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Bioenergy Research: Advances and Applications brings biology and engineering together to address the challenges of future energy needs. The book consolidates the most recent research on current technologies, concepts, and commercial developments in various types of...
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Elsevier
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2013-12-05
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Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells: Materials, Performance, Durability and Applications begins with an introductory overview of direct alcohol fuel cells (DAFC); it focuses on the main goals and challenges in the areas of materials development, performance, and...
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Springer
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2013-12-02
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Oil is the lifeblood of modern industrial economies. Petroleum powers virtually all motorized transport, which in turn enables most economic activities and provides mobility for citizens. But oil is a finite resource that is steadily depleting. In the past decade, the...
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Springer
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2013-11-29
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SpringerBriefs in Energy
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Handbook of Energy, Volume II: Chronologies, Top Ten Lists, and Word Clouds draws together a comprehensive account of the energy field from the prestigious and award-winning authors of the Encyclopedia of Energy (2004), The Dictionary of Energy, Expanded Edition (2009),...
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Elsevier Science
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2013-11-15
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The fundamental concept of the book is to explain how to make thin film solar cells from the abundant solar energy materials by low cost.The proper and optimized growth conditions are very essential while sandwiching thin films to make solar cell otherwise secondary...
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Elsevier
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2013-11-14
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Solar energy conversion requires a different mind-set from traditional energy engineering in order to assess distribution, scales of use, systems design, predictive economic models for fluctuating solar resources, and planning to address transient cycles and social...
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Academic Press
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2013-11-09
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In his thesis, Florian Schweinberger investigates the influence of the precise size of catalytically active species on reactivity.In order to do this he carries out studies both in UHV and under ambient conditions for supported, size-selected Platium clusters (8-68...
Editeur :
Springer
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2013-11-01
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Springer Theses
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Wind energy is gaining critical ground in the area of renewable energy, with wind energy being predicted to provide up to 8% of the world's consumption of electricity by 2021. Advances in wind turbine blade design and materials reviews the design and functionality of...
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Woodhead Publishing
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Energy technologies in the future will need to be based on renewable sources of energy and will, ultimately, need to be sustainable. This book provides insight into unintended, negative impacts and how they can be avoided. In order to steer away from the pitfalls and...
Editeur :
Springer
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2013-10-24
Collection :
Green Energy and Technology
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To date all books on geothermics have emphasized its use for generating electricity, with applications of lower grade resources for direct heating meriting only a brief chapter. This book brings together research from a range of scientific journals and 'grey' literature...
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
2013-10-22
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Energy and Sea Power: Challenge for the Decade is a collection of essays, which were presented as lectures at the Eighth Annual Pacific Coast Sea Power Forum, held at the U. S. Navy Postgraduate School at Monterey, California, in October 1980, covering the topic of...
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
2013-10-22
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Renewable Energy: Prospects for Implementation contains papers that were originally commissioned by the journal Energy Policy for a series on renewable energy appearing between January 1991 to September 1992. In view of the fast-changing demands on conventional energy...
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Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution :
2013-09-17
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Researchers, students and engineers working with biofuels and biomass are increasingly expected to comprehend a new holistic systems perspective that begins with wise crop breeding and cultivation techniques and informs the entire conversion to energy process. This...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2013-09-02
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Governments are setting challenging targets to increase the production of energy and transport fuel from sustainable sources. The emphasis is increasingly on renewable sources including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass based biofuel, photovoltaics or energy recovery...
Editeur :
Springer
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2013-09-02
Collection :
Green Energy and Technology
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Modern gas turbine power plants represent one of the most efficient and economic conventional power generation technologies suitable for large-scale and smaller scale applications. Alongside this, gas turbine systems operate with low emissions and are more flexible in...
Editeur :
Woodhead Publishing
Parution :
2013-08-31
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Small wind turbines utilize wind energy to produce power with rated capacities of 100 kilowatts or less. With this increasingly popular technology, individual businesses, farms, and homes can generate their own electricity and cut their energy bills , while generating...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2013-08-27
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Biomass is the most widely used non-fossil fuel in the world.Biomass resources show a considerable potential in the long-term given the increasing proliferation of dedicated energy crops for biofuels. The second edition ofBiomass Gasification and Pyrolysis is enhanced...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2013-07-18
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New and Future Developments in Catalysis is a package of seven books that compile the latest ideas concerning alternate and renewable energy sources and the role that catalysis plays in converting new renewable feedstock into biofuels and biochemicals. Both homogeneous...
Editeur :
Elsevier
Parution :
2013-07-11
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Technologies such as renewable energy alternatives including wind, solar and biomass, storage technologies and electric engines are creating a different landscape for the electricity industry. Using sources and ideas from technologies such as renewable energy...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-06-25
Collection :
Green Energy and Technology
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This book analyses the deep interaction between the world’s environmental crises, energy production, conversion and use, and global regulation policies. Bringing together experts from a wide range of scientific fields, it offers the reader a broad scope of knowledge on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-06-18
Collection :
Integrated Science & Technology Program
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