Renewable energy resources : challenges and applications
/ edited by Mansour Al Qubeissi, Ahmad El-kharouf and Hakan Serhad Soyhan
- 1 online resource (519 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Includes bibliographical references.
Section 1. Economic and regional challenges Chapter 1. For sustainable development: future trends in renewable energy and enabling technologies Chapter 2. Energy security and renewable energy: a geopolitical perspective Chapter 3. Evaluating biogas technology in south Africa: awareness and perceptions towards adoption at household level in Limpopo province Chapter 4. Evaluating the success of renewable energy and energy efficiency policies in Ghana: matching the policy objectives against policy instruments and outcomes Chapter 5. Energy policy decision in the light of energy consumption forecast by 2030 in Zimbabwe Chapter 6. Renewable energy in Ukraine-Poland region: comparison, critical analysis, and opportunities Section 2. Sustainability and reducing emissions Chapter 7. Operational challenges towards deployment of renewable energy Chapter 8. Bioinspired nanocomposites: functional materials for sustainable greener technologies Chapter 9. Road transportation industry facing the energy and climate challenges Chapter 10. Solid green biodiesel catalysts derived from coal fly ash Section 3. Biofuels and hydrogen systems Chapter 11. Biomass carbonization Chapter 12. Aviation fuels and biofuels Chapter 13. Hydrogen technologies for mobility and stationary applications: hydrogen production, storage and infrastructure development Section 4. Solar energy Chapter 14. The PV/wind system for sustainable development and power generation with real dynamic input datasets in the distribution power systems Chapter 15. Recovery of photovoltaic module heat using thermoelectric effect Chapter 16. Renewable energy application for solar air conditioning Chapter 17. Thermal and hydraulic analysis of transfer medium motion regime in flat plate solar collector Section 5. Wind energy Chapter 18. Offshore renewable energy Chapter 19. Wind speed analysis using signal processing technique Chapter 20. Wind turbine integration to tall buildings Section 6. Energy management Chapter 21. Thermal energy storage for solar energy utilization: fundamentals and applications Chapter 22. A thermoelectric energy harvesting system Chapter 23. Optimization techniques of islanded hybrid microgrid system Chapter 24. Performances analysis of a micro-grid connected multi-renewable energy sources system associated with hydrogen storage