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Title Energy production and management in the 21st century II : the quest for sustainable energy / editors, C.A. Brebbia, F. Polonara, E.R. Magaril, G. Passerini
Published Southampton : WIT Press, ©2016

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Series WIT transactions on ecology and the environment ; volume 205
WIT transactions on ecology and the environment ; v. 205.
Contents Cover; Energy Production and Management in the 21st Century II: The Quest for Sustainable Energy; Copyright page; Preface; Contents; Section 1: Energy management; Energy management as production input; Improvement of the integrated management system of energy companies by the implementation of electronic educational resources; Energy consumption, real GDP, and financial development nexus in Italy: an application of an auto-regressive distributed lag bound testing approach; Development of renewable energy financing in Bangladesh in response to the central bank's policy initiatives
Energy-service sector: problems of government regulationSection 2: Energy efficiency; Modelling Stirling engines by means of an electrical analogy; Relevant parameters on the energy efficiency of closed refrigerated multideck display cases; Enhanced efficiency, sustainable power generation, and CO2 emission reduction in energy-intensive industries through Organic Rankine Cycle Technology; Increased reliability, manoeuvrability and durability of steam turbines through the implementation of the generator driving mode
Gas dynamics and heat-and-mass transfer in multistage steam jet pumps with intermediate condensersEnergy efficiency in the context of energy availability in the Republic of Tajikistan; Prevention of transformers' damage in HPP with double generating units connected to GIS via HV cables; Energy saving and environmental impact decreasing in a walking beam reheating furnace; The impact of height installation on the performance of PV panels integrated into a green roof in tropical conditions; Energy performance investigation of a district cooling system
Portuguese Passive House case study: a comparison between monthly and seasonal energy performance methodsTurbocompound technology on hybrid power trains: urban buses take inspiration from F1 power units; Section 3: Renewable energies; Vortex field simulation and analysis of a solar updraft power engine; Environmental component in economic efficiency of renewable energy projects; Conversion of CO2 to methanol in aqueous medium on visible light active BiVO4, Cu2BiVO6 photocatalysts and in CM-n-TiO2 -- Cu PEC by simultaneous electron and proton transfer reactions; Section 4: Biomass and biofuels
Production of nutrients for non-edible plants using an anaerobic baffled horizontal wetland systemBiochemical methane potential assays to test the biogas production from the anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge and other organic matrices; Pyrolysis: an alternative technology for sustainable energy from sewage sludge; Characterization of biomass wood; Hydrogen gas production and pollutant removal from olive mill wastewater by electrohydrolysis; Section 5: Energy and the environment; NexusHaus: UT/TUM Solar Decathlon house
Summary Discussing the future of energy production and management in a changing world, this book presents the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Energy Production and Management in the 21st Century: The Quest for Sustainable Energy. The intention of the book is to examine the future of energy production and management in a changing world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 3, 2016)
Subject Renewable energy sources.
Renewable Energy
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Renewable energy sources
Form Electronic book
Author Brebbia, C. A., editor.
Polonara, F., editor
Magaril, E. R. (Elena Romenovna), editor.
Passerini, G., editor.
ISBN 9781784661083
1784661082