Renewable Energy Engineering

Quantitative, accessible, multidisciplinary and fully updated, with new coverage of energy storage, microgrids and off-grid systems.

Nick Jenkins (Author), Janaka Ekanayake (Author)

9781009295765, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 March 2024

550 pages
25.3 x 17.9 x 2.7 cm, 1.13 kg

'The book has a lot of very useful and general content that will support one module but also parts of a programme. Useful to have an updated general text to support teaching of renewable energy (the science/engineering).' Christopher Dixon, University of Dundee

Fully revised and updated, this second edition provides students with a quantitative and accessible introduction to the renewable technologies at the heart of efforts to build a sustainable future. Key features include new chapters on essential topics in energy storage, off-grid systems, microgrids and community energy; revised chapters on energy and grid fundamentals, wind energy, hydro power, photovoltaic and solar thermal energy, marine energy and bioenergy; appendices on foundational topics in electrical engineering, heat transfer and fluid dynamics; discussion of how real-world projects are developed, constructed and operated; over 60 worked examples linking theory to real-world engineering applications; and over 150 end-of-chapter homework problems, with solutions for instructors. Accompanied online at www.cambridge.org/jenkins2e by extended exercises and datasets, enabling instructors to create unique projects and coursework, this new edition remains the ideal multi-disciplinary introduction to renewable energy, for senior undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and the physical sciences.

1. Energy in the modern world
2. Wind energy
3. Hydro power
4. The solar energy resource
5. Photovoltaic systems
6. Solar thermal systems
7. Marine energy
8. Bioenergy
9. Development and appraisal of renewable energy projects
10. Electrical energy systems
11. Storage of renewable energy
12. Off-grid systems, microgrids and community energy systems
Tutorial I. Electrical engineering
Tutorial II. Heat transfer
Tutorial III. Simple behaviour of fluids
Index.

Subject Areas: Energy technology & engineering [TH]