Power Resources category: 2047 books
Let It Shine
The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Tells the entire story of humankind’s use of solar energy, reaching all the way back 6,000 years to stone age China and then bringing the story all the way up to now. The only book in existence that attempts to tell the entire story of humankind’s more than 6,000 year use of solar energy. Most...
Control of Switching Systems by Invariance Analysis
Applcation to Power Electronics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
This book presents correct-by-design control techniques for switching systems, using different methods of stability analysis. Switching systems are increasingly used in the electronics and mechanical industries; in power electronics and the automotive industry, for example. This is due to their flexibility...
Optimization in Renewable Energy Systems
Recent Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Optimization in Renewable Energy Systems: Recent Perspectives covers all major areas where optimization techniques have been applied to reduce uncertainty or improve results in renewable energy systems (RES).
Production of power with RES is highly variable and unpredictable, leading to the...
Energy in Australia
Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
With rapidly declining costs and seemingly unlimited sunshine, the choice of solar in Australia seems obvious. Yet despite its many advantages, homes with solar remain completely dependent on the electricity grid for reliable supply, which in Australia implies mostly coal-fired generation. Indeed,...
Agile Energy Systems
Global Distributed On-Site and Central Grid Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017
Agile Energy Systems: Global Distributed On-Site and Central Grid Power, Second Edition, offers new solutions to the structure of electricity provision made possible by new energy technologies.
The book begins by showing how five precipitating forces led to the deregulation debacle in California,...
Balancing Green Power
How to deal with variable energy sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Renewable energy sources are large but some are variable and intermittent. The widescale use of renewable energy sources for energy supply will require the adoption of ways to compensate for their variability. This book reviews the technical options looking at their pros and cons and how they might...
Advanced Biomass Gasification
New Concepts for Efficiency Increase and Product Flexibility
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Advanced Biomass Gasification: New Concepts for Efficiency Increase and Product Flexibility provides a thorough overview on new concepts in biomass gasification and consolidated information on advances for process integration and combination, which could otherwise only be gained by reading a high...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
The re-engineering of power transmission systems is crucial to meeting the objectives of such regulators as the European Union. In addition to its market, organisational and regulatory aspects, this re-engineering will also involve technical issues dealing with the progressive integration of innovative...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This comprehensive and up-to-date ebook provides a unique guide to natural gas vehicles, compiling ten official documents with details of every aspect of the issue: CNG and LNG designs, success stories, references, information on safety and refueling issues, and much more. Contents include:
Part...
Small Wind
Planning and Building Successful Installations
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Small wind turbines utilize wind energy to produce power with rated capacities of 100 kilowatts or less. With this increasingly popular technology, individual businesses, farms, and homes can generate their own electricity and cut their energy bills , while generating power in an environmentally sound...
by Hemchandra Madhusudan Shertukde
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
The demand for alternative energy sources fuels the need for electric power and controls engineers to possess a practical understanding of transformers suitable for solar energy. Meeting that need, Distributed Photovoltaic Grid Transformers begins by explaining the basic theory behind transformers...
by Bernard Multon
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Marine renewable energy is a significant resource for generating electricity, and if some conversion technologies have already reached a certain level of maturity, others are emerging.
The originality of this multidisciplinary book is to offer a broad spectrum of knowledge from academic and industry...
Pico-solar Electric Systems
The Earthscan Expert Guide to the Technology and Emerging Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology behind the pico-solar revolution and offers guidance on how to test and choose quality products. The book also discusses how pioneering companies and initiatives are overcoming challenges to reach scale in the marketplace, from innovative...
Plug In Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids
Energy Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
This book highlights the cutting-edge research on energy management within smart grids with significant deployment of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEV). These vehicles not only can be a significant electrical power consumer during Grid to Vehicle (G2V) charging mode, they can also be smartly utilized...