Energy Harvesting- Solar, Wind, and Ocean Energy Conversion Systems (Energy, Power Electronics, and Machines)
Year: 2010 Language: english Author: Alireza Khaligh, Omer C. Onar Genre: Technical book Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 368 Description: Increasing demand for energy, decreasing conventional fossil-fuel energy sources, and environmental concerns are driving forces toward renewable energy sources. Energy sources such as oil, coal, and gas are being quickly depleted or have insufficient reserves for future demands. Moreover, they are not environmental friendly due to greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. Nuclear energy has a great establishment cost along with a number of safety concerns. On the other hand, hydroelectric power plants are inexpensive but have a limited life span and mostly cannot be utilized due to geo-political reasons and seasonal irregularity of available water. Therefore, the contribution from renewable energy sources is increasing. Since the world today is experiencing a great shortage of energy, it should be captured, stored, conditioned, and utilized by alternative techniques. Energy demand will always increase with the increase in technological developments while conventional sources will diminish and environmental concerns will gain increased attention. Energy harvesting, also called energy scavenging, is a concept by which energy is captured, stored, and utilized using various sources by employing interfaces, storage devices, and other units. Unlike the conventional electric power generation systems, in the renewable energy harvesting concept, fossil fuels are not used and the generation units can be decentralized. Therefore, the transmission and distribution losses can be significantly reduced. There are many sources for harvesting energy. Solar, wind, ocean, hydro, electromagnetic, electrostatic, thermal, vibration, and human body motion are renewable sources of energy. Economic, environmental, and geopolitical constraints on global conventional energy resources started forcing the nation to accelerate energy harvesting from renewable sources. Therefore, advanced technical methods should be developed to increase the efficiency of devices in harvesting energy from various environmentally friendly resources and converting them into electrical energy. These developments have sparked interest in many communities such as science, engineering, and education to develop more energy harvesting applications and new curriculums for renewable energy and energy harvesting topics. This book describes various energy harvesting technologies such as solar, wind, ocean wave, ocean tidal, and ocean thermal energy harvesting along with many different topologies and many types of power electronic interfaces for the utilization and/or grid connection of energy harvesting applications. In addition, some simulation models are developed throughout the book in order to build an insight to system analysis and modeling. In the book, the concepts and theoretical background are built for energy harvesting applications.
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Energy Harvesting- Solar, Wind, and Ocean Energy Conversion Systems (Energy, Power Electronics, and Machines)
Year: 2010
Language: english
Author: Alireza Khaligh, Omer C. Onar
Genre: Technical book
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 368
Description: Increasing demand for energy, decreasing conventional fossil-fuel energy sources, and environmental
concerns are driving forces toward renewable energy sources. Energy sources
such as oil, coal, and gas are being quickly depleted or have insufficient reserves for future
demands. Moreover, they are not environmental friendly due to greenhouse gas emissions
and other pollutants. Nuclear energy has a great establishment cost along with a number
of safety concerns. On the other hand, hydroelectric power plants are inexpensive but have
a limited life span and mostly cannot be utilized due to geo-political reasons and seasonal
irregularity of available water. Therefore, the contribution from renewable energy sources
is increasing. Since the world today is experiencing a great shortage of energy, it should
be captured, stored, conditioned, and utilized by alternative techniques. Energy demand
will always increase with the increase in technological developments while conventional
sources will diminish and environmental concerns will gain increased attention.
Energy harvesting, also called energy scavenging, is a concept by which energy is captured,
stored, and utilized using various sources by employing interfaces, storage devices,
and other units. Unlike the conventional electric power generation systems, in the renewable
energy harvesting concept, fossil fuels are not used and the generation units can
be decentralized. Therefore, the transmission and distribution losses can be significantly
reduced. There are many sources for harvesting energy. Solar, wind, ocean, hydro, electromagnetic,
electrostatic, thermal, vibration, and human body motion are renewable sources
of energy. Economic, environmental, and geopolitical constraints on global conventional
energy resources started forcing the nation to accelerate energy harvesting from renewable
sources. Therefore, advanced technical methods should be developed to increase the
efficiency of devices in harvesting energy from various environmentally friendly resources
and converting them into electrical energy. These developments have sparked interest in
many communities such as science, engineering, and education to develop more energy
harvesting applications and new curriculums for renewable energy and energy harvesting
topics. This book describes various energy harvesting technologies such as solar, wind,
ocean wave, ocean tidal, and ocean thermal energy harvesting along with many different
topologies and many types of power electronic interfaces for the utilization and/or grid
connection of energy harvesting applications. In addition, some simulation models are
developed throughout the book in order to build an insight to system analysis and modeling.
In the book, the concepts and theoretical background are built for energy harvesting
applications.
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