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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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    • China’s Electric Vehicle Industry

      • 1st Edition
      • September 26, 2025
      • Yingqi Liu
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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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.

    • Urban Energy Transition

      • 3rd Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Peter Droege
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Urban Energy Transition, Third Edition: Cities and Regions for a stable climate is the most current scientific and practice-based compendium on energy transformations in the global urban system. It also yields perspectives on climate stabilization and the need for comprehensive and additional climate action and policy frames that work in conjunction with the energy transition. This fresh volume examines both established and emerging economic, design, governance, policy and technology related insights and contains contributions from Africa, Asia, Australia, Central Europe and North America.

    • Agriculture-Bioenergy Nexus

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Shashi Kant Bhatia + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Agriculture-Bioenerg... Nexus: Transforming Waste into Wealth comprehensively explores agricultural waste-to-bioenergy, covering everything from fundamental principles to advanced technologies and real-world applications. The book provides readers with case studies, practical insights, and actionable guidance for practitioners, investors, and policymakers. It illustrates the application of theoretical knowledge to practical scenarios, offering a holistic understanding of bioenergy conversion processes, challenges, and opportunities of agricultural waste. Additionally, the book offers detailed technoeconomic analysis to aid decision-making, sustainable environmental practices, and actionable insights for planning and executing bioenergy projects. It bridges disciplines, fostering a holistic understanding that connects agriculture, bioenergy, and environmental science.

    • Green Hydrogen Energy Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Alexandros Arsalis + 8 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Green Hydrogen Energy Systems explores the vital technologies and methods for generating, storing, and utilizing green hydrogen. By adopting an energy systems approach, the book offers a comprehensive review of green hydrogen systems, integrating principles, configurations, progress, and applications, bolstered by technoeconomic analyses and performance data. Addressing common challenges, it explains processes for developing and constructing basic and advanced green hydrogen systems. The book details the fundamentals of hydrogen technologies, including thermodynamics, kinetics, energy loss mechanisms, and costs.It covers aspects such as heat release, clean water usage in electrolyzers, system configurations, and includes real-world performance data, case studies, hydrogen hubs, safety, and economics.

    • Perovskite Photovoltaics

      • 2nd Edition
      • August 29, 2025
      • Aparna Thankappan + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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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.

    • Computational Analysis of Transport Phenomena and Performance of PEMFC

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

    • Biogas in the Circular Economy

      • 1st Edition
      • August 22, 2025
      • Hassan El Bari + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Biogas in the Circular Economy: Technology, Production and Applications explains biogas technology in the context of a circular economy, allowing for zero waste by valorizing digestate (residue) in a sustainable way. The book begins by discussing anaerobic digestion for biomethane production, including feedstocks, pre-treatments, innovative technologies, and the use of artificial intelligence in anaerobic digestion. Subsequent chapters present the latest technologies in biogas separation, purification, in-situ upgrading, and valorization of digestates in a circular economy context, namely as biofertilizers and energy recovery by thermochemical conversions. Carbon neutrality and challenges in biogas are discussed with the support of case studies.This new volume in the Woodhead Series in Bioenergy enables the reader to understand how biogas technology can be utilized to reach circular economy objectives. It will be valuable to all those with an interest in biogas technology, bioenergy, and bioeconomy, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, scientists, R&D, industry practitioners, and policymakers.

    • Eukaryotic Microorganisms as Sources of Bioproducts

      • 2nd Edition
      • August 27, 2025
      • Cristina Gonzalez-Fernandez + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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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.

    • Photovoltaic Module Cooling Techniques

      • 1st Edition
      • August 19, 2025
      • Sakhr M. Sultan + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Photovoltaic Module Cooling Techniques: Types, Applications, Assessment Methods, and Current and Future Challenges offers an up-to-date, central resource covering the latest photovoltaic module cooling techniques and their application, performance assessment methods, and the current and future challenges. The book begins by introducing photovoltaic technology before reviewing existing types and applications of PV cooling techniques and their effects on performance. This book is of interest to all those working on photovoltaics performance, efficiency, and development, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, manufacturers, designers, and policymakers.Subsequ... chapters examine, in detail, various methods and approaches, including temperature dependent PV efficiency and power difference factors, PV cooling techniques, production cost effectiveness, the use of power ratio for evaluating performance of PV coolers when different PV reference power values are used, lifespan effectiveness factor and critical mass flow rate for evaluating performance of cooling techniques, and the definition and use of energy per weight, volume and area factors for assessing performance. This book is of interest to all those working on photovoltaics performance, efficiency, and development, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, manufacturers, designers, and policymakers.

    • Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence in Photovoltaic Power Uncertainty Analysis

      • 1st Edition
      • April 16, 2025
      • Xueqian Fu
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence in Photovoltaic Power Uncertainty Analysis addresses uncertainty issues in photovoltaic power generation while also supporting the collaborative enhancement of understanding and applying theory and methods through the integration of models, cases, and code. The book employs StaRAI to address uncertainty analysis and modeling issues at different time scales in photovoltaic power generation, including photovoltaic power prediction, probabilistic power flow, stochastic planning, and more. Chapters cover uncertainty of PV power generation from short to long time scales, including day-ahead scheduling (24 hours in advance), intraday scheduling (minute to hour rolling), and grid planning (15 years).Other sections study the impact of photovoltaic uncertainty on the power grid, offering the most classic cases of probabilistic load flow and PV stochastic planning.The theoretical content of this book is not only systematic but supplemented with concrete examples and MATLAB/Python codes. Its contents will be of interest to all those working on photovoltaic planning, power generation, power plants, and applications of AI, including researchers, advanced students, faculty engineers, R&D, and designers.

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