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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.

  • Advanced Nuclear Fuels and Materials

    • 1st Edition
    • February 5, 2025
    • Rongzheng Liu + 2 more
    • English
    Advanced Nuclear Fuels and Materials covers different fuel types such as oxide fuels,metal and alloy fuels, carbide fuels, nitride fuels, composite fuels, and transmutationtargets... Other fuels discussed include those used in advanced reactor systems, includinghigh temperature gas cooled reactor fuels, molten salt reactor fuels, sodium cooled fastreactor fuels, lead cooled fast reactor fuels, gas cooled fast reactor fuels, and supercriticalwater reactor fuels.Additional sections focus on materials used in nuclear reactors, including structuralalloys, control rod materials, and graphite. The numerical simulation of advancednuclear fuels, and the frontier of nuclear fuels, including new accident tolerant fuelsand nano materials used in advanced nuclear energy systems are also elaborated.The comprehensive coverage provided by the book makes it an ideal reference forsenior undergraduates and graduate students and professional researchers/engineer... in nuclear energy, nuclear fuel, or material science.

  • Kinetic Energy Harvesters

    Principles, Technologies, and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • February 3, 2025
    • Amir Musa Abazari + 3 more
    • English
    Kinetic Energy Harvesters: Principles, Technologies, and Applications presents a comprehensive analysis of the five types of kinetic energy harvesters, offering readers a single resource to learn about the principles, technologies, and applications.The opening chapters of the book provide a concise review of free and forced vibration analysis, as well as Multi Degree of Freedom systems. The subsequent chapters systematically examine the five types of energy harvesters, piezoelectric, electromagnetic, magnetostrictive, electrostatic, and triboelectric. Within the chapters, each ambient vibration phenomenon is described in detail, followed by an explanation of the relevant principles. Analytical analyses of kinetic energy and its conversion to electrical energy are then presented, alongside the governing equations, and a discussion of the technologies applications. Finally, MATLAB code is provided for programming calculations.A comprehensive resource on kinetic energy harvesting, Kinetic Energy Harvesters: Principles, Technologies, and Applications is an invaluable resource for anyone working on energy harvesting technologies, energy conversion, or the diverse range of applications for these technologies.

  • Microalgal Biofuels

    Sustainable Production, Conversion, and Life Cycle Assessment
    • 1st Edition
    • January 29, 2025
    • Krishna Kumar Jaiswal + 2 more
    • English
    Microalgal Biofuels: Sustainable Production and Conversion is a comprehensive guide to the latest advancements in microalgal biofuels. The book provides systematic coverage of the processes of biofuel production, from microalgae biomass resources to biomass conversion processes and catalytic materials. It delves into the critical topic of sustainability, addressing LCA approaches to evaluate the environmental impacts of microalgal-based biofuels. It provides practical information and guidance on the latest strategies, opportunities, and challenges in the transition to sustainable bioenergy. This is an invaluable reference for students, researchers, and industrial practitioners working on biofuels, biotechnology, bioprocess engineering, and biomass conversion.Divided into four sections, the first section introduces the principles of microalgal biology and cultivation, including an overview of the different types of microalgae, their growth requirements, and the cultivation systems used for large-scale production. The second section explains the conversion of microalgal biomass into biofuels, including biodiesel, bioethanol, biogas, and hydrogen. Each chapter in this section covers a different biofuel pathway, highlighting the technological advancements, challenges, and opportunities for scaling up production. The third section of the book explores the sustainability aspects of microalgal biofuel production, including the use of waste streams and the integration of biofuel production with other industries. This section also covers the LCA approaches used to evaluate the environmental impacts of microalgal biofuels and the strategies for enhancing their sustainability. The fourth and final section of the book examines the commercialization and prospects of microalgal biofuels. This section covers the market potential of microalgal biofuels, the regulatory landscape, and the challenges and opportunities for the industry.

  • Renewable Energy Projects and Investments

    Interdisciplinary Knowledge, Analysis, Opportunities, and Outlook
    • 1st Edition
    • January 28, 2025
    • Hasan Dınçer + 1 more
    • English
    Renewable Energy Projects and Investments: Interdisciplinary Knowledge, Analysis, Opportunities, and Outlook brings together a range of insights and perspectives from across technology, engineering, sustainability, circular economy, economics, policy, and social science to support the further growth and development of renewable energy. The book provides a general outlook of the drivers in renewable energy in terms of regulatory frameworks, technological advancements, and market conditions, the associated risks and opportunities, and current trends and forecasts. This resource will interest those who require a comprehensive understanding on the development of renewable energy, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, industry personnel, analysts, and policymakers.Other sections focus on the effects of sustainability and the circular economy on renewables, addressing various challenges and possible solutions. The final section delves further into interdisciplinary issues relating to renewable energy, including engineering and technology, economics and finance, policy, and social science. Throughout the book, case studies and practical examples are used to help to support the decision-making process.

  • Towards Future Smart Power Systems with High Penetration of Renewables

    Emerging Technologies, New Tools, and Case Studies
    • 1st Edition
    • January 24, 2025
    • Marcos Tostado-Véliz + 4 more
    • English
    Towards Future Smart Power Systems with High Penetration of Renewables: Emerging Technologies, New Tools, and Case Studies explores the latest tools and approaches for smart power systems with high-scale integration of renewable energy, covering technology, optimization, control, forecasting, and market structures. The first section of the book on emerging technologies and energy vectors identifies some of the most prominent energy carriers in future power systems, and discusses the implications of different energy technologies as well as their advantages and disadvantages. This is followed by a section focusing on new markets, businesses and structures, discussing how such energy carriers should be managed within existing or future market structures, and discussing the different opportunities and challenges bought by renewable technologies. The third part of the book analyzes real projects and case studies, offering steps forward in the large-scale integration of renewable energy in existing power systems. Finally, the fourth section examines optimization and control for power systems with renewables. covering the needs of future power systems regarding their optimization and control and describing some of the new tools required, with an emphasis on planning, management and forecasting in future power systems. Drawing on real examples, case studies, computational tools, and analysis, this book is a valuable resource for all those with an interest in renewable energy integration and smart power systems, including students, researchers, faculty, engineers, R&D, industry personnel, and policy makers.

  • Thermochemical Conversion of Lignocellulosic Materials

    Theory, Design, and Applications for the Future
    • 1st Edition
    • January 22, 2025
    • Manuel Garcia-Perez + 1 more
    • English
    Thermochemical Conversion of Lignocellulosic Materials: Theory, Design, and Applications for the Future proposes a generalized methodology for the design and study of thermochemical conversion reactors independent of the feedstock used and the technology analyzed. Sections cover essential theory, including biomass thermochemical conversion, biomass supply chains, and thermochemical reactors. The book then examines other important aspects of the thermochemical conversion reaction, presenting modeling and analysis options. Finally, it investigates potential uses and applications for these techniques. Including clear objectives and practical exercises to cement understanding, this book will equip students and researchers with the skills to design and model selective reactors.

  • Energy From Plasma

    Production and Storage
    • 1st Edition
    • January 10, 2025
    • Ghulam Yasin + 4 more
    • English
    Energy from Plasma: Production and Storage presents fundamental plasma as a pathway for energy generation and storage. The book covers emerging plasma applications for storing applications and introduces promises and challenges in the use of plasma to energy. Broken into five parts, this book starts with fundamentals before discussion plasma for fuel production. Part three addresses plasma for energy efficiency and environmental protection, and part four explores fusion plasma. Finally, part five discusses plasma for energy conversion and storage. Written for academic researchers and professional engineers/scientists working in the field of plasma technology, energy, environmental science, and materials science, Energy from Plasma: Production and Storage is sure to be a welcomed resource.

  • Smart Prosumers within Smart Grids

    Fundamentals, Methodologies, and Potential for Advancing the Energy Transition
    • 1st Edition
    • November 29, 2024
    • Ahmad Rezaee Jordehi + 2 more
    • English
    Smart Prosumers within Smart Grids: Fundamentals, Methodologies, and Potential for Advancing the Energy Transition provides a primer on the technologies and opportunities of prosumer integration into smart grids. The book begins with a clear introduction to the essential concepts of both smart grids and prosumers, as well as their critical role in renewable energy integration. It then moves through a 360-degree analysis of opportunities for leveraging smart prosumer technology in the smart grid, from the micro (smart homes) to macro (smart distribution networks and interconnected smart power-gas grids).Methodologies to maximize the integration of renewable sources, including critical hydrogen technologies are considered, as well as the potential for smart prosumers to manager reliability challenges of renewable energy and constant change from the energy transition. Implications are considered across sectors, including regulatory, legal, economic, business, and transport infrastructure, and prosumer interactions with other actors such as DSOs, TSOs, retailers, and BPRs are analyzed.

  • Flexible Devices Based on Metal Oxides

    Achievements and Prospects
    • 1st Edition
    • November 28, 2024
    • Daniela Nunes + 7 more
    • English
    Flexible devices based on metal oxides: Achievements and prospects focuses on the integration of flexibility in electronic circuitry, sensing applications, energy conversion and storage, and environmental remediation. Flexibility in these applications offers great potential, especially in the areas of wearable sensors, solar cells, transistors, electronic skin, and human body monitoring. The book investigates flexible and wearable devices based on metal oxide nanostructures or thin films that are capable of bending, rolling, compression, and folding, all while maintaining their performance.Metal oxide nanomaterials display exceptional properties that include mechanical stress tolerance, high optical transparency, high carrier mobilities, wide band gap, high dielectric constant, and superconductivity, amongst others. In some cases, they are also earth abundant, environmentally benign, cost-effective, chemically stable, and compatible with low-cost wet-chemical synthesis routes. The focus of the book is on wearables manufactured using sustainable manufacturing methods and integrated into substrates that are flexible, inexpensive, recyclable, abundant, and lightweight, including polymer, textile, cellulose and cork substrates.

  • Powering through the Transition

    Navigating the Energy Sector’s Biggest Change since the Discovery of Oil
    • 1st Edition
    • November 28, 2024
    • Michael Deighton
    • English
    The energy transition is underway to low carbon, and energy companies need a guide to navigate through the uncertainties while maintaining an agile workforce. Powering through the Transition: Navigating the Energy Sector’s Biggest Change since the Discovery of Oil delivers key principles to achieve performance excellence for energy managers and engineers, utilizing cutting edge tools and techniques around lean, visual management, scrum, agile and margin improvement methods. Practical and user-friendly, the methods introduced are already showing successful tangible results with super major energy companies backed by the author’s 25-year experience. Strong visual graphics through flow charts and graphical abstracts are included as well as smart deployment methods utilizing digital technology and multiskilling of personnel. Rounding out with a glossary of terms and practical examples, Powering through the Transition gives today’s companies a plan to thrive in low carbon energy markets.

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