Renewable and Alternative Energy
Renewable and Alternative Energy
Editor: Information Resources Management Association
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: IGI Global
Single-User Purchase Price:
$1825.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$2737.50
ISBN: 978-1-5225-1672-9
Image Count:
753
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Renewable and Alternative Energy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of emerging perspectives and innovations for alternative energy sources.
Table of Contents
- About the Authors
- Preface
- Section 1: Fundamental Concepts and Theories
- Preface
- Chapter 1: An Overview to Thermal Solar Systems for Low Temperature
- Chapter 2: A Road Map for a Domestic Wind Turbine Manufacturıng Industry in Turkey
- Chapter 3: Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education in Renewable Energy
- Chapter 4: Cold Thermal Energy Storage
- Chapter 5: A Reliability Test Installation for Water Heating Solar Systems
- Chapter 6: Optical Nano-Antennas for Energy Harvesting
- Chapter 7: A Review of Various Nanostructures to Enhance the Efficiency of Solar-Photon-Conversions
- Chapter 8: Knowledge Assets Management in the Energy Industry
- Chapter 9: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation through Energy Efficiency
- Chapter 10: Bondonic Electrochemistry
- Chapter 11: Solar Power Plant Optimization
- Chapter 12: Solar Energy Potential as Support for Sustainable Development of Romanian Economy
- Section 2: Development and Design Methodologies
- Preface
- Chapter 13: Sustainable Design of Photovoltaics
- Chapter 14: Sustainable Development and Turkey's Biomass Energy Potential
- Chapter 15: Fuzzy Logic in Wind Energy
- Chapter 16: Modeling and Simulation of a Stand-Alone Hydrogen Photovoltaic Fuel Cell Hybrid System
- Chapter 17: Mechatronic System Design for a Solar Tracker
- Chapter 18: Electricity Production from Small-Scale Photovoltaics in Urban Areas
- Chapter 19: Design and Implementation of a Fuzzy Inference Model for Mapping the Sustainability of Energy Crops
- Chapter 20: A Game Theoretic Framework for Green HetNets Using D2D Traffic Offload and Renewable Energy Powered Base Stations
- Chapter 21: Intelligent Bidding in Smart Electricity Markets
- Chapter 22: Modeling and Operating Strategies of Micro-Grids for Renewable Energy Communities
- Chapter 23: Automatic Generation Control of Thermal-Thermal-Hydro Power Systems with PID Controller Using Ant Colony Optimization
- Section 3: Tools and Technologies
- Preface
- Chapter 24: Intelligent Computing on the Basis of Cognitive and Event Modeling, and Its Application in Energy Security Research
- Chapter 25: Systems with Concentrating Solar Radiation
- Chapter 26: A Novel Mixed Integer Programming Formulation for Selecting the Best Renewable Energies to Invest
- Chapter 27: Application of Mathematical Modeling for the Secure and Intelligent Energy Infrastructure
- Chapter 28: Application of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Renewable Energy Generation from Micro-Hydel Projects of Himachal Pradesh
- Chapter 29: In2X3 (X=S, Se, Te) Semiconductor Thin Films
- Chapter 30: Adoption of Biomass Heating Systems
- Chapter 31: Applications of Vibration-Based Energy Harvesting (VEH) Devices
- Chapter 32: Decreasing Wear of Large Vertical Axis Wind Turbines by Employing a Multi-Level Turbine Concept
- Chapter 33: Energy Harvesting and Energy Conversion Devices Using Thermoelectric Materials
- Chapter 34: Renewable Energy Management with a Multi-Agent System
- Chapter 35: Energy Efficient Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)
- Chapter 36: Wind-Thermal Integrated Power System Scheduling Problem Using Cuckoo Search Algorithm
- Section 4: Utilization and Applications
- Preface
- Chapter 37: Use of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells for Refrigerated Transport
- Chapter 38: Dynamic Particle Swarm Optimization with Any Irregular Initial Small-World Topology
- Chapter 39: A System Safety Analysis of Renewable Energy Sources
- Chapter 40: Implementing a Fuzzy Logic Based Algorithm to Predict Solar and Wind Energies in a Hybrid Renewable Energy System
- Chapter 41: Assessing the Profitability of Changing a Turbine for a Hydroelectric Power Plant Based on Long-Period Water Gauge Readings
- Chapter 42: Using Fuzzy Control Methods for Increasing the Energy Efficiency of Buildings
- Chapter 43: Signal Processing Techniques in Smart Grids
- Chapter 44: Revising the Empirical Linkage between Renewable Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in Tunisia
- Chapter 45: The Topicality and the Peculiarities of the Renewable Energy Sources Integration into the Ukrainian Power Grids and the Heating System
- Chapter 46: Impact of Green Growth and Development Path for Skilled and Unskilled Job Creation and Economic, Social Sustainability
- Chapter 47: Feasibility of Implementation of Solar Bottle Bulb in Urban Slums of India
- Chapter 48: Evaluation of Renewable Energy Alternatives Using Hesitant Fuzzy TOPSIS and Interval Type-2 Fuzzy AHP
- Section 5: Critical Issues and Challenges
- Preface
- Chapter 49: Low Carbon Footprint
- Chapter 50: Optimal Operational Strategy for PV/Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power Generation System with Energy Storage
- Chapter 51: Energy Sustainability of Countries
- Chapter 52: Optimization of Small Wind Turbines Using Genetic Algorithms
- Chapter 53: Energy Management Strategies to Improve Electrical Networks Using Storage Systems
- Chapter 54: Quantifying the Uncertainty of Energy Creation from Solar and Wind Farms in Different Locations
- Chapter 55: An Accurate and Efficient Analytical Method to Extract the Parameters of the Single and Double Diode Photovoltaic Cells Models
- Chapter 56: An Integrated Approach for Sustainable Environmental and Socio-Economic Development Using Offshore Infrastructure
- Chapter 57: Tackling Climate Change through Educational Awareness
- Chapter 58: Energy and Exergy Analysis on Gasification Processes
- Chapter 59: Hybrid Supply Chain Strategies in Wind Business
- Section 6: Emerging Trends
- Preface
- Chapter 60: Revolution of Energy Storage System in Smart Grids
- Chapter 61: A New Robust H∞ Control Power
- Chapter 62: Nanostructured Materials for the Realization of Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Devices
- Chapter 63: Silver Coatings with Protective Transparent Films for Solar Concentrators
- Chapter 64: Electronic and ICT Solutions for Smart Buildings and Urban Areas
- Chapter 65: Quantum Dots Searching for Bondots
- Chapter 66: Earth Long-Wave Infrared Emission, New Ways to Harvest Energy
- Chapter 67: Current and Future Trends of Refrigerants Development
- Chapter 68: Smart Homes and Sustainable Energy in Nigeria
- Chapter 69: Solar Micro Grids
- Chapter 70: Creative Energy Alternatives