Environmental Assessment of Renewable Energy Conversion Technologies provides state-of-the-art coverage in both non-fossil energy conversion and storage techniques, as well as in their environmental assessment. This includes goal and scope, analysis boundaries, inventory and the impact assessment employed for the evaluation of these applications, as well as the environmental footprint of the technologies. The book compiles information currently available only in different sources concerning the environmental assessment of sustainable energy technologies, allowing for the comparative assessments of different technologies given specific boundary conditions, such as renewable potential and other specific features of discussed technologies.
It offers readers a comprehensive overview of the entire energy supply chain, namely from production to storage, by allowing the consideration of different production and storage combinations, based on their environmental assessment.
Part A: Introduction 1. State-of-the-art in Environmental Assessment Techniques 2. European and Global Legislative Framework of Energy Technologies Environmental Assessment Part B: Environmental Assessment of Renewable Energy Conversion Technologies 3. Solar Energy - PV 4. Solar Energy - Low-Heat Solar Thermal Applications (for heating) 5. Solar Energy - High Temperature Solar Thermal Applications (CSPs) (for power) 6. Wind Technologies - Wind Turbines 7. Biomass to Biofuels - Thermochemical Conversion Routes (Torrefaction, Pyrolysis, Gasification) 8. Biomass to Biofuels - Biochemical Conversion Routes (Anaerobic Digestion, Fermentation) 9. Biomass to Biofuels - Mechanical Conversion Routes (Pelleting, Briquetting) 10. Geothermal Energy - Shallow Geothermal Applications (for heating) 11. Geothermal Energy - High Enthalpy Geothermal Applications (for power) 12. Hydro Energy - Hydropower stations 13. Hydro Energy - Tidal Power 14. Water to Hydrogen Conversion Routes Part C: Environmental Assessment of Renewable Energy Storage Technologies 15. Heat Storage (Heat Capacity, Latent Heat) 16. Pumped Hydrostorage 17. Compressed Gas Storage 18. Battery Storage Part D: Comparative Environmental Assessment of Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Techniques 19. Environmental Assessment of Renewable Energy Conversion Techniques 20. Environmental Assessment of Renewable Energy Storage Techniques
Dr. Paris Fokaides is an Assistant Professor at Frederick University, in the School of Engineering, in the field of thermofluids, as well as in the field of process engineering. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate level courses in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and the Architecture. He studied Mechanical Engineering at Aristotle University Thessaloniki (2002) and he is a PhD holder of Karlsruhe University, Germany (2009) in the field of sustainable energy technologies (combustion). He is also the academic supervisor of Sustainable Energy Research Group (http://www.serg-web.com) . As of late 2020, Dr Fokaides has co-authored over 70 scientific papers and 15 book chapters, (h-index 24 @ Scopus). He is a founding member of the European Biomass Research Network and a member of the sustainable biofuels Working Group of the EU SET Plan. He is active in research since 2002, having secured grants over 2 million Euro since 2012 at Frederick University.
