Progress in Sustainable Energy Technologies Generating Renewable Energy [Hardcover]

This multi-disciplinary volume presents information on the state-of-the-art in sustainable energy technologies key to tackling the worlds energy challenges and achieving environmentally benign solutions. Its unique amalgamation of the latest technical information, research findings and examples of successfully applied new developments in the area of sustainable energy will be of keen interest to engineers, students, practitioners, scientists and researchers working with sustainable energy technologies. Problem statements, projections, new concepts, models, experiments, measurements and simulations from not only engineering and science, but disciplines as diverse as ecology, education, economics and information technology are included, in order to create a truly holistic vision of the sustainable energy field. The contributions?feature coverage of topics?including solar and wind energy, biomass and biofuels, waste-to-energy, renewable fuels, geothermal and hydrogen power, efficiency gains in fossil fuels and energy storage technologies including batteries and fuel cells.

Comparative Study of Effect of Cloudiness/Haziness Factor on the Quality of Solar Radiation.- Investigation of a Renewable Energy-Based Integrated System for Baseload Power Generation.- Investigation of Organic Rankine Cycle Performance with Variable Mixture Composition.- Comparative Performance Assessment of Two Geothermal-Based Integrated Systems for Hydrogen Production.- Exergetic Optimization of Two Renewable Energy Based Tri-Generation Systems Using Genetic Algorithm.- Performance Evaluation of Integrated Energy Systems.- Performance Assessment of a TwoStage Heat PumpDrying System.- Comparative Assessment of Nuclear Based Hybrid Sulfur Cycle and High Temperature Steam Electrolysis Systems Using HEEP.- Thermodynamic Analysis of a Cycle Integrating a Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell and Micro Gas Turbine with Biomass Gasification.- Exergy Analysis of Scroll-Based Rankine Cycles with Various WorkinlcG