Energy Storage Devices for Renewable Energy-Based Systems
Rechargeable Batteries and Supercapacitors

Comprehensive overview of the concepts, principles and practical knowledge on energy storage devices that is useful to both students and professionals

Nihal Kularatna (Author), Kosala Gunawardane (Author)

9780128207789

Paperback, published 17 May 2021

438 pages, Approx. 100 illustrations
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.8 cm, 0.7 kg

"The new energy landscape has the potental for m any new innovations for powering the future. With the proliferation of renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, fuel cells, and geothermal, there is increasing research and development of technologies expected to support the power grid of the future. Currently, many proposed power networks require some form of energy storage to moderate the intermittent nature of these renewable energy sources. Two such energy storage devices, that the authors are convinced will play a critical role in future power distribution systems, are batteries and supercapacitors." --IEEE: Electrical Insulation Magazine

Approx.422 pages

1. Energy storage devices - a general overview 2. Rechargeable battery technologies: an electronic engineer’s view point 3. Dynamics, models, and management of rechargeable batteries 4. Capacitors as energy storage devices - simple basics to current commercial families 5. Electrical double-layer capacitors: Fundamentals, characteristics, and equivalent circuits 6. Supercapacitor as a lossless dropper in DC-DC converters 7. Supercapacitors for surge absorption 8. Supercapacitors in a rapid heat transfer application

Subject Areas: Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology [THX], Energy conversion & storage [THRH], Energy technology & engineering [TH], Materials science [TGM]