SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES

Features

• • Covers all renewable energy sources, and all technologies from an engineering point of view

• • Provides updated and detailed description of sustainable technologies for an informed dialogue between engineers and allied professionals dedicated to different energy specialities (including but not limited to energy storage, chemistry, bioengineering, built environment, decentralized systems, appropriate technologies)

• • Supplies key mathematical elements and explanations for future coupling of technologies and hybrid applications

• • Includes updated market trends and energy security information, essential for dialogue and decisions involving engineers and political, economic and social agents

• • Defines energy sustainability and provides pivotal estimates of energy limits of the earth system

• • Covers comprehensively solar-based technologies, and key geoscience elements impinging on the future sustainability of the global energy system.

• • Numerous original and high quality illustrations and a practical format make for a reference book for professional use.

Summary

This book examines the key aspects that will define future sustainable energy systems: energy supply, energy storage, security and limited environmental impacts. It clearly explains the need for an integrated engineering approach to sustainable energies, based on mathematical, biogeophysical, and engineering arguments. Resilient and efficient alternatives are compared to non-sustainable options. This book results from the collaboration of 50 international contributors.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

[Eduardo Rincón-Mejía, Alejandro de las Heras, and Marina Islas-Espinoza]

2. Solar and Geothermal Energies Are Sustainable; Nuclear Power Is Not

[Alejandro de las Heras, Eduardo Rincón-Mejía, Behrooz Sani, and Marina Islas-Espinoza]

3. Renewables—The Politics and Economics Behind Them

[Andrea Leon-Grossmann]

4. The Constructal Design Applied to Renewable Energy Systems

[Elizaldo D. dos Santos, Liércio A. Isoldi, Mateus das N. Gomes, and Luiz A. O. Rocha]

5. Integration of Renewable Energy Technologies in Buildings and Cities

[Andy Walker]

6. Next Developments in Solar Thermal Technologies

[Valeriano Ruiz-Hernández]

7. Advances in Solar-Assisted Air Conditioning Systems for Tropical-Humid Locations

[Jorge E. González]

8. Absorption Thermodynamic Cycles: Advanced Cycles Based on Ammonia/Salt

[Antonio Lecuona-Neumann, Pedro A. Rodríguez-Aumente, Mathieu Legrand, and Antonio Famiglietti]

9. Hybrid Solar and Geothermal Heating and Cooling

[Bernd Weber]

10. Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Solar Applications

[Aran Solé, Alvaro de Gracia, and Luisa F. Cabeza]

11. Solar Photocatalytic Energy

[Lourdes Isabel Cabrera-Lara]

12. Novel Solar Fuels from H2O and CO2

[Christian Sattler, Anis Houaijia, and Martin Roeb]

13. Tannins as Precursors of Supercapacitor Electrodes

[Vanessa Fierro, Angela Sánchez-Sánchez, and Alain Celzard]

14. Recent Contributions in the Development of Fuel Cell Technologies

[José Luis Reyes-Rodríguez, Heriberto Cruz-Martínez, Miriam Marisol Tellez-Cruz, Adrián Velázquez-Osorio, and Omar Solorza-Feria]

15. Towards More Sustainable Aeronautics via the Use of Biofuels

[Aris Iturbe, W. Vicente, and J.E.V. Guzmán]

16. Solar Cooking for All

[Antonio Lecuona-Neumann, José I. Nogueira, Pedro A. Rodríguez, and Mathieu Legrand]

17. Sustainable Wind Energy Systems

[Eduardo Rincón-Mejía and Ana Rincón-Rubio]

18. Tidal Current Technologies: Brief Overview and In-Depth Coverage of the State of the Art

[Vanesa Magar]

19. From Large Dams to Sustainable Hydropower

[Katarzyna Anna Korys and Agnieszka Ewa Latawiec]

20. Bioenergy Principles and Applications

[Marina Islas-Espinoza and Alejandro de las Heras]

21. Advanced Biomethane Processes

[Sevcan Aydin, Bahar Yavuzturk Gul, and Aiyoub Shahi]

22. Human Energy: System Integration, Efficiency, Recovery

[Jose Antonio Aguilar Becerril, Diana Gabriela Pinedo Catalan, Paola Yazmin Jimenez Colin, and Jaime Manuel Aguilar Becerril]

23. Sustainable Energy for Houses

[David Morillon Galvez and Francisco Javier Ceballos Ochoa]