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The Environmentally Conscious Alternative Energy Production Report Is Just One of a Series of Essential Titles Targeted at Practicing Professionals in the Field

Posted on: Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 09:06 CST

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c73665) has announced the addition of "Environmentally Conscious Alternative Energy Production" to their offering.

The Series in Environmentally Conscious Engineering will be made up of a number of contributed books, each covering a broad subset of information. Planned titles include: Environmentally Conscious Mechanical Design, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Environmentally Conscious Material and Chemical Processing, Environmentally Conscious Alternative Energy Production, Environmentally Conscious Transportation, Environmentally Conscious Materials Handling, and Environmentally Conscious Fossil Energy Production. The target market for the series will be practicing professionals, both engineers and managers, and upper level engineering students.

This fourth volume of the series, Environmentally Conscious Alternative Energy Production, will describe and compare the environmental and economic impacts of renewable and alternative conventional power generation technologies. Major topic areas will include: Economic comparisons of power generation technologies, Efficiency comparisons of power generation technologies, Methods of improving the environmental impact of conventional technologies, Solar thermal systems, Photovoltaics, Fuel cell technologies, Geothermal power generation, Hydroelectric power generation, Wind power generation, Cogeneration, The hydrogen economy, Energy efficient building design, Industrial energy conservation, and Codes, standards and legislation, and others.

About the author:

Myer Kutz is founder and President of Myer Kutz Associates, Inc., a publishing and information services consulting firm. In addition to the series in Environmentally Conscious Engineering, he is the Editor of the Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, Third Edition (4-volume set) and the Handbook of Materials Selection.

Contents:

Preface.

Contributors.

1. Economic Comparisons of Power Generation Technologies (Todd Nemec).

2. Solar Energy Applications (Jan F. Kreider).

3. Fuel Cells (Matthew W. Mench).

4. Geothermal Resources and Technology: An Introduction (Peter D. Blair).

5. Wind Power Generation (Todd Nemec).

6. Cogeneration (Jerald Caton).

7. Hydrogen Energy (Elias K. Stefanakos, Yogi Goswami, S.S. Srinivasan, and J.T. Wolan).

8. Clean Power Generation from Coal (Prabir Basu and James Butler).

9. Using Waste Heat from Power Plants (Herbert A. Ingley).

Index.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c73665.

Source: Business Wire

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