This revised and updated 3rd edition of the book allows readers to develop a practical understanding of the major aspects of energy. It also includes two new chapters addressing renewable energy, and energy management and economics.

The book begins by introducing basic definitions, and then moves on to discuss the primary and secondary energy types, internal energy and enthalpy, and energy balance, heat of reaction and heat transfer. Each chapter features fully solved example problems and practice problems to support learning and the application of the topics discussed, including:

• energy production and conversion;
• energy conservation;
• energy storage;
• energy coupling;
• sustainability in energy systems;
• renewable energy; and
• energy management and economics.

Written for students across a range of engineering and science disciplines, the book provides a comprehensive study guide. It is particularly suitable for courses in energy technology, sustainable energy technologies and energy conversion & management, and offers an ideal reference text for students, engineers, energy researchers and industry professionals.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Basic Definitions

2 Energy Sources

3 Mechanical Energy and Electrical Energy

4 Internal Energy and Enthalpy

5 Energy Balances

6 Energy Production

7 Energy Conversion

8 Energy Storage

9 Energy Conservation

10 Energy Coupling

11 Sustainability in Energy Technologies

12 Renewable Energy

13 Energy Management and Economics

Appendix A Physical and Critical Properties

Appendix B Heat Capacities

Appendix C Enthalpies and Gibbs Energies of Formation

Appendix D Ideal Gas Properties of Some Common Gases

Appendix E Thermochemical Properties

About the Author

Professor Yaşar Demirel is currently a member of the faculty at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1981. Over the past 30 years he has focused on energy science and thermodynamics, process design and optimization, techno economic analysis, sustainability analysis, and exergy analysis. He undertook research at the University of Delaware between 1999 and 2001 and worked at Virginia Tech as a visiting Professor between 2002 and 2006, before joining the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2006. Professor Demirel has authored or co-authored ten books and book chapters, more than 100 research papers in respected international journals, and presented over 50 conference papers and offers an ideal reference text for students, engineers, energy researchers and industry professionals.