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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Other Authors Kreith, Frank, Goswami, D. Yogi
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2007.
SeriesMechanical engineering series (Boca Raton, Fla.)
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781420003482
1420003488
9781628705416
1628705418
0849317304
9780849317309
Physical Description1 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.