Sustainable Hydropower in West Africa: Planning, Operation, and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780128130162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str.

Amos Kabo-Bah

Spis treści

1. Climate Change and Hydro-Vision 2. Promoting Hydropower Research in Africa 3. Hydropower and the era of Climate Change and Carbon Financing 4. Hydropower development- Review of the Successes and Failures in the World 5. Climate Change and Societal Change 6. Renewable Energy, Sustainable Development and Energy Systems Integration 7. Hydropower Technologies - Opportunities and Challenges 8. Hydropower and Changing Economic Needs 9. Legislation on Hydropower Use and Development 10. Re-engineering Hydropower Plant for Improved Performance 11. Hydropower Generation in West Africa - the Working Solution Manual

O autorze

Ing. Prof. Amos Kabo-bah is an Associate Professor and the acting Dean for the International Relations Office at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) - Sunyani-Ghana. He holds BSc Civil Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, MSc Environmental Hydrology from the University of Twente in the Netherlands and a PhD in Hydrology and Water Resources from the Hohai University in Nanjing, China. He had his Post-doctoral research on Climate Change Impacts on Hydropower Generation in Ghana at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Dr. Chukwuemeka J. Diji is a senior lecturer and the immediate past acting. Head of department, department of mechanical engineering, university of Ibadan (August, 2015 - July, 2017). he currently teach courses in Thermo - fluids, material science, production technology and entrepreneurship as well as energy studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. I also serve as an associate lecturer in three major academic Centre's of the University of Ibadan: Centre for Sustainable Development (CESDEV); Centre for Petroleum, Economics, Energy and Law (CPEEL); and the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI). He obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ibadan in 2008, and is a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Automobile Engineers' Institute and registered engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).