Energy Systems Engineering: Evaluation and Implementation | 
 enlarge | Authors: Francis Vanek, Louis D. Albright
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 532
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0071495932
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.4
EAN: 9780071495936
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Publication Date: May 19, 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
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
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Energy Systems Engineering review from PV professional August 28, 2008
Mr. Vaneck and Mr. Albright do an outstanding job quantifying, explaining and making attainable the physical complexities of our current energy situation. Their work is so thorough, it is set to arm those players at the highest levels of impact with the knowledge necessary to implement the various pragmatic solutions at hand regarding our current energy dilemma; in doing so, this may be a tool of immeasurable impact helping to solve one of our civilization's most daunting challenges.
This is a must read for those in my organization, and will remain a reference staple for years to come. A tool I recommend for those looking to move beyond theorizing about energy solutions / focusing on the problem and break ground building our next generation energy infrastructure.
Rob Garrity
Finlo renewable energy, principle
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Major contribution in the battle to reduce fossil fuel emissions August 15, 2008
Energy Systems Engineering
by Francis Vanek and Lou Albright
By burning fossil fuels, we may have lit a fire of feedback cycles that threaten to overheat the Earth. For this fire to sputter and go out, we have to stop fanning it. To reduce our contribution to the fire as effectively as possible by minimizing emissions from non-renewable sources, decision-making for energy systems must be optimized both for the near term and the decades during which the impacts of those decisions will be felt.
Energy systems engineers can now exercise their analytical skills more effectively using the focused and practical applied mathematics and modeling tools that are taught in Energy Systems Engineering. The tools are made accessible through detailed examples for transportation technologies as well as key energy sources. This highly readable resource turns the bright light of systems engineering onto the energy landscape, enabling choices for the shortest possible pathway to the sustainable energy future that is critical to the well-being of civilization.
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