Renewable Energy Engineering

di Nick Jenkins (Autore)

Janaka Ekanayake (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2024

Fully revised and updated, this second edition provides students with a quantitative and accessible introduction to the renewable technologies at the heart of efforts to build a sustainable future. Key features include new chapters on essential topics in energy storage, off-grid systems, microgrids and community energy; revised chapters on energy and grid fundamentals, wind energy, hydro power, photovoltaic and solar thermal energy, marine energy and bioenergy; appendices on foundational topics in electrical engineering, heat transfer and fluid dynamics; discussion of how real-world projects are developed, constructed and operated; over 60 worked examples linking theory to real-world engineering applications; and over 150 end-of-chapter homework problems, with solutions for instructors. Accompanied online at www.cambridge.org/jenkins2e by extended exercises and datasets, enabling instructors to create unique projects and coursework, this new edition remains the ideal multi-disciplinary introduction to renewable energy, for senior undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and the physical sciences.

• Autore: Nick Jenkins, Janaka Ekanayake
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 530 p.
• Dimensioni: 253 x 179 mm
• Peso: 1130 gr.
• EAN: 9781009295765

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