Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings
Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings

Author: CAROLINE. CATTINI

Publisher:

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781848025172

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This guidance covers the issues associated with installing a heat pump in a historic building. It describes the different options available and how they work. Advice is also provided on how to minimise the potential damage to the fabric of the building in the design of the installation. Before installing a renewable energy technology in a building, all available energy efficiency measures, including low-energy lighting, heating controls and improved insulation, should ideally already have been made. This guidance note is aimed at providing advice for building owners and occupiers who are considering installing a heat pump to generate their own energy. It will also be useful for architects, surveyors, building contractors or similar building professionals who need to make the appropriate selection of equipment and method of installation to work within a historic building. This guidance note is one of a series of five guidance notes covering the installation of renewables and low carbon technologies such as photovoltaics, solar thermal, hydroelectric and wind.

Evolution and Path Dependence in Economic Ideas
Evolution and Path Dependence in Economic Ideas

Author: Pierre Garrouste

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781781950227

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Since the 1980s there has been a renewed interest in attempts to introduce a sense of history into economic literature. In this text, the authors argue that it is not possible to explain a state of the world without first analyzing the processes that lead to that state.

An Introduction to Thermogeology
An Introduction to Thermogeology

Author: David Banks

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-05-30

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1118447506

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This authoritative guide provides a basis for understanding theemerging technology of ground source heating and cooling. It equipsengineers, geologists, architects, planners and regulators with thefundamental skills needed to manipulate the ground's huge capacityto store, supply and receive heat, and to implement technologies(such as heat pumps) to exploit that capacity for space heating andcooling. The author has geared the book towards understanding groundsource heating and cooling from the ground side (the geologicalaspects), rather than solely the building aspects. Heexplains the science behind thermogeology and offers practicalguidance on different design options. An Introduction to Thermogeology: ground source heating andcooling is aimed primarily at professionals whose skill areasimpinge on the emerging technology of ground source heating andcooling. They will be aware of the importance of the technology andwish to rapidly acquire fundamental theoretical understanding anddesign skills. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded tocover new technical developments and now includes end-of-chapterstudy questions to test the reader's understanding.

Geothermal Energy
Geothermal Energy

Author: Marc A. Rosen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-11-18

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1119181038

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Comprehensively covers geothermal energy systems that utilize ground energy in conjunction with heat pumps to provide sustainable heating and cooling The book describes geothermal energy systems that utilize ground energy in conjunction with heat pumps and related technologies to provide heating and cooling. Also discussed are methods to model and assess such systems, as well as means to determine potential environmental impacts of geothermal energy systems and their thermal interaction. The book presents the most up-to-date information in the area. It provides material on a range of topics, from thermodynamic concepts to more advanced discussions of the renewability and sustainability of geothermal energy systems. Numerous applications of such systems are also provided. Geothermal Energy: Sustainable Heating and Cooling Using the Ground takes a research orientated approach to provide coverage of the state of the art and emerging trends, and includes numerous illustrative examples and case studies. Theory and analysis are emphasized throughout, with detailed descriptions of models available for vertical and horizontal geothermal heat exchangers. Key features: Explains geothermal energy systems that utilize ground energy in conjunction with heat pumps to provide heating and cooling, as well as related technologies such as thermal energy storage. Describes and discusses methods to model and analyze geothermal energy systems, and to determine their potential environmental impacts and thermal interactions. Covers various applications of geothermal energy systems. Takes a research orientated approach to provide coverage of the state of the art and emerging trends. Includes numerous illustrative examples and case studies. The book is key for researchers and practitioners working in geothermal energy, as well as graduate and advanced undergraduate students in departments of mechanical, civil, chemical, energy, environmental, process and industrial engineering.

Optimization of Energy Systems
Optimization of Energy Systems

Author: Ibrahim Din¿er

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 111889443X

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An essential resource for optimizing energy systems to enhance design capability, performance and sustainability Optimization of Energy Systems comprehensively describes the thermodynamic modelling, analysis and optimization of numerous types of energy systems in various applications. It provides a new understanding of the system and the process of defining proper objective functions for determination of the most suitable design parameters for achieving enhanced efficiency, cost effectiveness and sustainability. Beginning with a general summary of thermodynamics, optimization techniques and optimization methods for thermal components, the book goes on to describe how to determine the most appropriate design parameters for more complex energy systems using various optimization methods. The results of each chapter provide potential tools for design, analysis, performance improvement, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Key features: Comprehensive coverage of the modelling, analysis and optimization of many energy systems for a variety of applications. Examples, practical applications and case studies to put theory into practice. Study problems at the end of each chapter that foster critical thinking and skill development. Written in an easy-to-follow style, starting with simple systems and moving to advanced energy systems and their complexities. A unique resource for understanding cutting-edge research in the thermodynamic analysis and optimization of a wide range of energy systems, Optimization of Energy Systems is suitable for graduate and senior undergraduate students, researchers, engineers, practitioners, and scientists in the area of energy systems.

Energy Technology Innovation
Energy Technology Innovation

Author: Arnulf Grubler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 110702322X

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An edited volume on factors determining success or failure of energy technology innovation, for researchers and policy makers.

Energy Geotechnics
Energy Geotechnics

Author: Frank Wuttke

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 743

ISBN-13: 1315315238

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Energy Geotechnics includes 97 technical papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Energy Geotechnics (ICEGT 2016, Kiel, Germany, 29-31 August 2016). The contributions provides significant advances and critical challenges facing the areas of fundamentals, constitutive and numerical modelling, testing techniques and energy geotechnics applications. Energy Geotechnics contains seven regular sessions and six minisymposia, with contributions on discrete and continuum based modelling as well as investigations based on experimental studies at various scales. The papers on discrete and continuum based modelling examine the behaviour of gas hydrate sediments, cyclic and Themo-Hydro-Mechanical (T-H-M) modelling of energy piles, non-linear behaviour of energy geo-storage and geo-structures, deformation of geomaterials, modelling of borehole heat exchangers and energy walls, analysis of hydraulic fracturing and discontinuities in reservoirs, engineering problems involving gas hydrates sediments, and modelling of environmental impact of energy geotechnical processes.

The Law of Renewable Energy
The Law of Renewable Energy

Author: Louise Smail

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-11-27

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 152651513X

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The renewable energy sector is changing rapidly, from funding and legislation through to technology and supply chain. People have relied on many sources for energy in both industry and everyday life, including oil, gas, coal and wood. Renewable energy is now overtaking fossil fuels and as solar energy and wind power become cheaper and more competitive, it is important to understand how the renewable energy market and relevant law is developing. The Law of Renewable Energy examines the current and future renewable energy options and the legal challenges that surround them. Does renewable mean climate friendly and what about growing crops for energy? If you want to have an understanding of how renewable energy is being used, not just in the UK and Europe but throughout the world, then this is the book for you. This brand new title includes: an overall view on the move to renewables analysis of renewable energy cases industry trends environmental impact a section on future thinking a global view of renewables This book is essential reading for practitioners and anyone with a commercial interest in renewable energy.

Existing Housing and Climate Change
Existing Housing and Climate Change

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Communities and Local Government Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780215514424

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The UK contains more than 26 million homes which, collectively, emitted 41.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2004. This book includes chapters, which examine: regulation and encouragement; financial incentives; energy performance certificates; breaching the barriers to change; newer technologies; and, older buildings.