Energy - Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling

This textbook provides readers with a practical understanding of the key aspects of energy. This latest edition includes two new chapters on Decarbonization and Energy Transition
Beginning with fundamental definitions, the textbook explores primary and secondary energy types, internal energy, enthalpy, energy balance, heat of reaction, and heat transfer. Each chapter features fully solved examples and practice problems to reinforce learning and application. 
Topics covered include:
Energy production, conversion, and conservation
Energy storage and coupling
Sustainability in energy systems
Renewable energy solutions
Energy management and economics
Decarbonization and energy transition 
Designed for students across engineering and science disciplines, this comprehensive guide is ideal for courses in energy technology, sustainable energy systems,  energy conversion and management,  decarbonization and energy transition. It also serves as a valuable reference for engineers, researchers, and industry professionals. 
An updated solutions manual is available to course instructors upon request from the author or online via Springer Nature Link.

List of contents

Introduction: Basic Definitions.- Energy Sources.- Mechanical Energy and Electrical Energy.- Internal Energy and Enthalpy.- Energy Balances.- Energy Balances.- Energy Production.- Energy Conversion.- Energy Storage.- Energy Coupling.- Sustainability in Energy Technologies.- Renewable Energy.- Energy Management and Economics.

About the author

Professor Yaşar Demirel is currently a member of the faculty at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1981. Over the past 30 years he has focused on energy science and thermodynamics, process design and optimization, techno economic analysis, sustainability analysis, and exergy analysis. He undertook research at the University of Delaware between 1999 and 2001 and worked at Virginia Tech as a visiting Professor between 2002 and 2006, before joining the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2006. 

Product details

• Authors: Yasar Demirel
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2025
• EAN: 9783031971105
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3197110-5
• No. of pages: 676
• Illustrations: XXV, 676 p. 191 illus., 31 illus. in color.
• Series: Green Energy and Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; Elektrotechnik, Umwelt, Umweltwissenschaften, Umwelttechnik, Energieerzeugung und -verteilung, Energietechnik, Elektrotechnik und Energiemaschinenbau, Renewable Energy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, energy storage, Electrical Power Engineering, Mechanical and Thermal Energy Storage, Mechanical Power Engineering, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Energy Conversion, Sustainable Biofuels, energy conservation, Breakthroughs in HVACR, Energy Production, Energy Coupling, Sustainability in energy system, Decarbonization and electrification