Energy Storage: Driving the Renewable Energy Transition [Hardcover]

Energy Storage?provides a thorough and holistic understanding of the operation and state of technology of all the energy storage options. It encompasses all the methods for energy storage, the engineering systems utilized, and the relevant applications from the small device level to the electricity grid level.

1. Introduction  2. Applications, Characteristics, and Figures of Merit  3. Mechanical Energy Storage  4. Electrical and Magnetic Storage  5. Electrochemical Storage  Batteries  6. Hydrogen and Other Fuels  7. Thermal Storage  8. Hybrid Energy Storage  9. Economics and the Cost of Energy Storage

Professor Efstathios E. (Stathis) Michaelides is currently the Tex Moncrief Chair of Engineering at Texas Christian University (TCU). Prior to this, he was chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he also held the Robert F. McDermott Chair in Engineering and was the Founder and Director of the NSFsupported Center on Simulation, Visualization and Real Time Computing (SiViRT). In the past, he was the Founding Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at the University of North Texas (20062007); the Leo S. Weil Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tulane University (19982007); Director of the SouthCentral Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (20022007); Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the School of Engineering at Tulane University (19922003); and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tulane (19901992). Between 1980 and 1989, he was on the faculty of the University of Delaware, where he also served as Acting Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department (19851987). Professor Michaelides holds a B.A. degree (honors) from Oxford University and M.S. and Ph.D. degreelÓ-