Description
Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy, Volume 1 – Challenges is the fifth book in the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies Series. This volume looks at the production performance of renewable energy sources and emerging production processes.Containing all major renewable energy technologies in individual chapters, this reference includes some of the most dynamic developments, best practices, and future concepts in solar energy systems, energy storage, geothermal energy, bioenergy, wind energy, fuel cells, and hydrogen production. It also includes recent regulations and policies worldwide. By reviewing these state-of-art advances, considering them with real-world applications and analyzing key challenges, this book provides readers with an up-to-date source on renewable energy grid integration and its importance in aiding the energy transition.This is a valuable resource for graduates, researchers, professors, and industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector, as well as advanced engineering courses dealing with renewable energy, sources, thermal and electrical energy production, and sustainability.- Includes the advantages and disadvantages of key advances in renewable technologies- Contributed to by global experts, with a focus on principles and challenges of renewable energy production and distribution- Emphasizes the importance of sustainability, policy, and regulation in relation to successful and achievable implementation
Table of Contents
1. Recent Developments in Optical Materials for Concentrating Solar Power Plant2. Photovoltaic driven compression cooling systems3. New Concept of a Hybrid Renewable Solution for Urban Environment: Electricity during Daytime and Cooling Water during Nighttime4. Utilization of lignocellulosic biomass for advanced simultaneous biofuel and biomaterials production5. Challenges of hydrogen production from biomass gasification6. Intelligent fault diagnosis scheme for converter in wind turbine systems7. Closed-loop geothermal systems, a way to harness geothermal energy8. Hydropower in the European Union: state-of-the art, future opportunities and main issues within the current social, energy, geopolitical and climate situation9. Inorganic microencapsulated phase change materials for renewable energy technologies10. A Novel Hybrid Data-Driven Aging Prediction Method for Fuel Cells Based on Data Characteristic Analysis11. Methods and technologies for managing synchronization of MicroGrid with external networks12. Smart grids in the renewable energy community era: New markets and the role of information13. Energy, economic, and environmental analysis of energy efficiency and building policies in Southern Europe. Envelope renovation and renewable energy source integration14. A GIS-based procedure to assess the coupled implementation of photovoltaic panels and green roofs for improved energy efficiency
