Mitigating Climate Change

This book includes the proceedings of the Mitigating Climate Change 2021 Symposium and Industry Summit (MCC2021), which brings together research from experts in academia, industry, and policy arenas to uncover the challenges, sharpen existing solutions, and formulate cutting-edge means to mitigate climate change. It highlights the need to create sustainable measures at all fronts including adaptation, policy, finance, renewable energy, solar, wind, thermoelectric, green transportation, and sustainable healthcare. This symposium will disseminate the state-of-the-art breakthroughs and promote collaborations to maximize opportunities for innovative solutions.

Presents the latest research on mitigating climate change Offers a multidisciplinary perspective, including experts from research, policy, and industrial backgrounds Discusses green energy, sustainable food, and water conservation

Autorentext

Professor David S-K Ting is the Founder of the Turbulence & Energy Laboratory. He supervises students on a wide range of research projects primarily in the energy conservation and renewable energy areas. To date, Dr. Ting has co-supervised over eighty graduate students and co-authored more than one hundred and forty journal papers. His editorial involvement includes a dozen special issues in high-impact journals, five volumes with IET, five with Springer, three with CRC/Taylor and Francis, one with World Scientific Publishing, one with Jenny Stanford, in addition to four single-authored textbooks. Dr. Ahmad Vasel-Be-Hagh is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Founding Principal Investigator of the Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory at Tennessee Technological University. He researches fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics using analytical and computational fluid dynamics and laboratory/field experiments. His research applications include thermal power plants, wind farms, energy storage, aircraft and submarines, and marine hydrokinetic devices. To date, he has published 22 articles in scientific journals and six chapters in research books. He has edited three books, four proceedings, and multiple special issues.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Defeating the Impacts of Changing Climates.- Chapter 2. Comparison on Critical Performance Characteristics of Perovskite-based Flexible Solar Cells.- Chapter 3. Electro-thermal and Mechanical Optimization of a Concentrated Solar Thermoelectric Generator.- Chapter 4. Green Technology: Application of Solar Energy into the Transportation Sector for Global Energy and Environmental Vulnerability.- Chapter 5. Renewable Energy Sources: A Study Focused on Wind Energy.- Chapter 6. Financial Optimization in the Renewable Energy Sector.- Chapter 7. Policy Responses to Climate Change: Lessons from Covid and Other Historical Crises. Chapter 8. An Energy-Efficient Green Design and Modelling of a Health Clinic Located in a Cold Climate Zone.- Chapter 9. Study on Thermal Comfort in Elderly Care Centres.- Chapter 10. Evaluating Alternative in Dental Implant Materials by SWARA and Gray Relational Analysis.