Accelerating the Transition to a 100% Renewable Energy Era
Editors: Uyar, Tanay Sıdkı (Ed.)
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- Demonstrates how a transition to 100% renewable energy can be achieved
- Allows readers to relate their research to global efforts and become a part of the solution
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This book discusses renewable energy systems and applications, and demonstrates how an accelerated transition to 100% renewable energy can be achieved. It examines the systems from a thermodynamic perspective, focusing on the irreversible aspects of the current energy system and highlighting the solutions developed to date.
Presenting global research and developments, this book is intended for those working within the field of renewable energy research and policy who are interested in learning how they can contribute to the transition from fossil fuels to renewable resources.
- About the authors
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Professor Tanay Sidki Uyar received his PhD from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Yildiz Technical University in 1990. He worked as a senior research scientist for the TUBITAK Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, before becoming an Assistant Professor at Kocaeli University in 1994. He held a number of teaching and research positions, and is now a Professor of Renewable Energy at Marmara University.
Professor Uyar is a member of multiple different professional organisations. He is a founding member of the Turkish Wind Energy Association and of the Turkish section of the International Solar Energy Society. He is a Vice President for EUROSOLAR and for the World Wind Energy Association.
Professor Uyar has written over 100 papers, contributed chapters to 30 books, and edited numerous others.
Prof. Tanay Sidki Uyar
Çankırı/TURKEY, August 19, 1953
Robert Academy Istanbul Turkey 1967–1971
Boğaziçi University Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Istanbul Turkey 1971–1976
Boğaziçi University Faculty of Engineering, Nuclear Engineering Department, Istanbul Turkey 1976–1980
PhD: Yıldız Technical University Mechanical Engineering Department, Istanbul Turkey 1990
Senior Research Scientist, TUBITAK Marmara Scientific and Industrial Research Institute of Energy Systems Research Department , Gebze Kocaeli Turkey December 1981-May 1992,September 1993-February 1994
Assistant Prof. Dr. Kocaeli University, Faculty of Technical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, İzmit Kocaeli Turkey
Associate Prof. Dr. Marmara University Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2000-Prof., Marmara University Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul Turkey, Head Energy Section, 2009-
Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
CERL, UOIT, Oshawa, ON, Canada, 2015-2016
Membership of Professional Organizations:
Vice President, WWEA (World Wind Energy Association)
Vice President, EUROSOLAR (European Association for Renewable Energies)
Vice President, WBA (World Bioenergy Association)
Member, Committee of Chairpersons, WCRE (World Council for Renewable Energy)
Ambassador, Global Campaign on 100 % Renewable EnergyPresident, EUROSOLAR Turkey (Renewable Energy Association of Turkey)
President, BİYODER (Bioenergy Association of Turkey)
Chairman, (BSNN) Black Sea NGO Network
President, KADOS (Kadikoyu Friends of Science, Culture and Art Association)
Coordinator, TÜRÇEP (Environmental NGOs Platform of Turkey)
Coordinator, TEP (Clean Energy Platform of Turkey)
Founding Member, TUREB (Turkish Wind Energy Association)
Founding Member, GÜNDER (Solar Energy Society of Turkey)
- Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Accelerating the Transition to 100% Renewable Era. But How? Exergy Rationality in the Built Environment
Pages 1-49
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Role of IRENA for Global Transition to 100% Renewable Energy
Pages 51-71
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The Renewable City: The Future of Low-Carbon Living
Pages 73-98
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Assessment of Prerequisites and Impacts of a Renewable-Based Electricity Supply in Austria by 2030
Pages 99-111
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History and Recent State of TIMES Optimization Energy Models and Their Applications for a Transition Towards Clean Energies
Pages 113-130
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Accelerating the Transition to a 100% Renewable Energy Era
- Editors
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- Tanay Sıdkı Uyar
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Energy
- Series Volume
- 74
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-40738-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-40738-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-40737-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-40740-7
- Series ISSN
- 2195-1284
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXV, 555
- Number of Illustrations
- 19 b/w illustrations, 249 illustrations in colour
- Topics
