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Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy

Latest Advances in Production, Storage, and Integration

  • 1st Edition - March 26, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Mejdi Jeguirim
  • Language: English

Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy, Volume One in the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies series, looks at the production performance of renewable energy sources a… Read more

Description

Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy, Volume One in the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies series, looks at the production performance of renewable energy sources and emerging production processes. Chapters cover some of the most dynamic developments, best practices, and future concepts in solar energy systems, energy storage, geothermal energy, bioenergy, wind energy, fuel cells, and hydrogen production. The book also includes recent regulations and worldwide policies. By reviewing these state-of-art advances, this book provides readers with an up-to-date source on renewable energy grid integration and its importance in aiding the energy transition.

This is a valuable resource for graduates, researchers, professors, and industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector, as well as advanced engineering courses dealing with renewable energy, sources, thermal and electrical energy production, and sustainability.

Key features

  • Includes the advantages and disadvantages of key advances in renewable technologies
  • Contributed to by global experts, with a focus on principles and challenges of renewable energy production and distribution
  • Emphasizes the importance of sustainability, policy, and regulation in relation to successful and achievable implementation

Readership

Graduates, researchers, professors, and industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector, Advanced engineering courses dealing with renewable energy, sources, thermal and electrical energy production, and sustainability

Table of contents

TOPIC 1: SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY

1. Recent Developments in Optical Materials for Concentrating Solar Power Plant
Aránzazu Fernandez-Garcia, Ricardo Sánchez-Moreno, Gema San Vicente, Florian Sutter, Angel Morales, Johannes Wette, Meryem Farchado, Naia Barandica, Guillaume Saliou and Inmaculada Cañadas
TOPIC 2 : SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY

2. Photovoltaic driven compression cooling systems
Ahmad Zarei, Liya Hooshyari and Sohrab Zaboli

3. New Concept of a Hybrid Renewable Solution for Urban Environment: Electricity during Daytime and Cooling Water during Nighttime
Alberto Cerezo-Narváez, MCarmen Guerrero Delgado, Jose Sanchez Ramos and Servando Dominguez
TOPIC 3: BIOENERGY PRODUCTION

4. Utilization of lignocellulosic biomass for advanced simultaneous biofuel and biomaterials production
Arumugam A
TOPIC 4: HYDROGEN PRODUCTION

5. Challenges of hydrogen production from biomass gasification
Jingwei Chen, Yilin Guo and Xiaomin Wu
TOPIC 5: WIND ENERGY

6. Intelligent fault diagnosis scheme for converter in wind turbine systems
Daming Zhou, Zheng Wei, Jinhui Wang, Yuwei Lei and Jinping Liang
TOPIC 6: GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

7. Closed-loop geothermal systems, a way to harness geothermal energy
Efrain Gómez Gomez Arias and Óscar López-Villagómez
TOPIC 7: HYDROPOWER

8. Hydropower in the European Union: state-of-the art, future opportunities and main issues within the current social, energy, geopolitical and climate situation
Emanuele Quaranta
TOPIC 8: ENERGY STORAGE/FUEL CELLS

9. Inorganic microencapsulated phase change materials for renewable energy technologies
Inderjeet Tyagi and Srinivasrao Naik Bhanavath

10. A Novel Hybrid Data-Driven Aging Prediction Method for Fuel Cells Based on Data Characteristic Analysis
Daming Zhou, Zhuang Tian, Yixin Yang, Shiyang Hua, Ping Hu, Jinhui Wang, Zheng Wei and Yuwei Lei
TOPIC 9: SMART GRIDS

11. Methods and technologies for managing synchronization of MicroGrid with external networks
Inga Zicmane, Anvari Ghulomzoda, Murodbek Safaraliev, Pavel Gubin, Svetlana Beryozkina and Pavel Matrenin

12. Smart grids in the renewable energy community era: New markets and the role of information
Marta Castellini, Marina Bertolini, Sergio Vergalli and Michele Moretto
TOPIC 10: SUSTAINABILITY, POLICIES, AND REGULATIONS

13. Energy, economic, and environmental analysis of energy efficiency and building policies in Southern Europe. Envelope renovation and renewable energy source integration
Alberto Cerezo-Narváez, MCarmen Guerrero Delgado, Jose Sanchez Ramos and Servando Dominguez

14. A GIS-based procedure to assess the coupled implementation of photovoltaic panels and green roofs for improved energy efficiency
Daniel Jato-Espino, Kristin Dietrich, Itzayana González-Ávila, Shray Pathak

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 26, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

MJ

Mejdi Jeguirim

Dr. Mejdi Jeguirim is a Professor at the University of Haute Alsace (France) in the field of energy, process engineering, and kinetics modeling. He has two main research interests, namely biomass valorization (pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion) and exhaust gas treatment (NOx and soot abatement as well as volatile organic compounds’ elimination). He is a prolific author of journal articles and book chapters and is a member of the editorial board of the following international journals: Energy (Elsevier), Energies (MDPI), Energy for Sustainable Development (Elsevier), Biofuels (Taylor & Francis), International Journal of Green Energy (Taylor & Francis). He has received the French National Research Excellence Award for researchers with a high level of scientific activity for the 2009-2012, 2013-2016, 2017-2020 and 2021-2024 periods. Since 2019, Dr. Jeguirim has been added to the World’s Top 2% Scientists list established by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier. For Elsevier, he is also the series editor of the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies series.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Institut de Sciences des Matériaux, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France

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