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Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy

Volume 2: Opportunities in Production, Storage, and Integration

  • 1st Edition - March 27, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Mejdi Jeguirim
  • Language: English

Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy: Volume 2—Opportunities in Production, Storage, and Integration is the sixth book in the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies… Read more

Description

Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy: Volume 2—Opportunities in Production, Storage, and Integration is the sixth book in the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies series. Based on the key themes of the International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC), this volume looks at the production performance of renewable energy sources and emerging production processes.

Containing all major renewable energy technologies in individual chapters, this reference includes some of the most dynamic developments, good practices, and future concepts in solar energy systems, energy storage, geothermal energy, bioenergy, wind energy, fuel cell, and hydrogen production, as well as in policy and regulation. By reviewing these state-of-the-art advances, considering them with real work application, and analyzing key challenges, this book provides readers with an up-to-date source on renewable energy grid integration and its importance in aiding the energy transition.

This is a valuable resource for graduates, researchers, professors, and industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector, as well as advanced engineering courses dealing with renewable energy, sources, thermal and electrical energy production, and sustainability.

Key features

  • Presents and analyzes the latest advances across solar, bioenergy, hydrogen production, wind, geothermal, hydropower, and energy storage
  • Contributed to by global experts with a focus on challenges and opportunities in renewable energy production and distribution
  • Emphasizes the importance of sustainability, policy, and regulation in relation to successful and achievable implementation

Readership

Graduates, researchers, professors, and industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector

Table of contents

Section 1: SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY

1. Advanced reflector material concepts for concentrating solar thermal systems

2. Evaluation of Solar Rock Bed Used for Heating Schools in Jordan

Section 2: SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY

3. Recent advancements in photovoltaic-thermal solar energy systems and their some applications

4. Assessment of voltage regulation and dynamic performance of a grid-following inverter-based resources in a primary distribution network using EMTP/ATPDraw program

5. A new simplified SVPWM technique for transformer-less photovoltaic multilevel inverter with common mode voltage mitigation

Section 3: BIOENERGY PRODUCTION

6. Advances in hydrothermal liquefication and gasification technologies

7. Recent advances in biogas production: technologies, challenges, and future trends

Section 4: HYDROGEN PRODUCTION

8. Solid-based electrolyte water electrolyzers for green hydrogen production

9. Hydrogen production from biomass through microbial electrolysis cell

10. Advances in hydrogen-based energy storage for sustainable applications

Section 5: WIND ENERGY

11. Plasma-assisted recycling of wind turbine blades to energy and other materials

12. Robust sliding mode control for high-performance wind turbine emulator based on two-phase induction motor using an adaptive nonlinear sliding mode flux observer

Section 6: GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

13. Geothermal production using carbon dioxide as the heat transfer fluid: recent advances and future prospects

14. Geothermal energy potential and development in China

Section 7: HYDROPOWER

15. Hyroelectric energy and carbon footprint management

16. Integration of heat from renewable energy in industrial systems

17. Development of a 3D-printed Archimedean screw turbine workflow for Pico hydropower generation at low water flow rate

Section 8: FUEL CELLS

18. Utilization of landfill and industrial waste gases in solid oxide fuel cells: challenges and perspectives

Section 9: SUSTAINABILITY, POLICIES AND REGULATIONS

19. Evaluating effective road transport decarbonization strategies to remain below the 1.5°C limit

20. Energy policies and regulation pathways for a sustainable energy transition: a global review

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 31, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editor

MJ

Mejdi Jeguirim

Dr. Mejdi Jeguirim is a Professor at the University of Haute Alsace (France) in the field of energy, process engineering, and kinetics modeling. He has two main research interests, namely biomass valorization (pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion) and exhaust gas treatment (NOx and soot abatement as well as volatile organic compounds’ elimination). He is a prolific author of journal articles and book chapters and is a member of the editorial board of the following international journals: Energy (Elsevier), Energies (MDPI), Energy for Sustainable Development (Elsevier), Biofuels (Taylor & Francis), International Journal of Green Energy (Taylor & Francis). He has received the French National Research Excellence Award for researchers with a high level of scientific activity for the 2009-2012, 2013-2016, 2017-2020 and 2021-2024 periods. Since 2019, Dr. Jeguirim has been added to the World’s Top 2% Scientists list established by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier. For Elsevier, he is also the series editor of the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies series.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Institut de Sciences des Matériaux, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France

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