Fundamentals of renewable energy processes / / Aldo da Rosa

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825804403321
• Autore: Da Rosa Aldo Vieira
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier Academic Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1-281-05029-6; 9786611050290; 0-08-047795-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (707 p.)
• Disciplina: 621.042
• Soggetti: Renewable energy sources; Power (Mechanics); Environmental engineering
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Generalities; 1.1 Units and Constants; 1.2 Energy and Utility; 1.3 Conservation of Energy; 1.4 Planetary Energy Balance; 1.5 The Energy Utilization Rate; 1.6 The Population Explosion; 1.7 The Market Penetration Function; 1.8 Planetary Energy Resources; 1.9 Energy Utilization; 1.10 The Ecology Question; 1.11 Nuclear Energy; 1.12 Financing; References; Problems; Part I: Heat Engines; Chapter 2: A Minimum of Thermodynamics and of Kinetic Theory of Gases; 2.1 The Motion of Molecules; 2.2 Temperature; 2.3 The Perfect-Gas Law; 2.4 Internal Energy2.5 Specific Heat at Constant Volume; 2.6 The First Law of Thermodynamics; 2.7 The Pressure-Volume Work; 2.8 Specific Heat at Constant Pressure; 2.9 Adiabatic Processes; 2.10 Isothermal Processes; 2.11 Functions of State; 2.12 Enthalpy; 2.13 Degrees of Freedom; 2.14 Entropy; 2.15 Reversibility; 2.16 Negentropy; 2.17 How to Plot Statistics; 2.18 Maxwellian Distribution; 2.19 Fermi-Dirac Distribution; 2.20 Boltzmann's Law; Appendix (Symbology); Problems; Chapter 3: Mechanical Heat Engines; 3.1 Heats of Combustion; 3.2 Carnot Efficiency; 3.3 Engine Types; 3.4 Efficiency of an Otto Engine3.5 Gasoline; 3.6 Knocking; 3.7 Hybrid Engines for Automobiles; 3.8 The Stirling Engine; 3.9 The ; Implementation of the Stirling Engine; 3.10 Cryogenic Engines; References; Problems; Chapter 4: Ocean Thermal Energy Converters; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 OTEC Configurations; 4.3 Turbines; 4.4 OTEC Efficiency; 4.5 Example of OTEC Design; 4.6 Heat Exchangers; 4.7 Siting; References; Problems; Chapter 5: Thermoelectricity; 5.1 Experimental Observations; 5.2 Thermoelectric Thermometers; 5.3 The Thermoelectric Generator; 5.4 Figure of Merit of a Material; 5.5 The Wiedemann-Franz-Lorenz Law5.6 Thermal Conductivity in Solids; 5.7 Seebeck Coefficient of Semiconductors; 5.8 Performance of Thermoelectric Materials; 5.9 Some Applications of Thermoelectric Generators; 5.10 Design of a Thermoelectric Generator; 5.11 Thermoelectric Refrigerators and Heat Pumps; 5.12 Temperature dependence; 5.13 Battery Architecture; 5.14 The Physics of Thermoelectricity; 5.15 Direction and Signs; Appendix; References; Problems; Chapter 6: Thermionics; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Thermionic Emission; 6.3 Electron Transport; 6.4 Lossless Diodes with Space Charge Neutralization; 6.5 Losses in Vacuum-Diodes with no Space Charge6.6 Real Vacuum-Diodes; 6.7 Vapor-Diodes; 6.8 High-Pressure Diodes; References; Problems; Chapter 7: AMTEC; 7.1 Operating Principle; 7.2 Vapor Pressure; 7.3 Pressure Drop in the Sodium Vapor Column; 7.4 The Mean Free Path of Sodium Ions; 7.5 V -I Characteristics of an AMTEC; 7.6 Efficiency; 7.7 Thermodynamics of an AMTEC; References; Chapter 8: Radio-Noise Generators; References; Part II: The World of Hydrogen; Chapter 9: Fuel Cells; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Electrochemical Cells; 9.3 Fuel Cell Classification; 9.4 Fuel Cell Reactions; 9.5 Typical Fuel Cell Configurations
• Sommario/riassunto: Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes contains the technical detail necessary to understand the engineering principles that govern renewable energy application at many different levels. Focused on the fundamental mechanisms and processes that underpin energy management, it provides students with the foundation for all energy process courses. This text is organized according to the main forms of energy - heat engines, hydrogen energy, energy from the sun, and wind and water energy - with an introductory chapter of basic energy terms. From fuel cells, electrolyzers and processes fo