Preface
Since the past decades, the energy sector is facing a number of challenges; however, the fundamental challenge is meeting the growing energy demand in sustainable, environment-friendly, efficient, and cleaner ways. Clean Energy for Sustainable Development: Comparisons and Contrasts of New Approaches updates the industry and academia with recent developments in this field. The book primarily focuses on developments in the fields of energy technology, clean, low emission, and sustainable energy, energy efficiency, and energy and environmental sustainability to academics, researchers, practicing engineers, technologists, and students. The major themes included in the book are as follows:
• Clean and sustainable energy sources and technologies
• Renewable energy technologies and their applications
• Biomass and biofuels for sustainable environment
• Energy system and efficiency improvement
• Solar thermal applications
• Environmental impacts of sustainable energy systems
The book helps develop understanding the relevant concepts and solutions to the global issues to achieve clean energy and sustainable development in medium- and large-scale industries.
It was a challenging task to arrange and define sections of the book because of the variety of high-quality contributions received from the authors. The book comprises 18 chapters, which we have divided into four sections. Each section has a specific theme that describes about what is contained in that section, thus providing continuity to the book.
The first section introduces clean, renewable, and sustainable energy resources and technologies, and their prospects and policies. Environmental impact assessment of different renewable energy resources and future prospects of carbon-negative technologies are also explained in this section.
The second section presents applications of solar energy in cooling technologies, power plants, and agricultural and forest industries. More specifically, solar energy applications in thermochemical conversion of waste into energy, solar air conditioning, solar kilns for agricultural and forest industries, and solar power generation using Brayton cycle are discussed.
The third section explains recent developments in wind energy systems. Issues on control design, stability, and power qualities in grid-integrated wind energy systems, and analysis of hybrid solar and wind energy systems for power generation are presented and discussed.
The fourth section focuses on potential and applications of biodiesel as an alternative fuel for diesel engine. Biodiesel production from first (edible), second (nonedible), and third (advanced biodiesel) generation feedstocks, such as bush nut (Macadamia integrifolia), legume tree (Pongamia pinnata), and microalgae, using different additives and transesterification processes (chemical and biochemical) are discussed.
While the titles of these four sections may be, in some cases, a bit unorthodox for the book, we believe that the flow of the material will feel comfortable to both students and practicing engineers in the area of clean and sustainable energy.
All the chapters were peer reviewed and the authors addressed the comments and suggestions of the reviewers and editors before contributions were accepted for publication.
The editors of this book would like to express their sincere thanks to all the authors for their high-quality contributions. The successful completion of this book has been the result of the cooperation of many people. We would like to express our sincere thanks and gratitude to all of them.
We have been supported by Maria Convey, Editorial Project Manager at Elsevier, for completing the publication process. We would like to express our deepest sense of gratitude and thanks to Maria for assisting and guiding us for this publication.
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