Overview
- Shows a strict balance between a short book chapter and very detailed book for subject experts
- Hydropower is quite interdisciplinary and book gives simplified presentations for persons from non-parent discipline
- It meets requirements of starting students from different disciplines: mechanical, electrical, civil, law
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann-Josef Wagner holds postgraduate and doctorate degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany. He is Professor for Energy Systems and Energy Economics at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany. He worked as a scientist for the Juelich Research Centre, for the German Parliament and for different universities. His relevant experiences are in the fields of energy systems analysis, renewable energies like wind and water energy and life cycle analysis.
Dr.-Ing. Jyotirmay Mathur is a mechanical engineer with a postgraduate degree in energy studies from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India; and doctorate from the University of Essen, Germany. He specializes in the areas of renewable energy systems, energy policy modeling and energy efficiency in buildings. As Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Dr. Mathur has been the founder coordinator of the postgraduate program in energy engineering and is presently working as coordinator of the Center for Energy and Environment at his institute.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Hydro Energy Systems
Book Subtitle: Basics, Technology and Operation
Authors: Hermann-Josef Wagner, Jyotirmay Mathur
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20709-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-20708-2Published: 26 June 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26894-6Published: 03 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-20709-9Published: 26 June 2011
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 130
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Energy Policy, Economics and Management