers will find in-depth discussions on networking protocols, advanced learning methods, the use of blockchain, big data analytics, and green communication technologies. The work also addresses pressing issues like cybersecurity and privacy in smart energy systems.

    • Next-Generation Microgrids

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Olubayo Moses Babatunde + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Next-Generation Microgrids: Components, Control Algorithms, and Design guides engineers or students through the design, control, and operation of microgrids, integrating cutting-edge techniques and technologies with pragmatic implementation advice. This book begins by breaking down the fundamental principles of microgrid technology, before detailed discussions on microgrid design and the integration of distributed energy resources. Subsequent chapters investigate optimization, energy storage systems, advanced power electronics, and critical power quality enhancement strategies. Using a multidisciplinary approach that includes practical questions such as regulatory guidance and communication and networking technology, the book provides everything a reader needs to maximise the sustainability impact of microgrids. Bridging the gap between fundamental concepts and advanced practical applications, Next-Generation Microgrids: Components, Control Algorithms, and Design is an essential resource for the students, researchers, and industry professionals responsible for developing and implementing this technology in the grids of the future.

    • Flexible DC Traction Power Supply System in Urban Rail Transit

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • Chao Lu + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Flexible DC Traction Power Supply Systems in Urban Rail Transit: Design, Operation and Control is an essential guide on the cutting-edge of the field that clarifies the current standard for power converters, traction control, and energy systems for rail transport before introducing basic concepts, configurations, and opportunities for flexible DC traction power supply systems. Other sections provide a detailed guide to operating principles and core functions in comparison to traditional diode rectifier-based traction power supply systems. This is a critical resource for energy and electrical engineers, researchers, and students developing the sustainable infrastructure of the future.Key techniques are analyzed with attentive reference to rail application context and appropriate case studies. The book closes with two full chapters of novel case studies from China that support practical application and further development by readers. Working from foundational principles to real-world applications.

    • Advanced Analytics for Reliability and Resilience of Energy System

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Fausto Pedro Garcia Marquez + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advanced Analytics for Reliability and Resilience of Energy Systems prepares students, researchers, and industry engineers to design and maintain reliable, sustainable energy systems using state-of-the-art AI techniques. This book provides a clear foundation in the fundamentals of power systems, statistics, and reliability, including resilience principles and strategies, practical applications, and real-world solutions. The AI tools presented range across forecasting, the Internet-of-Things, machine learning, digital twin technology, and big data analysis, with a variety of applications to avoid power outages, minimise disruption, and accurately assess system resilience. Including case studies and details methodology for practical techniques, Advanced Analytics for Reliability and Resilience of Energy Systems helps energy systems engineers and researchers to provide a stable and consistent power supply, in the face of climate change challenges and the energy transition

    • Energy Communities

      • 1st Edition
      • November 21, 2025
      • Carlos Cruz de la Torre + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, designing, and optimizing energy communities, with step-by-step breakdowns of the technical, economic, and practical principles at play. This book opens by examining the key agents, models, and impacts of energy communities, including infrastructure, generation, and storage technologies. Part II delves into economic considerations, discussing legislative frameworks, barriers, greenwashing risks, and support mechanisms. Part III focuses on complex practical arrangements, providing cutting-edge, detailed case studies examining collective assets and cost-sharing mechanisms. Finally, Part IV addresses energy management and dispatch, highlighting demand and storage technologies utilizing deep learning, big data, and digital twin technology. With its holistic perspective, blending theoretical insights with practical blueprints and real-world case studies, Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends is an essential resource for students, engineers, and academics designing decentralized energy systems to enable renewable energy integration, and future-proof the power infrastructure.

    • Advanced Grid Technologies, Volume 1

      • 1st Edition
      • November 3, 2025
      • Haris M. Khalid + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advanced Grid Technologies: Grid Evolution, Smart Grid Fundamentals, and Renewable Energy Integration, Volume One provides a coherent, practical introduction to the innovative, modern techniques required to integrate renewable energy into power grids. The book focuses on the basic history of the grid, fundamental aspects of grid management, and the challenges set by renewable integration. It begins by outlining the history of the modern energy grid before providing a comprehensive overview of renewable energy sources, the challenges their use present for typical energy grids, and the fundamentals of modern smart adaptations.Specific major challenges are broken down into fundamentals, including electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid, energy storage, intelligent electronic device-based substations, and demand forecasting for energy stability. Including a variety of numerical examples and working from early principles for each topic, this book provides late-stage undergraduate and graduate students in energy systems and power engineering, as well as engineers working to modernize the power grid, with a fundamental resource for renewable energy integration.

    • Intelligent Energy Systems using the Barnacles Mating Optimizer and Evolutionary Mating Algorithm

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Mohd Herwan Sulaiman + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Intelligent Energy Systems using the Barnacles Mating Optimizer and Evolutionary Mating Algorithm: Foundations, Methods, and Applications reveals the potential of innovative optimization algorithms to support sustainability in modern energy systems. This book provides a multidisciplinary foundation for the reader, with Part I breaking down fundamentals including the challenges to be addressed in renewable energy systems and detailed methodologies including swarm-, physics-, and human-based algorithms, before introducing the Barnacles Mating Optimizer and Evolutionary Mating Algorithm themselves. Part II drills deeper into examples, case studies, and applications for energy systems, offering comparative analysis with alternative tools, and providing complimentary MATLAB code using the latest Toolbox. A sandbox for readers to learn, skill-build, and develop in, ‘Intelligent Energy Systems using BMO and EMA’ provides an indispensable guide to these cutting-edge AI tools for new and experienced readers.