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Presents an overview of the renewable energy sphere. This title covers the basic scientific principles behind the major renewable energy resources, such as solar, wind and biomass. It also provides information about how these raw renewable sources can be converted into useful forms, transmitted into the grid and stored for future utilization.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Perspectives
PART I: Energy ResourcesChapter 2. Status, prospects and sustainability issues Chapter 3. The origin of renewable energy flows Chapter 4. Modelling renewable energy flows Chapter 5. Individual renewable energy resources
PART II: Technologies for converting and handling renewable energyChapter 6. General principlesChapter 7. Heat energy conversion processesChapter 8. Mechanical energy conversion processesChapter 9. Solar radiation conversion processesChapter 10. Electrochemical energy conversion processesChapter 11. Bioenergy conversion processesChapter 12. Energy TransmissionChapter 13. Energy storage technologies
PART III: Planning and socio-economic issuesChapter 14. Energy system planningChapter 15. Socio-economic assessmentChapter 16. Integrated approaches
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"This book is written for scholars and research students, going well beyond more popular texts and covering in detail the physics, engineering, environmental impacts and socioeconomics of all renewable energy sources. It includes many hundreds of references.. It is suitable as a textbook at the undergraduate and graduate level for scientists and engineers, and could also be used by economists and planners. For teachers, there are mini projects and exercises after each Part..the text is clear and the units are still SI."--AIE's EnergyNews, December 2011, Volume 29, No. 4, page 107
"Renewable Energy, 4e by Bent Sorensen has been structured around three parts in order to assist readers in focusing on the issues that impact them the most for a given project or question. PART I covers the basic scientific principles behind all major renewable energy resources, such as solar, wind and biomass. PART II provides in-depth information about how these raw renewable sources can actually be converted into useful forms, transmitted into the grid and stored for future utilization. Finally, PART III undertakes the aspects of energy planning, environmental impacts and socio-economic issues on regional and global levels."--Renewableenergyworld.com
