Energy Technology & Engineering

Now is the time to plan for the integration of significant quantities of distributed renewable energy into the electricity grid. Concerns about cli...

This book is an overview of the Solar Energy Technologies Program in the U.S. The U.S. Department of Energy is committed to discovering the soluti...

Advanced Industrial Lead-Acid Batteries, written for technologists and engineers, presents a detailed account of the different types of reserve and...

Precisely matched unit-by-unit to the 2010 specification, providing a no-nonsense approach to tackling the new specification. Full technical ch...

Examines the foundation of pulse power technology in detail to optimize the technology in modern engineering settings  Pulsed power technologies co...

Get all the support needed for apprentices to complete the Level 3 Electrotechnical qualification that forms a key part of their apprenticeship. ...

A top-down approach that enables readers to master and apply core principles Using an innovative top-down approach, this text makes it possible for...

Variable Speed Generators, the second of two volumes in the Electric Generators Handbook, provides extensive coverage of variable speed generators ...

This new edition of EIS: Inspection Testing and Commisioning from the highly successful Electrical Installation Series covers all the information r...

High-frequency switching power semiconductor devices are at the heart of power electronic converters. To date, these devices have been dominated by...

Mercury Emission and its Control in Chinese Coal-Fired Power Plants focuses on investigating mercury emissions samplings and measurement in Chinese...

Lithium ion batteries, a class of chemical power sources that use an electrochemical process of lithium ion intercalation into or de-intercalation ...

The residential sector consumes a vast amount of energy. This situation has resulted in an increased interest by the scientific community in the su...

Tracking is the goal of control of any object, plant, process, or vehicle. From vehicles and missiles to power plants, tracking is essential to gua...

High Voltage Power Network Construction examines the key requirements, considerations, complexities and constraints relevant to the task of high vo...

This book analyses the factors that determine the cost of electricity from new power plants. These factors, including construction costs, fuel expe...

Energy storage technology has great potential to improve electric power grids, to enable growth in renewable electricity generation, and to provide...

For courses in Motor Controls, Electric Machines, Power Electronics, and Electric Power. This best-selling text employs a theoretical, practical, m...

A U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL) study estimated that in 2005, total U.S. freshwater withdrawals for th...

The United States is one of several countries encouraging production and sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles to reduce oil consumpt...

This book highlights recent advances in energy research. The chapters included in this volume include research on nuclear power reactors, specifica...

Coal has long been the major fossil fuel used to produce electricity. The existing coal-fired power generation fleet consists of over fifteen hundr...

The Second Edition of the bestselling Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook brings together all aspects of the design and implementati...

From the ox carts and pottery wheels the spacecrafts and disk drives, efficiency and quality has always been dependent on the engineers ability to ...

With the explosive growth in PV (photovoltaic) installations globally, the sector continues to benefit from important improvements in manufacturing...