Mechanical Energy Storage for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Resources

Describes storage techniques intuitively, yet based on very effective ideas

Contains some unique ideas/approaches in terms of development and analysis

Designed to work as a standalone textbook, with most of the physics and math basis described in early chapters

Describes storage techniques intuitively, yet based on highly effective approaches Includes a wealth of unique ideas/approaches in terms of development and analysis Written as a self-contained textbook, with most of the physics and mathematical basis described in early chapters

Autorentext

Dr Abdul Hai Alami, an Associate Professor at the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Program at University of Sharjah.Dr Alami has received his PhD from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada in 2006. Since then, he had held the position of Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Hashemite University in Jordan, till he moved to the UAE in 2010 where he worked as a Mechanical Engineering Faculty at the Higher Colleges of Technology, Al Ain.The current area of interest of Dr Alami is the synthesis and characterization of mesoporous materials for third generation photovoltaic solar cells, solar thermal energy utilization and augmentation (selective solar absorbers, evaporative cooling of PV modules) and novel ways of mechanical energy storage (buoyancy force, superconductor synthesis and deposition as well as compressed air).

Inhalt
Introduction and general concepts.- Compressed Air Energy Storage.- Buoyancy Work Energy Storage.- Hydrodynamic Energy Storage.- Flywheels and Superconductors.- Phase-change Energy Thermal Energy Storage.