Preface
About the Author
Acronyms/Abbreviations/Units/Conversions
Energy Storage Practitioner’s Toolbox
Energy Storage by Other Terms
Prologue
PART 1 THE BASICS
CHAPTER 1 THE GRAND CHALLENGE & THE 10-HOUR RULE
CHAPTER 2 AI & THE CONNECTED MINDSET
CHAPTER 3 FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICITY
Chapter 4 BATTERY TERMINOLOGY
PART 2 ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES
Chapter 5 LEAD-ACID STORAGE BATTERIES
Chapter 6 LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES
Chapter 7 FLOW BATTERIES
Chapter 8 ZINC BATTERIES
Chapter 9 SODIUM BATTERIES
Chapter 10 FLYWHEEL ENERGY
Chapter 11 COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY
Chapter 12 THERMAL ENERGY
Chapter 13 SUPERCAPACITORS
Chapter 14 Hydrogen Storage and Fuel Cells
Chapter 15 The Water Battery
Chapter 16 GEO-ENERGY
Chapter 17 GRAVITY BATTERIES
PART 3 PHYSICAL SECURITY & CYBERSECURITY OF ENERGY
Chapter 18 Energy Storage Security
Chapter 19 SCADA AND ENERGY
Chapter 20 SECURITY TECHNOLOGY AND HARDWARE
Glossary
Biography
Frank R. Spellman is a retired U.S. Naval Officer with 26 years of active duty, a retired Environmental Safety & Health Manager for a large Wastewater Sanitation District in Virginia, and a retired Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. The author/co-author of more than 160 books, Spellman consults on environmental matters with the U.S. Department of Justice and various law firms and environmental entities throughout the globe. Spellman holds a BA in Public Administration, BS in Business Management, an MBA, and an MS/PhD in Environmental Engineering. In 2011/2012, he traced and documented the ancient water distribution system at Machu Pichu, Peru, and surveyed several drinking water resources in Coco and Amazonia, Ecuador. He also studied and surveyed two separate potable water supplies in the Galapagos Islands.
