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Books in Energy and power

Elsevier’s Energy and Power Collection offers the latest innovations in the energy transition with a focus on content that supports and advances the reduction of CO2 emissions. The collection includes content on solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, biofuels and bioenergy, hydrogen and fuel cells, and addresses topics such as energy storage, efficiency, management, economics, and policy, among others.

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    • Fuelling the Future

      • 1st Edition
      • September 16, 2025
      • Deepanraj Balakrishnan + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Fuelling the Future: Intelligent Approaches for Harnessing Hydrogen Energy explores the transformative potential of hydrogen as a clean, renewable energy source. The opening chapter delves into the global need to shift towards sustainable energy solutions, emphasizing hydrogen’s role in reducing carbon emissions and supporting the transition to a greener economy. It introduces machine learning as a cutting-edge tool for solving complex challenges associated with hydrogen production and utilization, offering a glimpse into a smarter, data-driven approach to energy management. It also navigates key issues such as scalability, cost-efficiency, and environmental impacts, ensuring a holistic understanding of hydrogen’s future in energy systems.Beyond optimization, the book addresses practical applications of hydrogen energy in transportation, industry, and storage.

    • Decarbonizing the Petroleum Industry

      • 1st Edition
      • September 15, 2025
      • Achinta Bera + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Decarbonizing the Petroleum Industry: Current Status, Ongoing Activities, and Future Prospects aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with transforming the petroleum industry into a more sustainable and environmentally friendly sector. It addresses the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change by adopting innovative technologies, implementing renewable energy solutions, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions throughout the value chain. The book covers a range of topics related to decarbonization in the petroleum industry. It begins with an overview of the industry's historical contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and establishes the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change. The book then explores various decarbonization technologies and strategies that can be applied to the industry, including carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), electrification, renewable energy integration, hydrogen, and biofuels. Subsequent chapters delve into specific areas of the petroleum industry, including upstream operations, refining and downstream processes, transportation and distribution, and the production of value-added sustainable products from CO2. Chapters discuss innovative approaches, technologies, and practices that can help reduce emissions and promote sustainability at each stage of the industry's value chain. The book culminates with an examination of policy and regulatory frameworks for decarbonization, including international agreements, government policies, incentives, and carbon pricing mechanisms. It explores the role of industry collaborations and partnerships in achieving decarbonization goals and addresses the challenges and opportunities in financing the transition, overcoming technological barriers, building a skilled workforce, and unlocking new business models and market opportunities.

    • Development of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grid Concepts

      • 1st Edition
      • September 12, 2025
      • Supriya Jaiswal + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Development of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grid Concepts presents a guide to the design, development, and deployment of electric vehicles in smart grids. The book examines the current technological progression of power electronic converters for smart grid operation and EV technology as well as providing the international standards, policies, and market needs to ensure readers understand the nuanced requirements of the grid. The book begins by introducing EVs, encompassing their historical evolution, current status, and potential advancements. It delves into the architecture, components, working modes, and technological challenges within EVs.There is a dedicated chapter on international standards, governmental policies, and codes for implementation, followed by the integration of EVs into smart grids, discussing infrastructure requirements, impacts, and integration modes (V2G, G2V, V2B, and V2H). Technical aspects, modeling, and optimization methods for EV scheduling are explored alongside battery modeling, degradation, charging standards, SOC estimation, and battery management systems. Additionally, the book examines EV interaction with smart grids, renewable energy sources, energy storage systems, global market surveys, and future trends.

    • China’s Electric Vehicle Industry

      • 1st Edition
      • September 11, 2025
      • Yingqi Liu
      • English
      • Paperback
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      China’s Electric Vehicle Industry: Business Model Innovation provides comprehensive insights into the role of new energy vehicles in facilitating the global energy transition. The book aims to foster an understanding of how these vehicles contribute to the shift towards green energy. Drawing from extensive data collected from over 20 cities, 40 companies, and more than 500 questionnaires, the book offers practical information for policymakers and industry stakeholders. Beyond the technological aspects such as battery technology, electric drive systems, and charging infrastructure, the book also discusses policy support mechanisms, financial subsidies, tax incentives, and regulatory frameworks.It includes international case studies from the USA and UK, aiding readers in grasping the global dynamics and fostering international cooperation. The book is essential for understanding the interplay between new energy vehicles and energy transition, providing actionable insights for industry professionals, researchers, and policymakers.

    • Electrochemical Biomass Conversion

      • 1st Edition
      • September 1, 2025
      • Rajender Boddula + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Electrochemical Biomass Conversion: Sustainable Processes and Applications for Bioenergy, Biofuels, and Bioproducts offers a detailed exploration of the mechanisms, advancements, and practical applications of electrochemical biomass conversion. Bridging theory and practice, it provides an overview of experimental findings and computational studies. The book begins with an introduction to basic concepts and processes. It then covers reactors, deconstruction, and valorization methods. Various catalysts and characterization techniques are discussed, along with biomass-derived electrochemical platforms. The book also addresses modeling, fermentation, reforming, oxidation, and hydrogenation. Noble metals, alloys, carbon, and polymer catalysts are examined, along with the integration of microbial, photo, and thermal methods.Fuel and biodiesel production through electrochemical processes is explored, as well as the conversion of biomass derivatives like glucose, furfural, and glycerol. The book concludes with bioelectroconversion... technoeconomic assessments, sustainability aspects, case studies, and future directions in biomass electrochemistry.

    • Artificial Intelligence in Biofuels Production

      • 1st Edition
      • September 1, 2025
      • El-Sayed Salama
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Artificial Intelligence in Biofuels Production offers a comprehensive guide to leveraging AI for optimizing and predicting biofuels production. AI tools can significantly enhance process efficiency and reduce costs in the biofuels industry. This book covers the use of biomass, biowaste, and wastewater as renewable feedstocks, and explores advancements in biodiesel and bioethanol production. Detailed chapters address topics such as bio-oil, aviation biofuels, biogas, bio-hydrogen, and bioelectricity, as well as the environmental and social impacts of biofuels, emerging technologies, energy policies, and global initiatives.The book provides practical insights and examples of how AI models and equations can be used to predict optimal conditions for biofuels production, manage resources efficiently, and minimize waste. It also offers guidance on using AI to analyze datasets, enhance feedstock yield, and reduce environmental impacts. This invaluable reference is ideal for researchers, engineers, professionals, and industry entrepreneurs seeking to produce and commercialize biofuels while contributing to sustainability and achieving net-zero emissions.

    • Perovskite Photovoltaics

      • 2nd Edition
      • August 29, 2025
      • Aparna Thankappan + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Perovskite Photovoltaics: Basic to Advanced Concepts and Implementation, Second Edition brings together the latest advances in perovskite photovoltaics, associated challenges and opportunities, and how to achieve further developments. This edition presents new topics and novel areas, including defect engineering, interface engineering, additive engineering, anti-solvents, single crystal perovskite solar cells, inorganic perovskites, optoelectronic characterization, and mathematical modeling of perovskite solar cells. In addition, the book contains a detailed analysis of the implementation and economic viability of perovskite solar cells, highlighting what photovoltaic devices need to be generated by low cost, non-toxic, earth abundant materials using environmentally-scal... processes.This book is a valuable resource for all those with an interest in perovskite solar cells, photovoltaics, and more broadly solar energy and renewable energy, including researchers, scientists, graduate students, engineers, R&D professionals, and other industry personnel.

    • Innovative Energy Management

      • 1st Edition
      • August 29, 2025
      • Muhammad Kamran + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Innovative Energy Management: A Path to Sustainability offers practical solutions and ground-breaking strategies to optimize energy resources, minimize waste, and pave the way for a greener, sustainable future for individuals, businesses, industries, and communities worldwide. The book delves into the complexities of modern energy usage, offering practical solutions and innovative approaches to reduce energy use and environmental impact. Diverse chapters explain key concepts and theoretical bases, technologies, and applications for energy management, making the book accessible to students of all levels of experience. For researchers, the book provides a thorough overview of current trends, technologies, and challenges in solution-based energy management strategies.The inclusion of case studies, real-world examples, and practical strategies in various chapters offer practical guidance for professionals involved in energy management and can be applied directly in industrial settings. Chapters related to energy policy, economics, and environmental impact provide insights into the broader context in which energy management operates, which are invaluable for policymakers and those interested in the intersection of energy and policy. The final chapter of the book highlights emerging technologies, trends, and innovations to ensure all readers are prepared for future advancements in the field.

    • Eukaryotic Microorganisms as Sources of Bioproducts

      • 2nd Edition
      • August 27, 2025
      • Cristina Gonzalez-Fernandez + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Eukaryotic Microorganisms as Sources of Bioproducts: From Microalgae and Yeast Cultivation to End-Products, Second Edition examines the cultivation and utilization of microalgae biomass for sustainable fuels and chemicals, bringing together the expertise of authors from different areas and backgrounds. In addition to extensive updates to the first edition, this new edition includes new chapters on yeast, addressing the many challenges with developing novel yeast technology cell factories and bioprocesses. With a strong focus in emerging industrial and large-scale applications, the book summarizes the new achievements in recent years.It includes information on microalgae and yeast cultivation, harvesting, and conversion processes for the production of liquid and gaseous biofuels, such as biogas, bioethanol, biodiesel and biohydrogen. Microalgae biorefinery and biotechnology applications, including in pharmaceuticals, as food and feed, and value added bioproducts are also covered. The comprehensive scope makes it an ideal textbook for graduate and post-graduate courses in algal/yeast biotechnology, while its invaluable insights and guidance on the design of photobioreactors for microalgae mass cultivation and optimization of process strategies for yeast bioproduction will serve as a reference manual professionals and engineers.

    • Computational Analysis of Transport Phenomena and Performance of PEMFC

      • 1st Edition
      • August 26, 2025
      • Bengt Sundén + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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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.

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