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The transition to renewable energy is essential for ensuring energy supply, and to mitigate environmental effects of fossil fuels, particularly climate change. However, because renewable energy resources do not provide a constant supply of energy and they are not sufficiently portable for many applications, the development of energy storage methods is necessary. The book reviews historical and current energy use, as well as provides predictions for future energy demands. The main sources of renewable energy are introduced including hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, and biofuels, along with an analysis of the need for energy storage.

Trends and Technological Challenges in Green Energy: Selected Papers from ICGET 2023 offers readers selected and expanded papers from the 2023 8th International Conference on Green Energy Technologies held at the University of the Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Germany. It features innovative work by academics, researchers, and industry experts highlighting the latest renewable energy developments. The book covers fundamental and practical applications for green energy resources, including security, energy consumption, localization, energy access, environment-friendly energy systems, sustainable energy development, energy-saving technologies, and conservation. It is a valuable interdisciplinary reference for young researchers, postgraduate students, professionals, and industry practitioners working with green energy technology and applications.

This book examines the growing interest in gasification technology, which has become the primary route for effectively utilizing solid carbonaceous material for energy generation and syngas production. The thermochemical conversion of solids, including pyrolysis, combustion, and gasification, has become a primary method for extracting energy and value-added chemicals. However, gasification technology is the most efficient and economical way to utilize solid fuel. Understanding the gasification process and its diversified applications is essential for making gasification technology sustainable in the future. This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of gasification technology, covering its past use, present scenario, and future outlook. Specifically, in an emerging world with the rapid advancement of science and technology, this book offers knowledge on the fundamentals, applications, and sustainable advancement of gasification technology covering a wide range of solid fuels. Gasification Technology: Transforming Waste Into Clean Energy provides early career researchers, engineers, and research and development scientists with a solid knowledge base on the fundamentals, industrial applications, and commercialization of gasification. The first book to cover all aspects of gasification technology; Examines the role and importance of gasification technology and the rise in global energy demand; Integrates insights into engineering applications and the advancement of gasification as a sustainable technology.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the latest novel and fundamental advances in clean energy resources and systems, energy economics, and energy policy. Designed to help steer the course toward a cleaner, more sustainable energy landscape, it presents case studies on clean energy technology, explores sustainable methods for increasing energy efficiency, and examines current concepts and solutions to global energy storage and energy-saving issues. Topics covered include:Clean coal and fossil fuels;Green power production and cogeneration;CO2 capture, storage, and utilization;Biomass, wind, and nuclear energy engineering;Hydrogen and fuel cell technology.Trends in Clean Energy Research is an essential guide to current research for scientists, practitioners, engineers, students, and researchers.

This textbook focuses on sustainable energy production using solid materials. With explanatory tables and figures, case studies, worked-out examples, and up-to-date bibliographies of other works, the book provides an in-depth exploration of the most innovative aspects of the field.Readers of the book will gain critical skills in characterizing and reacting to biomass, including the formation of pollutants, as well as using fluidized bed reactors for heterogeneous processes. The book also explores innovative methods for mitigating the greenhouse effect, reusing ashes as adsorbents or in cement production, and thermochemical solar energy storage. This book will give students, novice researchers, and industry professionals valuable insights and knowledge into the sustainable production of energy using solid materials.

This book contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Energy Engineering and Environmental Engineering (ICEEEE2023) that was held on August 6-8 2023 in Singapore. ICEEEE2023 is organized by Beijing Jiaotong University and Newcastle University. This book provides an international forum for discussion and communication of energy and environmental engineering.It is expected to report the latest technological developments in the fields developed by academic researchers and industrial practitioners, with a focus on renewable energy technologies and systems, energy efficiency and conservation, environmental pollution and control, sustainable development, and green cities. The contents of this proceedings will be useful to researchers, professionals, and policymakers alike.

This book demonstrates the enormous possibility of energy saving and reduction of CO2 emission achievable through zero-energy buildings, a building not dependent on outside energy sources. It describes technical and economical merits of utilizing renewable energies in building sectors that are not subject to factors such as disruption or price increase due to invasion, wars or sanctions. Three different buildings located in a cold climate in the northeastern USA and warm climate conditions, in California, are examined in this book. The energy balance before retrofitting and afterwards are compared and described for each of the study properties.

High-Robust Control Schemes for Dual-Active-Bridge-Based DC-DC Converter Systems in Renewable Energy Applications is the first book that presents systematic control schemes for multiple DAB-based DC-DC converter systems. The book explores new control methods for various DAB DC-DC converters for high-power applications. These methods include fast-dynamic control, power balance control, soft start-up operation, hot-swap operation, and circuit-parameter estimation. Additionally, the book studies a DAB-based partial power processing DC-DC converter system designed to embed the renewable energy source and the energy storage system for boosting the utilization of components. The book also verifies the dynamic equivalence between the DAB converter and other intermediary inductive AC-link DC-DC converters, which can be helpful in designing control systems for other AC-link-based DC-DC converter systems. This book is a valuable reference for graduate students in electrical engineering, researchers, and power electronics engineers working in manufacturing, renewable energy, and utility industries.

This open access book offers a comprehensive exploration of the future of the hydrogen industry. It builds upon insights gathered from a series of expert workshops and follow-on activity. International experts from various fields, including industry, public policy, and academia, engaged in dialogue and knowledge exchange, resulting in invaluable findings and observations. This book builds upon that process to offers an in-depth analysis of the key issues facing commercial hydrogen energy development in the late 2020s. It highlights how hydrogen has the potential to emerge as a major component of the global energy industry, aiding the decarbonization process. Among the important lessons learned, the book discusses how both hydrogen and electrification will both play a significant role in the energy sector, but hydrogen could emerge as the larger energy carrier, and the two developments will largely operate independently of each other. The book also highlights the significance of industrial infrastructure such as ports, pipelines, hubs, and clusters in scaling up hydrogen use. Finally, the book considers the importance of hydrogen purity for future applications and acknowledges the potential for geologically sourced hydrogen to be a vital component of supply in the future.

This book presents a methodology for assessing the advantages of microgrids from both a business and energy resilience perspective. Microgrids incorporate distributed generators and electrochemical energy storage systems within end-user facilities that have critical loads. By utilizing renewable energy sources and electrochemical energy storage, the life-cycle cost of energy within microgrids connected to the electrical grid can be significantly reduced. Moreover, the book explores how the design of microgrids can enhance the resilience of power supply to customers, as measured by the duration for which the microgrid can sustain an electrical consumer during an outage. This aspect is particularly crucial for buildings with critical loads. The book contains case studies from around the world that demonstrate these lessons. The book is of interest to researchers and graduate students in power and energy as well as professionals in the power industry.

This volume addresses SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and SDG 12 (Sustainable Consumption and Production). By 2030, therefore, people have to substantially increase their share of renewable energy. The book focuses on waste as primary sources of biomass that can fulfill energy requirements for sustainable development. It also discusses various related topics such as energy production methods, a mathematical model for the development of a sustainable biofuels supply chain, economic analysis, optimization techniques, multiple-criteria decision-making and mixed-integer linear programming and existing and emerging policies that encourage the switch to renewable energy. It is committed to fusing science and technology in a way that assures a sustainable future and addresses major topics on biofuels: biomass, bioenergy, biodiesel, bioethanol, biogas modelling and their supply chain management, inventory control and optimization.The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member countries in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. The book uses an interdisciplinary approach and provides solutions to energy requirements by using emerging technology and nanotechnologies. It explores a technical breakdown of the tools that may be utilized to convert biomass into usable energy forms. At the end of the book, a description of the social and economic aspects of renewable energy and minimization of bioenergy cost is presented. The book is useful to students, researchers, industry experts and anybody in the adoption of renewable energy. It covers the complete course in the fundamentals of biomass feedstock and their supply chain management resources at the graduate level in engineering.

This book examines simultaneous power generation and desalination driven by renewable energy systems. It covers all renewables, including solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, ocean and biomass as well as waste sources. This book also includes thermodynamic fundamentals, concepts, and system design, analysis and assessment studies, along with illustrative examples and case studies, for sustainable applications. It further provides an ample opportunity to learn more about cutting-edge technologies and newly developed systems for power generation and desalination.

​Green Hydrogen in Power Systems examines state-of-the-art applications and the latest developments in technology, protocols, implementation, and application of green hydrogen in power and energy systems. The first book to comprehensively analyze the opportunities and challenges in this field, it brings together global experts from different disciplines to provide a comprehensive study of the role of green hydrogen in power systems of the future and its important role in energy evolution and decarbonization efforts around the world. The book is a multidisciplinary reference for researchers and industry stakeholders who have focused on the field of hydrogen integration into the power and energy systems, as well as researchers and developers from different branches of engineering, energy, computer sciences, data, economic, and operation research fields.

This book explores the theoretical background and provides an experimental analysis of using natural energy resources in sustainable building design. It brings together an international group of contributors focusing on ways natural energy, lighting, and ventilation can improve the performance of electrical, lighting, and mechanical systems. Contributions explore how natural resources can contribute to sustainable development goals while meeting energy demands and maintaining acceptable interior air quality and natural illumination needs. Coverage includes green building design, renewable energy integration, photovoltaic systems, small-scale wind turbines, natural lighting, and natural ventilation. Natural Energy, Lighting, and Ventilation in Sustainable Buildings offers practical and promising solutions for novel challenges in sustainable design for electrical engineers, energy engineers, architectural engineers, and related professionals, as well asresearchers and developers from engineering science.

This book critically analyses renewable energy sources of electrical power/energy utilised to save money on the amount of electrical energy imported from the national electricity grid and help nations meet binding environmental goals. The main renewable energy sources analysed are wind turbine generators, hydroelectric plant, and solar PV systems. The book presents a robust evaluation framework that can be used in the renewable energy analysis process. One of the main findings is the identification of short-term variations associated mainly with wind turbine electrical generator power output signals. These short-term variations are negating the potential advantages of installing wind turbine electrical generators. One of the suggested methods to counteract the short-term variations is the use of energy storage. Without utility-sized energy storage, binding energy targets will be very difficult to achieve. The three main realms of sustainable development, namely environmental, economic, and human realms, are discussed throughout the book. The three realms are closely interlinked so a weakness identified in any one realm affects the overall sustainability of the (business, country, any organisation) development process.

Power electronic devices and systems are attracting growing attention due to the electrification of energy conversion systems being a key factor in efforts to reduce fuel combustion and achieve carbon neutrality. This book provides a concept of software-defined power electronics architecture to generalize the power converter design and control procedures with various interfaced applications. The ultimate objective is to construct a reconfigurable software-defined power electronics architecture with standardized atomic power modules that can be leveraged for different electrified energy resources, such as electric vehicle charging, electric motor traction, solar power, and wind power. Several advanced control and design techniques are introduced in detail to achieve the proposed concept with a high-performance energy conversion system, including optimization-based control and estimation, variable frequency soft switching, and passive component design and optimization. The proposed generalized architecture also contributes to avoiding redundant hardware and algorithms design procedures. Software-Defined Power Electronics: Converter Configuration, Control, and Optimization is a guide for engineers and academic researchers to the highly specialized skills required for working in the fields of power converter design and development.

This proceedings contains peer-reviewed papers from International Conference on Renewable and Clean Energy 2024 which was held in Tokyo, Japan, Feb 24-26, 2024 (contributions from various authors from all sectors of academia and industries), exploring cutting-edge solutions and best practices for renewable and clean energy technologies for achieving the UN's SDG7 to'ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.'This book presents innovative grid integration technologies for techno-economic operation of renewable and clean energy technologies (e.g., solar photovoltaic, wind energy, hydrogen technologies including electrolyzer and fuel cell, energy storage technologies, etc.). It covers key aspects on energy conversion systems related to renewable energy technologies and their grid integration, techno-economic power dispatching from the distributed environmental-friendly energy sources considering combined heat and power applications, electrical energy network operation with increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and demand side management, e-mobility, including machine learning applications for intelligent operation of energy systems, etc. The key objective of book is to educate the readers on how sustainable energy technologies can be integrated with energy conversion processes for achieving net zero targets in real-world applications. The book will serve as a useful reference for graduate students, academicians, industry professionals and policy makers interested in exploring the potential of energy technologies in development of sustainable energy system.

Due to limited non-renewable resources and climate change problems, the global energy sector must be transformed from fossil fuel dominated to renewable energy based. However, due to constraints of resources, technology, locked capital in existing energy systems, limited financial support, and associated risks in investment, etc., this transformation is not expected to occur rapidly. Rather there should be an energy transition path with planned replacement of fossil fuel-based systems to renewable-based ones. Large-scale renewable power is yet to be dominant globally. Distributed renewable power is appearing to be more common as its implementation requires smaller investments with lesser financial risks. There are several options of such distributed renewable power with great prospects at different locations. Simultaneously, there are many challenges to overcome for successful implementation of such projects. These challenges are also multi-dimensional. In this book, several chapters address bright prospects of several options of distributed renewable power. Simultaneously, other chapters address challenges of implementation of such technologies. The chapters together cover a wide perspective of both prospects and associated challenges to be addressed for it. Chapters include technological issues, optimization of energy systems, logistics and policies, case studies etc. Researchers, industry professionals, and students can benefit from this book.

This book is the first volume of the proceedings of the 15th International Green Energy Conference (IGEC) held in Glasgow, UK from 10-13 July 2023. This meeting is the latest in a multi-disciplinary international conference series on the use of energy with no or reduced environmental, social, and economic impacts. The conference provided a platform for sharing new technical information, disseminating high-quality research results, presenting the latest developments in energy and environment, and debating the shaping of future directions and priorities for sustainable development and energy security.This conference proceedings is of particular value and interest to researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners from relevant fields of energy and environment, from policy-making and technical development to management and marketing.

This book brings together global experts from industry, science, and the policy and investment communities to explore the field of hydrogen technology. The chapters provide coverage of the hydrogen value chain, from production, storage, and transportation to its application as a solution to climate change. The unique expertise presented will equip readers with a deep understanding of hydrogen's important role in power sector decarbonization and the green energy transition.

The book describes the clean coal technology of chemical looping combustion (CLC) for power generation with pure CO2 capture. The focus of the book is on the modeling and simulation of CLC. It includes fundamental concepts behind CLC and considers all categories of fluidized beds and reactors, including a variety of oxygen carriers. The book includes process simulations with Aspen Plus® software using coal, natural gas, and biomass and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations using both the Eulerian and Lagrangian methods. It describes various drag models, turbulence models, and kinetics models required for CFD simulations of CLC and covers single reactor, partial, and full-simulations, single/multi-stage as well as single-particle simulations, and CLC with reverse flow. A large number of examples for both process simulations using Aspen Plus and CFD simulations using a variety of fluidized beds/reactors employing both the two-fluid and Computational Fluid Dynamics / Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM) model are provided. Modeling and Simulation of Fluidized Bed Reactors for Chemical Looping Combustion will be an invaluable reference for industry practitioners and researchers in academic and industrial R&D currently working on clean energy technologies and power generation with carbon capture.

This book provides a systematic introduction to power system sub/super-synchronous oscillations caused by grid-connected wind power generation. The authors look at why oscillations occur and present methods for examining the risk of oscillations. Coverage includes state-space model based analysis and impedance model based analysis, which are the two main methods for examining the power system sub/super-synchronous oscillations. In addition, new methods for examining oscillations in wind farms are proposed. Analysis of Power System Sub/Super-Synchronous Oscillations Caused by Grid-connected Wind Power Generation provides researchers and students with a single-volume introduction to the subject and will be a valuable professional reference for practicing engineers looking for solutions to oscillation problems.

The lack of effective DC fault protection technology remains a major barrier for the DC paradigm shift. In addressing the key challenges, Direct Current Fault Protection: Basic Concepts and Technology Advances starts with an introduction to the advantages of DC power systems before moving on to an in-depth review of DC fault protection technologies, including mechanical circuit breaker (MCB), solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB), hybrid circuit breaker (HCB), converter based (breakerless) protection, and fault current limiter (FCL). Coverage includes a comprehensive comparison of various DC fault interruption technologies and their suitable applications, state-of-the-art DC fault protection concepts and advances in research, identification of fundamental challenges and future directions in the field, and commercialization aspects. This book will be a valuable reference for practicing engineers, researchers, and graduate students in the field of power electronics andDC power systems.

This book discusses recent work on the use of nanoparticles in energy and environment-related work. This book presents experimental, numerical, analytical, and theoretical work on the use of nanomaterials in energy and environment. This book helps to highlight cutting-edge research and is a ready reference for the researchers working in this arena of academia and industries. This book provides insights related to various forms of nanotechnological applications in green buildings, environmental and electrochemical, solar distillation systems, green energy, storage tank of the SWH system, solar concentrator system's receiver, and CFD simulations of various aspects of nanofluids/hybrid nanofluids, which are particularly useful, valuable for the betterment of society.

The book consists of selected and peer reviewed papers from 13th International Conference on Renewable and Clean Energy (2023), which aims to address and deliberate on the latest technical status and recent trends in the research and applications of renewable energy system and sources (RESSs), renewable energy sources include solar, wind, biomass, fuel cells, hydropower, hydrogen, nuclear, geothermal etc. The topics covered in the proceedings include energy transformation from renewable energy system (RES) to grid, novel energy conversion studies for RESs, power devices and driving circuits for RESs, control techniques for RESs, grid interactive systems used in hybrid RESs, performance analysis of RESs, hybrid RESSs, renewable energy research and applications for Industries, RESSs for electrical vehicles and components, artificial intelligence and machine learning studies for RESs and applications, computational methods for RESSs, smart grids and RESSs, safety and security of RESSs, renewable energy systems in smart cities. This book will be very useful for graduate students, researchers and practicing engineers working in the fields of renewable energy.

In diesem Buch sind die Besonderheiten von Wasserstoff als zukünftigen Energieträger im Rahmen der nationalen Wasserstoffstrategie Deutschland von ausgewiesenen Kennern in einer bisher ungekannte Bandbreite beleuchtet. Herstellung, die Bedeutung von Speichersystemen im Energiesystem sowie tiefgehende Details bei der Materialbetrachtung von verschiedenen Oberflächenproblemen sind ergänzt durch eine kurze Übersicht über den möglichen konkreten Einsatz von Wasserstoff. Dabei wird auf Möglichkeiten eingegangen, wie vor dem Hintergrund der globalen Klimaerwärmung der Treibhausgasausstoss praxis- und bürgernah abgesenkt werden kann.Der InhaltCharakteristika von Wasserstoff, Herstellungsverfahren, ProzesseGroßflächige nachhaltige Energieerzeugung zur Produktion des Energieträgers WasserstoffsWasserstoffspeicher und ihre AnwendungWie sicher ist die Nutzung von Wasserstoff?Speichertechnologien für WasserstoffMärkte für Wasserstoffspeicher und Bedeutung von Wasserstoff im Energiesystem und Technische Systeme für die NutzungWasserstoffnutzung in Gebäuden und kleinen SiedlungenDie ZielgruppenFachleute aus Industrie, Unternehmen und Politik, Architekten, Ingenieure, Studierende und Dozenten.Die AutorenProf. Dr. Hartmut Frey hat an der Universität Stuttgart Maschinenbau und Theoretische Physik studiert und in Plasmaphysik promoviert. Prof. Frey war Entwicklungsleiter der Leybold-Heraeus GmbH in Hanau und Köln. Er war Gastprofessor am Institut für Luftverkehr der Technischen Universität in Sofia (Bulgarien) und ist korrespondierender Professor an den Universitäten in Tomsk und Sofia.Kay Golze engagierte sich den 2010er für die Entwicklung der Elektromobilität. Im folgenden Jahrzehnt entwickelte er verschiedene Lösungen zur Anwendung von Wasserstoff im industriellem Maßstab. Als Mitglied des Wissenschaftsnetzwerk stellt er seine Analysen einer breiten Wissenschaftsgemeinde zur Verfügung, sowie anderen Wissenschaftlern und Unternehmen.Dr. Michael Hirscher ist seit 1987 wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter am MPI für Metallforschung (jetzt Intelligente Systeme) und seit1991 Gruppenleiter'Wasserstoffspeicherung'am MPI-MF/MPI-ISDr. Michael Felderhoff ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Seit 1999 befasst er sich mit der Synthese und Charakterisierung von Metallhydriden zur Speicherung von Wasserstoff und Wärme und der Umsetzung der Ergebnisse in Demonstrationsprojekte.

This timely book examines the significant challenges and possible solutions for enabling efficient modernization of electric power systems. It addresses rapidly changing electricity infrastructure needs and technical requirements and provides a practical introduction to the past, present, and future of energy efficiency and power quality concepts. The book also looks at recent developments in custom power conditioners that help improve the performance of transmission and distribution systems, ensure reliability, and reduce costs. Modernization of Electric Power Systems is a valuable resource for practicing engineers, students, and researchers interested in exploring and implementing energy efficiency and power quality in modern energy systems with renewables.

This book presents insights into the thermal performance of solar thermal collectors using both computational and experimental modeling. It consists of various computational and experimental case studies conducted by the authors on the solar thermal collector system. The authors begin by developing thermal modeling using a case study that shows the effect of different governing parameters. A few more experimental cases studies follow that highlight the energy, exergy, and environmental performance of the solar thermal collector system and to examine the performance of a modified solar collector system, illustrating performance improvement techniques. Finally, application of different evolutionary optimization techniques such as soft computing and evolutionary methods, like fuzzy techniques, MCDM methods like fuzzy logic based expert system (FLDS), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Grey relational analysis (GRA), Entropy-Jaya algorithm, Entropy-VIKOR etc. are employed.

The valuable characteristics of animal waste materials in terms of climatic change impact and bioenergy production are discussed in this book. Reutilization of such wastes for bioenergy harvest is the prime focus; the great need for future animal waste recycling is also depicted.Major topics discussed are types of livestock waste – poultry and dairy, methods and management of waste utilization and storage, application of animal waste in bioenergy production, economics of waste utilization, novel disposable techniques, circular bioeconomy, pollution, and water quality. Furthermore, utilization of animal waste for resource conservation and environmental protection is discussed, such as potential materials for green biochemicals. Resource recovery can, therefore, forestall the shortage of natural resources and, at the same time, can greatly reduce waste-disposal problems and energy crises. Many alternatives to waste disposal, either currently available or under study, focus on the recovery of material or energy. In a world of diminishing resources and increasing needs, each opportunity for the recycling of animal waste materials has been examined.This book significantly contributes toward climate change mitigation through better environmental solutions. A better understanding of animal waste recycling to mitigate climate changes has been portrayed in order to generate discussions among researchers and administrators. Environmental implications of animal waste are of prime importance in climate change scenario. Such wastes also harbor zoonotic pathogens that are transported in the environment.Finally, it has been tried out to collect ideas and experience in multiple aspects of animal waste management for climate change mitigation and bioenergy harvest.

As India progresses fast in the 21st century, we also face daunting challenges of energy security and climate change. Tremendous development in various sectors like industry, agriculture, transport has resulted in huge rise in demand for energy. Fulfilling these demands through conventional fossil fuel based energy generation has given rise to significant emissions (both gaseous and liquids) that have caused pollution to atmosphere and aquatic eco-systems. Use of sustainable and green (or renewable) resources and technologies offers a viable and promising solutions to these issues. Last two decades have witnessed intense research activities in Indian academic institutions on renewable energy resources. These include biofuels (both liquid and gaseous) through thermochemical and biochemical conversion of biomass, solar energy through thermal and photo-voltaic routes, wind energy and hydroelectric energy. North-East Research Conclave (NERC) – 2022 was organized by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati with aim of bringing together researchers in diverse fields of science and technology and provide a knowledge-sharing platform to achieve sustainable development goals. This monograph contains papers presented in the session on Sustainable Energy Generation and Storage in NERC. A total of 16 papers in this monograph cover wide areas in renewable energy. The contents of this monograph will of interest to students and researchers in academic institutions as well as industry.

This book presents selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2022), providing coverage encompassing advanced conventional energy technology, renewable and non-conventional energy technology, electric mobility, energy storage, energy, environment and society, industry innovations in energy, sector-coupled energy system, and energy education. The contents of this book are of use to researchers from not only scientific background, but also economics and anthropology. It encourages researchers to conduct research on the ways to assess and analyse the acceptance of the novel energy forms among the mass population from a financial and social perspective.

This book collates important contributions from Engineering to Adapt (ETA2023). Eta, η, the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet, is scrupulously used to denote efficiency and this is what ETA2023 strives for. In context, efficiency, η, is about avoiding waste, may this be energy, time, money, or material, in accomplishing something useful. As such, ETA2023 aims at bringing experts and future leaders together to forge more efficient ways to engineer and live. In other words, ETA2023 strives to synergise and catalyse all stakeholders, enthusiasts, and experts from academia, industry, policy arenas, and the general public, to formulate novel ways to improve tomorrow.This symposium will disseminate recent progress and promote collaborations to maximize opportunities for innovative integrated solutions. Topics of interest include resource and energy efficiency, waste reduction, and eco-friendly agriculture, architecture, engineering, and living.

The continuous increase of wind power penetration levels in Egypt makes wind a critical component of power generation in the grid. Studying wind power quality issues and the interaction between wind turbines and the grid is necessary and imperative. The authors present research on power quality and grid code issues, harmonics and wind power, voltage stability improvement using STATCOM, control techniques for active power filters, and the economics of electrical wind energy. The simulation for all of the studies presented is carried out in a MATLAB/Simulink environment using the Simulink power system toolbox. The book also presents case studies on an electrical network-connected wind energy conversion system and gives an overview of the feasibility of having wind power plants in several regions in Egypt, along the Gulf of Suez, on both sides of the Nile, the Mediterranean Sea, and South Upper Egypt.

This book is about solar ponds for energy storage from various perspectives, including fundamentals, efficiencies, system designs, local applications and details about what have been done in the world in the field of solar ponds for generating energy and storage it for useful purposes.

This book focuses on the numerous energy harvesting techniques and their system implementation towards the fulfilment of energy requirements in compact electronic devices. These cover a wide range of applications in portable devices, bio-medical services, agriculture needs, mechanical systems, sensor networks, automobiles, food sector, home appliances, industry needs, etc. The authors detail energy harvesting methods using the latest technologies in acoustics, bio-chemical, thermal, artificial light, fluid flow, vibrations, EM energy, RF energy, piezoelectric, electrostatic, photovoltaic, thermoelectric, hybrid harvesting, ultrasonic, infrared, light, wind, and solar. The book is intended for researchers, academics, professionals, and students in energy harvesting.

This book will be a collection of the conference manuscripts presented at the 2022 2nd International Joint Conference on Energy, Electrical and Power Engineering covering new and renewable energy, electrical and power engineering. It is expected to report the latest technological developments in the fields developed by academic researchers and industrial practitioners. The application and dissemination of these technologies will benefit the research community, as new research directions are becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, requiring researchers from different research areas to come together and share ideas. It will also benefit the electrical engineering and energy industry, as we are now experiencing a new wave of industrial revolution, i.e. the electrification, intelligentisation and digitalisation of our transport, manufacturing processes and way of thinking.

This book presents the latest developments, innovations, and sustainable technologies in materials and energy, covering various research methods, including numerical and experiment analysis. Materials-related topics focus on construction, energy, and other material replacements for various applications. Energy-related topics covered include applications of solar technology, wind energy analysis. The book provides state-of-the-art research on the efforts being made toward sustainability in developing countries and will be a valuable reference for researchers, engineers, industry professionals, graduate students, and related practitioners.

This book comprises select proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Bio-energy Research (ICRABR 2022), providing comprehensive coverage on bio-energy-related fields and prospects of bio-energy in terms of waste management for energy generation, storage, and application. The content includes themes such as optimisation of energy systems, recent advances in biofuels and bioenergy, biomass hybrid systems, energy efficiency, electrochemical conversion of biofuels to renewable energy, energy management and policy, and the inter-linkages between energy and sustainable development. This book is of use to academics, researchers, consultants, and policymakers alike.

This book covers the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Energy Systems, Drives, and Automations (ESDA2021). It comprises interesting topics in renewable energy, power management, drives of electrical machines, and automation. It also discusses different tools and techniques to match the conference theme. This book also comprehensively discusses related tools and techniques and is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals in electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines.

Renewable energy sources interface with the ac grids via inverters are termed inverter-based resources (IBRs). They are replacing traditional fossil fuel-based synchronous generators at a dazzling speed. In turn, unprecedented dynamic events have occurred, threatening power grid reliability. Modeling and Stability Analysis of Inverter-Based Resources provides a fundamental understanding of IBR dynamics.Developing reliability solutions requires a thorough understanding of challenges, and in this case, IBR-associated dynamics. Modeling and stability analysis play an indispensable role in revealing a mechanism of dynamics. This book covers the essential techniques of dynamic model building for IBRs, including type-3 wind farms, type-4 wind farms, and solar photovoltaics. Besides modeling, this book offers readers the techniques of stability analysis. The text includes three parts. Part 1 concentrates on tools, including electromagnetic transient simulation, analysis, and measurement-based modeling. Part 2 focuses on IBR modeling and analysis details. Part 3 highlights generalized dynamic circuit representation—a unified modeling framework for dynamic and harmonic analysis.This topic of IBR dynamic modeling and stability analysis is interesting, challenging, and intriguing. The authors have led the effort of publishing the 2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society's TR-80 taskforce report “Wind Energy Systems Subsynchronous Oscillations: Modeling and Events,'and the two taskforce papers on investigation of real-world IBR dynamic events. In this book, the authors share with readers many insights into modeling and analysis for real-world IBR dynamic events investigation.

This volume comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Materials for Energy Storage and Conservation (MESC 2022). It aims to provide a comprehensive spectrum picture of the state-of-the-art research and development in diverse areas such as energy conservation, chemical energy storage, electrical and electromagnetic energy storage, energy management, biological energy storage, nanotechnology for renewable energy, solar cell materials, thermal energy storage, energy storage risk analysis, environment and health effects of energy efficiency, among others. This volume will be of interest to researchers, academicians, professionals, policymakers, scientists, and members of the industry working in the field of energy storage and conservation.

Renewable energy is crucial to preserve the environment. Energy involving various systems must be optimized and assessed to provide better performances. However, the design and development of renewable energy systems remains a challenge. Advanced optimization techniques play a crucial role in implementing the latest innovative research in the field of renewable energy integrated electrical systems. This book also provides practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of renewable energy integrated systems. Applications of varieties of advanced optimization techniques on the design and development of renewable energy integrated systems have been discussed to provide new solutions to the renewable energy domain. Topics such as micro grids, wind power, solar photo voltaic (PV), optimal power flow (OPF), small magnetic energy storage (SMES) device, radial distribution system, hydrothermal scheduling problem, economic-emission load dispatch and advanced optimization techniques are ideal for engineers, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, practitioners, teachers, and students.

Hydrogen technologies are key for achieving a carbon-neutral economy; these offer solutions for the further expansion of renewable energy supplies, climate-neutral industry processes and sustainable mobility. For Germany and Europe alike, they present an opportunity to maintain industrial value creation, expand export opportunities and secure technological sovereignty. In this book, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft presents the knowledge and experience it has acquired along the entire value chain of the hydrogen economy. This encompasses materials and system development, production, system upscaling, energy sector applications, emission-intensive industry processes and mobility, as well as the practical, overarching issues of safety, standardization and service life.

Future Energy: Challenge, Opportunity, and Sustainability presents new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and practical sustainable energy engineering. The book's chapters are based on selected research papers presented at the 2023 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Engineering (ICSEE 2023). Contributions cover case studies to explore and analyze technological advancements alongside practical applications to help readers better understand the relevant concepts and solutions necessary to achieve clean energy and sustainable development. The book brings together the latest developments in the emerging areas of intelligent power systems, green energy, and technology. It offers approaches to help engineers and researchers working in sustainable energy engineering technologies solve practical problems affecting their daily work.

This handbook comprehensively covers the rapidly evolving field of power generation using triboelectric nanogenerators. Since their emergence in 2012, triboelectric nanogenerators have experienced fast development both in fundamental science aspects and technological innovations resulting in a plethora of outstanding applications and commercial opportunities in e.g. micro-nano energy systems, self-powered sensors, blue energy, and high-voltage power sources.The Handbook of Triboelectric Nanogenerators provides an indispensable overview of the state of the art in the field. It begins with a review of the physical and technological fundamentals and provides detailed coverage of triboelectric nanogenerators for cutting-edge applications from wearable electronics and medical implants to smart home sensing devices and human–machine interfacing.Edited and authored by active researchers in the field, the handbook offers a wealth of information for applied physicists and chemists, as well as materials scientists and engineers. In addition, mechanical and electronic engineers working in the fields of energy scavenging, power sources, and sensor-related application development will benefit greatly from the technical information presented in this groundbreaking reference work.

This concise guide provides the first complete overview of renewable energy technologies in Cuba and their current capabilities and prospects. Coverage includes generation and storage systems, renewable energy installations (hydropower, solar PV, wind, biomass, ocean, and solar thermal), electrical grid history and characteristics, and an analysis of Cuba's electrical energy resiliency.

The book deals with integrated distributed energy resources in existing power systems optimally to mitigate power quality issues in power systems. The book is designed for research using modern optimization techniques and a thorough analysis of renewable energy. The book provides an in-depth study of recent trends of research scope around the globe and also includes modern heuristic approaches, hands-on data, and case studies of all important dimensions of distributed energy resources. It addresses key issues such as the integration of DERs and electric vehicles, optimization algorithms, management of DERs with electric vehicles, energy pool management mechanisms, protection, and reliability in the restructured power system. This book will be useful for students, research scholars, practitioners, and academicians.

​Enhancement of Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems Using Artificial Intelligence presents methods for monitoring transmission systems and enhancing distribution system performance using modern optimization techniques considering different multi-objective functions such as voltage loss sensitivity indexes, reducing total annual cost, and voltage deviation. The authors offer a comprehensive survey of distributed energy resources (DERs), explain the backward/forward sweep (BFS) power flow algorithm, and present simulation results on the optimal integration of photovoltaic-based distributed generators (PV-DG) and distribution static synchronous compensators (DSTATCOM) in different transmission and distribution systems. This book will be a valuable academic and industry resource for electrical engineers, students, and researchers working on optimization techniques, photovoltaic systems, energy engineering, and artificial intelligence.

This book will be a collection of the papers presented in the 2021 International Joint Conference on Energy, Electrical and Power Engineering (CoEEPE'21), covering new and renewable energy, electrical and power engineering. It is expected to report the latest technological developments in the fields developed by academic researchers and industrial practitioners, with a focus on component design, optimization and control algorithms in electrical and power engineering systems. The applications and dissemination of these technologies will benefit research society as new research directions are getting more and more inter-disciplinary which require researchers from different research areas to come together and form ideas jointly. It will also benefit the electrical engineering and power industry as we are now experiencing a new wave of industrial revelation, that is, electrification, intelligentization and digitalisation of our transport, manufacturing process and way of thinking.

This book focuses on various challenges, solutions, and emerging technologies in the operation, control, design, optimization, and protection of microgrids in the presence of hybrid renewable energy sources and electric vehicles. This book provides an insight into the potential applications and recent development of different types of renewable energy systems including AC/DC microgrids, RES integration issues with the grid, electric vehicle technology, etc. The book serves as an interdisciplinary platform for the audience working in the focused area to access information related to energy management, modeling, and control. It covers fundamental knowledge, design, mathematical modeling, applications, and practical issues with sufficient design problems and case studies with detailed planning aspects. This book will serve as a guide for researchers, academicians, practicing engineers, professionals, and scientists, as well as for graduate and postgraduate students working in the areaof various applications of RES, Electric Vehicles, and AC/DC Microgrid.