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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Design and Implementation of Digital I&C Systems in Nuclear Power Plants

1st Edition
November 1, 2029
Steve Yang
English

Design and Implementation of Digital I&C Systems in Nuclear Power Plants presents a comprehensive and practical guide for engineers and researchers in nuclear utilities. Author Steve Yang covers fundamental theory and proven practices which reflect the rapid changes in the last 10 years in both market and technology. This book promotes safety and reliability in nuclear power plants to help facilitate faster adaption of safety cultures. Design approaches and digital I&C processes are illustrated by practical cases to enhance understanding and enable the reader to apply the processes across both new build and upgrade projects. This is a very valuable reference for a range of nuclear professionals, including digital I&C engineers, system engineers, component designers, verification and validation engineers, operators and regulators. It provides an understanding of I&C platform architectures to promote a better understanding of customer need and provide optimal design and implementation solutions. It addresses daily challenges of designers and component engineers, as well as those of the V&V engineers required to have a deep understanding of domain knowledge.

Solar Energy Conversion Systems

2nd Edition
November 1, 2029
Jeffrey R. S. Brownson + 1 more
English

Solar Energy Conversion Systems, Second Edition examines solar energy conversion as an integrative design process, applying systems thinking methods to a solid knowledge base for creators of solar energy systems. New to this edition are extended problem sets in each chapter, a new technology optimization chapter, and increased modular content broken down, including practical applications, modeling and problem solving sets with solutions. The book approaches solar energy conversion from the perspectives of integrative design, environmental technology, sustainability science, and materials science in the wake of amazing new thin films, polymers and glasses developed by the optoelectronics and semiconductor industries. This approach permits different levels of access for an emerging broad audience of scientists, engineers, architects, planners and economists. This is a new solar text for the new generation of green job designers and developers. It’s highlighted with vignettes that break down solar conversion into useful stories and provides common points of reference, as well as techniques, for effective estimation of evolving technologies.

Biodiesel as an Alternative Fuel

1st Edition
November 1, 2029
Dipesh Kumar + 1 more
English

Biodiesel as an Alternative Fuel: Value Chain, Performance, Feasibility and Sustainability provides a fundamental understanding on the state-of-the-art processes involved in the production of biodiesel. The book offers a holistic analysis of mass scale biodiesel production in terms of techno-economic viability and sustainability challenges in the 21st century. It covers the entire biodiesel value chain, from feedstock production and conversion processes, to post-production refining and fuel quality assessment. Besides conventional approaches, recent technologies holding promising opportunities are discussed in-depth. The book's authors analyze and address major industry and environmental concerns in their discussion of lifecycle assessment and techno-economic assessment.By exploring the fundamental concepts, latest developments and sustainability aspects, the book offers a complete understanding of the feasibility and sustainability of biodiesel. Researchers and PhD students coming into the field will be able to use this reference to acquire a holistic perspective of the subject. In addition, more experienced researchers and industry practitioners will benefit from the book’s techno-economic approach that will help readers make better-informed decisions when developing and deploying biodiesel-based technologies.

Climate Smart Small-Scale Hydro Power Plants

1st Edition
November 1, 2029
Lasantha Jayasinghe + 2 more
English

Climate Smart Small-Scale Hydro Power Plants provides empirical guidance to practitioners seeking to optimize design and adapt the operation of small hydro power plants (SHPPs) to mitigate climate change. The work covers current positions, practices and impacts of SHPP as part of a diversifying sustainable energy mix threatened by the uncertain vagaries of climate change – including violent flooding, inconsistent rain fall, poor catchment management, and water flow rises. In addition, it presents an argument for ‘climate smart’ SHPP planning and design which integrates qualitative and quantitative climate-change context-sensitive aspects into the design of SHPP systems.Chapters review practical examples of hydro-ecological regimes where small hydro power plants play a vital component in the overall energy mix, focusing on social, ecological and economic dimensions of safeguarding, key policies and operational practices. Case studies are used to assess progress and future steps in achieving SHPP climate smart systems, blending comparative review, integration and analysis.

Robust Dynamic State Estimation of Power Systems

1st Edition
November 1, 2029
Junbo Zhao + 2 more
English

Robust Dynamic State Estimation of Power Systems demonstrates how to implement and apply robust dynamic state estimators to problems in modern power systems, thereby bridging the literatures of dynamic state estimation and robust estimation theory. The book presents Kalman filter algorithms, demonstrating how to build powerful, robust counterparts. Following sections build out case study-based implementations of robust Kalman filters to decontextualized applications across dynamic state estimation in power systems. Coverage encompasses theoretical backgrounds, motivations, problem formulation, implementations, uncertainties, anomalies and practical applications, such as generator parameter calibration, unknown inputs estimation, control failure detection, protection, and cyberattack detection. Future research topics are identified and discussed, including open research questions. The book will serve as a key reference for power system real-time monitoring, control center engineers, and graduate students for learning (course related work) and research.

Bioenergy from Forests

1st Edition
November 1, 2029
Valter Silva
English

Bioenergy from Forests provides a comprehensive guide to the production of bioenergy and biomaterials from forests residues, providing the tools to produce sustainable bioenergy and reduce the risk of wildfires globally. The book addresses the key role forest endogenous resources play in improving energy technologies and mitigating wildfire propagation. Forest valorization and wildfires mitigation strategies are discussed in the context of bioenergy production, supported by a detailed case study of successful implementation in Portugal. A techno-economic analysis of gasification and combustion power plants using forest residues as the key feedstock is provided and considers different scales of implementation. Furthermore, the development of new multifuel CHP configurations are presented, integrating bio-oil production and targeting high efficiencies, and supported by case studies from the pulp and paper industry. The technical, environmental, and policy issues of forest-fuels-to-energy technologies are assessed from the perspective of industry, local communities, and forest management. Finally, the book provides a unique compilation of the views of international experts on the deployment and role of bioenergy in sustainable forest management and wildfire prevention through a collection of interviews and short opinion pieces.Bioenergy from Forests provides an invaluable resource to researchers and practitioners involved in bioenergy production and forest management, and environmental and chemical engineers involved in the agricultural, energy, and cement, waste, pulp and paper industries.

Nuclear Energy- Economic Analysis and Environmental Impact

1st Edition
November 1, 2029
Gustavo Alonso + 1 more
English

Nuclear Energy- Economic Analysis and Environmental Impact guides the reader through all elements required to make an informed decision on new nuclear power plants and provides analysis of the environmental benefits in comparison to other renewable energy sources. The book covers the economic factors, environmental benefits, and policy issues of nuclear power generation to improve public perception and increase the deployment of nuclear in the energy mix. Readers are provided with an essential toolkit to assess nuclear projects which enables them to perform a levelized cost analysis of power generation and compare different renewable generation technologies. Sections cover the historical deployment of nuclear power and its corresponding costs, compare fission technologies to other advanced systems, address the main concepts of economic and financial analyses, power plant structure components, and principles of Monte Carlo methods for uncertainty analysis, and delve into how various elements of the electricity grid interact. In addition, other renewable electricity sources alongside their advantages, disadvantages, and foreseeable capacities are presented.

Simulations Across Diverse Scales in Petroleum Systems

1st Edition
September 1, 2029
Mayank Tyagi
English

Simulations Across Diverse Scales in Petroleum Systems: From Rock Pores to Reservoirs discusses the known limitations and potential solutions for the next generation multiscale simulation tools needed for engineers to make progress toward system-level multiscale approaches in solving oil and gas formation flows. Researchers and engineers working in the oil and gas industries today are looking for more confidence in their numerical simulations to reliably forecast the lifespan of oil and gas entrapped in formations, estimate the cost of production and predict the associated risks involved in safely extracting oil and gas.Currently, numerical approaches involve a lot of assumptions and have a large margin of error, and it is not possible to capture all the scales of geometry and physics in one single simulation. This book explains the progression of how to capture each scale of geometry and physics in numerical simulations, classifying oil and gas flow through porous formation into three scales: pore scale to capture microscopic effect when fluid is flowing through the gaps in rocks and fractures, near wellbore scale to capture intermediate range where multiphase flow through the porous zone is used to calculate viscous and inertial effects, and reservoir scale simulations to model miles-long domain using Darcy-type models.The book helps oil and gas engineers understand all the tools available to model today’s oil and gas applications. It features additional content on uncertainty quantification, coupling and multiscale information to help explain how to further integrate between the scales, as well as the outlook for the next-generation petroleum systems simulator.

Measurements and Instrumentation Systems for Nuclear Power Plants

1st Edition
September 1, 2029
Sacit M. Cetiner
English

Measurements and Instrumentation Systems for Nuclear Power Plants provides a comprehensive analysis of nuclear instrumentation system design, sensing methods, measurement techniques, control, and actuation. Editors Kisner, Cetiner and Holcomb of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and their diverse team of expert contributors from industry and academia, identify the measurement need, theory of measurement methods and practical techniques for designing measurement systems. They also discuss the implementation challenges and reliability issues for instrumentation and control of nuclear power plants. After providing clear coverage on the fundamentals of measurements pertaining to nuclear power systems, readers are provided with an understanding of specific measurement domains such as neutron detection, gamma detection, pressure, flow, liquid chemistry. The readers will also gain an understanding of the relationship of nuclear instrumentation and control with safety, as well as a dataset of theory and calculations of setpoints. Sensor and instrument calibration is also presented, along with a clear guide to how to design for harsh environments. This is a thorough reference and guide for engineers working in nuclear laboratories as engineers, designers or regulators, as well as I&C equipment manufacturers, researchers and academics of nuclear and electrical engineering disciples. SPECIFIC PUBLICITY AND CHANNEL OPPORTUNITIESCONFERENCES: Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC & HMIT) [sponsored by American Nuclear Society (ANS)]International Symposium on Future I&C for Nuclear Power Plants (ISOFIC) [sponsored by Korean Nuclear Society]International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP) [sponsored by ANS]International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE) [sponsored by ASME]

Reliability and Resiliency in Electric Distribution Systems

1st Edition
September 1, 2029
Mahmoud-Reza Haghifam
English

Reliability and Resiliency in Electric Power Systems presents a unified and modern view of reliability and resiliency across conventional, active, and smart electrical distribution systems, discussing fundamental concepts along with applications, emerging technology trends and planning methods. It presents current technology options for monitoring and controlling in outage management of active and smart distribution networks that affect reliability and resiliency. Detailed applications are presented alongside numerical examples and real case studies, exampling theoretical concepts discussed in the book. It introduces energy and customer-based indices for reliable assessment and their evaluation methods in active and smart networks. It then discusses a range of proven reliability enhancement methods at a level of depth and presentation not previously seen. The work is relevant to electrical engineering graduate students for education and doing research on probabilistic analysis of electric distribution systems, professional engineers working in the electric utilities, and consulting engineers. Managers and planners of power distribution systems can also consult the book to expand their knowledge of practical methods for analysis and design of reliable and resilient electric distribution systems.