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

Energy Communities

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Marcos Tostado-Véliz + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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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.

Drill Bits for Energy Industry

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Paul Pastusek + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Drill Bits for Energy Industry is an essential reference book that explores the properties, evolution, and complexities of drill bit technology. Designed to aid readers in mastering bit selection and optimizing efficient drilling practices, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the advancements and fundamentals in drill bit technology, history, and properties that have shaped the drilling industry throughout time. Authored by drilling experts, this invaluable resource covers bit design, selection processes for roller cone and PDC Bits, specialty bits, coring techniques, drill string components, operating parameters, performance evaluation, drill string dynamics, and emerging technologies.It serves as a cornerstone for university students and drilling engineers, equipping them with the knowledge needed to optimize drilling practices in the pursuit of sustainable energy solutions.

Green Hydrogen Energy Systems

1st Edition
November 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.

PEM Fuel Cells Performance

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Mehrzad Shams + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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PEM Fuel Cell Performance: Simulation and Optimization by AI introduces innovative methods to enhance the efficiency of PEM fuel cells through computational techniques such as multi-objective optimization, computational fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence, and exergy analysis. This book offers practical solutions, illustrated with examples, case studies, and numerical simulations, aimed at improving the design and optimization of PEM fuel cells and their components. Readers will explore the challenges and potentials of PEM fuel cells across various industries, including transport, power generation, and hydrogen production. The book thoroughly discusses the design, development, testing, and operation of PEM fuel cell systems and components.It also provides foundational knowledge for students, practical examples for researchers, and comprehensive guidance for engineers and practitioners, focusing on aspects like electrodes, gas diffusion layers, flow fields, thermal management, and operating conditions.

Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Bioenergy Production

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Ming-Fei Li
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Bioenergy Production presents the latest developments in the pretreatment of recalcitrant lignocellulosic materials. With an emphasis on commercially ready and near-commercially ready technologies, the book comprehensively analyzes the physical, chemical, and biological methods for biomass pretreatment. Sections cover a systematic review of the anatomy and ultrastructure of plant cell walls, the chemical structure of cellulose, hemicelluloses, lignin, lignin-carbohydrate complexes, and the methods for their analysis. With its extensive coverage of pretreatment techniques, structural analysis, and utilization of by-products, this book serves as a valuable resource for researchers and professionals in the field of biofuel production.Additiona... sections delve into the various pretreatment technologies, including physical, physical-chemical, chemical, biological, and combined approaches. The advantages and disadvantages are examined, and industrial and pre-industrial applications are presented. Finally, saccharification and fermentation methods, enzyme engineering, and the utilization of by-products generated during the pretreatment and fermentation processes are covered. By-products such as xylan, 5-HMF, furfural, phenolic compounds, organic acids, and lignin are discussed in terms of their further conversion and applications.

Renewable Energy - Volume 4: Energy Storage Systems - Mechanical, Hydro, and Thermal

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Abdul Ghani Olabi
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Renewable Energy - Volume 4: Energy Storage Systems - Mechanical, Hydro, and Thermal, Definitions, Developments, Applications, and Case Studies is a new volume in this comprehensive resource on renewable energy. Providing a unique and structured approach to these emerging technologies and advances in energy storage systems, this reference addresses mechanical, hydro, and thermal storage in a logical and accessible arrangement. From definitions to developments and state-of-the-art technologies, applications, and case studies, this book considers the most requested and desirable practical elements for energy storage systems from an applied perspective.This coordinated approach allows for standalone, accessible, and functioning chapters dedicated to particular technologies. This is a suitable reference for postgraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, faculty, engineers, and industry personnel working on projects related to renewable energy, energy storage, sustainability, and energy system design.

Transformation of Solid Waste to Energy

1st Edition
Volume 1
October 1, 2025
Balasubramani Ravindran + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Transformation of Solid Waste to Energy: Methods, Challenges and Opportunities brings together the latest developments, technologies, and approaches surrounding the transformation of organic waste into energy, enabling the reader to tackle head-on the challenges of valorizing waste as bioenergy. Sections introduce biomass as a sustainable renewable energy source, conversion processes, and possible energy recovery routes, before in-depth chapters highlight technologies for solid waste. Types of waste streams, conversion technologies, and sustainable development issues are considered, along with case studies.The second part focuses on liquid waste, notably covering wastewater treatment and energy recovery, the production of biofuels, and microbial fuel cells. This new volume in the Woodhead Series in Bioenergy is of interest to all those with an interest in waste-to-energy, bioenergy, waste management, chemical engineering, and sustainability, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, scientists, R&D, industrial practitioners, and policymakers.

Photoelectrochemical and Enzymatic Conversion of CO2 into Fuels

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Rohit Srivastava + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Photoelectrochemical and Enzymatic Conversion of CO2 into Fuels: A Shift Towards Net Zero Energy Landscape introduces a comprehensive guide on the effective utilization of renewable energy to convert CO2 into fuels or commodity chemicals, presenting new materials such as MXenes and phosphorenes that are now being used in the catalytic conversion of CO2. This book provides guidelines on how the structural variation of catalysts will impact the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, presenting a detailed mechanism of CO2 conversion through different conversion methods such as photo reduction, electrochemical reduction, photoelectrochemical reduction, and enzymatic reduction.This will be a welcomed resource for researchers, students, academicians, engineers, and environmental experts and agencies studying the effects and benefits of the conversion of carbon dioxide into fuels for sustainable and renewable energy.

Renewable Photocatalysts

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Hui Xu + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Renewable Photocatalysts: Technologies, Applications, Economics, Environmental Analysis, and a Sustainable Future offers an innovative and broad approach to photocatalysts, integrating design, materials, methods, applications, economics, and sustainable development. The book begins by introducing solar energy and catalysis, before delving into cutting-edge photocatalyst technologies and applications. The third section focuses on regulations, economics, and commercialization, before the final chapters provide further in-depth coverage of environmental considerations, life cycle, and applications. The lens of sustainable development is applied throughout the book, with a view to developing renewable photocatalysts that support the reduction of CO2 emissions, net zero goals, and sustainable development. This is a valuable resource for researchers, students, faculty, engineers, R&D, scientists, and policy makers, with an interest in solar energy, photocatalysts, and sustainable development.

Renewable Energy - Volume 3: Energy Storage Systems - Fuel Cells, Supercapacitors, and Batteries

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Abdul Ghani Olabi
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Renewable Energy – Volume 3, Energy Storage Systems - Fuel Cells, Supercapacitors, and Batteries: Definitions, Developments, Applications, and Case Studies is a new volume in this comprehensive resource on renewable energy. It provides a unique and structured approach to these emerging technologies and advances in energy storage systems, addressing fuel cells, supercapacitors, and batteries in a logical and accessible arrangement. From definitions to developments and state-of-the-art technologies, applications, and case studies, this book considers the most requested and desirable practical elements for energy storage systems from an applied perspective.This is a suitable reference for postgraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, faculty, engineers, and industry personnel working on projects related to renewable energy, energy storage, sustainability, and energy system design.

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