Power Resources category: 2047 books

Cover of Development of Solar and Wind Power in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

This publication analyzes the performance of two states in India---Karnataka and Tamil Nadu---in their efforts toward installing solar and wind energy. It attempts to distill the reasons for their success, albeit in two very different renewable energy programs, and covers the major initiatives taken...
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Electric Energy Storage Systems

Flexibility Options for Smart Grids

by Przemyslaw Komarnicki, Pio Lombardi, Zbigniew Styczynski
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017

The book describes methods of modeling, planning and implementing electric energy storage systems. Energy storage becomes an important issue when more and more electric power is generated by wind mills and photovoltaics systems, because green energy is more volatile. So energy storage is necessary...
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Multilevel Inverters

Conventional and Emerging Topologies and Their Control

by Krishna Kumar Gupta, Pallavee Bhatnagar
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

Multilevel Inverters: Conventional and Emerging Topologies and Their Control is written with two primary objectives: (a) explanation of fundamentals of multilevel inverters (MLIs) with reference to the general philosophy of power electronics; and (b) enabling the reader to systematically analyze a...
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Grid-connected Solar Electric Systems

The Earthscan Expert Handbook for Planning, Design and Installation

by Geoff Stapleton, Susan Neill
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

Solar electricity – or photovoltaics (PV) – is the world's fastest growing energy technology. It can be used on a wide variety of scales, from single dwellings to utility-scale solar farms providing power for whole communities. It can be integrated into existing electricity grids with relative...
Cover of Fuel Cell Systems Explained
by Andrew L. Dicks, David A. J. Rand
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018

Since publication of the first edition of Fuel Cell Systems Explained, three compelling drivers have supported the continuing development of fuel cell technology. These are: the need to maintain energy security in an energy-hungry world, the desire to move towards zero-emission vehicles and power...
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Magnetocaloric Energy Conversion

From Theory to Applications

by Andrej Kitanovski, Jaka Tušek, Urban Tomc
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014

This book provides the latest research on a new alternative form of technology, the magnetocaloric energy conversion. This area of research concerns magnetic refrigeration and cooling, magnetic heat pumping and magnetic power generation. The book’s systematic approach offers the theoretical basis...
Cover of StratoSolar-PV: A Complete Energy Solution
by Edmund Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

The problem:Most of the world’s energy comes from burning fossil fuels, which adds CO2 to the atmosphere. The consensus of the world scientific community is that rising CO2 levels are warming the planet and causing climate change. Warming of over one degree Celsius is already evident and climate...
Cover of Electrical Drives for Direct Drive Renewable Energy Systems
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013

Wind turbine gearboxes present major reliability issues, leading to great interest in the current development of gearless direct-drive wind energy systems. Offering high reliability, high efficiency and low maintenance, developments in these direct-drive systems point the way to the next generation...
Cover of Nuclear Reactor Kinetics and Plant Control
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

Understanding time-dependent behaviors of nuclear reactors and the methods of their control is essential to the operation and safety of nuclear power plants. This book provides graduate students, researchers, and engineers in nuclear engineering comprehensive information on both the fundamental theory...
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EHT Transmission Performance Evaluation

Emerging Research and Opportunities

by K. Srinivas, R.V.S. Satyanarayana
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

Electricity has become a basic requirement in today’s world. Interruption free electrical energy and availability of surplus power are entwined in improving consumers quality of life. EHT Transmission Performance Evaluation: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging research on reliability...
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Renewable Energy Integration

Practical Management of Variability, Uncertainty, and Flexibility in Power Grids

by Lawrence E. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014

Renewable Energy Integration is a ground-breaking new resource -  the first to offer a distilled examination of the intricacies of integrating renewables into the power grid and electricity markets. It offers informed perspectives from internationally renowned experts on the challenges to be met...
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Real-Time Stability in Power Systems

Techniques for Early Detection of the Risk of Blackout

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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

This pioneering volume has been updated and enriched to reflect the state-of-the-art in blackout prediction and prevention. It documents and explains background and algorithmic aspects of the most successful steady-state, transient and voltage stability solutions available today in real-time. It also...
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Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology

Principles, Performance and Operations

by K Huang, J B Goodenough
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009

High temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology is a promising power generation option that features high electrical efficiency and low emissions of environmentally polluting gases such as CO2, NOox and SOx. It is ideal for distributed stationary power generation applications where both high-efficiency...
Cover of Geothermal Reservoir Engineering
by Malcolm Alister Grant, Paul F Bixley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

As nations alike struggle to diversify and secure their power portfolios, geothermal energy, the essentially limitless heat emanating from the earth itself, is being harnessed at an unprecedented rate.  For the last 25 years, engineers around the world tasked with taming this raw power have...
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