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Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes
Aldo da Rosa
Academic Press
September 2005
Hardback 712 pp ISBN 0120885107
£44.00
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- Examines the fundamentals of some non-traditional energy processes and illustrates the best way to
implement these processes in our modern world.
- Appropriate for all students and professionals studying the basic mechanisms of renewable energies.
- Clear theory and physical examples of all principles relevant to the study of renewable energy.
- Author is an internationally recognized pioneer researcher
Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes contains the technical detail necessary to understand the
engineering principles that govern renewable energy application at many different levels. Focused
on the fundamental mechanisms and processes that underpin energy management, it provides students with the
foundation for all energy process courses. This text is organized according to the main forms of energy - heat
engines, hydrogen energy, energy from the sun, and wind and water energy - with an introductory chapter of basic
energy terms. From fuel cells, electrolyzers and processes for hydrogen production to biomass and windmills
the author provides the most thorough examination of all aspects of renewable energy processes.
Readership: Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Students; Renewable
Energy Engineers and Managers
Contents
- Foreward
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Generalities
- Part I: Heat Engines
- Chapter 2: A Minimum of Thermodynamics and of Kinetic Theory of Gases
- Chapter 3: Mechanical Heat Engines
- Chapter 4: Ocean Thermal Energy Converters
- Chapter 5: Thermoelectricity
- Chapter 6: Thermionics
- Chapter 7: AMTEC
- Chapter 8: Radio-Noise Generators
- Part II: The World of Hydrogen
- Chapter 9: Fuel Cells
- Chapter 10: Hydrogen Production
- Chapter 11: Hydrogen Storage
- Part III: Energy from the Sun
- Chapter 12: Solar Radiation
- Chapter 13: Biomass
- Chapter 14: Photovoltaic Converters
- Part IV: Wind and Water
- Chapter 15: Wind Energy
- Chapter 16: Ocean Engines
- Subject Index
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