Alternative Energy Sources and Technologies: Process Design and Operation

✍ Scribed by Mariano Martín (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 511
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Presenting a comprehensive analysis of the use of alternative sources of energy and technologies to produce fuels and power, this book describes the energy value chain from harvesting the raw material, (i.e solar, wind, biomass or shale gas) followed by analysis of the processing steps into power, fuels and/or chemicals and finally the distribution of the products.
Featuring an examination of the techno-economic processes and integration opportunities which can add value to by-products or promote the use of different sources of energy within the same facility, this book looks at the tools that can make this integration possible as well as utilising a real world case study. The case study of the operation of “El hierro” island is used as an example of the current effort towards more efficient use of the resources available.
Tackling head on the open challenges of the supply, the variability of the source and its prediction, the description of novel processes that are being developed and evaluated for their transformation as well as how we can distribute them to the consumer and how we can integrate the new chemicals, fuels and power within the current system and infrastructure, the book takes a process based perspective with such an approach able to help us in the use and integration of these sources of energy and novel technologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Nonconventional Fossil Energy Sources: Shale Gas and Methane Hydrates....Pages 3-16
Renewable Energy Sector....Pages 17-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Development Planning of Offshore Oilfield Infrastructure....Pages 33-87
Emerging Optimal Control Models and Solvers for Interconnected Natural Gas and Electricity Networks....Pages 89-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Equation-Based Design, Integration, and Optimization of Oxycombustion Power Systems....Pages 119-158
Wind Energy....Pages 159-180
Solar Energy as Source for Power and Chemicals....Pages 181-206
Biomass as Source for Chemicals, Power, and Fuels....Pages 207-233
CO2 Carbon Capture, Storage, and Uses....Pages 235-265
Optimal Design of Macroscopic Water and Energy Networks....Pages 267-293
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
Retrofit of Total Site Heat Exchanger Networks by Mathematical Programming Approach....Pages 297-340
Improving Energy Efficiency in Batch Plants Through Direct Heat Integration....Pages 341-362
Life Cycle Algal Biorefinery Design....Pages 363-381
Planning and Scheduling for Industrial Demand Side Management: Advances and Challenges....Pages 383-414
Industrial Tools and Needs....Pages 415-438
Renewable-Based Self-sustainable Operation of Isolated Islands....Pages 439-462
Front Matter....Pages 463-463
Multi-objective Optimisation Incorporating Life Cycle Assessment. A Case Study of Biofuels Supply Chain Design....Pages 465-492
Large-Scale Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programming Algorithms for Power Generation Scheduling....Pages 493-512

✦ Subjects

Renewable and Green Energy; Energy Technology; Environmental Economics; Energy Technology