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There are enormous reserves of energy in the winds and the tides and in the temperature difference between the upper and lower regions of the oceans. This title describes conventional hydropower, or wind power, and some of the newer technologies (with less certain futures), and discusses the strengths and limitations of each technology.

Renewable energy sources. --- Power (Mechanics)

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Machinery --- Machines --- Manufactures --- Power (Mechanics) --- Technology --- Mechanical engineering --- Motors --- Power transmission --- Curious devices

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We are hearing a LOT about renewable energy these days! But unlike most available resources on alternative energy that focus on politics and economic impacts, da Rosa's practical guide, Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes, is dedicated to explaining the scientific and technological principles and processes that enable energy production from safe, renewable, clean sources. Advances in the renewable energy sphere are proceeding with an unprecedented speed, and in order for the world's alarming energy challenges to be solved, solid, up-to-date resources addressing the techni

Environmental engineering. --- Power (Mechanics). --- Renewable energy sources. --- Renewable energy sources --- Power (Mechanics) --- Environmental engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Environmental control --- Environmental effects --- Environmental stresses --- Energy --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Engineering --- Environmental health --- Environmental protection --- Pollution --- Sustainable engineering --- Mechanics --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy

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Compiling the expertise of nine pioneers of the field, Magnetic Bearings - Theory, Design, and Application to Rotating Machinery offers an encyclopedic study of this rapidly emerging field with a balanced blend of commercial and academic perspectives. Every element of the technology is examined in detail, beginning at the component level and proceeding through a thorough exposition of the design and performance of these systems. The roster of authors boasts an average of twenty-five years of work developing magnetic bearing technology - a truly exceptional pool of experience. The book is organized in a logical fashion, starting with an overview of the technology and a survey of the range of applications. A background chapter then explains the central concepts of active magnetic bearings while avoiding a morass of technical details. From here, the reader continues to a meticulous, state-of-the-art exposition of the component technologies and the manner in which they are assembled to form the AMB/rotor system. These system models and performance objectives are then tied together through extensive discussions of control methods for both rigid and flexible rotors, including consideration of the problem of system dynamics identification. Supporting this, the issues of system reliability and fault management are discussed from several useful and complementary perspectives. At the end of the book, numerous special concepts and systems, including micro-scale bearings, self-bearing motors, and self-sensing bearings, are put forth as promising directions for new research and development. Newcomers to the field will find the material highly accessible while veteran practitioners will be impressed by the level of technical detail that emerges from a combination of sophisticated analysis and insights gleaned from many collective years of practical experience. An exhaustive, self-contained text on active magnetic bearing technology, this book should be a core reference for anyone seeking to understand or develop systems using magnetic bearings.

Magnetic bearings. --- Rotors. --- Magnetic bearings --- Rotors --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Machinery. --- Machinery --- Machines --- Curious devices --- Engineering. --- Vibration. --- Dynamical systems. --- Dynamics. --- Control engineering. --- Robotics. --- Mechatronics. --- Machinery and Machine Elements. --- Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control. --- Control, Robotics, Mechatronics. --- Manufactures --- Power (Mechanics) --- Technology --- Mechanical engineering --- Motors --- Power transmission --- Bearings (Machinery) --- Cycles --- Mechanics --- Sound --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Microelectronics --- Microelectromechanical systems --- Automation --- Machine theory --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Programmable controllers --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Physics --- Statics

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The Automotive Chassis is the result of two decades of experience: On the one hand from the experience of teaching courses such as Vehicle Mechanics, Vehicle System Design, Chassis Design to engineering students; on the other hand from the design practice of vehicle and chassis components in a large automotive company. This work is addressed primarily to students of automotive engineering and secondarily to all technicians and designers working in this field. It is also addressed to all enthusiasts who are looking for a technical guide. The text is subdivided in two volumes. The first one deals with the automotive chassis componenst, such as · a structure, usually a ladder framework, able to carry all the remaining components of the vehicle; · the suspensions for the mechanical linkage of wheels with the framework; · the wheels and their tires; · the steering system for changing wheel angles according to vehicle path; · the brake system for reducing speed or stopping the vehicle; · the transmission for applying engine torque to the driving wheels. The second volume deals with the automotive chassis as a system, studying how it influences vehicle performance and dealing in detail with mathematical models useful for the design and analysis of the vehicle.

Automobiles -- Chassis -- Design and construction. --- Automobiles -- Design and construction. --- Automotive Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Automobiles --- Chassis --- Design and construction. --- Automobile engineering --- Automotive engineering --- Autos (Automobiles) --- Cars (Automobiles) --- Gasoline automobiles --- Motorcars (Automobiles) --- Construction --- Engineering. --- Computational intelligence. --- Vibration. --- Dynamical systems. --- Dynamics. --- Engineering design. --- Machinery. --- Automotive engineering. --- Automotive Engineering. --- Machinery and Machine Elements. --- Engineering Design. --- Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Machinery --- Machines --- Manufactures --- Power (Mechanics) --- Technology --- Mechanical engineering --- Motors --- Power transmission --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Statics --- Cycles --- Sound --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Industrial arts --- Curious devices --- Design --- Motor vehicles --- Transportation, Automotive