http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
Recent advances in renewable energy technologies
Recent Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies is a comprehensive reference covering critical research, laboratory and industry developments on renewable energy technological, production, conversion, storage, and management, including solar energy systems (thermal and photovoltaic), wind energy, hydropower, geothermal energy, bioenergy and.
Front Cover -- Recent Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies -- Recent Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgment -- 1 -- Solar cooling research and technology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Technology implementation -- 2.1 Thermal-based system -- 2.1.1 Solar-powered absorption cooling system -- 2.1.2 Solar-powered adsorption cooling systems -- 2.1.2.1 Silica gel-water adsorption system -- 2.1.2.2 Activated carbon-methanol systems -- 2.1.2.3 Zeolite-water adsorption systems -- 2.1.2.4 Chemical adsorption system -- 2.1.2.5 Composite adsorption system -- 2.1.3 Desiccant cooling systems -- 2.1.3.1 The solar water collector system -- 2.1.3.2 The solar air collector system -- 2.1.4 Steam ejector cooling system -- 2.2 Electrical-based system -- 2.2.1 Vapor-compression cooling system -- 2.2.2 The solar thermoelectric cooling system -- 2.3 Hybrid systems for solar cooling technology -- 2.3.1 Hybrid rotary desiccant wheel cooling system with vapor compression system -- 2.3.2 Hybrid two-stage desiccant cooling system with vapor compression system -- 2.3.3 Hybrid desiccant cooling system with photovoltaic/thermal -- 2.3.4 Hybrid desiccant cooling system with other air-conditioning cooling systems -- 2.3.5 Hybrid desiccant cooling system with other renewable and thermal resources -- 3. Energy, economic, and environmental assessment of solar cooling systems -- 3.1 Energy key performance indicators -- 3.1.1 Performance of the cooling technology -- 3.1.2 Performance of the solar subsystem -- 3.1.3 Performance of the solar cooling system -- 3.1.4 Non-renewable primary energy ratio (PERNRE) -- 3.1.5 Non-renewable primary energy saving (fsav.NRE) -- 3.2 Economic key performance indicators -- 3.2.1 Levelized costs of energy -- LCOE -- 3.2.2 Cooling generation cost (CGC) -- 3.2.3 Cost ratio -- CR.
3.3 Comparison of solar cooling technologies -- 3.4 Environmental aspects of solar cooling technologies -- 4. Conclusion -- Acronyms -- References -- 2 -- Energy analysis of hybrid solar thermal plants (PV/T) -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Solar thermal collector -- 1.2 Performance of a solar collector -- 2. PV/T collectors -- 2.1 Air-based PV/T collectors -- 2.2 Liquid-based PV/T collector -- 2.3 Bifluid PV/T collector -- 2.4 CPVT collectors -- 3. PV/T system design -- 3.1 PV/T collectors and heat pump systems -- 3.1.1 Parallel configuration -- 3.1.2 Series configuration -- 3.1.3 Regeneration of open or closed ground source GSHP-Reg -- 3.1.4 Hybrid solar panel+seasonal storage -- 4. Modeling and characterization of PV/T collectors -- 4.1 Thermal performance -- 4.1.1 Thermal yields -- 4.2 Electrical performance -- 4.2.1 Electrical yields -- 4.2.2 Overall energy yields -- 4.3 Key performance indicator -- 5. Description of the performance of the PV/T pilot plant installed in Catania, experimental results and comparative analysis -- 5.1 Experimental pilot PV/T plant -- 5.1.1 Components of the PV/T systems -- 5.2 Thermohydraulic section of the experimental system -- 5.2.1 Thermohydraulic layout -- 5.2.2 Electric section -- 5.2.3 Monitoring and management system -- 5.3 Electrical and thermal experimental curves -- 5.3.1 Electrical characterization -- 5.3.2 Thermal characterization -- 5.4 Experimental investigation -- 5.4.1 Thermal and electrical performance varying the hydraulic configuration -- 5.4.1.1 Parallel configuration -- 5.4.1.2 Series configuration -- 5.4.1.3 One-by-one configuration -- 5.5 Comparison of all scenarios -- References -- 3 -- Technological and design solutions for enhancement of photovoltaic producibility -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Enhancement of production due to higher-density power: the bifacial module -- 2.1 Technology.
2.2 Performance modeling -- 2.2.1 Optical models -- 2.2.2 Thermal models -- 2.2.3 Electrical models -- 2.3 Energy production and applications -- 3. Enhancement of production due to higher efficiency: floating, cooling, and PV/T modules -- 3.1 Floating power plants -- 3.1.1 Natural cooling of FPV -- 3.1.2 Tracking of FPV -- 3.1.3 Hybridization of FPV -- 3.2 Cooling systems -- 3.2.1 Active techniques -- 3.2.2 Passive techniques -- 3.3 Enhanced PV/T systems -- 4. Enhancement of production to higher reliability: monitoring and diagnostics -- 4.1 PV system faults -- 4.2 Monitoring of PV plants -- 4.2.1 Instruments and required accuracy -- 4.2.2 Data acquisition system -- 4.2.3 Data quality check -- 4.2.3.1 Solar radiation data -- 4.2.3.2 PV module temperature data -- 4.2.4 Monitoring of auxiliary systems of PV plants -- 4.3 Fault detection and diagnosis methods -- 4.3.1 Nonelectrical methods -- 4.3.2 Electrical methods -- Nomenclature -- Acronyms -- Latin symbols -- Greek symbols -- Subscripts -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 -- Application of hydrothermal processes to biomass and organic wastewaters to produce sustainable energy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hydrothermal processes applied to organic wastewaters and biomass -- 3. Supercritical water oxidation -- 3.1 Degradation of different compounds in SCWO -- 3.2 Current status of SCWO process development and its industrial applications -- 4. Hydrothermal liquefaction -- 4.1 Degradation of different compounds by HTL -- 4.1.1 Carbohydrates (cellulose, hemicellulose and starch) -- 4.1.2 Lignin -- 4.1.3 Proteins -- 4.1.4 Lipids -- 4.2 Influence of specific operating conditions in HTL processes -- 4.2.1 Temperature influence -- 4.2.2 Influence of residue biomass concentration -- 4.2.3 pH influence -- 4.2.4 Catalyst influence -- 4.2.5 Influence of residence time -- 4.2.6 Influence of pressure.
4.2.7 Influence of reducing gases or hydrogen donors -- 4.2.8 Influence of solvents -- 4.3 Current status of HTL process development and its industrial applications -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5 -- Recent advances and technology trends of wind turbines -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Current scenario and outlook of global wind energy -- 2.1 General aspects of the regulated and free wind energy market -- 2.2 Current global wind power capacity and a forecast to 2050 -- 3. Recent advances and technology trends in wind turbine manufacturing -- 3.1 General components of wind turbines -- 3.2 Wind turbine blades -- 4. Technology trends in the operation and maintenance of wind turbines -- 4.1 Damages in wind turbines in service -- 4.2 Recent advances and trends in maintenance technologies for wind turbines -- 4.3 Hybrid wind farms: a necessary trend -- 5. Recycling aspects of wind turbines -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- 6 -- Underground energy: utilization of geothermal shallow heat pumps -- 1. Background of geothermal energy -- 1.1 Source of geothermal energy -- 1.1.1 The wisdom of ancestors -- 1.1.2 The knowledge of modern people -- 1.1.3 Geothermal energy requirements -- 1.2 Structure and resources -- 1.2.1 Geothermal structure -- 1.2.2 Geothermal energy classification -- 2. Shallow geothermal technologies with GSHP -- 2.1 Geothermal shallow heat pump systems -- 2.2 Vertical geothermal heat exchanger -- 2.2.1 U-tube vertical ground heat exchanger -- 2.2.2 Coaxial vertical ground heat exchanger -- 2.2.3 Effects of environs on the vertical geothermal systems -- 2.2.3.1 Impact of ground surface -- 2.2.3.2 Impact of groundwater movement -- 2.2.3.3 Impact of moisture transfer -- 2.2.3.4 Impact of freezing -- 2.3 Horizontal ground heat exchanger -- 2.3.1 Linear-loop heat exchanger -- 2.3.2 Slinky-coil horizontal ground heat exchanger.
2.3.3 Spiral horizontal ground heat exchanger -- 2.3.4 Vertical plate heat exchanger -- 3. Perspectives and challenges -- References -- 7 -- Worldwide research trends on hydropower -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Subjects from worldwide publications -- 3.2 Countries, affiliations, and their main topics -- 3.3 Keywords from worldwide publications -- 3.4 Worldwide research trends: cluster analysis -- 3.5 Perspectives and challenges -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- 8 -- Recent progress in thermochemical heat storage: materials and applications -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Solid-gas TCHS reaction systems -- 2.1 Hydroxide-based reactions -- 2.1.1 Ca(OH)2/CaO systems -- 2.1.2 Mg(OH)2/MgO systems -- 2.1.3 Application -- 2.2 Sorption systems -- 2.2.1 Ammonia sorption/desorption -- 2.2.2 CO2 sorption/desorption -- 2.2.3 H2O sorption/desorption -- 3. Conclusion and perspectives -- Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9 -- Polymer electrolyte membranes in fuel cell applications -- 1. Introduction to fuel cells: brief history and basics -- 1.1 Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells: operating principle and components -- 2. Types of polymer electrolyte membrane -- 2.1 Nafion-based polymer electrolyte membrane -- 2.2 Non-Nafion polymeric membrane -- 2.2.1 Poly(ether ether ketone) -- 2.2.2 Poly(arylene ether ketone) -- 2.2.3 Polybenzimidazole -- 2.2.4 Sulfonated polysulfone -- 2.2.5 Sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) -- 2.2.6 Poly(vinyl alcohol) -- 2.2.7 Chitosan -- 2.2.8 Other membranes -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- 10 -- Design and implementation of a power supervisory of a controlled greenhouse in the north of Tunisia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Problematic and solution -- 2.1 Geophysical description of Tunisia -- 2.2 Process description -- 3. Materials and methods -- 3.1 Insulated greenhouse -- 3.2 Measurement devices.