Overview
- Is related to SDG 7 on affordable and clean energy
- Follows the triple helix approach of technology, policy, and business
- Addresses distributed renewable power, currently key factor for global energy transition
Part of the book series: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (ENENSU)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Tool for Sustainability Assessment
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Technology Overviews
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Front Matter
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Potential Technologies
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Modeling and Simulations
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About this book
Due to limited non-renewable resources and climate change problems, the global energy sector must be transformed from fossil fuel dominated to renewable energy based. However, due to constraints of resources, technology, locked capital in existing energy systems, limited financial support, and associated risks in investment, etc., this transformation is not expected to occur rapidly. Rather there should be an energy transition path with planned replacement of fossil fuel-based systems to renewable-based ones. Large-scale renewable power is yet to be dominant globally. Distributed renewable power is appearing to be more common as its implementation requires smaller investments with lesser financial risks. There are several options of such distributed renewable power with great prospects at different locations. Simultaneously, there are many challenges to overcome for successful implementation of such projects. These challenges are also multi-dimensional. In this book, several chapters address bright prospects of several options of distributed renewable power. Simultaneously, other chapters address challenges of implementation of such technologies. The chapters together cover a wide perspective of both prospects and associated challenges to be addressed for it. Chapters include technological issues, optimization of energy systems, logistics and policies, case studies etc. Researchers, industry professionals, and students can benefit from this book.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal joined IIT Kanpur in 2001. He worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Engine Research Center, UW@Madison, USA (1999–2001). His interests are IC engines, combustion, alternate and conventional fuels, lubricating oil tribology, optical diagnostics, laser ignition, HCCI, emissions and particulate control, 1D and 3D simulations of engine processes, and large-bore engines. He has published 525+ peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers, 63 edited books, 129 chapters, 16200+ Scopus, and 24300+ Google Scholar citations. He is Editor of FUEL, Associated Editor of the SAE Journal of Engines, and the ASME Open Journal of Engineering. He is India’s number one Energy researcher in the recently declared Stanford University listing of the top 2% of researchers globally.
Dr. Pankaj Kalita received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Jorhat Engineering College, (Under Dibrugarh University, Assam) and subsequently M.Tech. in Fluids and Thermal Engineering and Ph.D. degrees in clean coal technologies from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Currently, he is Associate Professor in the School of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Energy at Tezpur University, Assam, before joining at IIT Guwahati in 2015. He has more than 10 years of teaching experience and 16 years of research experience in the field of clean energy technologies. He has published more than 100 research articles in various reputed journals and conferences. So far, he has published 3 edited books and contributed 16 book chapters. He has completed several research and consultancy projects in the areas of clean energy technologies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenges and Opportunities of Distributed Renewable Power
Editors: Sudipta De, Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Pankaj Kalita
Series Title: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1406-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-97-1405-6Published: 30 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-97-1408-7Due: 03 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-1406-3Published: 29 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2522-8366
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8374
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 535
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 232 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Renewable and Green Energy, Environmental Economics, Nanotechnology and Microengineering