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Smart Metering

  • 1st Edition
  • February 26, 2024
  • VIjay K. Sood + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Smart Metering: Infrastructure, Methodologies, Applications and Challenges combines the fundamentals of smart meters in smart grids with the latest advances and technologies in advanced smart infrastructure. With a strong focus on practical guidance and applications, this book examines the design and implementation of smart meters, as well as cybersecurity and data management challenges. Following an introduction to smart grid architecture, the book details design elements of smart meters to enable them for specific applications such as recording the energy consumption of users, load forecasting, resilience enhancement and energy theft detection.A deep dive into smart meter data analytics is then presented, accompanied by load forecasting methods and their advantages and challenges. Subsequent chapters also discuss outage management, fault identification and other applications of smart meters, including power network connection verifications. This is a comprehensive resource on smart metering and a valuable read to students, researchers and engineers interested in power systems engineering, smart grids, and smart energy technologies.

Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems: Volume 4

  • 1st Edition
  • February 24, 2024
  • Frede Blaabjerg
  • English
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Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems, Volume Four covers emerging topics in the control of power electronics and converters not covered in previous volumes, including emerging power converter topologies, storage systems, battery chargers and the smart transformer. This updated edition specifically focuses on emerging power converter topologies and discusses very recent advances and topics with applications in power electronics and formidable probable dynamics. Chapters include modeling of power converters and their control, with supportive simulations and additional experimental results.Anyone looking for fundamental knowledge regarding new trends in power electronics by application, and also ready to use models and methodologies in their design, control and testing will find this the next invaluable resource in this highly regarded series.

Advanced Materials-Based Fluids for Thermal Systems

  • 1st Edition
  • January 18, 2024
  • Hafiz Muhammad Ali
  • English
  • Paperback
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Advanced Materials-Based Fluids for Thermal Systems focuses on new advanced materials called nanofluids that can be used to maximize heat transfer rates by adding nanoparticles (nanocomposites) into conventional heat transfer fluids. This comprehensive resource covers fundamentals, brief history, definitions, literature review, an introduction to thermophysical properties, and heat transfer characteristics with mathematical models, techniques, performance-affecting factors, applications, and challenges of hybrid nanofluids. The book includes thermal characteristics, measurement, design, and applications of nanoparticles, as well as up-to-date advances in thermal engineering. Sections cover basics then advance to major topics with mathematical models, schematic diagrams, and summaries of experimental work of different researchers. The book also summarizes previous research and contemporary advances on nanofluids worldwide and introduces new techniques, resolving existing problems, and includes tactics on the implementation in practical applications.

Topology Optimization and AI-based Design of Power Electronic and Electrical Devices

  • 1st Edition
  • January 15, 2024
  • Hajime Igarashi
  • English
  • Paperback
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Topology optimization and AI-based design of power electronic and electrical devices provides an essential foundation in the emergent design methodology as it moves toward commercial development, including electrical devices as traction motors for electric motors, transformers, inductors, reactors, and power electronics circuits. Opening with an introduction to electromagnetism and computational electromagnetics for optimal design, this book outlines principles and foundations in finite element methods and illustrates numerical techniques useful for finite element analysis. It summarizes the foundations of deterministic and stochastic optimization methods, including genetic algorithm, CMA-ES, and simulated annealing for quantum and quantum-inspired optimization, alongside representative algorithms. The book goes on to discuss parameter optimization and topology optimization of electrical devices alongside current implementations including magnetic shields, 2D and 3D models of electric motors, and wireless power transfer devices. Finally, it concludes with a lengthy exposition of AI-based design methods, including surrogate models for optimization, Bayesian optimization, direct inverse modeling, deep neural networks, explainable AI, variational autoencoder, and integrated design methods using Monte Carlo tree searches for electrical devices and circuits.  

Solar Energy Engineering

  • 3rd Edition
  • December 1, 2023
  • Soteris A Kalogirou
  • English
  • Hardback
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Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, Third Edition, includes updated chapters and extended resources to assist in the research and teaching of solar energy engineering. Sections cover advances in solar collectors, solar water heating, solar space heating and cooling, industrial process heat, solar desalination, photovoltaic technology, solar thermal power systems, modeling of solar energy systems, and a new chapter on wind energy systems. This book provides students, teachers and professionals with the basic principles and applications of solar energy systems and processes to help them understand how to operate and design solar systems. In addition, this best-selling title includes a student and academic companion site with additional materials on chapter PowerPoints for teaching, problems with a solutions manual, and equations files to assist in problem-solving.

Modeling and Control Dynamics in Microgrid Systems with Renewable Energy Resources

  • 1st Edition
  • November 21, 2023
  • Ramesh C. Bansal + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Modelling and Control Dynamics in Microgrid Systems with Renewable Energy Resources looks at complete microgrid systems integrated with renewable energy resources (RERs) such as solar, wind, biomass or fuel cells that facilitate remote applications and allow access to pollution-free energy. Designed and dedicated to providing a complete package on microgrid systems modelling and control dynamics, this book elaborates several aspects of control systems from classical approach to advanced techniques based on artificial intelligence. It captures the typical modes of operation of microgrid systems with distributed energy storage applications like battery, flywheel, electrical vehicles infrastructures that are integrated within microgrids with desired targets. More importantly, the techno-economics of these microgrid systems are well addressed to accelerate the process of achieving the SDG7 i.e., affordable and clean energy for all (E4ALL). This reference presents the latest developments including step by step modelling processes, data security and standards protocol for commissioning of microgrid projects, making this a useful tool for researchers, engineers and industrialists wanting a comprehensive reference on energy systems models.

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making for Renewable Energy

  • 1st Edition
  • October 24, 2023
  • Mohamed Abdel-Basset + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Multi-Criteria Decision-Making for Renewable Energy: Methods, Applications, and Challenges brings together the latest fuzzy and soft computing methods, models, and algorithms as applied to the field of renewable energy and supported by specific application examples and case studies. The book begins by approaching renewable energy sources, challenges and factors that affect their development, as well as green renewable energy sites and the utilization of fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques in these broad contexts, as well as utilization in addressing the various environmental, economic, and social barriers to ensuring the sustainability of energy resources. Detailed chapters focus on the application of multi-criteria decision-making methods for planning, modeling and prioritization in specific areas of renewable energy, including solar energy, wind farms, solar-powered hydrogen production plants, biofuel production, energy storage, hydropower, and marine energy. Finally, future opportunities and research directions are explored.

Circular Economy Processes for CO2 Capture and Utilization

  • 1st Edition
  • August 29, 2023
  • Francisco M. Baena-Moreno + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Circular Economy Processes for CO2 Capture and Utilization: Strategies and Case-Studies presents an innovative resource or integrating carbon capture, storage and utilization into the sustainable circular economy of the future. Split into two parts, the book offers readers a grounding in the fundamentals of the circular economy and the potential contribution of CCS. Strategies for implementing CCS into a circular economy are explained, with benefits and limitations analyzed. The book then offers a gallery of case studies from the newest research in the area, allowing readers to access lessons learned and critical considerations for integrating CCS into the circular economy. Marrying theory and practice for a holistic perspective, this book offers readers an essential guide to theorizing and implementing a sustainable future economy that utilizes the full potential of carbon capture.

Heat Exchange of Tubular Surfaces in a Bubbling Fluidized Bed

  • 1st Edition
  • August 12, 2023
  • Oleksandr Redko + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Heat Exchange of Tubular Surfaces in a Bubbling Boiling Bed bridges the gap surrounding the study of a boiling bed of large particles with smooth and ribbed pipes, as well as pipe bundles. The book's authors combine results from experimental studies with their varied practical experience in fields of boiling bed applications across various disciplines such as chemical, pharmacological, metallurgical and power engineering industries. This book provides readers with a deep practical understanding of how to calculate the heat engineering parameters of ribbed pipe bundles in a boiling bed, along with the hydrodynamics of the boiling bed.Researchers and experts involved in the design, development and operation of boiling bed apparatus will follow step-by-step methods and procedures to gain knowledge of the hydrodynamic and heat exchange elements of the boiling bed which can be applied to their own settings. The effect of gas velocity, size and properties of the dispersed material, the geometric characteristics of the pipe bundle is also presented, alongside data on the effect of high temperature and high pressure of gas in a dispersed system on heat exchange intensity.

Power Quality in Power Systems, Electrical Machines, and Power-Electronic Drives

  • 3rd Edition
  • February 13, 2023
  • Ewald F. Fuchs + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Power Quality in Power Systems, Electrical Machines, and Power-Electronic Drives uses current research and engineering practices, guidelines, standards, and regulations for engineering professionals and students interested in solving power quality problems in a cost effective, reliable, and safe manner within the context of renewable energy systems. The book contains chapters that address power quality across diverse facets of electric energy engineering, including AC and DC transmission and distribution lines; end-user applications such as electric machines, transformers, inductors, capacitors, wind power, and photovoltaic power plants; and variable-speed, variable-torque power-electronic drives. The book covers nonsinusoidal waveshapes, voltage disturbances, harmonic losses, aging and lifetime reductions, single-time events such as voltage dips, and the effects of variable-speed drives controlled by PWM converters. The book also reviews a corpus of techniques to mitigate power-quality problems, such as the optimal design of renewable energy storage devices (including lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells for automobiles serving as energy storage), and the optimal design of nonlinear loads for simultaneous efficiency and power quality.