Promoting sustainable practices through energy engineering and asset management /

"This discusses the challenges that the developing world faces when implementing and utilizing environmentally friendly techniques for the adoption of sustainable practices in developing countries"--

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Knovel (Firm)
Other Authors: Gonzalez-Prida, Vicente, 1975- (Editor), Raman, Anthony, 1968- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hershey, PA : Engineering Science Reference, an imprint of IGI Global, [2015]
Series:Advances in environmental engineering and green technologies (AEEGT) book series.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Decision support system for wind farm installation using bipolar analysis / Yasmina Bouzarour-Amokrane, Ayeley P. Tchangani, François Pérès
  • Decreasing wear of large vertical axis wind turbines by employing a multi-level turbine concept / Jan H. Wisniewski
  • Assessing the profitability of changing a turbine for a hydroelectric power plant based on long-period water gauge readings / Jan H. Wisniewski, Bartosz M. Olszanski
  • An overview to thermal solar systems for low temperature: outlining the European norm 12976 / Vicente González-Prida, Anthony Raman
  • A reliability test installation for water heating solar systems: requirements and design according to the European norm 12976 / Vicente González-Prida, Anthony Raman
  • Electricity production from small-scale photovoltaics in urban areas / Constantinos S. Psomopoulos, George Ch. Ioannidis, Stavros D. Kaminaris
  • The topicality and the peculiarities of the renewable energy sources integration into the Ukrainian power grids and the heating system / Vira Shendryk, Olha Shulyma, Yuliia Parfenenko
  • A system safety analysis of renewable energy sources / Warren Naylor
  • Predictive maintenance for quality control in high precision processes / María Carmen Carnero [and 4 others]
  • Retrospection of globalisation process and the sustainability of natural environment in developing countries / Shahul Hameed
  • Clean technology industry: relevance of patents and related service providers / Liina Tonisson, Lutz Maicher
  • Mathematical and stochastic models for reliability in repairable industrial physical assets / Pablo A. Viveros Gunckel [and 4 others]
  • Challenges in building a green supply chain: case of Intel Malaysia / Yudi Fernando, Kurtar Kaur, Ika Sari Wahyuni-TD
  • Low carbon footprint: the supply chain agenda in Malaysian manufacturing firms / Muhammad Shabir Shaharudin, Yudi Fernando
  • Review of supply chain integration on green supply chain management (GSCM) / Alia Nadhirah Ahmad Kamal, Yudi Fernando.