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Usually ships in 11-12 business days | | | | | | A Unique Systems Approach to Energy Engineering, Covering Carbon-Based, Nuclear, and Renewable Sources! An essential reference for all engineers and students working with energy systems, Energy Systems Engineering presents a systems approach to future energy needs, covering carbon-based, nuclear, and renewable energy sources. This unique guide explores the latest technology within each energy systems area, the benefits and liabilities of each, the challenges posed by changing energy supplies, the negative impacts from energy consumption, especially CO2 emissions, and the ways in which a portfolio of new technologies can address these problems. Filled with over 200 detailed illustrations and tables, the book examines short-, medium-, and long-term energy options for the remainder of the twenty-first century. For each energy system, the authors provide equations and problems to help practitioners quantify the performance of the technology and better understand its potential. Energy Systems Engineering features: - A valuable systems approach to energy engineering
- Coverage of all major energy topics_from climate change to wind power
- Both U.S. and global energy perspectives, with international comparisons
- Emphasis on CO2 issues and abatement, including carbon sequestration
- A wealth of equations and problems for each area of energy technology
- Numerous tables and graphs in PowerPoint format for easy presentation
An extensive online ancillary package for instructors provides an instructor's manual, solution files, course syllabus, Matlab scripts, and teaching PowerPoint files. Inside This Cutting-Edge Guide to the Technology of Energy Systems: Systems Engineering and Economic Analysis Tools • Climate Change • Fossil Fuels, Relative CO2 Emissions, and Modeling of Consumption and Remaining Reserves • Fossil Fuel Combustion Technologies • Carbon Sequestration • Nuclear Energy • The Solar Energy Resource • Solar Technology • Wind Energy • Energy Technologies for Transportation • Systems Issues for Transportation Energy • Other Emerging Renewable Energy Technologies | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Francis Vanek | | Hardcover: | 532 pages | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill Professional | | Publication Date: | May 19, 2008 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0071495932 | | Product Length: | 9.24 inches | | Product Width: | 7.68 inches | | Product Height: | 1.36 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.41 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.3 inches | | Package Width: | 7.5 inches | | Package Height: | 1.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 7 reviews |
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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Student User May 05, 2010
By Andrew Hart
"Drew"
During my time as an undergrad at Cornell University, one of my favorite classes has been a renewable energy course taught by one of the authors, Lou Albright, with Energy Systems Engineering as the primary textbook. Apart from being clear, well-written, and well-organized, the book does a great job of blending background information, justification for technologies, discussion of practical issues, and quantitative analysis of systems in a manageable and engaging way. Working through it was very empowering and it played a big role in getting me excited about energy. It's also very accessible as a reference for specific projects. I would highly recommend it to other students interested in learning how to work with and analyze energy systems.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Excellent as a university text book Jun 16, 2009
By Jeffrey M. Casello
"Professor"
I teach a 2nd year course in civil engineering at the University of Waterloo entitled Engineering and Sustainable Development. One module involves sustainable energy systems. I use this book as the reference for this section of the course. The presentation of stationary energy sources and the workings of fossil fuel plants is at precisely the correct level of explanation for undergraduate students with sufficient references provided to allow grad students (or keen undergraduates) to find out more information.
What I find best about the text is the presentation of the material from a systems analysis perspective. Understanding the goals of design is as, if not more important than how to do the design.
The text really is superb with regard to the modern sustainability concept of "triple bottom line." Each section delivers not only the technology but also a means to financially or economically evaluate the costs and benefits of such a technology.
Overall, this is a brilliant book on energy which has vast applications in university teaching.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
ASAEE Recommended Title Jan 04, 2009
By Library Picks Reviews
"Library Picks Staff"
As president of the American Society of Alternative Energy Engineers (ASAEE), I can fully endorse the lasting analytical power of this amazing text. Many texts like this, including some we're reviewing that have not yet been published, and slated for late 2009, cover policy, politics, global statistical inference, and multiple regressions of trend analysis for global supply and demand, but NONE come close to balancing the macro and micro in such fine fashion as ESE. This is a WORKING text, not just for policy, but for implementation. Don't let the ups and downs of barrel prices, or the emotion of global warming vs. cooling make you think this text is dated. The models are solid, sound, state of the art, and relevant in a timeless way-- changing the parameters will not change the underlying value of the models, contribution, and need for this text. This is a must for any engineer's library, whether doing policy work, design, or rubber hits the road project or community engineering. Applying an energy metaphor to the text, it's high wattage for low investment, a perpetuity rather than an annuity, green and permanent with frequent use, as well as a cherished place on your shelves, and renewable with the powerful updates, blogs and helpful additions this very ethical author keeps providing-- the gift keeps on giving. Conserve your funds, time and brain power by getting this today-- it will save you muddling through five other texts costing $200 each which only have a piece of the whole picture you'll find herein. The trees didn't give their lives in vain for this one! --Dr. Tom Halstead
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Energy Systems Engineering: Evaluation and Implementation Nov 23, 2009
By David A. Dillard
We have been using Vanek and Albright's text at Virginia Tech for several semesters for a junior/senior level course entitled 'Sustainable Energy Solutions for a Global Society.' Overall, we find the book to be carefully written, providing good breadth as well as depth on some of the major conventional and sustainable energy systems. The students enrolling in our course come from a variety of engineering disciplines and have a range of backgrounds, but the text seems suited to the mix. The examples are helpful for students, and the excercises at the ends of the chapters provide a range of problems for homework assignments, ranging from conceptual to analytical to numerical. Teaching materials available electronically from the publisher include solution spreadsheets and PowerPoint slides of many (but not all) of the figures and tables in the text, facilitating lecture preparation. There are a number of texts available now in the sustainable energy field, but overall, this text provides a good balance of topics relevant to the course we teach.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
An excellent resource, even for non-engineers Apr 02, 2009
By Hefferbub
This book does an excellent job of bridging the gap between dry engineering texts and touchy-feely guides for novices.
The authors treat each topic area with a crisply written and comprehensive walk through that includes history, current state of development, key concepts and important areas of controversy and ongoing development.
These are followed up with well-designed exercises that teach the reader the formulas and equations required to design and evaluate these systems.
As a layman with a good general knowledge of energy systems and their inherent strengths and challenges, I found this book to a nice step up from the treatments I'm used to. The orderly, analytical approach of the trained engineer is compelling, and having the option of proceeding right into the related math a great way to shift my theoretical understanding toward a real working knowledge.
The topic areas covered in this book are critically important for us all to understand, as our race is forced to start implementing some kind of "Plan B" in the era of Peak Oil and Climate Change. This book helps us move from mystique to measurement--a prerequisite if we are to have a hope of getting it right.
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