Sustainable Energy Systems and Applications

✍ Scribed by İbrahim Dinçer, Calin Zamfirescu (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 821
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Thermodynamic Fundamentals....Pages 1-50
Energy and Environment Perspectives....Pages 51-91
Global Warming and Climate Change....Pages 93-117
Energy Conservation....Pages 119-145
Sustainable Development and Energy Policies....Pages 147-167
Fossil Fuels and Alternative Fuels....Pages 169-201
Ammonia as a Potential Substance....Pages 203-232
Nuclear Energy....Pages 233-282
Renewable Energies....Pages 283-387
District Energy Systems....Pages 389-429
Energy Storage....Pages 431-478
Integrated Multigeneration Energy Systems....Pages 479-517
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Systems....Pages 519-632
Carbon Dioxide Technologies....Pages 633-662
Life-Cycle Assessment....Pages 663-700
Industrial Ecology....Pages 701-721
Sectorial Energy and Exergy Utilization....Pages 723-751
Economic Analysis....Pages 753-781
Back Matter....Pages 783-816

✦ Subjects

Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer; Renewable and Green Energy; Sustainable Development; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology