Energy Sustainability Handbook: A Practical Guide to Renewable Power, Efficiency, and Carbon Reduction for Students and Practitioners
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- Energy Sustainability Handbook: A Practical Guide to Renewable Power, Efficiency, and Carbon Reduction for Students and Practitioners
- Author
- Nolley, Dr. Gebey
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798161377444
The transition to a sustainable energy system demands more than an understanding of individual technologies. Engineers, students, and energy professionals must be able to evaluate resources, conversion efficiency, system reliability, economics, and carbon impacts as parts of one interconnected system.
Energy Sustainability Handbook: A Practical Guide to Renewable Power, Efficiency, and Carbon Reduction for Students and Practitioners by Dr. Gebey Nolley provides a rigorous yet practical introduction to the engineering principles and analytical tools behind modern sustainable-energy systems.
Beginning with the fundamentals of energy, thermodynamics, efficiency, exergy, and energy-conversion chains, the handbook establishes the quantitative foundation needed to understand how energy is produced, transformed, stored, distributed, and ultimately used. It then examines the global energy system and the carbon challenge before moving into the assessment and engineering of major renewable resources.
Readers are guided through the technologies shaping the energy transition, including solar photovoltaic and solar-thermal systems, wind energy, hydropower and marine energy, bioenergy and waste-to-energy, geothermal energy, and heat-pump systems. Rather than simply describing these technologies, the book develops the governing relationships needed to estimate performance, efficiency, and energy yield.
The handbook goes beyond generation to address the systems required to make low-carbon energy practical at scale. Detailed coverage of battery, mechanical, thermal, and hydrogen storage; renewable-grid integration; smart grids; demand response; microgrids; and demand-side energy efficiency helps readers understand how variable resources can be integrated into reliable and efficient energy networks.
The final sections connect engineering performance with real-world decision-making through life-cycle assessment, life-cycle energy and carbon analysis, the time value of money, levelized cost of energy, carbon accounting, carbon pricing, policy instruments, integrated resource planning, and energy-transition pathways.
Inside This Handbook, You Will Learn How To:- Apply the first and second laws of thermodynamics, efficiency, and exergy concepts to energy systems.
- Assess solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and geothermal resources.
- Analyze the performance of major renewable-energy conversion technologies.
- Understand energy storage in terms of power, energy, duration, efficiency, and application.
- Examine the challenges of grid integration, intermittency, balancing, smart grids, and microgrids.
- Evaluate opportunities for energy efficiency and demand-side management in buildings, industry, and transport.
- Perform life-cycle, economic, and carbon assessments of competing energy options.
- Use concepts such as LCOE, carbon intensity, carbon pricing, and integrated resource planning to compare energy-system choices.
- Connect individual technologies into a broader framework for reliable, affordable, and lower-carbon energy systems.
Designed for serious learning as well as practical reference, each chapter progresses from underlying theory to applied analysis. Important relationships are developed through complete derivations, while worked numerical examples show assumptions, units, calculations, and results step by step. Practice problems and solutions reinforce the analytical methods introduced throughout the text.
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