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Energy Systems Engineering: Evaluation and Implementation Hardcover – 9 June 2008
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A Unique Systems Approach to Energy Engineering, Covering Carbon-Based, Nuclear, and Renewable Sources!
An essential reference for all engineers and students working with energy systems, Energy Systems Engineering presents a systems approach to future energy needs, covering carbon-based, nuclear, and renewable energy sources. This unique guide explores the latest technology within each energy systems area, the benefits and liabilities of each, the challenges posed by changing energy supplies, the negative impacts from energy consumption, especially CO2 emissions, and the ways in which a portfolio of new technologies can address these problems.
Filled with over 200 detailed illustrations and tables, the book examines short-, medium-, and long-term energy options for the remainder of the twenty-first century. For each energy system, the authors provide equations and problems to help practitioners quantify the performance of the technology and better understand its potential. Energy Systems Engineering features:
- A valuable systems approach to energy engineering
- Coverage of all major energy topics_from climate change to wind power
- Both U.S. and global energy perspectives, with international comparisons
- Emphasis on CO2 issues and abatement, including carbon sequestration
- A wealth of equations and problems for each area of energy technology
- Numerous tables and graphs in PowerPoint format for easy presentation
An extensive online ancillary package for instructors provides an instructor's manual, solution files, course syllabus, Matlab scripts, and teaching PowerPoint files.
Inside This Cutting-Edge Guide to the Technology of Energy Systems:
Systems Engineering and Economic Analysis Tools • Climate Change • Fossil Fuels, Relative CO2 Emissions, and Modeling of Consumption and Remaining Reserves • Fossil Fuel Combustion Technologies • Carbon Sequestration • Nuclear Energy • The Solar Energy Resource • Solar Technology • Wind Energy • Energy Technologies for Transportation • Systems Issues for Transportation Energy • Other Emerging Renewable Energy Technologies- ISBN-100071495932
- ISBN-13978-0071495936
- Edition1st
- PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
- Publication date9 June 2008
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions19.56 x 3.28 x 24.13 cm
- Print length560 pages
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Louis D. Albright, Ph.D., is Professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. A Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), he is the author of Environmental Control for Animals and Plants.
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- Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education; 1st edition (9 June 2008)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 560 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0071495932
- ISBN-13 : 978-0071495936
- Dimensions : 19.56 x 3.28 x 24.13 cm
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I earned bachelors degrees from Cornell University in 1991 in Mechanical Engineering and in Asian Studies (with Japanese language concentration), and a doctoral degree in Transportation Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. Itaught at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland from 1998 to 2000, in the Center for Logistics Research. Since 2001 I have served as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Research Assistant in the College of Engineering at Cornell University, and also worked as a consultant in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Along with my professional work, I live in the Ecovillage at Ithaca, an environmentally-friendly intentional community, and I am active in the Ithaca community in promoting the use of renewable energy (including photovoltaic systems and solar ovens) and alternative means of transportation (such as bicycling and transit).
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- Professor dot bizReviewed in the United States on 4 January 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars ASAEE Recommended Title
Verified PurchaseAs president of the American Society of Alternative Energy Engineers (ASAEE), I can fully endorse the lasting analytical power of this amazing text. Many texts like this, including some we're reviewing that have not yet been published, and slated for late 2009, cover policy, politics, global statistical inference, and multiple regressions of trend analysis for global supply and demand, but NONE come close to balancing the macro and micro in such fine fashion as ESE. This is a WORKING text, not just for policy, but for implementation. Don't let the ups and downs of barrel prices, or the emotion of global warming vs. cooling make you think this text is dated. The models are solid, sound, state of the art, and relevant in a timeless way-- changing the parameters will not change the underlying value of the models, contribution, and need for this text. This is a must for any engineer's library, whether doing policy work, design, or rubber hits the road project or community engineering. Applying an energy metaphor to the text, it's high wattage for low investment, a perpetuity rather than an annuity, green and permanent with frequent use, as well as a cherished place on your shelves, and renewable with the powerful updates, blogs and helpful additions this very ethical author keeps providing-- the gift keeps on giving. Conserve your funds, time and brain power by getting this today-- it will save you muddling through five other texts costing $200 each which only have a piece of the whole picture you'll find herein. The trees didn't give their lives in vain for this one! --Dr. Tom Halstead