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This book presents an innovative methodology for identifying optimum investment strategies in the power industry. To do so, it examines results including, among others, the impact of oxy-fuel technology on CO2 emissions prices, and the specific cost of electricity...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-07
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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This Brief presents the impact of climatic abnormalities on hydropower potential of different regions of the World. In this regard, multi-criteria decision making and neural network are used to predict the impact of the change cognitively by an index. The results from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-07
ePub
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Have you ever wondered by how much CO2 emissions can be reduced by running cars electrically or with hydrogen as fuel? This Brief provides a quantitative answer to this question using the example of the combined road traffic in Spain. The authors calculate the resulting...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-06
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Energy
ePub
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The Thorium Energy Conference (ThEC13) gathered some of the world’s leading experts on thorium technologies to review the possibility of destroying nuclear waste in the short term, and replacing the uranium fuel cycle in nuclear systems with the thorium fuel cycle in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-05
ePub
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This thesis proposes a novel Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy, which modifies the usual MPC cost function in order to achieve a desirable sparse actuation. It features an l1-regularised least squares loss function, in which the control error variance competes...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-31
Collection :
Springer Theses
ePub
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This book presents the research and development results on power systems oscillations in three categories of analytical methods. First is damping torque analysis which was proposed in 1960’s, further developed between 1980-1990, and widely...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-30
Collection :
Power Electronics and Power Systems
ePub
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This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the principles of power electronics, focusing on the switched transformer concept and phasor transformation techniques as employed in the analysis and design of power electronic circuits. Phasor...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-29
Collection :
KAIST Research Series
ePub
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Integration of Distributed Energy Resources in Power Systems: Implementation, Operation and Control covers the operation of power transmission and distribution systems and their growing difficulty as the share of renewable energy sources in the world's energy mix grows...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2016-03-23
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Presenting a comprehensive analysis of the use of alternative sources of energy and technologies to produce fuels and power, this book describes the energy value chain from harvesting the raw material, (i.e solar, wind, biomass or shale gas) followed by analysis of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-22
ePub
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This book examines the utilization of algae for the development of useful products and processes with the emphasis towards green technologies and processes, and the requirements to make these viable. Serving as a complete reference guide to the production of biofuels...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-09
Collection :
Green Energy and Technology
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This book covers the topic of vibration energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials. Piezoelectric materials are analyzed in the context of their electromechanical coupling, heterogeneity, microgeometry and interrelations between electromechanical properties....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-09
Collection :
Springer Series in Materials Science
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This monograph presents
a wider spectrum of researches, developments, and case specific studies in the
area of smart power systems and integration of renewable energy systems. The
book will be for the benefit of a wider audience including researchers,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-08
Collection :
Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
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This book provides an overview of floating offshore wind farms and focuses on the economic aspects of this renewable-energy technology. It presents economic maps demonstrating the main costs, and explores various important aspects of floating offshore wind farms. It...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-05
Collection :
Green Energy and Technology
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This book analyzes the influence of electric vehicles on microclimate and the indirect influence on power load from a unique perspective. It discusses different aspects of Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, including large and small-scale charging infrastructures, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-05
Collection :
Power Systems
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This Brief presents the multi criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques like Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Analytical Network Process (ANP) to find out the importance of the influencing factors to develop the Climatic Vulnerability Index (CVI) that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-02
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Energy
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Heinz Herwig
vermittelt eine klare Vorstellung davon, was Energie aus physikalischer Sicht
ist und in welchen Formen sie auftreten kann. Es werden grundlegende
mechanische, vor allem aber auch thermodynamische Zusammenhänge erläutert,
bevor an konkreten Beispielen...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2016-03-01
Collection :
essentials
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This
book introduces readers to novel, efficient and user-friendly software tools
for power systems studies, to issues related to distributed and dispersed power
generation, and to the correlation between renewable power generation and
electricity demand. Discussing new...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-01
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This thesis focuses on
chalcogenide compound
quantum dots with special crystal structures and behaviors in
an effort to achieve the synergistic optimization of electrical and
thermal transport for high-efficiency thermoelectric materials. The controllability and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-29
Collection :
Springer Theses
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This second edition is a
comprehensive introduction to all aspects of thermoelectric energy conversion.
It covers both theory and practice. The book is timely as it refers to the many
improvements that have come about in the last few years through the use...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-26
Collection :
Springer Series in Materials Science
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Gas-Turbine Power Generation is a concise, up-to-date, and readable guide providing an introduction to gas turbine power generation technology. It includes detailed descriptions of gas fired generation systems, demystifies the functions of gas fired technology, and...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2016-02-24
epub sans DRM
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