ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems defines requirements for third-party certification. This book serves as a practical manual how to implement ISO 50001 following an approach of integrated management. A broad scope of background theories and practical examples are showing how t…
The 3rd International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy Related Materials (ENEFM2015) was held from 19-23 October 2015. This congress focused on the latest developments of sustainable energy technologies, materials for sustainable energy applications and environmental and…
The volumes includes selected and reviewed papers from the 1st ETA Conference on Energy and Thermal Management, Air Conditioning and Waste Heat Recovery in Berlin, December 1-2, 2016. Experts from university, public authorities and industry discuss the latest technological devel…
Have you ever wondered by how much CO2 emissions can be reduced by running cars electrically or with hydrogen as fuel? This Brief provides a quantitative answer to this question using the example of the combined road traffic in Spain. The authors calculate the resulting greenhou…
The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling several applications/services in healthcare and medical fields. Due to the rapid proliferation of wearable devices and smartphones, the IoT-enabled technology is evolving healthcare from conventional hub-based system to more personalized …
This book describes warehouse-scale computers (WSCs), the computing platforms that power cloud computing and all the great web services we use every day. It discusses how these new systems treat the datacenter itself as one massive computer designed at warehouse scale, with hard…
Before the onset of the global financial crisis in late 2008, countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) experienced strong economic growth. Demand for electricity increased steadily with gross domestic product (GDP). GDP grew, on average, 6.5 percent between 2000 and 20…
La 4e de couverture indique : "This book describes the fundamentals and applications of wireless power transfer (WPT) in electric vehicles (EVs). Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a technology that allows devices to be powered without having to be connected to the electrical grid…
This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions. It shows the value of actor-centred analysis that acknowledges the role of individual-level processes within their wider contexts of energy supp…
This book discusses how to maximize heat transfer rates with the addition of nanoparticles into conventional heat transfer fluids. --
Following a law passed in 2004 alleviating maximum building height, historic architecture in Kuwait City is under threat of demolition and replacement by high rise buildings. The impact is three-fold: first, the demolition of historic properties – many of which are the result of…
Cities with aging building stocks and budgetary challenges often have a high number of buildings in need of energy efficiency upgrades. Inefficient residential buildings have a higher energy consumption and its associated negative, unintended environmental and social consequence…
This thesis describes the legislative history of California’s changing relationship with the environment in the twentieth century. This thesis demonstrates that the initial policy changes facilitated future policy changes and ultimately led to new legislative protocols that emph…
This book provides the readers with a timely guide to the application and integration of interdisciplinary principles from the fields of kinetic design, mechanics, energy and materials engineering in the fields of architecture and engineering design. It explores the potential in…
