This volume highlights West Africa’s abundant clean energy resources. It shows the pace at which the renewable energy sector is growing and its contribution to mitigating global warming, detailing resources, the business environment, and the development of solar and hydro power.
This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the applications of nuclear technology. It details its usage in every aspect of life, including in industries, medicine, art, cultural heritage, security, and forensics.
This study introduces a holistic workflow for evaluating complex carbonate and clastic reservoirs. By combining borehole imagery, petrophysical logs, and core samples, this research reveals new insights into reservoir structure, fracture detection, and permeability distribution.
This book presents a groundbreaking approach to estimating the state of charge (SOC) of lithium-ion batteries. This method combines neural networks and Kalman filtering to enhance accuracy and adapt to battery aging, paving the way for improved battery management systems.
This volume discusses advances in applied nonlinear optimal control with case studies in robotics, mechatronics, and biological systems. The methods avoid complex transformations and singularity problems, retaining the advantages of optimal control.
This volume contains a selection of the best papers on renewable energies and power quality. It presents state-of-the-art research from leading authorities drawn from across the globe, with contributions from 300 authors from 60 different countries.
The sun is a powerful source of energy, yet we fail to use it efficiently. This book explains the significance of light spectra and intensity manipulation through innovation for enhanced electricity production by solar devices.
Applications of Nuclear Materials
This book covers recent developments in nuclear science and technology and its applications. Covering both fundamental and advanced aspects in an accessible way, it elaborates on the use of nuclear materials in sectors like health, energy, and forensic science.
This book explores how AI and Machine Learning solve complex flow assurance issues. It consolidates diverse research, methodologies, and case studies, serving as a comprehensive reference for researchers, students, and engineers in the energy industry.
Britain’s Civil War over Coal
A first-hand account of the NUM’s confrontation with the government during the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike that changed Britain forever. It charts the defence against mine closures, the devastating aftermath, and the ultimate demise of the UK coal industry.
Energy and Humanity
This book describes human civilization from an energy perspective, showing how mastering energy catapulted our species to supremacy. It weaves a fascinating story from Stone Age tools to climate change, discussing the dark side and the future of renewables.
This guide covers the processing and combustion of fuels—biomass, petroleum, coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydrogen, and fuel cells. It addresses recent advances, emission concerns, and how advanced fuels can be optimized for efficiency and compliance with EURO VI emission norms.
Human activities have massively accelerated the nitrogen cycle, causing eutrophication, smog, acid rain, and the emission of potent greenhouse gases. This book reviews the biotransformation of nitrogen, its ecological significance, and the consequences of human interference.
From the unique perspective of a solar space scientist turned oilfield engineer, this book takes an honest look at the energy transition. How are oil giants pivoting on climate change? Is the urgency as dire as we’re told? A must-read to understand the reality of climate change.
This book covers the automatic protection, control, and monitoring of power systems. It focuses on intelligent algorithms to combat ferroresonance and SSR in traditional and smart grids, and introduces a SCADA-based system for simulation, analysis, and energy management.
This book proposes a method for estimating lithium battery state of charge (SOC) by fusing deep learning and filtering algorithms. It uses BiLSTM neural networks to overcome the limitations of standard LSTM, resulting in improved feature extraction and greater accuracy.
This volume provides science and environmental educators with examples of learning that contribute to a more eco-socially just and sustainable world. This education moves beyond facts to develop learners’ values and capabilities to envision and work towards preferable futures.
Disasters are not always acts of nature. This book opens a new field in disaster research: those caused by mankind. From industrial accidents to political corruption, it explores our vulnerability, resilience, and introduces the new concept of disaster sustainability.
Your electricity bills have doubled for a reason. Failed state policy has put our power supply at risk. An engineer reveals the true costs of renewables and the radical solution politicians have missed.
Public disbelief slows the development of nuclear power. This can be overcome by creating reactors with inherent self-protection, where the causes of severe accidents are excluded by the laws of nature. This book collects reports from Russian specialists on such reactors.