Storing Energy: With Special Reference to Renewable Energy Sources

ISBN-13: 9780128245101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 872 str.

Trevor M. Letcher

Spis treści

A. INTRODUCTION 1.The Role of Energy Storage in Low-Carbon Energy Systems

B. ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE TECHNIQUES GRAVITATIONAL/ MECHANICAL / THERMOMECHANICAL 2. Pumped Hydro-electricity 3. Novel Hydroelectric Storage Concepts 4. Advance Rail Energy Storage (ARES) 5. Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) in Underground Formations 6. Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) with Underground Storage 7 Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) with Undersea Bags 8. Pumped Hydro Combined with Compressed Air 9. Liquid Air Energy Storage: (LAES) 10. Flywheels 11. Rechargeable Batteries 12. The Vanadium  Redox  Flow Batteries Thermal 13. Phase Changes 14. Solar Ponds 15. Sensible Thermal Energy Storage: Diurnal and Seasonal Chemical 16. Hydrogen from Water Electrolysis 17. Chemical Reactions 18. Power to Gas 19. Traditional Energy Storage: natural gas, oil and coal  20. Large Scale Hydrogen Storage

C. INTEGRATION 21. Network Integration and Smart Grids 22. Off-Grid Energy Storage

D. INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND THE POLITICS OF INTRODUCING RENEWABLE ENERGY SCHEMES 23. Energy Storage World-Wide 24. Energy Storage in China 25. Politics of Investing in Renewable Energy Systems 26. Pumped Thermal Energy 27. Betavoltaic Devices for Small 28. Batteries (Diamond Plus C14 Graphite) 29. Superconducting Magnets 30. Supercapitors 31. Harvesting Energy from Car Tyres (Friction) 32. Concentrated Solar Energy and Co2 + H2o Catalysed to Liquid Fuel 33. Tidal Storage 34. Molten Salts 35. New Types of Batteries 36. Sustainability Issues in Storing Energy 37. Energy Markets for Storing Energy around the World

O autorze

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.