Energy Systems Engineering

Overview

A Unique Systems Approach to Energy Engineering, Covering Carbon-Based, Nuclear, and Renewable Sources!

An essential reference for all engineers and students working with energy systems, Energy Systems Engineering presents a systems approach to future energy needs, covering carbon-based, nuclear, and renewable energy sources. This unique guide explores the latest technology within each energy systems area, the benefits and liabilities of each, the challenges posed by changing energy supplies, the negative impacts from energy consumption, especially CO2 emissions, and the ways in which a portfolio of new technologies can address these problems.

Filled with over 200 detailed illustrations and tables, the book examines short-, medium-, and long-term energy options for the remainder of the twenty-first century. For each energy system, the authors provide equations and problems to help practitioners quantify the performance of the technology and better understand its potential. Energy Systems Engineering features:

• A valuable systems approach to energy engineering
• Coverage of all major energy topics_from climate change to wind power
• Both U.S. and global energy perspectives, with international comparisons
• Emphasis on CO2 issues and abatement, including carbon sequestration
• A wealth of equations and problems for each area of energy technology
• Numerous tables and graphs in PowerPoint format for easy presentation

Inside This Cutting-Edge Guide to the Technology of Energy Systems

Systems Engineering and Economic Analysis Tools • Climate Change • Fossil Fuels, Relative CO2 Emissions, and Modeling of Consumption and Remaining Reserves • Fossil Fuel Combustion Technologies • Carbon Sequestration • Nuclear Energy • The Solar Energy Resource • Solar Technology • Wind Energy • Energy Technologies for Transportation • Systems Issues for Transportation Energy • Other Emerging Renewable Energy Technologies

Table of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Systems Tools for Energy Systems
Chapter 3. Economic Tools for Energy Systems
Chapter 4. Climate Change and Climate Modeling
Chapter 5. Fossil Fuel Resources
Chapter 6. Stationary Combustion Systems
Chapter 7. Carbon Sequestration
Chapter 8. Nuclear Energy Systems
Chapter 9. The Solar Resource
Chapter 10. Solar Photovoltaic Technologies
Chapter 11. Solar Thermal Applications
Chapter 12. Wind Energy Systems
Chapter 13. Transportation Energy Technologies
Chapter 14. Systems Perspective on Transportation Energy
Chapter 15. Conclusion: Creating the Twenty-First Century Energy System
Appendix A: Perpetual Julian Date Calendar
Appendix B: Thermodynamic Tables--Metric Units
Appendix C: Thermodynamic Tables--U.S. Customary Units
Index

Biographical note

Francis M. Vanek, Ph.D., is a Lecturer and Research Assistant in the Departments of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Systems Engineering Program at Cornell University, where he specializes in the areas of energy efficiency, alternative energy, and energy for transportation. He is also a consultant with Taitem Engineering of Ithaca, NY.

Louis D. Albright, Ph.D., is Professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. A Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), he is the author of Environmental Control for Animals and Plants.