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Storing Energy: With Special Reference to Renewable Energy Sources, Second Edition has been fully revised and substantially extended to provide up-to-date and essential discussion that will support the needs of the world's future energy and climate change policies. New sections cover thermal energy storage, tidal storage, sustainability issues in relation to storing energy and impacts on global energy markets. Various systems are discussed, including mechanical/kinetic, thermal, electrochemical and other chemical, as well as other emerging technologies.
Incorporating advancements described in the book will help the people of the world further overcome the problems related to future energy and climate change.
List of contents
A. INTRODUCTION
1.The Role of Energy Storage in Low-Carbon Energy Systems
B. ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE TECHNIQUES GRAVITATIONAL/ MECHANICAL / THERMOMECHANICAL
2. Pumped Hydro-electricity
3. Novel Hydroelectric Storage Concepts
4. Advance Rail Energy Storage (ARES)
5. Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) in Underground Formations
6. Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) with Underground Storage
7 Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) with Undersea Bags
8. Pumped Hydro Combined with Compressed Air
9. Liquid Air Energy Storage: (LAES)
10. Flywheels
11. Rechargeable Batteries
12. The Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries Thermal
13. Phase Changes
14. Solar Ponds
15. Sensible Thermal Energy Storage: Diurnal and Seasonal Chemical
16. Hydrogen from Water Electrolysis
17. Chemical Reactions
18. Power to Gas
19. Traditional Energy Storage: natural gas, oil and coal
20. Large Scale Hydrogen Storage
C. INTEGRATION
21. Network Integration and Smart Grids
22. Off-Grid Energy Storage
D. INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND THE POLITICS OF INTRODUCING RENEWABLE ENERGY SCHEMES
23. Energy Storage World-Wide
24. Energy Storage in China
25. Politics of Investing in Renewable Energy Systems
26. Pumped Thermal Energy
27. Betavoltaic Devices for Small
28. Batteries (Diamond Plus C14 Graphite)
29. Superconducting Magnets
30. Supercapitors
31. Harvesting Energy from Car Tyres (Friction)
32. Concentrated Solar Energy and Co2 + H2o Catalysed to Liquid Fuel
33. Tidal Storage
34. Molten Salts
35. New Types of Batteries
36. Sustainability Issues in Storing Energy
37. Energy Markets for Storing Energy around the World
About the author
Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.
