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Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy: Volume 2 - Opportunities in Production, Storage, and Integration is the sixth book in the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies Series. Based on the key themes of the International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC), this volume looks at the production performance of renewable energy sources and emerging production processes. Containing all major renewable energy technologies in individual chapters, this reference includes some of the most dynamic developments, good practices and future concepts in solar energy systems, energy storage, geothermal energy, bioenergy, wind energy, fuel cell and hydrogen production, as well as in the area of policy and regulation. By reviewing these state-of-art advances, considering them with real work application and analyzing key challenges, this book provides readers with an up-to-date source on renewable energy grid integration and its importance in aiding the energy transition. This latest volume is of interest to sustainability, energy and engineering graduates, researchers, professors as well as industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector.
List of contents
Section 1: SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY1. High-Efficiency Solar Collectors Using the Bubble Injection
Method: Concept and Performance
2. Evaluation of Solar Rock Bed Used for Heating Schools
Section 2: SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY3. Advancements in Photovoltaic-Thermal Solar Energy Systems and Their Applications
4. Performance Evaluation of Thermal Regulation of Photovoltaic Panels
Section 3: BIOENERGY PRODUCTION5. Hydrothermal Processing of Biomass
Section 4: HYDROGEN PRODUCTION6. A Technical Overview of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research: Progress, Challenges, and Pathways Forward
7. Performance Evaluation of Hybrid PV/Wind Green Hydrogen Production
Section 5: WIND ENERGY8. Plasma Assistance Recycling of Wind Blade Turbines to Energy and Other Materials
Section 6: GEOTHERMAL ENERGY9. Hybrid Heating Pumps
Section 7: HYDROPOWER10. Stress Analysis and Residual Stress Appearance in Hydropower Plant Pipelines
11. A Machine Learning Approach for Hydroelectric Power Forecasting
12. Evaluating the Pollutant Emission Impact of Hydrothermal Scheduling: Contrasting Linear and Nonlinear Formulations
Section 8: ENERGY STORAGE/FUEL CELLS13. Utilization of Industrial and Landfill Waste Gases in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
14. Improving Thermal Performance of PCM or Sorption Storage Units
Section 9: SMART GRIDS15. Towards Implementing a Smart Grid: A Case Study
Section 10: SUSTAINABILITY, POLICIES AND REGULATIONS16. Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading for Sustainable Challenging-to-Decarbonize Transport
About the author
Dr. Mejdi Jeguirim is a Professor at the University of Haute Alsace (France) in the field of energy, process engineering, and kinetics modeling. He has two main research interests, namely biomass valorization (pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion) and exhaust gas treatment (NOx and soot abatement as well as volatile organic compounds’ elimination). He is a prolific author of journal articles and book chapters and is a member of the editorial board of the following international journals: Energy (Elsevier), Energies (MDPI), Energy for Sustainable Development (Elsevier), Biofuels (Taylor & Francis), International Journal of Green Energy (Taylor & Francis). He has received the French National Research Excellence Award for researchers with a high level of scientific activity for the 2009-2012, 2013-2016, 2017-2020 and 2021-2024 periods. Since 2019, Dr. Jeguirim has been added to the World’s Top 2% Scientists list established by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier. For Elsevier, he is also the series editor of the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies series.
