Handbook of energy efficiency and renewable energy
Brought to you by the creator of numerous bestselling handbooks, the Handbook of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy provides a thorough grounding in the analytic techniques and technological developments that underpin renewable energy use and environmental protection. The handbook emphasizes the...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Boca Raton :
CRC Press,
©2007.
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| Series | Mechanical engineering series (Boca Raton, Fla.)
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| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781420003482 1420003488 9781628705416 1628705418 0849317304 9780849317309 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
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Table of Contents:
- Global energy system / D. Yogi Goswami, Frank Kreith
- Energy policy
- Economics methods / Rosalie Ruegg, Walter Short
- Environmental impacts and costs of energy / Ari Rabl, Joseph V. Spadaro
- Distributed generation and demand-side management
- Generation technologies through the year 2025
- Outlook for U.S. energy consumption and prices in the midterm / Andy S. Kydes
- Transportation systems / Beth Isler
- Infrastructure risk analysis and security
- Electrical energy management in buildings / Craig B. Smith, Kelly E. Parmenter
- Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning control systems / Jan F. Kreider, David E. Claridge, Charles H. Culp
- Energy efficient technologies
- Compact heat exchangers : recuperators and regenerators / Ramesh K. Shah
- Industrial energy efficiency and energy management / Craig B. Smith, Barney L. Capehart, Wesley M. Rohrer Jr.
- Process energy efficiency : pinch technology
- Energy audits for buildings / Moncef Krarti
- Cogeneration / W. Dan Turner
- Energy storage, transmission, and distribution
- Availability of renewable resources
- Solar thermal energy conversion
- Concentrating solar thermal power / Manuel Romero-Alvarez, Eduardo Zarza
- Wind energy conversion / Dale E. Berg
- Photovoltaics fundamentals, technology, and application
- Waste-to-energy combustion / Charles O. Velzy, Leonard M. Grillo
- Biomass conversion processes for energy recovery
- Geothermal power generation / Kevin Kitz
- Hydrogen energy technologies / S.A. Sherif, F. Barbir, T.N. Veziroglu, M. Mahishi, S.S. Srinivasan
- Fuel cells / Xianguo Li
- Appendices / Nitin Goel.