Renewable Energy Engineering and Technology Principles and Practice

• The book is an exhaustive compilation of renewable energy technology.
• The chapters have been written by experts from various fields.
• Photographs and graphs are presented with each chapter.
• State-of-the-art technologies are explained simply and in a lucid manner.
• The book will be an interesting read for a lay person interested in knowing about the recent advances in renewable energy.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors

Chapter 1 : Energy and Development : Concerns of the Current Millennium
Chapter 2 : Renewable Energy Utilization : Desirability, Feasibility, and the Niches
Chapter 3 : Review of Basic Scientific and Engineering Principles
Chapter 4 : The Solar Energy Resource
Chapter 5 : Solar Photovoltaic Technology
Chapter 6 : Solar Thermal Engineering
Chapter 7 : Elements of Passive Solar Architecture
Chapter 8 : Wind Energy Resources
Chapter 9 : Introduction to Wind Turbine Technology
Chapter 10 : Small Hydro : Resource and Technology
Chapter 11 : Geothermal Energy, Tidal Energy, Wave Energy, and Ocean Thermal energy
Chapter 12 : Bio-Energy Resources
Chapter 13 : Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass
Chapter 14 : Biochemical Methods of Conversion
Chapter 15 : Liquid Fuels From Biomass : Fundamentals, Process Chemistry, and Technologies  

Index