In the conventional combination of logic circuits, energy loss is an important consideration. Research on reversible logic circuits are of interest...

This book examines the role of renewable energy certificates in new renewable energy projects. For more than a decade, renewable energy certificate...

This collective book provides a review and summary of recent ten-year research in runaway electron preionised diffuse discharges (REP DD) formed in...

This book provides an overview of various energy strategies that are available to Guam in the pursuit of diversifying fuel sources and reducing fos...

This book provides a broad perspective of sediment transport in rivers, reservoirs, estuaries, and coastal areas. It deals with the related fundame...

The main objective of this manuscript is to successfully predict severe slugging behaviour in a catenary riser. A review of the existing literature...

Natural gas production from hydrocarbon-rich shale formation, known as "shale gas", is one of the most rapidly expanding trends in onshore domestic...

In communities across the United States, people are seeking alternatives to conventional energy sources. Whether they aim to increase energy indepe...

This research aims to make an original and advanced contribution to state-of-the-art sky models. It focuses on high-resolution sky radiance and lum...

Our nation's electric power infrastructure that has served us so well for so long -- also known as "the grid" -- is rapidly running up against its ...

The book opens with a chapter by Juan I. Guerrero, Ph.D., Enrique Personal, Ph.D., Antonio Parejo, Íñigo Monedero, Ph.D., Félix Biscarri, Ph.D., Je...

Today's electrical grid is considered one of the greatest engineering accomplishments of all time. It was recognized in 2003 by the National Academ...

In the last two decades, a great effort has been directed towards the development of new smart materials actuators and their corresponding applicat...

In recent years, electrical power and energy systems have undergone an unprecedented revolution never observed before. The liberalisation of electr...

This book concentrates on biofuels and specifically on ethanol within the United States (US), though in the concluding chapter the author expands t...

This book is an overview of the Solar Energy Technologies Program in the U.S. The U.S. Department of Energy is committed to "discovering the soluti...

A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts light energy into electrical energy. Sometimes the term solar cell is reserved for devi...

A solar collector is a device for extracting the energy of the sun directly into a more usable or storable form. The energy in sunlight is in the f...

Solar energy is derived ultimately from the sun. It can be divided into direct and indirect categories. Most energy sources on Earth are forms of i...

Indiscriminate extraction and increasing consumption of fossil fuel resources (crude oil, natural gas, and coal) are adversely affecting the major ...

The potential economic benefits of the growing renewable energy sector have led to increased federal, state, and local investments in solar industr...

This book addresses the rapid developments in the new field of solar resource knowledge as a reflection of growing needs of management of renewable...

This book presents some new concepts and ideas regarding future steps in the development and progress of solar thermal energy. Preliminary results ...

Energy is essential to our Nation and our lives; we use energy to power homes and businesses and to transport people and goods, making it an import...

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...