Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling

✍ Scribed by Yaşar Demirel (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 633
• Series: Green Energy and Technology
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Expanding on the first edition, ‘Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling (2nd Ed.)’ provides readers with a practical understanding of the major aspects of energy. It includes extended chapters with revised data and additional practice problems as well as a new chapter examining sustainability and sustainable energy technologies. Like the first edition, it also explores topics such as energy production, conservation of energy, energy storage and energy coupling. Written for students across a range of engineering and science disciplines, it provides a comprehensive study guide. It is particularly suitable for courses in energy technology, sustainable energy technologies and energy conversion & management, and offers an ideal reference text for students, engineers, energy researchers and industry professionals.
* Presents a clear introduction to the basic properties, forms and sources of energy
* Includes a range of supporting figures, tables and thermodynamic diagrams
* Provides course instructors with a solution manual for practice problems

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Introduction: Basic Definitions....Pages 1-34
Energy Sources....Pages 35-71
Mechanical Energy and Electrical Energy....Pages 73-104
Internal Energy and Enthalpy....Pages 105-152
Energy Balances....Pages 153-181
Energy Production....Pages 183-239
Energy Conversion....Pages 241-319
Energy Storage....Pages 321-362
Energy Conservation....Pages 363-418
Energy Coupling....Pages 419-440
Sustainability in Energy Technologies....Pages 441-484
Back Matter....Pages 485-616

✦ Subjects

Renewable and Green Energy; Energy Technology; Energy Technology; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology; Energy Storage