Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes

Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes, Fourth Edition provides accessible coverage of clean, safe alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power. Aldo da Rosa’s classic and comprehensive resource has provided thousands of engineers, scientists, students and professionals alike with a thorough grounding in the scientific principles underlying the complex world of renewable energy technologies. The fourth edition has been fully updated and revised by new author Juan Ordonez, Director of the Energy and Sustainability Center at Florida State University, and includes new worked examples, more exercises, and more illustrations to help facilitate student learning.

• Illuminates the basic principles behind all key renewable power sources, including solar, wind, biomass, hydropower and fuel cells
• Connects scientific theory with practical implementation through physical examples and end-of-chapter questions of increasing difficulty to help readers apply their knowledge
• Offers completely revised content for better student accessibility
• Updated with expanded coverage of such topics as solar thermal processes, hydropower and renewable energy storage technologies

Undergraduate and first year graduate engineering students taking courses on renewable energy topics. Engineers, scientists and technicians working with renewable energy

1. Introduction

PART I: HEAT ENGINES
2. A Minimum of Thermodynamics and of the Kinetic Theory of Gases
3. Mechanical Heat Engines
4. Ocean Thermal Energy Converters
5. Thermoelectricity
6. Thermionics
7. AMTEC
8. Radio-Noise Generators

PART II: THE WORLD OF HYDROGEN
9. Fuel Cells
10. Hydrogen Production
11. Hydrogen Storage

PART III: ENERGY FROM THE SUN
12. Solar Radiation
13. Biomass
14. Photovoltaic Converters

PART IV: WIND AND WATER
15. Wind Energy
16. Ocean Engines
17. Nuclear Energy
18. Storage of Energy