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There has been a strong need to enhance the utilization of
renewable energy systems (RESs) from onshore to offshore
applications where oil and gas companies are pivoting to integrate
such renewable energy options into their offshore operations to
lower their carbon footprint, extend the lifetime of their assets,
and expand their market. In this regard, innovative hybrid energy
systems, such as "Power to Gas" (P2G) and "Power to Liquid" (P2L)
options, as well as novel integration strategies for "Gas to Power"
(G2P) systems, offer the opportunity to implement solutions energy
transition, paving the way to offshore RES deployment. Hybrid
Energy Systems for Offshore Applications delivers a comprehensive
presentation of state of the art and perspective developments of
offshore RES exploitation strategies and technologies, and provides
a unique portfolio of decision-making methodologies supporting the
selection of the most suitable options for offshore renewable
energy production at a specific site. System modeling and analysis
along with the definitions of multicriteria methodologies and
strategies based on sustainability, environmental impact, and
safety performance indicators are addressed in an integrated
fashion. Rounding out with both research and practical applications
explained, this book gives academicians and industrial
professionals fundamentals and methods for integrated performance
analysis of innovative systems addressing offshore RES
exploitation, sustainable chemical and power production, better
efficiency, lower costs, lower environmental impact, and higher
inherent safety.
Prevention of Actuator Emissions in the Oil and Gas Industry
delivers a critical reference for oil and gas engineers and
managers to get up-to-speed on all the factors in actuator fugitive
emissions. Packed with a selection process, the benefits of
switching to an electric system, and the technology around open and
closed loop hydraulic systems helps today's engineer understand all
their options. Rounding with a detailed explanation around High
Integrity Pressure Protection Systems (HIPPS), this book gives
provides the knowledge necessary to lower emissions on today's
equipment.
Mathematical Modelling of Contemporary Electricity Markets reviews
major methodologies and tools to accurately analyze and forecast
contemporary electricity markets in a ways that is ideal for
practitioner and academic audiences. Approaches include
optimization, neural networks, genetic algorithms, co-optimization,
econometrics, E3 models and energy system models. The work examines
how new challenges affect power market modeling, including
discussions of stochastic renewables, price volatility, dynamic
participation of demand, integration of storage and electric
vehicles, interdependence with other commodity markets and the
evolution of policy developments (market coupling processes,
security of supply). Coverage addresses all major forms of
electricity markets: day-ahead, forward, intraday, balancing, and
capacity.
Advances in Carbon Capture reviews major implementations of CO2
capture, including absorption, adsorption, permeation and
biological techniques. For each approach, key benefits and
drawbacks of separation methods and technologies, perspectives on
CO2 reuse and conversion, and pathways for future CO2 capture
research are explored in depth. The work presents a comprehensive
comparison of capture technologies. In addition, the alternatives
for CO2 separation from various feeds are investigated based on
process economics, flexibility, industrial aspects, purification
level and environmental viewpoints.
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Energy in Africa
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Lucia de Strasser, Simone Tagliapietra, Manfred Hafner
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Low Carbon Energy Technologies for Sustainable Energy Systems
examines, investigates, and integrates current research aimed at
operationalizing low carbon technologies within complex
transitioning energy economies. Scholarly research has
traditionally focused on the technical aspects of exploitation,
R&D, operation, infrastructure, and decommissioning, while
approaches which can realistically inform their reception and
scale-up across real societies and real markets are piecemeal and
isolated in separate literatures. Addressing both the technical
foundations of each technology together with the sociotechnical
ways in which they are spread in markets and societies, this work
integrates the technoeconomic assessment of low carbon technologies
with direct discussion on legislative and regulatory policies in
energy markets. Chapters address issues, such as social acceptance,
consumer awareness, environmental valuation systems, and the
circular economy, as low carbon technologies expand into energy
systems sustainability, sensitivity, and stability. This collective
research work is relevant to both researchers and practitioners
working in sustainable energy systems. The combination of these
features makes it a timely book that is useful and attractive to
university students, researchers, academia, and public or private
energy policy makers.
Sustainable Oil and Gas Development Series: Drilling Engineering
delivers research materials and emerging technologies that conform
sustainability drilling criteria. Starting with ideal zero-waste
solutions in drilling and long-term advantages, the reference
discusses the sustainability approach through the use of non-linear
solutions and works its way through the most conventional practices
and procedures used today. Step-by-step formulations and examples
are provided to demonstrate how to look at conventional practices
versus sustainable approaches with eventually diverging towards a
more sustainable alternative. Emerging technologies are covered and
detailed sustainability analysis is included. Economic
considerations, analysis, and long-term consequences, focusing on
risk management round out the with conclusions and a extensive
glossary. Sustainable Oil and Gas Development Series: Drilling
Engineering gives today's petroleum and drilling engineers a guide
how to analyze and evaluate their operations in a more
environmentally-driven way.
Electric Utility Resource Planning: Past, Present and Future covers
the balance of renewable costs, energy storage, and flexible
backstop mechanisms needed in electric utility resource planning.
In addition, it covers the optimization of planning methodologies
and market design. The book argues that net load, ramping and
volatility concerns associated with renewables call into question
the validity of almost a century of planning approaches. Finally,
it suggests that accounting for flexibility helps optimize the
efficiency of the entire fleet of assets, minimizing costs and CO2
generation simultaneously, concluding that a flexible, independent
backstop mechanism is needed, regardless of renewables or storage.
Case studies provide a mix of hypothetical "what if" scenarios and
analyses of real-life utility portfolios drawn from international
examples.
Single-Phase, Two-Phase and Supercritical Natural Circulation
Systems provides readers with a deep understanding of natural
circulation systems. This book equips the reader with an
understanding on how to detect unstable loops to ensure plant
safety and reliability, calculate heat transport capabilities, and
design effective natural circulation loops, stability maps and
parallel channel systems. Each chapter begins with an introduction
to the circulation system before discussing each element in detail
and analyzing its effect on the performance of the system. The book
also presents thermosyphon heat transport devices in nuclear and
other industrial plants, a common information need for students and
researchers alike. This book is invaluable for engineers,
designers, operators and consultants in nuclear, mechanical,
electrical and chemical disciplines.
Inequality and Energy: How Extremes of Wealth and Poverty in High
Income Countries Affect CO2 Emissions and Access to Energy
challenges energy consumption researchers in developed countries to
reorient their research frameworks to include the effects of
economic inequality within the scope of their investigations, and
calls for a new set of paradigms for energy consumption research.
The book explores concrete examples of energy deprivation due to
inequality, and provides conceptual tools to explore this in
relation to other issues regarding energy consumption. It thereby
urges that energy consumption approaches be updated for a world of
increasing inequality. Extreme economic inequality has increased
within developed countries over the past three decades. The effects
of inequality are now seen increasingly in health, housing
affordability, crime and social cohesion. There are signs it may
even threaten democracy. Researchers are also exploring its effects
on energy consumption. One of their key findings is that less
privileged groups have lost consistent access to basic energy
services like warm homes and affordable transport, leading to huge
disparities of climate damaging emissions between rich and poor.
Social Impacts of Smart Grids: The Future of Smart Grids and Energy
Market Design explores the significant, unexplored societal
consequences of our meteoric evolution towards intelligent,
responsive and sustainable power generation and distribution
systems-the so-called 'smart grid'. These consequences include new
patterns of consumption behavior, systems planning under increasing
uncertainty, and the ever- growing complexities involved. The work
covers the historical impact of the transformation, examines the
changing role of production and consumption behavior, articulates
the principles and options for socially responsible smart grid
power market design, and explores social acceptance of the smart
grid. Where relevant, it examines adjacent literatures from P2P
electricity markets, electric vehicles, smart homes and smart
cities, and related 'internet of energy' developments. Finally, it
provides insights into mitigating the likely social consequences of
our integrated low-carbon energy future.
Gravity Energy Storage provides a comprehensive analysis of a novel
energy storage system that is based on the working principle of
well-established, pumped hydro energy storage, but that also
recognizes the differences and benefits of the new gravity system.
This book provides coverage of the development, feasibility,
design, performance, operation, and economics associated with the
implementation of such storage technology. In addition, a number of
modeling approaches are proposed as a solution to various
difficulties, such as proper sizing, application, value and optimal
design of the system. The book includes both technical and economic
aspects to guide the realization of this storage system in the
right direction. Finally, political considerations and barriers are
addressed to complement this work.
Energy Transformation towards Sustainability explores how
researchers, businesses and policymakers can explore and usefully
improve energy systems and energy consumption behavior, both to
reflect the reality of climate change and related environmental
degradation and to adapt to the expanding periphery of renewable
energy technologies. It introduces the reader to a suite of
potential policy pathways to the necessary transformation in
societal energy consumption, usage and behavior. Solutions
discussed include energy efficiency, energy security, the role of
political leadership, green public policy, and the transition to
renewable energy sources. International contributions address the
range and depth of current research from a position of advocacy for
'energy stewardship' as the driver of this transformation. Case
studies illustrate the range of various countries to diminish
energy use. Finally, policy avenues are covered in depth.
In The Next Industrial Revolution, Vincent Petit builds on his
earlier work, The Age of Fire Is Over (2021), where he explored how
key transformations in consumption patterns impact our energy
system in ways that have been seldom envisioned. He further
develops this work here, and traces how these transformations apply
to our modern industrial system, the bedrock of our global economic
development and wealth creation.Petit argues that the world is on
the cusp of the next centennial transformation of our industrial
system, driven by major technological enhancements, considerable
opportunities for productivity step changes, but also significant
resiliency and environmental challenges.Through a deep and unique
exploration of the innovation landscape and global context in each
major sector of industry, the author sheds light on the key changes
that will transform not only every sector of activity, but also the
way they interact with one another to produce nothing short of a
complete redesign of our industrial system.The way such
transformation will unfold will, however, depend on the complex
entanglement of technological progress, policy, business
transformations and cultural evolutions. Through different
scenarios, the author highlights some of the key decisions that
need to be made today, in order to make the most of this
opportunity.
The burning of fossil fuels and emission of greenhouse gasses
critically impacts the global environment. By utilizing better
techniques and process, businesses can aid in the journey to an
economic, sustainable, and environmentally-friendly future for
generations to come. Business Models for Renewable Energy
Initiatives: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential
reference source for the latest scholarly perspectives on present
and future business models in the renewable energy sector.
Featuring coverage on a range of perspectives and topics such as
techno-economics, decentralized power systems, and risk assessment,
this book is designed for academicians, students, and researchers
seeking current scholarly research on green business opportunities
for renewable energy.
A "quick look up guide," Electricity Cost Modeling Calculations
places the relevant formulae and calculations at the reader's
finger tips. In this book, theories are explained in a nutshell and
then the calculation is presented and solved in an illustrated,
step-by-step fashion. A valuable guide for new engineers,
economists (or forecasters), regulators, and policy makers who want
to further develop their knowledge of best practice calculations
techniques or experienced practitioners (and even managers) who
desire to acquire more useful tips, this book offers expert advice
for using such cost models to determine optimally-sized
distribution systems and optimally-structured power supplying
entities. In other words, this book provides an
Everything-that-you-want-to-know-about-cost-modelling-for-electric-utilities
(but were afraid to ask) approach to modelling the cost of
supplying electricity. In addition, the author covers the concept
of multiproduct and multistage cost functions, which are
appropriate in modelling the cost of supplying electricity. The
author has done all the heavy number-crunching, and provides the
reader with real-world, practical examples of how to properly
quantify the costs associated with providing electric service, thus
increasing the accuracy of the results and support for the policy
initiatives required to ensure the competitiveness of the power
suppliers in this new world in which we are living. The principles
contained herein could be employed to assist in the determination
of the cost-minimizing amount of output (i.e., electricity), which
could then be used to determine whether a merger between two
entities makes sense (i.e., would increase profitability). Other
examples abound: public regulatory commissions also need help in
determining whether mergers (or divestitures) are welfare-enhancing
or not; ratemaking policies depend on costs and properly
determining the costs of supplying electric (or gas, water, and
local telephone) service. Policy makers, too, can benefit in terms
of optimal market structure; after all, the premise of deregulation
of the electric industry was predicated on the idea that generation
could be deregulated. Unfortunately, the economies of vertical
integration between the generation.
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