1st Edition
Renewable Energy Engineering and Technology Principles and Practice
Edited By V. V. N. Kishore
Copyright 2009
912 Pages
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Routledge
This is the most comprehensive guide ever written on renewables technology and engineering, intended to cater for the rapidly growing numbers of present and future engineers who are keen to lead the revolution.
All the main sectors are covered - photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind, bioenergy, hydro, wave/tidal, geothermal - progressing from the fundamental physical principles, through resource... Read more
Preface * Energy and development * Renewable energy utilization * Review of basic scientific and engineering principles * The solar energy resource * Solar photovoltaic technology * Solar thermal engineering * Elements of passive solar architecture * Wind energy resources * Introduction to wind turbine technology * Small hydro: resource and technology * Geothermal energy, tidal energy, wave energy, and ocean thermal energy * Bio-energy resources * Thermochemical conversion of biomass * Biochemical methods of conversion * Liquid fuels from biomass: fundamentals, process chemistry, and technologies * Index
Biography
V. V. N. Kishore is a Senior Fellow at the Energy-Environment Technology Division, The Energy Research Institute (TERI), and Adjunct Faculty at the Centre for Energy and Environment, TERI University, New Delhi, India.
