Clean Energy for Sustainable Development: Comparisons and Contrasts of New Approaches

Clean Energy for Sustainable Development: Comparisons and Contrasts of New Approaches presents information on the fundamental challenge that the energy sector faces with regard to meeting the ever growing demand for sustainable, efficient, and cleaner energy. The book compares recent developments in the field of energy technology, clean and low emission energy, and energy efficiency and environmental sustainability for industry and academia. Rasul, Azad and Sharma, along with their team of expert contributors, provide high-end research findings on relevant industry themes, including clean and sustainable energy sources and technologies, renewable energy technologies and their applications, biomass and biofuels for sustainable environment, energy system and efficiency improvement, solar thermal applications, and the environmental impacts of sustainable energy systems. This book uses global institutes and case studies to explore and analyze technological advancements alongside practical applications. This approach helps readers to develop and affirm a better understanding of the relevant concepts and solutions necessary to achieve clean energy and sustainable development in both medium and large-scale industries. Compares in-depth research on a wide range of clean technologies, from global institutes in Australia, Europe, and IndiaEvaluates the recent developments in clean technologies against the efficiency of tried and tested applicationsConsiders case studies on the advancements of sustainable energy into industry from around the world INDICE: Section 1: Clean and Sustainable Energy Resources and Technologies Chapter 1: Sustainable energy resources: prospects and policy Chapter 2: Environmental impact assessment of different renewable energy resources: A recent development Chapter 3: Clean and sustainable energy technologies Chapter 4: Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS): Future prospect of carbon-negative technologies Section 2: Solar Energy Applications Chapter 5: Solar kilns: a green technology for the Australian agricultural and forest industries Chapter 6: The small-scale dish-mounted solar thermal Brayton cycle Chapter 7: Heat driven cooling technologies Chapter 8: Solar pyrolysis: Converting waste to asset using solar energy Section 3: Wind Energy Systems Chapter 9: Grid-integration of wind energy systems: control design, stability and power quality issues Chapter 10: Hybrid solar power/wind system for energy production, observation, application and simulation Chapter 11: Analysis of wind energy prospect by eight numerical methods of Weibull distribution Section 4: Biodiesel for Sustainable Development Chapter 12: Prospect of the legume tree Pongamia pinnata as a clean and sustainable biodiesel feed-stock Chapter 13: Biodiesel from Queensland bush nut (Macadamia Integrifolia) Chapter 14: Assessment of physical, chemical and tribological properties of different biodiesel Chapter 15: Biodiesel production through chemical and biochemical transesterification: Trends, technicalities and future perspectives Chapter 16: Mesoporous catalysts for biodiesel production: A new approach Chapter 17: Edible and non-edible biodiesel feedstocks: Microalgae and future biodiesel Chapter 18: Potential of biodiesel as a fuel for diesel engine

• ISBN: 978-0-12-805423-9
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 630
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés