The Climate Energy Nexus
Understanding the Relationship between Energy Production Systems and Climate Trends
- 1st Edition - September 4, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Mark Mba Wright
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 2 1 5 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 2 1 6 - 3
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Request a sales quoteThe Climate Energy Nexus: Understanding the Relationship between Energy Production Systems and Climate Trends offers fundamental material on energy and climate systems, progressing to establishing advanced and integrated energy-climate models. Describing the motivation and key challenges in the climate-energy modeling community, this reference looks at the fundamentals of climate and energy systems before integrating them into a cohesive analysis framework. The book presents various energy production optimization case studies spanning urban and national scales, annual to multi-decade long timescales, and various economic and environmental considerations
Practitioners and students interested in climate and energy systems will gain a foundational platform from which to develop informed assessments of future energy use. As making informed energy planning decisions requires a better understanding of how climate trends, extreme events, and public policy could impact energy production performance, cost, and emissions, this book is an ideal resource for readers.
- Includes an accessible introduction and detailed advances on climate and energy system models
- Provides relevant and real case studies that can be adapted to practical applications
- Presents examples using free, open-source frameworks for easy implementation
Undergraduate and graduate engineering and environmental science students, Researchers and professionals in energy, renewable energy and environmental engineering
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: Introduction to climate and energy systems
- Abstract
- 1.1. Abstract
- 1.2. Introduction
- 1.3. Background
- 1.4. Methods
- 1.5. Case studies
- 1.6. Future considerations
- 1.7. Summary
- 1.8. Test your knowledge
- 1.9. Other resources
- References
- Chapter Two: Fundamentals of energy systems: theory and components
- Abstract
- 2.1. Abstract
- 2.2. Introduction
- 2.3. Background
- 2.4. Energy units and conversions
- 2.5. Introduction to system boundaries and flows
- 2.6. Overview of energy sources: renewable and non-renewable
- 2.7. Components of energy systems
- 2.8. Summary
- 2.9. Test your knowledge
- References
- Chapter Three: Fundamentals of energy systems: systems and assessments
- Abstract
- 3.1. Abstract
- 3.2. Introduction
- 3.3. Introduction to simulation models
- 3.4. Techniques for scenario analysis
- 3.5. Energy system simulation
- 3.6. Integration of renewable energy sources
- 3.7. Methods
- 3.8. Case studies
- 3.9. Future considerations
- 3.10. Summary
- 3.11. Test your knowledge
- 3.12. Other resources
- References
- Chapter Four: Fundamentals of climate models
- Abstract
- 4.1. Abstract
- 4.2. Introduction
- 4.3. Background
- 4.4. Methods
- 4.5. Case studies
- 4.6. Future considerations
- 4.7. Summary
- 4.8. Test your knowledge
- 4.9. Other resources
- References
- Chapter Five: Modeling and optimization of climate-energy systems
- Abstract
- 5.1. Abstract
- 5.2. Introduction
- 5.3. Background
- 5.4. Methods
- 5.5. Case studies
- 5.6. Future considerations
- 5.7. Summary
- 5.8. Test your knowledge
- 5.9. Other resources
- References
- Chapter Six: Climate-energy system models and energy policy
- Abstract
- 6.1. Abstract
- 6.2. Introduction
- 6.3. National and international climate-energy policy frameworks
- 6.4. Carbon pricing mechanisms and their impact on energy systems
- 6.5. Renewable energy policies and incentives
- 6.6. Energy efficiency policies and their role in climate mitigation
- 6.7. Distributional impacts of climate-energy policies on different socio-economic groups
- 6.8. Summary
- 6.9. Test your knowledge
- 6.10. Other resources
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 4, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323952156
- eBook ISBN: 9780323952163
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Mark Mba Wright
Mark Mba Wright is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, United States, with a background in lifecycle economics and environmental assessment of energy systems. He has authored over 60 journal papers and several book chapters on the costs and environmental benefits of clean energy systems. He teaches interdisciplinary courses on thermal systems, energy, economics, and policy.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, USARead The Climate Energy Nexus on ScienceDirect