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Energy Production and Management in the 21st Century V - The Quest for Sustainable Energy (Hardcover)
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Energy Production and Management in the 21st Century V - The Quest for Sustainable Energy (Hardcover)
Series: WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 255
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The future of energy production, operation and management in a
changing world was the focus of the 5th International Conference on
Energy Production and Management. Papers presented at the meeting
form this volume. A focus is placed on the comparison of
conventional energy sources, particularly hydrocarbons, with a
number of other ways of producing energy, emphasising new
technological developments, based on renewable resources such as
solar, hydro, wind and geothermal. Key to sustainability is the
need to convert new sustainable sources of energy into useful forms
(electricity, heat, fuel), while finding efficient ways of storage
and distribution. In many cases, the challenges lie as much with
the production of such renewable energy at an acceptable cost,
including damage to the environment, as with the integration of
those resources into the existing infrastructure. The changes
required to progress from an economy based mainly on hydrocarbons
to one taking advantage of sustainable energy resources are massive
and require considerable scientific research as well as the
development of advanced engineering systems. Such progress demands
close collaboration between different disciplines in order to
arrive at optimum solutions. Also discussed is the energy use of
industrial processes, including the embedded energy contents of
materials, such as those in the built environment. Energy
production, operation, distribution and usage, result in
environmental risks that need to be better understood. They are
part of energy economics and relate to human environmental health
as well as ecosystems behaviour. An emphasis is placed on the ways
in which more efficient use can be made of conventional as well as
new energy sources. This relates to savings in energy consumption,
reduction of energy losses, as well as the implementation of smart
devices and the design of intelligent distribution networks.
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