Elaine A. Moore

Explaining Renewable Energy (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Renewable energy is the solution to mitigation of fossil carbon emissions. Understanding the principles, advantages and challenges of renewable energy will help accelerate wider adoption of renewable energy solutions and carbon mitigation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000798722
• Artikelnr.: 66213534

Autorenporträt

Elaine A. Moore studied chemistry as an undergraduate at Oxford University, England, and then stayed on to complete a DPhil in theoretical chemistry with Peter Atkins. After a two-year postdoctoral position at the University of Southampton, England, she joined the Open University, UK (OU), in 1975, becoming a lecturer in chemistry in 1977, senior lecturer in 1998 and reader in 2004. She retired in 2017 and currently has an honorary position at the Open University. She has produced OU teaching texts in chemistry for courses at levels 1, 2 and 3 and written texts in astronomy at level 2 and physics at level 3. She is a co-author of Metals and Life and of Concepts in Transition Metal Chemistry, which were part of a level 3 Open University course in inorganic chemistry, and were co-published with the Royal Society of Chemistry. She was team leader for the production and presentation of an Open University level 2 chemistry module delivered entirely online. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was a co-chair for the successful departmental submission of an Athena Swan bronze award. Her research interests are in theoretical chemistry applied mainly to solid-state systems, and she is the author or co-author of more than 50 papers in refereed scientific journals. A long-standing collaboration in this area led to her being invited to help run a series of postgraduate workshops on computational Materials Science hosted by the University of Khartoum, Sudan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Solar Energy
2.1. Photovoltaic (solar) cells
2.1.1 Semiconductors
2.1.2. The p-n junction
2.1.3. Materials
2.1.4. Other solar cells
2.2. Other Considerations
2.3. Solar thermal panels
2.3.1 Materials
2.3.2 Other Considerations
Questions
3. Wind power
3.1. Wind turbines
3.2. Electrical generators
3.3. Materials
3.4. Other Considerations
Questions
4. Water power
4.1. Hydroelectric dams
4.2. River turbines
4.3. Wave power
4.4. Tidal power
4.5. Material
4.6. Other Considerations
Questions
5. Geothermal Energy
5.1. The origin of geothermal energy
5.2. Accessing geothermal energy
5.2.1 Using geothermal energy for heating
5.2.2 Using geothermal energy to produce electricity
5.3. Considerations
Questions
6. Hydrogen
6.1. Hydrogen production
6.1.1. Electrolysis
6.1.2. Chemical Reactions
6.1.3. Biohydrogen production
6.2. Storage and transport
6.3. Hydrogen use
6.3.1. Fuel cells
6.4. Considerations
Questions
7. Biomass
7.1. How is energy produced from biomass?
7.2. Why is energy derived from biomass considered renewable?
7.3. Types of biomass
7.3.1. Wood
7.3.2. Crops and Grasses
7.3.3. Algae
7.3.4. Waste
7.4. Considerations
Questions
8. Energy storage
8.1. How rechargeable batteries work
8.2. Batteries for storage
8.2.1 Kead-acid batteries
8.2.2. Lithium-ion batteries
8.2.3. Sodium based batteries
8.2.4. Redox flow batteries
8.3. Batteries for transport
8.3.1. Lithium-based batteries
8.4. Capacitors
8.5. Pumped storage hydropower
Questions
9. Carbon capture, storage and conversion
9.1. Carbon capture and storage
9.1.1. Trees and peat bogs
9.1.2. Construction materials and minerals
9.1.3. Porous solids
9.1.4. Absorbance by liquids
9.2. Conversion of captured carbon dioxide
9.2.1. Mineralisation
9.2.2 Chemicals and Fuels
Questions