This book reviews recent advanced research work in the area of flat plate collectors, solar distillation, greenhouse technology for crop drying and...

The United States has abundant solar energy resources and solar, along with wind, offers the greatest energy and power potential among all currentl...

In recent years, job creation and the development of a domestic renewable energy manufacturing base have joined national security and environmental...

Photovoltaic (PV) systems are installed by several types of market participants, ranging from residential customers to large-scale project develope...

Solar and other renewable power can play an important role in future electricity system, as shown by numerous energy and electricity system model s...

As demand for energy increases, many communities are seeking ways to meet this demand with clean, safe, reliable energy from renewable sources such...

This book develops a novel and simple, yet rigorous methodology that, by means of basic techniques and tools available to any engineer, enables the...

Among the available options for encouraging the increased deployment of renewable electricity, renewables portfolio standards (RPS) have become inc...

Solar energy is of vital importance for living organisms. The development of science gave us the opportunity to get much benefit from the sun. Howe...

Solar ready design is important if photovoltaic (PV) or solar hot water (SHW) technologies are to be installed on a building at any time during the...

The continuous stream of particles flowing outward from the Sun is called the solar wind. It mostly consists of electrons and protons with energies...

The anthology titled "Spacetime Energy: A Twenty First Century Perspective" encompasses novel and avant garde ideas that delineate the intrinsic na...

In the near future, energy demand will have a great increase, due to the enhancing needs in life quality all over the world and especially from lar...

The states and the federal government have supported the development of electricity generation projects in a variety of ways. In recent years, stat...

In chapter one, Alexander V Beznosov, Ph.D, Tatyana A Bokova, Ph.D, and Pavel A Bokov, Ph.D examine the possible development of novel fast-neutron ...

There are three principal forms of energy used in industrial processes: electricity, direct-fired heat, and steam. Steam provides process heating, ...

Unlike natural gas or fuel oil, electricity cannot be easily stored. However, interest in electric power storage (EPS) has been growing with techno...

The SunShot Initiative was launched in February 2011 with the goal of making solar energy cost-competitive with conventional electricity generating...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of sustainable petroleum operations. Topics discussed include greening of petroleum ...

Resilience is the ability to avoid, minimise, withstand, and recover from the effects of adversity, whether natural or man-made, under all circumst...

Syngas generation by oxidative or steam reforming of hydrocarbons and oxygenates now attracts a lot of attention of researchers in the fields of he...

Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is widely seen as a critical strategy for limiting atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the princi...

The energy safety (independence) is one of the most important priorities of the State activity. Its achieving by means of diplomacy lowers risks of...

Telemetry is a technology that allows the remote measurement and reporting of information of interest to the system designer or operator. Telemetry...