Energy Conversion Engineering: Towards Low CO2 Power and Fuels

This textbook provides students with the theoretical and practical tools to model, design, and build efficient and clean low-carbon energy systems, covering conventional and emerging renewable energy conversion systems with worked examples, homework problems, and online instructor resources.

Format: Hardback
Length: 1000 pages
Publication date: 11 November 2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This groundbreaking textbook provides students with the essential theoretical and practical skills required to model, design, and construct efficient and environmentally friendly low-carbon energy systems. Students are introduced to the principles of thermodynamics, encompassing chemical and electrochemical thermodynamics, and then applied to real-world energy systems, showcasing the interconnectedness between fundamental concepts and theoretical analysis, modeling, application, and design. The topics gradually become more complex, fostering students' confidence as they progress toward the utilization of advanced concepts and models for low to zero carbon energy conversion systems. The textbook comprehensively covers both conventional and emerging renewable energy conversion systems, such as efficient fuel cells, carbon capture cycles, biomass utilization, geothermal and solar thermal systems, hydrogen and low-carbon fuels. It includes numerous worked examples, over 100 multi-component homework problems, and online instructor resources, including lecture slides, solutions, and sample term projects, making it an ideal teaching resource for an advanced undergraduate and graduate-level course in energy conversion engineering.

Weight: 1930g
Dimension: 197 x 254 x 42 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108478373
Edition number: New ed