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  • Modeling and Optimization of Renewable Energy Systems
    Modeling and Optimization of Renewable Energy Systems
    Editor Arzu Sencan Sahin
    ISBN 978-953-51-0600-5
    298 pages, May, 2012
    Downloads: 3114
    This book includes solar energy, wind energy, hybrid systems, biofuels, energy management and efficiency, optimization of renewable energy systems and much more. Subsequently, the book presents the physical and technical principles of promising ways ...
  • Advances in Natural Gas Technology
    Advances in Natural Gas Technology
    Editor Hamid A. Al-Megren
    ISBN 978-953-51-0507-7
    542 pages, April, 2012
    Downloads: 1555
    Natural gas is a vital component of the world's supply of energy and an important source of many bulk chemicals and speciality chemicals. It is one of the cleanest, safest, and most useful of all energy sources, and helps to meet the world's rising d ...
  • Remote Sensing of Biomass - Principles and Applications
    Remote Sensing of Biomass - Principles and Applications
    Editor Temilola Fatoyinbo
    ISBN 978-953-51-0313-4
    322 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1364
    Generally, the term biomass is used for all materials originating from photosynthesis. However, biomass can equally apply to animals. Conservation and management of biomass is very important. There are various ways and methods for biomass evaluation. ...
  • Finite Volume Method - Powerful Means of Engineering Design
    Finite Volume Method - Powerful Means of Engineering Design
    Editor Radostina Petrova
    ISBN 978-953-51-0445-2
    370 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 2125
    We hope that among these chapters you will find a topic which will raise your interest and engage you to further investigate a problem and build on the presented work. This book could serve either as a textbook or as a practical guide. It includes a ...
  • Nuclear Power Plants
    Nuclear Power Plants
    Editor Soon Heung Chang
    ISBN 978-953-51-0408-7
    340 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1488
    This book covers various topics, from thermal-hydraulic analysis to the safety analysis of nuclear power plant. It does not focus only on current power plant issues. Instead, it aims to address the challenging ideas that can be implemented in and use ...
  • Energy Transmission and Grid Integration of AC Offshore Wind Farms
    Energy Transmission and Grid Integration of AC Offshore Wind Farms
    Editor M. Zubiaga, G. Abad, J. A. Barrena, S. Aurtenetxea and A. Carcar
    ISBN 978-953-51-0368-4
    248 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1628
    This book analyses the key issues of the offshore wind farm's energy transmission and grid integration infrastructure. But, for this purpose, there are not evaluated all the electric configurations. In the present book is deeply evaluated a represent ...
  • Third Generation Photovoltaics
    Third Generation Photovoltaics
    Editor Vasilis Fthenakis
    ISBN 978-953-51-0304-2
    232 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 2935
    Photovoltaics have started replacing fossil fuels as major energy generation roadmaps, targeting higher efficiencies and/or lower costs are aggressively pursued to bring PV to cost parity with grid electricity. Third generation PV technologies may ov ...
  • Biogas
    Biogas
    Editor Sunil Kumar
    ISBN 978-953-51-0204-5
    408 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1940
    This book contains research on the chemistry of each step of biogas generation, along with engineering principles and practices, feasibility of biogas production in processing technologies, especially anaerobic digestion of waste and gas production s ...