Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a quantitative yet accessible overview of renewable energy engineering practice including wind, hydro, solar thermal, photovoltaic, ocean and bioenergy. Suitable for engineering undergraduates as well as graduate students from other numerate degrees, the text is supported by worked examples, tutorial chapters providing background material and end-of-chapter problems.
Trade Review'This is a concise and very 'user friendly' book on renewable energy. The science of different sources of renewable energy has been explained very well in separate chapters with the use of great worked examples and diagrams. The last two chapters which are on electrical energy systems and the economics of renewable energy projects make this a very well-rounded book. The tutorials at the end of the book will help those students who may not have studied engineering. It is an excellent book for undergraduate and postgraduate students.' Maria Vahdati, University of Reading
Table of Contents1. Energy in the modern world; 2. Wind energy; 3. Hydro power; 4. The solar energy resource; 5. Photovoltaic systems; 6. Solar thermal energy; 7. Marine energy; 8. Bioenergy; 9. Development and appraisal of renewable energy projects; 10. Electrical energy systems; Tutorial I. Electrical engineering; Tutorial II. Heat transfer; Tutorial III. Simple behaviour of fluids.
