Skip to main content
Elsevier
View Cart

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.

BooksJournals

    • Advanced Grid Technologies, Volume 1

      • 1st Edition
      • November 21, 2025
      • Haris M. Khalid + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 8 5 1 6
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 8 5 2 3
      Advanced Grid Technologies: Grid Evolution, Smart Grid Fundamentals, and Renewable Energy Integration, Volume One provides a coherent, practical introduction to the innovative, modern techniques required to integrate renewable energy into power grids. The book focuses on the basic history of the grid, fundamental aspects of grid management, and the challenges set by renewable integration. It begins by outlining the history of the modern energy grid before providing a comprehensive overview of renewable energy sources, the challenges their use present for typical energy grids, and the fundamentals of modern smart adaptations.Specific major challenges are broken down into fundamentals, including electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid, energy storage, intelligent electronic device-based substations, and demand forecasting for energy stability. Including a variety of numerical examples and working from early principles for each topic, this book provides late-stage undergraduate and graduate students in energy systems and power engineering, as well as engineers working to modernize the power grid, with a fundamental resource for renewable energy integration.

    • Energy Communities

      • 1st Edition
      • November 21, 2025
      • Carlos Cruz de la Torre + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 6 4 5 9 4
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 6 4 6 0 0
      Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, designing, and optimizing energy communities, with step-by-step breakdowns of the technical, economic, and practical principles at play. This book opens by examining the key agents, models, and impacts of energy communities, including infrastructure, generation, and storage technologies. Part II delves into economic considerations, discussing legislative frameworks, barriers, greenwashing risks, and support mechanisms. Part III focuses on complex practical arrangements, providing cutting-edge, detailed case studies examining collective assets and cost-sharing mechanisms. Finally, Part IV addresses energy management and dispatch, highlighting demand and storage technologies utilizing deep learning, big data, and digital twin technology. With its holistic perspective, blending theoretical insights with practical blueprints and real-world case studies, Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends is an essential resource for students, engineers, and academics designing decentralized energy systems to enable renewable energy integration, and future-proof the power infrastructure.

    • Bioproducts from Lignocellulosic Biomass

      • 1st Edition
      • November 20, 2025
      • Minaxi Sharma + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 1 6 0 4 6
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 1 6 0 5 3
      Bioproducts from Lignocellulosic Biomass is part of a companion set of three books that explores the various possibilities of adding value to lignocellulosic biomass materials by transforming them into bioproducts, biofuels, and biomaterials. With an emphasis on microbial biotechnological solutions, each volume examines how renewable natural resources, agriculture waste management, and valorization of agro-wastes can sustainably produce energy and fuels, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and biomaterials. This book addresses all aspects of value-added bioproducts production from lignocellulosic materials.The opening chapter of the book reviews the fundamentals of biotechnology and biochemistry and provides an overview of lignocellulose, its properties, potential use, volume of production and by-products, and economical importance. Following this, chapters provide critical reviews of the latest developments in lignocellulosic biomass conversion into value-added products and provide step-by-step guidance on key processes and methods, including genetic engineering approaches, microbial pathways, thermochemical routes, and pre-treatment technologies. Various technological approaches are explained, including novel, eco-friendly methods for biomass conversion that reduce waste, and the role of microorganisms and their mechanisms are explored in depth.

    • Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Materials

      • 1st Edition
      • November 20, 2025
      • Manikant Tripathi + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 1 5 2 7 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 1 5 2 6 1
      Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Materials is part of a companion set of three books that explores the various possibilities of adding value to lignocellulosic biomass materials by transforming them into bioproducts, biofuels, and biomaterials. With an emphasis on microbial biotechnological solutions, each volume examines how renewable natural resources, agriculture waste management, and valorization of agro-wastes can sustainably produce energy and fuels, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and biomaterials. This volume addresses all aspects of biofuel production from lignocellulosic materials, covering technological challenges, international policies, marketability, techno-economic analysis & LCA studies, and challenges & future perspectives.The book highlights recent advancements and challenges of lignocellulosic biomass conversion into biofuels within a biorefinery concept, and explains technological approaches and the role of microorganisms and their mechanisms. Recent thermo-chemical and biotechnological approaches are explored, along with their mechanisms of action for the development of biofuels such as biodiesel, bioethanol, biomethane, biobutanol, producer gas, syngas, hydrogen, dimethylfurane, bio-LPG, and gasoline. Chemical, enzymatic, and advanced microbial biotechnology approaches used in biomass pretreatment are explained, showing readers how to increase biofuel yields from lignocellulosic raw materials. Genetic and metabolic engineering methods that can improve biofuel production are also discussed.

    • Geoengineering of Hydrogen Energy

      • 1st Edition
      • November 20, 2025
      • Hadi Belhaj + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 4 4 7 7 3 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 2 8 5 5 8
      Geoengineering of Hydrogen Energy dispenses fundamental knowledge on hydrogen geostorage that is paired with recent advances to form a cohesive resource designed to further understanding of a topic essential to the energy transition. Drawing from a synthesis of contemporary global laboratory investigations, modeling approaches and breakthroughs, pilots, case studies, and hydrogen storage projects, this unified volume collects, filters, and summarizes developments to deliver a comprehensive resource in this fast-growing field. Throughout, the book considers critical questions of viability and sustainability with a goal of increasing understanding of fundamentals and furthering applications of hydrogen subsurface storage.Led by an accoladed engineering expert with over 40 years of combined industrial and academic experience, this book fills the knowledge gap of currently fragmented literature to connect this valuable aspect of hydrogen energy to the full-scale energy transition scope. It meets the diverse needs of academia and industry by providing a combination of hydrogen subsurface storage basics, advances, and applications, making it suitable for university students interested in energy, environmental, and industrial disciplines, and relevant to energy engineering researchers and practicing energy engineers.

    • Ethanol Biofuel in Combustion Engines

      • 1st Edition
      • November 18, 2025
      • Yacine Rezgui
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 4 5 1 1 4 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 4 5 1 1 5 7
      Ethanol Biofuel in Combustion Engines: From Production to Practical Applications delves deeply into the intricate processes involved in ethanol production and its utilization within various engine types. This book provides both theoretical insights and practical guidance, making it an essential resource for researchers, engineers, and policymakers striving to understand and implement biofuel technology effectively. Beyond production and combustion, the book explores the chemical reactions and kinetic models underpinning ethanol’s performance. It also examines its applications across spark ignition, compression ignition, and low-temperature combustion engines, emphasizing its versatility as a sustainable energy source.

    • Renewable Energy Technologies

      • 1st Edition
      • November 17, 2025
      • Farooq Sher
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 7 7 1 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 7 7 2 7
      Renewable Energy Technologies is a comprehensive guide to the utilization and application of the different sources of renewable energy, highlighting how these technologies can help to tackle environmental challenges and global warming, and to support energy transition with enhanced reliability, security, and resilience. Bioenergy, solar energy, wind energy, hydrogen, hydropower, marine energy, and geothermal energy are covered in various sections organized by energy type. Throughout the book, emerging technologies are discussed, such as energy storage and artificial intelligence, and pathways to the adoption of renewable energy are explored. Supported by clear definitions of key terms and phrases, chapter objectives and summaries, study questions, and case studies, this book supports all those looking to gain a fundamental understanding of renewable energy and related emerging technologies, including students, postgraduate researchers, faculty, engineers, industry professionals, and policy makers.

    • CFD Simulations for Advances of Solar Thermal Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • November 14, 2025
      • Abdallah Bouabidi
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 7 4 1 8 3
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 7 4 1 9 0
      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.

    • Energy-Efficient Transformative Technologies for Data-Driven Smart Cities

      • 1st Edition
      • November 10, 2025
      • Hamed Nozari + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 7 6 1 8 7
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 7 6 1 9 4
      Energy-Efficient Transformative Technologies for Data-Driven Smart Cities delves into innovative solutions and groundbreaking methodologies essential for constructing smart cities that prioritize energy efficiency and security. With the modern urban landscape rapidly evolving, this book serves as a vital resource for policymakers, engineers, and researchers striving to harness data-driven technologies effectively. From sustainable energy systems to advanced data management frameworks, this comprehensive guide explores pivotal tools and strategies that address the challenges of urbanization and environmental impact.Beyond energy efficiency, the book emphasizes the importance of robust cybersecurity measures, seamless integration of IoT devices, and intelligent urban planning. It offers actionable insights for achieving smart city infrastructures that are both resilient and adaptive.

    • Intelligent Energy Systems using the Barnacles Mating Optimizer and Evolutionary Mating Algorithm

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Mohd Herwan Sulaiman + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 7 7 5 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 7 7 6 5
      Intelligent Energy Systems using the Barnacles Mating Optimizer and Evolutionary Mating Algorithm: Foundations, Methods, and Applications reveals the potential of innovative optimization algorithms to support sustainability in modern energy systems. This book provides a multidisciplinary foundation for the reader, with Part I breaking down fundamentals including the challenges to be addressed in renewable energy systems and detailed methodologies including swarm-, physics-, and human-based algorithms, before introducing the Barnacles Mating Optimizer and Evolutionary Mating Algorithm themselves. Part II drills deeper into examples, case studies, and applications for energy systems, offering comparative analysis with alternative tools, and providing complimentary MATLAB code using the latest Toolbox. A sandbox for readers to learn, skill-build, and develop in, ‘Intelligent Energy Systems using BMO and EMA’ provides an indispensable guide to these cutting-edge AI tools for new and experienced readers.

Related subjects

Electric power

Energy conservation and environment

Energy general

Energy policy business and economics

Fossil fuels

Nuclear energy and engineering

Renewable energy and alternative technologies