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.

Books Journals

Optimizing Markets for Energy Stability

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Muhammad Shahbaz + 2 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 9 7 7 3
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 9 7 8 0

Optimizing Markets for Energy Stability collates the latest cutting-edge econometric technologies for energy markets built to support global energy transition. This book takes an integrated, international approach, dedicating chapters to flexible frameworks for both policy and market design across a range of countries. Utilization of the accelerating technological developments across renewable energy sources, distributed resource penetration, energy storage, and peer-to-peer platforms is broken down clearly. Market strategies for supporting global energy stability are provided and placed in context, from demand response and risk mitigation to techno-economic modelling and optimization. Featuring a range of contributors with a truly global geographical perspective, Optimizing Markets for Energy Stability is an indispensable modern reference for any academic, student, or researcher investigating the energy markets of the future.

Advanced Thermal Engineering

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Omid Mahian + 3 more
English

Advanced Thermal Engineering: Efficiency Enhancement, Emission Reduction, and Renewable Energy Integration provides a comprehensive overview of advanced thermal engineering and its applications in energy systems, with an added focus on environmental sustainability. This book provides information on technologies which can be used to design and analyze thermal systems. It discusses relevant technical, economics, and environmental advantages and disadvantages of making this transition as technology evolves. It covers a wide range of topics, including thermal energy systems, heat transfer enhancement, renewable energy integration, emission reduction, waste heat recovery, nanotechnology, machine learning, environmental sustainability, case studies, and future trends.This book progresses from an introduction to thermal engineering and its applications in energy systems, covers heat transfer enhancement techniques for advanced thermal systems, addresses the integration of renewable energy sources with thermal systems, emission reduction technologies for thermal systems, waste heat recovery and energy storage systems, nanotechnology for advanced thermal engineering, machine learning in advanced thermal systems, environmental sustainability in advanced thermal engineering, as well as case studies, practical applications and future trends.Overall, Advanced Thermal Engineering: Efficiency Enhancement, Emission Reduction, and Renewable Energy Integration provides a comprehensive, in-depth treatment of thermal engineering topics, with a particular focus on efficiency enhancement, emission reduction, renewable energy integration, and emerging technologies. This book's interdisciplinary approach makes it relevant for researchers, engineers, policy makers, and students from a wide range of fields seeking a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of advanced thermal engineering principles and practices meshed with environmental and economic considerations relevant to global citizens.

Energy Storage and Hydrogen Integration for Sustainable Solutions

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Mousa Marzband + 1 more
English

Energy Storage and Hydrogen Integration for Sustainable Solutions provides a clear and cohesive understanding of the technologies, challenges, and opportunities in this field, with the aim to help pave the way towards a low-carbon, sustainable energy future. This book begins by introducing renewable energy integration, and the fundamentals of energy storage technologies and hydrogen production and utilization. Subsequent chapters then guide the reader through energy storage and grid integration, hydrogen as an energy carrier in the grid, hybrid energy systems, energy storage and hydrogen in transportation, and decarbonizing industries with hydrogen integration. The policy and regulatory framework, and economic and environmental impact are covered in detail, before a chapter that brings together various real-word case studies, analyzing the strategies, challenges, and outcomes of those projects. Finally, future trends and challenges in energy storage and hydrogen integration are explored. This is a valuable resource for all those looking to gain fundamental, practical knowledge of the integration of energy storage and hydrogen technologies, including researchers, students, engineers, scientists, industry professionals, consultants, and policy makers.

Safety and Reliability of Offshore Renewable Energies

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Rouzbeh Abbassi + 3 more
English

Safety and Reliability of Offshore Renewable Energies is a thorough and up-to-date resource that investigates the critical aspects of risk and reliability, to ensure asset durability and long-term performance while developing safe operations in the dynamic and challenging context of offshore renewable energy systems. The book begins with an overview of offshore renewable energy systems, before offering systematic, detailed coverage of regulatory standards for safety and reliability, environmental impacts of operations, risk assessment and management, human factors and safety culture, optimization of infrastructure plans, asset management and maintenance, and decommissioning of offshore renewable infrastructure. This is followed by in-depth chapters focusing on reliability and safety in specific areas, including wind farms, offshore hydrogen, wave and tidal energy, and floating PV systems. Finally, safety and risk in multi-purpose and co-located offshore facilities, an important emerging trend, is discussed. With the additional aim of bridging the gap between industry and academia, this book is of interest to all those involved in offshore renewable energy, including researchers, students, faculty, engineers, consultants, industry professionals, and policy makers.

Economic Impact of the Energy Transition

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Jinsoo Kim + 2 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 4 6 1 0
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 4 6 2 7

Economic Impact of the Energy Transition: Energy-Environment-Economy Models explores and analyzes the complex nature of energy transition, the inter-relationships between energy, environment, and economy, and the use of 3E models to assess economic impact, including a new energy-environment-economy model introduced by the book's editors. The book begins by introducing energy transition and economic impacts, explaining classical macro-econometric models, input-output and CGE models, and macroeconomic models. The second part of the book focuses on energy-environment-economy (3E) models developed globally, with in-depth chapters examining GEC, E3ME, NEMS-MAM, and finally the new System of Three E-Models (STEM).The last section of the book provides case studies demonstrating the utilization of different 3E models in various parts of the world. A final chapter carefully examines the advantages and limitations of each model, its policy implications, and considerations for empirical analysis, discusses how these can be applied, addresses the remaining challenges in the field of energy transition and economic impact analysis, and suggests directions for future research. This is a valuable resource for researchers, advanced students, faculty, scientists, engineers, analysts, policy makers, consultants, and other industry professionals with an interest in energy transition, modeling, policy, and the interconnection between energy, environment, and economy.

Managing the Future

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Maria Angela Capello
English

Managing the Future: Sustainability Leadership in Energy reveals, first hand, how to lead sustainability in the energy sector and shares factual and practical experiences of leaders who integrated sustainability and made it work. The book lays a framework through an overview of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), covers Sustainability Strategies, Sustainability and ESG reporting, the intersections of Sustainability and Geoscience, Communicating, Vision and Strategy Setting. A special chapter is dedicated to faculty leaders of academia in careers related to the energy sector who have advanced programs with a fresh perspective grounded in advancing the 2030 UN Sustainability Agenda. Narratives and stories from other sectors are also included, to showcase that both hurdles and acceleration paths for rooting sustainability in corporate arenas are not only similar, but identical, when entities set out to pursue the betterment of people, the planet and prosperity.

Biogas

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
William Gustavo Sganzerla
English

Biogas: A Sustainable Approach for Renewable Energy provides an updated and comprehensive overview of biogas and biorefinery, with a particular focus on the circular economy. The book provides practical knowledge from operating biogas plants, including analytical techniques, operational parameters, and microbial community dynamics of biogas production, providing readers with a deep understanding of the most suitable conditions for anaerobic digestion and fermentation processes. The book covers the main biomass feedstocks for biogas production, such as agricultural and livestock wastes, industrial waste feedstocks, sewage sludge and microalgae. The most recent biogas purification technologies for biomethane production are analyzed, as well as the production of biogenic carbon dioxide from biogas. In addition, chapters dedicated to techno-economic and life cycle analysis of biogas production offer readers new insights into the future development of new biogas projects. Finally, an overview of several operating full-scale biogas plants provides a complete understanding of all the topics necessary for the full operation of a biogas plant. Biogas: A Sustainable Approach for Renewable Energy is an invaluable and practical resource to anyone interested in biogas production. Graduate and post-graduate students will benefit from detailed explanations of the fundamental concepts, while researchers, scientists and policymakers will find updated overviews of biogas and biogas production, and industry practitioners and experts will benefit from new concepts for the implementation of new biogas projects.

Simulation and Machine Learning Models for Energy Policy Design

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Festus Adedoyin
English

Written by a team of international experts, Simulation and Machine Learning Models for Energy Policy Design explores how policy design can reduce emissions in support of climate action by emphasizing the integration of cutting-edge simulation and machine learning techniques and bridging the gap between theoretical frameworks and practical implementation, therefore offering a hands-on guide for policymakers and professionals seeking innovative solutions. This book not only explores machine learning but also incorporates simulation techniques, providing a more comprehensive guide that extends beyond efficiency to encompass the entire policy design process. It not only addresses renewable (and other forms of) energy integration challenges but also leverages advanced technologies for optimized decision-making. With its holistic approach and insights on practical implementation, Simulation and Machine Learning Models for Energy Policy Design will be a welcome reference for those who work on the design of energy policies.

Artificial Intelligence for the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Shahryar Jafarinejad + 1 more
English

Artificial Intelligence for the Water-Energy-Food Nexus explores the intricate connections between water, energy, and food—essentials for sustainable development—and the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) within these domains. It begins by introducing the water-energy-food nexus, outlining the three dimensions: water-energy, water-food, and energy-food nexus. The book discusses assessment methods, challenges, opportunities, trends, and future perspectives. Subsequent chapters delve into AI techniques like machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics. It studies AI applications in water treatment, wastewater management, renewable energy systems, smart grids, and food industry processes such as sorting, detection, safety, quality analysis, and packaging.The final chapter integrates AI applications across all these nexuses, making the book indispensable for researchers, students, engineers, industry professionals, and policymakers.

A Microgrid Cluster Management and Internet-of-Things Framework

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Veerpratap Meena + 4 more
English

A Microgrid Cluster Management and Internet-of-Things Framework: Fundamentals, Protocols, and Case Studies presents an innovative guide to using IoT technologies to maximise renewable energy integration via microgrid clusters. This book begins by breaking down the essential principles of microgrid clusters, covering design, control, and optimization. Having established a thorough grounding, the reader can then immerse themselves in Part II, where the potential of IoT integration to utilize big data analytics for energy efficiency, and to support power management, fault monitoring, and cybersecurity. Careful comparative analysis demonstrates how to select protocols for effective operation and control across scenarios, including wired (Modbus, Profibus, Ethernet), wireless (Zigbee, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth), and IoT protocols (CoAP, MQTT, HTTP). Building a clear framework out of an interdisciplinary opportunity, A Microgrid Cluster Management and Internet-of-Things Framework: Fundamentals, Protocols, and Case Studies will support researchers and engineers alike in creating the flexible, renewable grid of the future.

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