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100 1 _aDinçer, İbrahim.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aSustainable Energy Systems and Applications
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby İbrahim Dinçer, Calin Zamfirescu.
264 1 _aBoston, MA :
_bSpringer US :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2012.
300 _aXVII, 816p. 394 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aThermodynamic fundamentals -- Introductory aspects of energy -- Energy conservation -- Fundamental concepts for sustainable process design -- Thermodynamic cycles -- Thermal and chemical devices -- Fossil fuels vs clean fuels -- Direct energy conversion -- System analysis through energy and exergy -- Renewable energy systems and applications -- Thermal energy storage systems and applications -- District energy systems -- Nuclear energy -- Hydrogen and fuel cell systems and applications -- Ammonia as a potential substance -- CO2 technologies -- Life cycle assessment -- Industrial ecology -- Sectoral energy and exergy utilization -- Sustainable energy policies -- Global warming and climate change issues and potential solutions.
520 _aSustainable Energy Systems and Applications presents analyses of sustainable energy systems and their applications, providing new understandings, methodologies, models and applications along with descriptions of several illustrative examples and case studies. This textbook aims to address key pillars in the field, such as: better efficiency, cost effectiveness, use of energy resources, environment, energy security, and sustainable development. It also includes some cutting-edge topics, such as hydrogen and fuel cells, renewable, clean combustion technologies, CO2 abatement technologies, and some potential tools for design, analysis and performance improvement. The book also: Discusses producing energy by increasing systems efficiency in generation, conversion, transportation and consumption Analyzes the conversion of fossil fuels to clean fuels for limiting  pollution and creating a better environment Sustainable Energy Systems and Applications is a research-based textbook which can be used by senior undergraduate and graduate students, engineers, practitioners, scientists, and researchers in the area of sustainable energy systems.
650 0 _aEngineering.
650 0 _aRenewable energy sources.
650 0 _aBiotechnology.
650 0 _aSustainable development.
650 1 4 _aEngineering.
650 2 4 _aEngineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.
650 2 4 _aRenewable and Green Energy.
650 2 4 _aSustainable Development.
650 2 4 _aEnvironmental Engineering/Biotechnology.
700 1 _aZamfirescu, Calin.
_eauthor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9780387958606
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-95861-3
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