Energy and Sustainability XI (Wit Transactions on Ecology and the Environment)

Passerini, Giorgio (EDT)/ Syngellakis, Stavros (EDT)

WIT Press（2025/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 392 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781784665036
• DDC分類 621.042

Full Description

The
world's economy is fuelled by energy. Depletion of resources and severe
environmental effects resulting from the continuous use of fossil fuels has
motivated an increasing amount of interest in renewable energy resources and
the search for sustainable energy policies.

 

The
changes required to progress from an economy mainly focussed on hydrocarbons to
one taking advantage of sustainable renewable energy resources require
considerable scientific research, as well as the development of new engineering
systems. Energy policies and management are of primary importance to achieve
the development of sustainability and need to be consistent with recent
advances in energy production and distribution.

 

In
many cases, the challenges lie as much in the conversion from renewable
energies (wind, solar, etc.) to useful forms (electricity, heat, fuel) at an
acceptable cost including damage to the environment as in the integration of
these resources into the existing infrastructure.

 

The
diverse topics covered by the papers in this book involve collaboration between
different disciplines in order to arrive at optimum solutions, including
studies of materials, energy networks, new energy resources, storage solutions,
waste to energy systems, smart grids and many others.