Smart Energy Technologies Towards a Sustainable Future

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of renewable energy systems, elucidating the fundamental principles underpinning technologies such as solar photovoltaics, wind turbines, and biomass conversion.

Discusses the role of computational fluid dynamics simulations in bioenergy production, and for thermal solar collectors.
Covers geothermal power plant design and performance optimization, and solar-assisted heat pump technologies for building applications.
Highlights the role of smart technologies such as artificial intelligence in sustainable energy technologies.
Presents case studies on renewable energy sources, power demand, policies, and solar thermal desalination technologies.
Explains valorization of biomass to fuel briquettes and environmental life cycle analysis of renewable energy.

The text is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of environmental engineering, renewable energy, clean technologies, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, and civil engineering.

Author Biography

Dan Bahadur Pal is an assistant professor, in the Department of Chemical Engineering, at Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur, India. His research interests include nanotechnology, catalysis, energy and environment, and waste management, with a special focus on developing processes and materials using waste as raw materials. He also prefers to work on bio-waste processing and value addition. He has more than 90 publications in journals and conferences of national and international reputation.

Ashish Kapoor is working as a professor, in the Department of Chemical Engineering, at Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur, India. He received his doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research interests include environmental remediation, microfluidic sensors for water quality monitoring, transport processes, modeling, and simulation. He has published more than 45 publications in reputed journals and 10 book chapters. He has been granted one patent.