E-grāmata: Energy and Sustainability IX

This volume presents papers from the Ninth International Conference on Energy and Sustainability, held online in 2021. They address sustainable energy production, including a methodological framework for energy project evaluation in Russian business practice to improve the objectivity of investing decisions, a decision support system used to improve the competitiveness of a power generating company under conditions of uncertainty, and the identification and classification of cogeneration systems by competitiveness levels of power generating companies; energy efficiency, particularly the thermal effect of lighting and window-to-wall ratio in mosques in Saudi Arabia and energy consumption in residential buildings in hot regions; energy and the circular economy, including circular economy concepts applied to waste anaerobic digestion plants, material cycles for a transition to low-end carbon energy systems in New Zealand, and the dechlorination of plastic-rich fractions rejected from waste electric and electronic equipment recycling plants through pyrolysis for valorization; renewable energy resources, including wind turbines, household products to protect the environment, hot water storage tanks, and palm kernel shells in the torrefaction process; and sustainable buildings in industrial facilities and housing. Contributors work in engineering, energy, and other fields in Europe, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Columbia, and Asia. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics International Inc. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Depletion of resources and severe environmental effects resulting from the continuous use of fossil fuels has motivated an increasing amount of interest in renewable energy resources and the search for sustainable energy policies. This volume contains research papers presented at the 9th International conference on Energy and Sustainability.

The world’s economy is fuelled by energy. Depletion of resources and severe environmental effects resulting from the continuous use of fossil fuels has motivated an increasing amount of interest in renewable energy resources and the search for sustainable energy policies. This volume contains research papers presented at the 9th International conference on Energy and Sustainability.The changes required to progress from an economy mainly focussed on hydrocarbons to one taking advantage of sustainable renewable energy resources require considerable scientific research, as well as the development of new engineering systems. Energy policies and management are of primary importance to achieve the development of sustainability and need to be consistent with recent advances in energy production and distribution.In many cases, the challenges lie as much in the conversion from renewable energies (wind, solar, etc.) to useful forms (electricity, heat, fuel) at an acceptable cost including damage to the environment as in the integration of these resources into the existing infrastructure.The diverse topics covered by the papers in this book involve collaboration between different disciplines in order to arrive at optimum solutions, including studies of materials, energy networks, new energy resources, storage solutions, waste to energy systems, smart grids and many others.