Energy Systems And Environment

Author : Pavel Tsvetkov
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781789237108

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Energy Systems and Environment by Pavel Tsvetkov Pdf

This book looks at environmental aspects of energy technologies, from common traditional sources in use, new sources, and emerging sources and technologies. The objective of this book is to serve as a one-stop comprehensive information resource on energy and environment topics, from energy science to energy engineering to energy politics. Starting with science and technology topics we link them to economics and politics showcasing interconnections between energy sources, energy utilization, energy conversion, and sustainability under the common theme of energy and environment. The book achieves its objective by offering and integrating deeply technical and socioeconomics papers together on energy and environment topics.

Author : Ibrahim Dincer,Calin Zamfirescu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387958606

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Sustainable Energy Systems and Applications by Ibrahim Dincer,Calin Zamfirescu Pdf

The concept of sustainable development was first introduced by the Brundtland Commission almost 20 years ago and has received increased attention during the past decade. It is now an essential part of any energy activities. This is a research-based textbook which can be used by senior undergraduate students, graduate students, engineers, practitioners, scientists, researchers in the area of sustainable energy systems and aimed to address some key pillars: better efficiency, better cost effectiveness, better use of energy resources, better environment, better energy security, and better sustainable development. It also includes some cutting-edge topics, such hydrogen and fuel cells, renewable, clean combustion technologies, CO2 abatement technologies, and some potential tools (exergy, constructal theory, etc.) for design, analysis and performance improvement.

Author : Sandeep Narayan Kundu,Muhammad Nawaz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429771972

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Sustainable Energy and Environment by Sandeep Narayan Kundu,Muhammad Nawaz Pdf

Here is a comprehensive introductory discussion of Earth, energy, and the environment in an integrated manner that will lead to an appreciation of our complex planet. The book looks at Earth from the perspective of a livable planet and elaborates on the surface and subsurface processes and the various energy cycles where energy is transformed and stored in the planet’s various spheres. The chapters discuss the interactions between the different parts of Earth—how energy is exchanged between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere, and how they impact the environment in which we live.

Author : Ali Nezihi Bilge,Ayhan Özgür Toy,Mehmet Erdem Günay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319160245

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Energy Systems and Management by Ali Nezihi Bilge,Ayhan Özgür Toy,Mehmet Erdem Günay Pdf

Readers of this work will find examinations of the current status and future status for energy sources and technologies, their environmental interactions and the relevant global energy policies. The work begins with an overview of Energy Technologies for a Sustainable Future, which examines the correlation between population, economy and energy consumption in the past, and reviews the conventional and renewable energy sources as well as the management of them to sustain the ever-growing energy demand in the future. The rest of the chapters are divided into 3 parts; the first part of the book, “Energy Sources, Technologies and Environment”, consists of 12 chapters, which include research on new energy technologies and evaluation of their environmental effects. The second part “Advanced Energy Materials” includes 7 chapters devoted to research on material science for new energy technologies. The final section titled “Energy Management, Economics and Policy” is comprised of 10 chapters about planning, controlling and monitoring energy related processes together with the policies to satisfy the needs of increasing population and growing economy. The chapters are selected works from the International Conference on Energy and Management, which was organized by Istanbul Bilgi University Department of Energy Systems Engineering and PALMET Energy to share the knowledge on the recent trends, scientific developments, innovations and management methods in energy, and held on 5–7th June 2014 at Istanbul Bilgi University.

Author : Taofeeq Ibn-Mohammed
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443893633

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Retrofitting the Built Environment by Taofeeq Ibn-Mohammed Pdf

The building sector exerts huge pressure on the built and natural environment and despite significant efforts to minimise the consequences, the International Energy Agency submitted that, by 2050, emissions related to buildings could double. However, in the building sector, significant improvement in energy use and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved, given the potential to do this at no cost, using new technology. Since most buildings that exist now will still exist in 2050, the greatest energy savings can be made through refurbishment. In the future, legislation on carbon usage, as well as innovative technologies and knowledge, will trigger aggressive emission reductions in buildings, and this will compel installers of retrofit options to consider embodied emissions in order to achieve the best-value retrofit plan. This book, in response to the growing environmental importance of retrofit options, describes the development of a powerful decision support system, detailing both theoretical and practical insights, for the evaluation of environmentally and economically optimal retrofit options for non-domestic buildings. The chapters within it discuss engineering, energy, environment and economics in the context of climate change and sustainability, while a methodological framework of a decision support system is used to analyse a range of building energy retrofit options. The theoretical developments provided in this book can be transferred to other industries beyond the built environment and will be useful to researchers, energy systems engineers, architects, building energy managers, supply chain and procurement managers, sustainability managers and policy makers.

Author : Howard T. Odum
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231502931

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Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century by Howard T. Odum Pdf

Howard T. Odum possessed one of the most innovative minds of the twentieth century. He pioneered the fields of ecological engineering, ecological economics, and environmental accounting, working throughout his life to better understand the interrelationships of energy, environment, and society and their importance to the well-being of humanity and the planet. This volume is a major modernization of Odum's classic work on the significance of power and its role in society, bringing his approach and insight to a whole new generation of students and scholars. For this edition Odum refines his original theories and introduces two new measures: emergy and transformity. These concepts can be used to evaluate and compare systems and their transformation and use of resources by accounting for all the energies and materials that flow in and out and expressing them in equivalent ability to do work. Natural energies such as solar radiation and the cycling of water, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen are diagrammed in terms of energy and emergy flow. Through this method Odum reveals the similarities between human economic and social systems and the ecosystems of the natural world. In the process, we discover that our survival and prosperity are regulated as much by the laws of energetics as are systems of the physical and chemical world.

Author : Electric Power Research Institute. Energy Systems, Environment and Conservation Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:35505766

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Energy Systems, Environment, and Conservation Division by Electric Power Research Institute. Energy Systems, Environment and Conservation Division Pdf

Author : Francis Vanek,Louis Albright
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780071640947

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Energy Systems Engineering: Evaluation and Implementation by Francis Vanek,Louis Albright Pdf

Market: energy professionals including analysts, system engineers, mechanical engineers, and electrical engineers Problems and worked-out equations use SI units

Author : Ibrahim Dincer,Adnan Midilli,Haydar Kucuk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319046815

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Progress in Exergy, Energy, and the Environment by Ibrahim Dincer,Adnan Midilli,Haydar Kucuk Pdf

This thorough and highly relevant volume examines exergy, energy and the environment in the context of energy systems and applications and as a potential tool for design, analysis, optimization. It further considers their role in minimizing and/or eliminating environmental impacts and providing for sustainable development. In this regard, several key topics ranging from the basics of the thermodynamic concepts to advanced exergy analysis techniques in a wide range of applications are covered.

Author : Jingzheng Ren
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030675295

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Energy Systems Evaluation (Volume 1) by Jingzheng Ren Pdf

This book presents various methods for sustainability assessment of energy systems, under various different conditions and scenarios. It answers the questions of how to measure the sustainability of energy systems by adopting appropriate metrics and methods. This book provides readers with a comprehensive view of the frontiers of sustainability assessment methods for energy system analysis. It presents various methodologies, allowing readers to understand: the complete metrics for sustainability assessment; life cycle thinking for sustainability assessment of energy systems; and the advanced sustainability assessment methods for energy systems. This book is of interest to researchers, engineers, decision makers, and postgraduate students within the field of energy systems, sustainability, and decision analysis.

Author : Nicholas Sakellariou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119418535

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Life Cycle Assessment of Energy Systems by Nicholas Sakellariou Pdf

Energy and sustainability are two of the most important and often most misunderstood subjects in our world today. As these two subjects have grown in importance over the last few decades, interest in the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) model has grown as well, as a potentially crucial tool in understanding and striving towards sustainability in energy systems. Not just wind and solar systems, but all energy systems, need to be understood through this model. Wind and solar power have the potential to decentralize the U.S. energy system by offering local communities electricity and economic support, depending on the scale and design of projects. Nevertheless, every energy technology potentially faces environmental costs, lay and expert opposition, and risks to public health. Engineers play a central role as designers, builders, and operators in energy systems. As they extend their expertise into electrical, mechanical and chemical fields, from fossil fuel-based systems to renewable energy systems, “sustainability” is steadily becoming one of the key criteria engineers apply in their work. This groundbreaking new study argues that engineering cultures foster sustainability by adopting assumptions and problem-solving practices as part of their identities when designing and building engineering projects. This work examines the politics of creating, utilizing, and modifying Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the construction of renewable energy systems. The only volume of its kind ever written, it is a must-have for any engineer, scientist, manager, or other professional working in or interested in Life Cycle Assessment and its relation to energy systems and impact on environmental and economic sustainability.

Author : Ibrahim Dincer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 5543 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128149256

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Comprehensive Energy Systems by Ibrahim Dincer Pdf

Comprehensive Energy Systems, Seven Volume Set provides a unified source of information covering the entire spectrum of energy, one of the most significant issues humanity has to face. This comprehensive book describes traditional and novel energy systems, from single generation to multi-generation, also covering theory and applications. In addition, it also presents high-level coverage on energy policies, strategies, environmental impacts and sustainable development. No other published work covers such breadth of topics in similar depth. High-level sections include Energy Fundamentals, Energy Materials, Energy Production, Energy Conversion, and Energy Management. Offers the most comprehensive resource available on the topic of energy systems Presents an authoritative resource authored and edited by leading experts in the field Consolidates information currently scattered in publications from different research fields (engineering as well as physics, chemistry, environmental sciences and economics), thus ensuring a common standard and language

Author : Fabio Orecchini,Vincenzo Naso
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780857292445

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Energy Systems in the Era of Energy Vectors by Fabio Orecchini,Vincenzo Naso Pdf

What lies beyond the era of fossil fuels? While most answers focus on different primary energy resources, Energy Systems in the Era of Energy Vectors provides a completely new approach. Instead of providing a traditional consumption analysis of classical primary energy resources such as oil, coal, nuclear power and gas, Energy Systems in the Era of Energy Vectors describes and assesses energy technologies, markets and future strategies, focusing on their capacity to produce, exchange, and use energy vectors. Special attention is given to the renewable energy resources available in different areas of the world and made exploitable by the integration of energy vectors in the global energy system. Clear definitions of energy vectors and energy systems are used as the basis for a complete explanation and assessment of up-to-date, available technologies for energy resources, transport and storage systems, conversion and use. The energy vectors scheme allows the potential realization of a worldwide sustainable energy system to fulfill global development expectations by minimizing both the impact on the environment, and the international political frictions for access to limited and concentrated resources. Energy Systems in the Era of Energy Vectors is an informative read for researchers and advanced students in industrial, energy and environmental engineering. It also contains valuable information for managers and technicians working in the energy sector.

Author : Ibrahim Dincer,Azzam Abu-Rayash
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128195574

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Energy Sustainability by Ibrahim Dincer,Azzam Abu-Rayash Pdf

Energy Sustainability is a subject with many dimensions that spans both production and utilization and how they are linked to sustainable development. More importantly, energy systems are designed, analyzed, assessed and evaluated in accordance to sustainable tools for more sustainable future. This book comprehensively covers these aspects, harmonizing them in a way that offers distinct perspectives for energy, the environment and sustainable development. In addition, it also covers concepts, systems, applications, illustrative examples and case studies that are presented to provide unique coverage for readers. Presents a holistic approach for energy domains Includes tactics on the development of sustainability models and parameters to link both energy and sustainable development Incorporates exergy tools into models and approaches for design, analysis, assessment and evaluations Includes illustrative examples and case studies with renewables and clean energy options

Author : Kemo Hanjalic,Roel van de Krol,Alija Lekic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402067242

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Sustainable Energy Technologies by Kemo Hanjalic,Roel van de Krol,Alija Lekic Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date review of the status and prospects of different options in energy conversion and storage technologies, as seen by a panel of world leading experts. It offers a platform for readers engaged in planning and undertaking new energy solutions, or retrofitting and redesigning the existing installations, to confront and to compare the pros and cons of various novel technology options. This book presents state-of-the-art papers on a timely topic.