Résumé
Renewable Energy Resources is a numerate and quantitative text covering subjects of proven technical and economic importance worldwide. Energy supplies from renewables (such as solar, thermal, photovoltaic, wind, hydro, biofuels, wave, tidal, ocean and geothermal sources) are essential components of every nation's energy strategy, not least because of concerns for the environment and for sustainability. In the years between the first and this second edition, renewable energy has come of age: it makes good sense, good government and good business.
This second edition maintains the book's basis on fundamentals, whilst including experience gained from the rapid growth of renewable energy technologies as secure national resources and for climate change mitigation, more extensively illustrated with case studies and worked problems. The presentation has been improved throughout, along with a new chapter on economics and institutional factors. Each chapter begins with fundamental theory from a scientific perspective, then considers applied engineering examples and developments, and includes a set of "problems and solutions and a bibliography of printed and web-based material for further study. Common symbols and cross referencing apply throughout, essential data are tabulated in appendices. Sections on social and environmental aspects have been added to each technology chapter.
Renewable Energy Resources supports multi-disciplinary master degrees in science and engineering, and specialist modules in first degrees. Practicing scientists and engineers who have not had a comprehensive training in renewable energy will find it a useful introductory text and a reference book.
L'auteur - John Twidell
John Twidell has considerable experience in renewable energy as an academic professor, a board member of wind and solar professional associations, a journal editor and contractor with the European Commission. As well as holding posts in the UK, he has worked in Sudan and Fiji.
L'auteur - Tony Weir
Tony Weir is a policy adviser to the Australian government, specialising in the interface between technology and policy, covering subjects such as energy supply and demand, climate change and innovation in business. He was formerly Senior Energy Officer at the South Pacific Forum Secretariat in Fiji, and has lectured and researched in physics and policy studies at universities of the UK, Australia and the Pacific.
Sommaire
- Preface
- List of Symbols
- Principles of Renewable Energy
- Essentials of Fluid Dynamics
- Heat Transfer
- Solar Radiation
- Solar Water Heating
- Buildings and Other Solar Thermal Applications
- Photovoltaic Generation
- Hydro-Power
- Power from the Wind
- The Photosynthetic Process
- Biomass and Biofuels
- Wave Power
- Tidal Power
- Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)
- Geothermal Energy
- Energy Systems, Storage and Transmission
- Institutional and Economic Factors
- Appendix A: Units and Conversions
- Appendix B: Data
- Appendix C: Some Heat Transfer Formulas
- Solution Guide to Problems
- Index
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Taylor and Francis Books |
| Auteur(s) | John Twidell, Tony Weir |
| Parution | 12/12/2005 |
| Édition | 2eme édition |
| Nb. de pages | 602 |
| Format | 15,5 x 23,5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 933g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780419253303 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-419-25330-3 |
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