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Sustainable Energy Systems and Applications / Dincer, Ibrahim, Zamfirescu, Calin   , Springer, 1st Edition., 2011, X, 590 p. 100 illus., Hardcover , ISBN: 978-0-387-95860-6  Due: April 29, 2011http://www.springer.com/engineering/mechanical+eng/book/978-0-387-95860-6About this textbook : (© Springer)Sustainable Energy Systems and Applications presents analyses  of sustainable energy systems and their applications, providing new  understandings, methodologies, models and applications along with  descriptions of several illustrative examples and case studies. This  textbook aims to address key pillars in the field, such as:  better efficiency, cost effectiveness, use of energy resources,  environment, energy security, and sustainable development. It also  includes some cutting-edge topics, such as hydrogen and fuel cells,  renewable, clean combustion technologies, CO2 abatement technologies,  and some potential tools for design, analysis and performance  improvement. The book also:Discusses producing energy by increasing systems efficiency in generation, conversion, transportation and consumptionAnalyzes the conversion of fossil fuels to clean fuels for limiting  pollution and creating a better environmentSustainable Energy Systems and Applications is  a research-based textbook which can be used by senior undergraduate and  graduate students, engineers, practitioners, scientists,  and researchers in the area of sustainable energy systems.Content Level » GraduateKeywords »   chemical devices   -  clean combustion technologies   -  direct energy conversion   -  district energy systems   -  industrial ecology   -  nuclear energy   -  sustainable process design   -  thermal devices   -  thermodynamic fundamentals