Green Energy and Infrastructure - Securing a Sustainable Future

Through numerous practical examples and illustrations, the book examines a comprehensive review of the latest science on indoor environmental health, energy requirements for buildings, and the "greening" of infrastructure.

List of contents

Energy for Buildings: Practises, Policies and Prospects. Green design effectiveness for a mini automotive-repair facility. Green hospitals and sustainability: case of companion house of a research hospital. Sustainable development and indoor air quality. What is priority: energy saving or people wellbeing?. Properties and conversion technologies of biomass. Wind resource forecasting error in flat and complex terrains. Wind Power Forecasting via Deep Learning Methods. Green Energy: Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Tidal Storage. New Energy Mining: Compressed Air Energy Storage in Abandoned Mines. Hydrostatically Compensated Energy Storage Technology. Bioconstruction and Harmonic Complexity of Biomimicry Organism. Back to the Basics: Return to Origin, Gaudi and Nature. Triple Bottom Line Analysis, Methodology and Its Implementation.

About the author

Dr. Jacqueline A. Stagner is the Undergraduate Programs Coordinator of Engineering at the University of Windsor. She has a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, a Master of Business Administration, and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. She worked as a release engineer in the automotive industry prior to joining the University of Windsor. As an adjunct graduate faculty member in the Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering, she co-advises students in the sustainability and renewable energy areas, in the Turbulence & Energy Laboratory.
Dr. David S-K. Ting is the founder of the Turbulence & Energy Laboratory, University of Windsor. As a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering, he supervises students on a wide range of research projects in the thermofluids, flow turbulence, energy conversion and conservation, and renewable energy areas. To date, he has co/supervised over seventy-five graduate students and co-authored more than one hundred and thirty journal papers.

Summary

Through numerous practical examples and illustrations, the book examines a comprehensive review of the latest science on indoor environmental health, energy requirements for buildings, and the "greening" of infrastructure.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline A. (University of Windsor Stagner
• Assisted by: Jacqueline A. Stagner (Editor), David S-K. Ting (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2020
• EAN: 9780367559496
• ISBN: 978-0-367-55949-6
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Ecology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Pollution Control, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / General, SCIENCE / Energy, Applied ecology, environmental science, engineering & technology, Urban & municipal planning, Social impact of environmental issues, Science / Environmental Science, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology