Encyclopedia of alternative energy and shale gas. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jay H. Lehr and Jack Keeley.
• Editors: Lehr, Jay H, 1936-; Keeley, J. W (Jack W.)
• Contents: Introduction - Energy Drives Everything; Howard Hayden; ; WIND; ; 1 Acceptance of Wind Power: An Introduction of Drivers and Solutions; Jacob Ladenburg; ; 2 Wind Power Forecasting Techniques; Michael Negnevitsky; ; 3 Maximizing the Loading in Wind Turbine Plants, (a) The Betz Limit (b) Ducting the Turbine; D.P.Georgiou and N.G.Theodoropoulos; ; 4 Modeling Wind Turbine Wakes for Wind Farms; Angus C.W. Creech and Wolf-Gerrit Fruh; ; 5 Fatigue Failure in Wind Turbine Blades; J.C. Marin, A. Barroso, F. Paris and J. Canas; ; 6 Floating Wind Turbines, the New Wave in Offshore Wind Power; Dominique Roddier and Antoine Peiffer; ; 7 Wind Power - Aeole Turns Marine; Roger H. Charlier and Alexandre C. Thys; ; 8 Impacts of Wind Farms on Weather and Climate at Local and Global Scales; Justin J. Traiteur and Somnath Baidya Roy; ; 9 Alternate Wind Energy Sources; Kevin Pope and Greg F. Naterer; ; 10 Windmill Brake State Models Used in Predicting Wind Turbine Performance ; Panu Pratumnopharat and Pak Sing Leung; ; 11 Lightning Protection of Wind Turbines and Associated Phenomena; Petar Sarajcev; ; 12 Wind Turbine Wake Modeling - Possibilities with Actuator Line/Disc Approaches; Stefan Ivanell and Robert Mikkelsen; ; 13 Random Cascade Model for Surface Wind Speed; R. Baile and J.F. Muzy; ; 14 Wind Power Budget; Hugo Abi Karam; ; 15 Identification of wind Turbines in Closed-Loop Operation in the Presence of Three Dimensional Turbulence Wind Speed: Torque Demand to Measured Generator Speed Loop; M Iribas-Latour and I.D. Landau; ; 16 Identification in Closed-Loop Operation of Models for Collective Pitch Robust Controller Design; M. Iribas-Latour and I.D. Landau; ; 17 Wind Basics - Energy From Moving Air (Public Domain); ; 18 Wind - Chronological Development (Public Domain); ; SOLAR; ; 1 Solar Air Conditioner; Darine Zambrano and Winston Garcia-Gabin; ; 2 Energy Performance of Hybrid Co-generation Versus Side-by side Solar Water Heating and Photovoltaic for Subtropical Building Application; Tin-Tin Chow, Ka-Kui Tse and Norman Tse; ; 3 Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells; Nicolas Budini, Roberto D. Arce, Roman H. Buitrago and Javier A. Schmidt; ; 4 Solar Basics - Energy From The Sun (Public Domain); ; 5 NASAArmstrong Fact Sheet: Solar-Power Research (Public Domain); ; 6 Solar Thermal - Chronologic Development (Public Domain); ; 7 Photovoltaic - Chronologic Development (Public Domain); ; GEOTHERMAL; ; 1 Geothermal: History, Classification and Utilization for Power Generation; Mathew C. Aneke and Mathew C. Menkiti; ; 2 Enhanced Geothermal Systems; Rosemarie Mohais, Choashui Xi, Peter A. Dowd, and Martin Hand; ; 3 Thermodynamic Analysis of Geothermal Power Plants; Mehmet Kanoglu and Alo Bolatturk; ; 4 Sustainability Assessment of Geothermal Power Generation; Annette Evans, Vladimir Strezov and Tim J. Evans; ; 5 Geothermal Energy and Organic Rankine Cycle Machines; B.F. Tchanche; ; 6 Low Temperature Geothermal Energy: Geospatial and Economic Indicators; Alberto Gemelli, Adriano Mancini and Sauro Longhi; ; 7 Dry Cooling Towers for Geothermal Power Plants; Zhiqiang Guan, Kamel Hooman and Hal Gurgenci; ; 8 Thermal Storage; Marc A. Rosen; ; 9 Shallow Geothermal Systems: Computational Challenges and Possibilities; Rafid Al-Khoury; ; 10 Geothermal Basics - Water is Geothermal Energy; ; 11 Geothermal - Chronologic Development (Public Domain); ; HYDROPOWER; ; 1 Sustainability of Hydropower; Joerg Hartmann; ; 2 Environmental Issues Related to Conventional Hydropower; Z. Daniel Deng, Alison H. Colotelo, Richard S. Brown, and Thomas J. Carlson; ; 3 Social Issue Related to Hydropower; Joerg Hartmann; ; 4 Safety in Hyrdropower Devrlopment and Operation; Urban Kjellen; ; 5 Pumped Hydroelectric Storage; J.P. Deane and Brian O’Gallachoir; ; 6 Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Hydroelectric Dams in Tropical Forests; Philip M. Fearnside; ; 7 Physical and Multi-dimensional Numeric Hydraulic; Sassaman and Daniel Gessler; ; 8 Experimental and Numerical Modeling Tools for Conventional hydropower Systems; Z. Daniel Deng, Thomas J. Carlson, GEne R. Ploskey, Richard S. Brown, Gary E, Johnson and Alison H.A. Colotelo; ; 9 The State of Art on Large Cavern Design for Underground Powerhouses and Some Long Term Issues; Omer Aydan; ; 10 Hydroelectric Power for the Nation (Public Domain); ; 11 Hydropower Basics - Energy From Moving Water (Public Domain); ; 12 Hydropower - Chronologic Development (Public Domain); ; BATTERIES AND FUEL CELLS; ; 1 Fuel Cell Control; Winston Garcia-Gabin and Darine Zambrano; ; 2 Recent Trends in the Development of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Systems; Amomchai Arpornwichanop and Suthida Authayanun; ; 3 Integrated Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems for Electrical Power Generation - A Review; Suttichai Assabumrungrat, Amomchai Arpornwichanop, Vorachatra Sukwattanajaroon and Dang Saebea; ; 4 Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Secondary Batteries; Fiona M. Gray and Michael J. Smith; ; 5 Recycling and Disposal of Battery Materials; Michael J. Smith and Fiona M.Gray; ; 6 AC or DC; M. Aram Azadpour; ; RENEWABLE ENERGY CONCEPTS; ; 1 Will Renewables Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions Substantially; Herbert Hinhaber; ; 2 The Concept of Base Load Power; Mark Diesendorf; ; 3 Tidal Power Harnessing; Roger H. Charlier; ; 4 The Loading of Water Current Turbines (a) The Betz Limit and (b) the Ducted Turbine; Georgiou and N. Theodoropoulos; ; 5 Bottled Gas as Household Energy; Masami Kojima; ; 6 Exergy Analysis: Theory and Applications; Marc A. Rosen; ; 7 GlobalTransport Energy Consumption; Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery; ; 8 Biomass - Renewable Energy from Plants and Animals (Public Domain); <br /&gt
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 621.04203; Renewable energy sources -- Encyclopedias; Shale gas -- Encyclopedias
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119066323; 9781119066330
• Related ISBNs: 9780470894415; 9781119066330
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