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.
This book addresses trends in renewable energy sources, energy storage, and smart systems. In addition to photovoltaic and wind generation, it considers new solutions for smart grids, energy management, and innovative renewable exploitation techniques.
Heat transfer is vital for efficient power production. This book covers efficiently utilizing energy by integrating heat exchangers into power production units. It provides descriptions of heat transfer applications in everyday life and industry, supported by practical examples.
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 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.
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 book explores the link between human comfort and energy efficiency. Integrating engineering, psychology, and social sciences, it explains how human behaviour impacts energy use and offers practical solutions for creating more energy-conscious environments.
This book explores efficient energy utilization in industrial sites, offering a recipe to minimize Global Warming and Ozone Depletion. It presents insights into thermodynamics and energy management to help engineers deal with energy issues from a more global perspective.
This book covers core estimation methods, intelligent condition assessment, and management for energy storage systems. It provides a theoretical foundation and practical guide with rich examples for researchers and practitioners seeking to innovate in the field.
Towards Sustainable Energy
Hailing renewables as the solution to climate change is an overoptimistic diagnostic. This book analyzes all primary energy sources, concluding the transition to an energy system with acceptable emissions is far from smooth. Mankind is at a crossroads with difficult decisions.
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.
Founded by Dr Cho Han Kyu, Natural Farming is a nature-respecting alternative to chemical-intensive agriculture that assures high yield and good quality for lower costs. Now used in over 15 countries, it provides tools to improve livelihoods and conserve the environment.
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.
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.
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.
The Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea has experienced significant alterations due to natural processes, but human activities have accelerated these changes. Rising sea levels, pollution, and loss of biodiversity threaten this vital ecosystem, requiring urgent global efforts.
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.
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.
Microbes play a vital role in making the earth sustainable. Omnipresent in nature, they inhabit extreme conditions and are essential for human existence, from food fermentation to medicine. This volume highlights the importance of microbial biodiversity to society.
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.