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Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) for Sustainable Development

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • English
  • Paperback
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Enhanced Geothermal Systems for Sustainable Development presents EGS as an essential tool in securing abundant, clean, carbon-free energy to help meet growing global energy demands. This book lays a foundation with an overview of the thermal regime of the earth, addresses carbon dioxide sources, their effects on the climate and mitigation strategies using EGS, summarizes hydrothermal sources, EGS concepts, its historical background, EGS technology, economic and environmental considerations and culminates in global case studies. Authored by a recognized geothermal energy expert, Enhanced Geothermal Systems for Sustainable Development delivers a centralized text that emphasises fundamental principles, methodology, application, and economics of Enhanced Geothermal Systems, delivers a basic understanding of EGS concepts and applications in the lab and field, includes global case studies demonstrating the viability of geothermal energy, and supports sustainability. Packed with foundational and practical information on EGS, as well as case studies highlighting EGS applications worldwide, this book presents a much-needed overview for undergraduate and graduate students, energy industry professionals and researchers, and companies seeking a stake in the carbon-neutral business to reduce their carbon footprints. This essential volume covers EGS basics, technologies, applications, and benefits, along with case studies, examples, and economics. This accessible text on EGS is essential in the present context of global energy security – it paves a path to a carbon-free future that is within reach.

Vegetable Oil in Energy, Volume 1

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Abdullah Mohammed Ah Asiri + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Vegetable Oil in Energy, Volume 1: Biofuel Technology examines the conversion processes involved in the production of biofuels from vegetable oils. With a strong focus on methodologies and protocols, the book provides step-by-step guidance on a comprehensive range of production pathways for liquid and gaseous biofuels. The first part of the book provides an overview of present vegetable oil production. Subsequent chapters describe the key production pathways, including pyrolysis, decarboxylation, deoxygenation, catalytic cracking processes, esterification, trans-esterification, anaerobic digestion, catalytic pyrolysis, and more. The economic potential of different vegetable oil feedstocks is discussed within each chapter.Finally, chapters are dedicated to sustainability, examining the environmental and socioeconomic impact of production, with an emphasis on GHG emission reduction. This book provides readers with the latest developments in the production of biofuels from vegetable oils, which will be of interest to students, researchers, and industry professionals involved in bioenergy and renewable energy, and may be of interest to interdisciplinary teams working across biotechnology, chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental science and sustainability sciences.

The Carbon Footprint of our Primary Energy Sources

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Mukul Sharma
  • English
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The Carbon Footprint of our Primary Energy Sources supplies readers with a comprehensive, accessible analysis of the carbon footprints of a range of primary energy sources including crude oil, natural gas, coal, solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, hydroelectric energy, nuclear energy and biofuels, and their carbon footprints, employing a full lifecycle assessment (LCA) of each primary energy source. This text, along with its accompanying interactive calculator, furnishes both the foundation and a tool for estimating carbon footprints for a range of energy systems. The work culminates in a cost-benefit analysis of these primary energy sources.With the significant uptick of global investment in alternative energies and the global focus on reducing emissions, this text delivers an important foundational overview/understanding of these systems, and an opportunity for teachers and readers to apply learnings to their own energy consumption choices.

CFD Simulations for Advances of Solar Thermal Systems

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • English
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CFD Simulations of Advances of Solar Thermal Systems offers readers the tools needed to optimize the performance of solar thermal systems with low costs through CFD applications and simulations. This book aims to advance the enhancement and affordability of solar thermal systems via CFD applications. Each chapter contains overviews paired with relevant illustrations, diagrams, and calculations describing each system. Sections then progress into intersectionality and application of CFDs for each, including advances -- all woven into a volume that flows from chapter to chapter with a consistent structure that delivers readers a valuable, easy-to-follow, practical reference.Production of clean energy is a global goal. Several clean energy sources are available, including geothermal, wind, hydropower, and solar energy. The challenge is to develop efficient methods and processes for beneficial, rapidly scaled, safe and economically viable exploitation of these resources. Solar energy represents one of the most important renewable sources of clean energy. Solar energy is exploited using various methods – solar thermal systems convert solar energy to thermal energy via solar collectors, solar air heaters, solar chimney power plants, solar dishes, solar cookers, and solar parabolic concentrators.

Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass Feedstock and Solid Waste into Biofuels

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Nan Zhou
  • English
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Thermochemical Conversion of Biofuels from Biomass Feedstock and Solid Waste: Production and Pollutant Control offers a comprehensive summary of the state-of-the-art in biofuel production, with a special focus on pollutants control, which is both necessary and beneficial to the target audience and the development of this research field. Biofuel is currently a major trend due to the existing environmental crises as well as global energy challenges. Developing renewable and sustainable fuels from biomass and solid wastes and minimizing the formation of pollutants during the conversion process are currently of a great deal of academic and industrial importance and draws widespread attention.In addition, studies on the formation and transformation of pollutants such as heavy metals, chlorine, and Sulphur species during the process are usually conducted by researchers in the discipline of environmental engineering and are less known to bioenergy researchers. In this regard, this book serves as a bridge between relevant disciplines and present a comprehensive picture of the whole research field.

Photovoltaic Device Physics and Materials

  • 3rd Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Stephen J. Fonash
  • English
  • Hardback
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Photovoltaic Device Physics and Materials: Solar Cell, Energy Management, and Retinomorphic Structures, Third Edition reflects that the physics behind these three important photovoltaics applications is the same while the device structure, designs, and materials used to optimally implement this physics varies. These variations come from differences in the incoming spectra, the materials utilized, and differences in the concomitant light trapping required. The importance of the materials utilized requires extensive examination and exploration of emerging inorganics, including perovskites, organics, and 2-D materials.An additional consideration that is addressed is device planar extent, which varies with device application. This thoroughly revised and expanded text is a valuable resource for students and researchers looking to learn about photovoltaic or solar cell devices, as well as faculty, engineers, R&D, government and industry labs, and medical facilities.

Accelerating the Transition to a Hydrogen Economy

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Accelerating the Transition to a Hydrogen Economy provides a roadmap in the global economy, from carbon to hydrogen. Within the context of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, the book brings together global expertise from academia and industry to accelerate the science, innovation, and practice of the hydrogen economy to address energy challenges and advance UN Sustainable Development Goals. The book highlights the change of paradigm in the global economy from carbon to hydrogen, disseminating knowledge to readers about climate change and providing a critical overview of hydrogen generation and its utilization in various sectors.Each chapter provides a synopsis of the fundamental knowledge and recent developments to ensure readers of all experience levels and backgrounds benefit. Future perspectives and actionable next steps are presented alongside case studies from different region of the world that provide a roadmap to decarbonization and the energy transition.

Accelerating the Transition to a Hydrogen Economy

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Accelerating the Transition to a Hydrogen Economy: Volume 3 Techno-Economic Feasibility provides a road map in the global economy from carbon to hydrogen. Within the context of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, the book brings together global expertise from academia and industry to accelerate the science, innovation, and practice of the hydrogen economy to address energy challenges and advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals.Divided into 2 parts, this third volume presents the techno-economic feasibility of the hydrogen economy and its policy-associated regulations from the perspective of technology, economics, and the environment. The book examines the development of the hydrogen economy within regional settings as a means for greater development, while presenting a vision for the implementation of the hydrogen economy in the long-term in each region. For each region, case studies are presented to highlight the current state of preparation and potential for a hydrogen economy.Written by an international list of experts from across the fields of academia, industry, and government, Accelerating the Transition to a Hydrogen Economy provides valuable perspectives for scientists, engineers, professionals, and policymakers from developing and developed economies on how to accelerate the transition to the hydrogen economy.

Computational Analysis of Transport Phenomena and Performance of PEMFC

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Bengt Sundén + 2 more
  • English
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Computational Analysis of Transport Phenomena and Performance of PEMFC presents a practical guide to the mathematical modeling and simulation of PEMFCs for all transport processes of mass, momentum, energy, ions, and electrons. Tackling one of the most important aspects of next-generation PEMFC technologies, the book brings together the state-of-the-art to model and simulate phenomena and processes at various scales, including catalyst layers, electrodes, membranes, and bipolar plates of PEMFC unit cells and stacks.Chapters introduce PEM fuel cells and explain the underlying electrochemical and thermodynamic concepts involved, present a detailed breakdown of the governing equations for overall mass, momentum, and energy conservation, charge (ions and electrons) conservation, water generation and its transport, heat generation, and heat transfer and cooling methods, offer an in-depth analysis of the various single and multi-dimensional modelling approaches and considerations, including lattice Boltzmann approach, artificial neural networks, exergy and energy analysis, estimation of fuel and oxidant consumption, the differences between cell-scale, stack-scale, and system-scale approaches, and more.

Advanced Renewable Energy Conversion Technologies and Power Plant Engineering

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Md Hasanuzzaman
  • English
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Advanced Renewable Energy Conversion Technologies and Power Plant Engineering provides a one-stop resource that covers advanced renewable energy conversion and power plant engineering, offering a practical applications-oriented approach. The book begins by introducing renewable energy, basic thermodynamics, energy conversion, and power plants. This is followed by in-depth chapters that cover a specific renewable energy source and their conversion and power plant integration, including bioenergy, geothermal, hydroelectric, ocean energy, solar, photovoltaics, solar thermal, and wind. Finally, energy storage technologies are considered. Throughout the book, chapters are supported by modeling, performance analysis, and case studies.It will support anyone with an interest in renewable energy, energy conversion technologies, and power plant engineering, including advanced students, researchers, faculty, scientists, engineers, R&D, industry personnel, and policymakers.

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Biomass and bioenergy

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