Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Handbook, Second Edition

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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Handbook, Second Edition

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Handbook, Second Edition

    The latest version of a bestselling reference, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Handbook, Second Edition covers the foremost trends and technologies in energy engineering today. This new edition contains the latest material on energy planning and policy, with a focus on renewable and sustainable energy sources. It also examines nuclear energy and its place in future energy systems, includes a chapter on natural gas, and provides extensive coverage of energy storage for numerous forms of energy generation. The text also provides energy supply, demand, and pricing factor projections for the future.

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Explore the Future of Global Energy

    The authors address problems that industry now faces, including the limited availability of conventional energy resources such as oil, natural gas, and coal, and considers renewable energies such as wind power, solar energy, and biomass. They also illustrate the economics of energy efficiency, discuss the financial energy policies of various countries, consider the role of energy conservation in energy strategies, and examine the future of renewable energy technologies to build a sustainable energy system.

This book is divided into five sections, providing a comprehensive look at renewable energy technologies and systems:

• Global Energy Systems, Policy, and Economics
• Energy Generation through 2025
• Energy Infrastructure and Storage
• Renewable Technologies
• Biomass Energy Systems

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Table Of Contents

Preface

Part I : Global Energy Systems, Policy, and Economics

Chapter 1 : Global Energy Systems

Chapter 2 : Sound Finance Policies for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Chapter 3 : State and Federal Policies for Renewable Energy

Chapter 4 : Strategies and Instruments for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Internationally, in Europe, and in Germany

Chapter 5 : Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Policies in China

Chapter 6 : Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in India

Chapter 7 : Renewable Energy Policies in Brazil: Bioenergy, Photovoltaic Generation, and Transportation

Chapter 8 : Energy in Israel: A Case for Renewables

Chapter 9 : Renewable Energy in Australia

Chapter 10 : Japan’s Post-Fukushima Energy Policy

Chapter 11 : Policies for Distributed Energy Generation

Chapter 12 : Economics Methods

Chapter 13 : Environmental Impacts and Costs of Energy

Part II : Energy Generation Through 2025

Chapter 14 : Distributed Generation Technologies through 2025

Chapter 15 : Demand-Side Management

Chapter 16 : Fossil Fuels

Chapter 17 : Nuclear Power Technologies through Year 2035

Chapter 18 : Outlook for U.S. Energy Consumption and Prices, 2011-2040

Part III : Energy Infrastructure and Storage

Chapter 19 : Transportation

Chapter 20 : Infrastructure Risk Analysis and Security

Chapter 21 : Electricity Infrastructure Resilience and Security

Chapter 22 : Electrical Energy Management in Buildings

Chapter 23 : Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Control Systems

Chapter 24 : Stirling Engines

Chapter 25 : Energy-Efficient Lighting Technologies and Their Applications in the Residential and Commercial Sectors

Chapter 26 : Energy-Efficient Technologies: Major Appliances and Space Conditioning Equipment

Chapter 27 : Heat Pumps

Chapter 28 : Electric Motor Systems Efficiency

Chapter 29 : Industrial Energy Efficiency and Energy Management

Chapter 30 : Process Energy Efficiency: Pinch Technology

Chapter 31 : Analysis Methods for Building Energy Auditing

Chapter 32 : Cogeneration

Chapter 33 : Energy Storage Technologies

Chapter 34 : Advanced Concepts in Transmission and Distribution

Chapter 35 : Smart Grid Technology

Part IV : Renewable Technologies

Chapter 36 : Solar Energy Resources

Chapter 37 : Wind Energy Resource

Chapter 38 : Municipal Solid Waste

Chapter 39 : Biomass Properties and Resources

Chapter 40 : Active Solar Heating Systems

Chapter 41 : Passive Solar Heating, Cooling, and Daylighting

Chapter 42 : Concentrating Solar Thermal Power

Chapter 43 : Wind Energy Conversion

Chapter 44 : Photovoltaics

Chapter 45 : Thin-Film PV Technology

Chapter 46 : Concentrating PV Technologies

Chapter 47 : Waste-to-Energy Combustion

Chapter 48 : Energy Recovery by Anaerobic Digestion Process

Part V : Biomass Energy Systems

Chapter 49 : Biomass Conversion to Heat and Power

Chapter 50 : Biomass Conversion to Fuels

Chapter 51 : Geothermal Power Generation

Chapter 52 : Hydrogen Energy Technologies

Chapter 53 : Fuel Cells

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