Energy
Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling
Authors: Demirel, Yaşar
- Updates previous editions with thorough revisions and new chapters covering renewable energy and energy management and economics
- Presents a comprehensive review of energy, covering the five interrelated aspects of production, conversion, storage, conservation, and coupling
- Includes fully worked examples and practice problems in every chapter
- Provides supplementary material for students and instructors, including a solution manual
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- About this Textbook
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This revised and updated 3rd edition of the book allows readers to develop a practical understanding of the major aspects of energy. It also includes two new chapters addressing renewable energy, and energy management and economics.
The book begins by introducing basic definitions, and then moves on to discuss the primary and secondary energy types, internal energy and enthalpy, and energy balance, heat of reaction and heat transfer. Each chapter features fully solved example problems and practice problems to support learning and the application of the topics discussed, including:
- energy production and conversion;
- energy conservation;
- energy storage;
- energy coupling;
- sustainability in energy systems;
- renewable energy; and
- energy management and economics.
Written for students across a range of engineering and science disciplines, the book provides a comprehensive study guide. It is particularly suitable for courses in energy technology, sustainable energy technologies and energy conversion & management, and offers an ideal reference text for students, engineers, energy researchers and industry professionals.
A updated solutions manual to this textbook's problems ais available to course instructors on request from the author and online on www.springer.com.
- About the authors
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Professor Yaşar Demirel is currently a member of the faculty at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1981. Over the past 30 years he has focused on energy science and thermodynamics, process design and optimization, techno economic analysis, sustainability analysis, and exergy analysis. He undertook research at the University of Delaware between 1999 and 2001 and worked at Virginia Tech as a visiting Professor between 2002 and 2006, before joining the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2006. Professor Demirel has authored or co-authored ten books and book chapters, more than 100 research papers in respected international journals, and presented over 50 conference papers and offers an ideal reference text for students, engineers, energy researchers and industry professionals.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Energy
- Book Subtitle
- Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling
- Authors
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- Yaşar Demirel
- Series Title
- Green Energy and Technology
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-56164-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-56164-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-56163-5
- Series ISSN
- 1865-3529
- Edition Number
- 3
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 650
- Number of Illustrations
- 144 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
- Topics
