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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.

  • Proceedings of the 1st Annual Gas Processing Symposium

    10-12 January, 2009 - Qatar
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • Hassan E. Alfadala + 2 more
    • English
    As the cleanest source of fossil energy with the most advantageous CO2 footprint, natural gas continues to increase its share in the global energy market. This book provides state-of-the-art contributions in the area of gas processing. Special emphasis is given to Liquified Natural Gas (LNG); the book also covers the following gas processing applications in parallel sessions:* Natural Gas processing and treatment * Gas To Power and water* Gas To Liquid (GTL)* Gas To Petrochemicals, including olefins, ammonia and methanol

  • Materials for Fuel Cells

    • 1st Edition
    • M Gasik
    • English
    A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts the chemical energy of a reaction (between fuel and oxidant) directly into electricity. Given their efficiency and low emissions, fuel cells provide an important alternative to power produced from fossil fuels. A major challenge in their use is the need for better materials to make fuel cells cost-effective and more durable. This important book reviews developments in materials to fulfil the potential of fuel cells as a major power source.After introductory chapters on the key issues in fuel cell materials research, the book reviews the major types of fuel cell. These include alkaline fuel cells, polymer electrolyte fuel cells, direct methanol fuel cells, phosphoric acid fuel cells, molten carbonate fuel cells, solid oxide fuel cells and regenerative fuel cells. The book concludes with reviews of novel fuel cell materials, ways of analysing performance and issues affecting recyclability and life cycle assessment.With its distinguished editor and international team of contributors, Materials for fuel cells is a valuable reference for all those researching, manufacturing and using fuel cells in such areas as automotive engineering.

  • Analytical Methods for Energy Diversity and Security

    Portfolio Optimization in the Energy Sector: A Tribute to the work of Dr. Shimon Awerbuch
    • 1st Edition
    • Morgan Bazilian + 1 more
    • English
    Analytical Methods for Energy Diversity and Security is an ideal volume for professionals in academia, industry and government interested in the rapidly evolving area at the nexus between energy and climate change policy. The cutting-edge international contributions allow for a wide coverage of the topic. Analytical Methods for Energy Diversity and Security focuses on the consideration of financial risk in the energy sector. It describes how tools borrowed from financial economic theory, in particular mean-variance portfolio theory, can provide insights on the costs and benefits of diversity, and thus inform investment decision making in conditions of uncertainty. It gives the reader an in-depth understanding of how to manage risk at a time when the world’s focus is on this area. The book provides insights from leading authorities in the area of energy security. It gives readers abundant, rigorous analysis and guidance at a critical time in facing the twin challenges of energy security and climate change. The book also highlights the role of clean energy technology in moving towards future diverse and intelligent electricity systems. It will be a trusted, first point of reference for decision-makers in the field of energy policy. The book includes a foreword by the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner. All royalties from sale of this book will be donated to charities working in the energy sector in the developing world.

  • Solid-State Hydrogen Storage

    Materials and Chemistry
    • 1st Edition
    • Gavin Walker
    • English
    Hydrogen fuel cells are emerging as a major alternative energy source in transportation and other applications. Central to the development of the hydrogen economy is safe, efficient and viable storage of hydrogen. Solid-state hydrogen storage: Materials and chemistry reviews the latest developments in solid-state hydrogen storage.Part one discusses hydrogen storage technologies, hydrogen futures, hydrogen containment materials and solid-state hydrogen storage system design. Part two reviews the analysis of hydrogen interactions including structural characterisation of hydride materials, neutron scattering techniques, reliably measuring hydrogen uptake in storage materials and modelling of carbon-based materials for hydrogen storage. Part three analyses physically-bound hydrogen storage with chapters on zeolites, carbon nanostructures and metal-organic framework materials. Part four examines chemically-bound hydrogen storage including intermetallics, magnesium hydride, alanates, borohydrides, imides and amides, multicomponent hydrogen storage systems, organic liquid carriers, indirect hydrogen storage in metal ammines and technological challenges in hydrogen storage.With its distinguished editor and international team of contributors, Solid-state hydrogen storage: Materials and chemistry is a standard reference for researchers and professionals in the field of renewable energy, hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen storage.

  • Battery Operated Devices and Systems

    From Portable Electronics to Industrial Products
    • 1st Edition
    • Gianfranco Pistoia
    • English
    Battery Operated Devices and Systems provides a comprehensive review of the essentials of batteries and battery applications as well as state-of-the-art technological developments. The book covers the most recent trends, especially for the ubiquitous lithium ion batteries. It lays particular emphasis on the power consumption of battery operated devices and systems and the implications for battery life and runtime. Battery management is also dealt with in detail, particularly as far as the charging methods are concerned, along with the criteria of battery choice. This book describes a variety of portable and industrial applications and the basic characteristics of all primary and secondary batteries used in these applications. Portable applications include mobile phones, notebook computers, cameras, camcorders, personal digital assistants, medical instruments, power tools, and portable GPS. Industrial applications range from aerospace and telecommunications to emergency systems, load levelling, energy storage, toll collection, different meters, data loggers, oil drilling, oceanography, and meteorology. The book also discusses wireless connectivity, i.e. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee, and concludes with some market considerations. Links to further reading are provided through the 275 references. This book will be a valuable information source for researchers interested in devices and systems drawing power from batteries. It will also appeal to graduates working in research institutions; universities and industries dealing with power sources and energy conversion; civil, electrical and transport engineers; and chemists.

  • Power Engineering ebook Collection

    Ultimate CD
    • 1st Edition
    • M. A. Laughton + 6 more
    • English
    Power Engineering ebook Collection contains 5 of our best-selling titles, providing the ultimate reference for every electrical engineer’s library. Get access to over 9000 pages of reference material, at a fraction of the price of the hard-copy books. This CD contains the complete ebooks of the following 5 Newnes titles:Laughton, Electrical Engineer’s Reference Book 16th Edition, 9780750646376 Kuffel, High Voltage Engineering Fundamentals, 9780750636346 Bayliss, Transmission & Distribution Electrical Engineering 3rd Edition, 9780750666732 Warne, Electrical Power Engineering, 9780750662680 Heathcote, J & P Transformer Book 13th Edition, 9780750681643

  • Fuel Cells ebook Collection

    Ultimate CD
    • 1st Edition
    • S.C. Singhal + 6 more
    • English
    This CD contains the complete and unabridged texts of the following bestselling fuel cells titles: Singhal, High Temp Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, 9781856173872Sperlin... Hydrogen Energy Transition, 9780126568813Sorense... Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, 9780126552812Barbir, Pem Fuel Cells, 9780120781423Brandon... Fuel Cells Compendium, 9780080446967Zhao, Advances in Fuel Cells, 9780080453941There is also exclusive bonus material from Spiegel's Fuel Cell Modelling, 9780123742599, which is due for publication later this year.These e-books are fully searchable, at individual title level and across the six titles, providing faster and more accurate and reliable search results. High-resolution images, hints, tips and rules of thumb can be easily found and referred to in a couple of clicks. With this Ultimate CD, renewable energy engineers get a complete fuel cells library they can easily access anywhere.

  • Renewable Energy ebook Collection

    Ultimate CD
    • 1st Edition
    • Bent Sorensen + 4 more
    • English
    This CD contains the complete and unabridged texts of the following best-selling renewable energy titles: Sorensen , RENEWABLE ENERGY 3E, 9780126561531 DA ROSA, FUNDAMENTALS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY, 9780120885107 Markvart, PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF PHOTOVOLTAICS, 9781856173902 Markvart, SOLAR CELLS, 9781856174572 Gupta, Geothermal Energy, 9780444528759 Silveira, Bioenergy – Realizing the Potential, 9780080446615 These e-books are fully searchable, at individual title level and across the six titles, providing faster and more accurate and reliable search results. High resolution images, hints, tips and rules of thumb can be easily found and referred to in a couple of clicks. With this Ultimate CD, engineers involved in renewable energy can have a complete subject library they can easily access anywhere.

  • Applied Coal Petrology

    The Role of Petrology in Coal Utilization
    • 1st Edition
    • Isabel Suarez-Ruiz + 1 more
    • English
    This book is an integrated approach towards the applications of coal (organic) petrology and discusses the role of this science in the field of coal and coal-related topics. Coal petrology needs to be seen as a continuum of organic (macerals) and inorganic (minerals and trace elements) contributions to the total coal structure, with the overprint of coal rank. All this influences the behavior of coal in utilization, the coal by-products, the properties of coal as a reservoir for methane or a sequestration site for carbon dioxide, and the relationships of coal utilization with health and environmental issues. The interaction of coal properties and coal utilization begins at the mine face. The breakage of the coal in mining influences its subsequent beneficiation. Beneficiation is fundamental to the proper combustion of coal and is vital to the preparation of the feedstock for the production of metallurgical coke. An understanding of basic coal properties is important for achieving reductions in trace element emissions and improving the efficiency of combustion and combined-cycle gasification. The production of methane from coal beds is related to the properties of the in situ coal. Similarly, coal bed sequestration of carbon dioxide produced from combustion is dependent on the reservoir properties. Environmental problems accompany coal on its way from the mine to the point of utilization and beyond. Health aspects related with coal mining and coal utilization are also included because, in planning for coal use, it is impossible to separate environmental and health issues from the discussion of coal utilization. The book is aimed at a wide audience, ranging from researchers, lecturers and students to professionals in industry and discusses issues (such as the environmental, and health) that are of concern to the general public as a whole.

  • Future Energy

    Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for our Planet
    • 1st Edition
    • Trevor Letcher
    • English
    Future Energy will allow us to make reasonable, logical and correct decisions on our future energy as a result of two of the most serious problems that the civilized world has to face; the looming shortage of oil (which supplies most of our transport fuel) and the alarming rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 50 years (resulting from the burning of oil, gas and coal and the loss of forests) that threatens to change the world’s climate through global warming. Future Energy focuses on all the types of energy available to us, taking into account a future involving a reduction in oil and gas production and the rapidly increasing amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. It is unique in the genre of books of similar title in that each chapter has been written by a scientist or engineer who is an expert in his or her field. The book is divided into four sections: Traditional Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Energy Renewable Energy Potentially Important New Types of Energy New Aspects to Future Energy Usage Each chapter highlights the basic theory and implementation, scope, problems and costs associated with a particular type of energy. The traditional fuels are included because they will be with us for decades to come - but, we hope, in a cleaner form. The renewable energy types includes wind power, wave power, tidal energy, two forms of solar energy, bio-mass, hydroelectricity, geothermal and the hydrogen economy. Potentially important new types of energy include: pebble bed nuclear reactors, nuclear fusion, methane hydrates and recent developments in fuel cells and batteries.

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