1. Energy Management
| 1."Industrial Energy Conservation Manuals" by Elias P Gyftopoulos
“Industrial Energy Conservation Manuals” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduate or undergraduate students who are under Industrial engineering or energy engineering. This book can also be used for students under mechanical and civil engineering. This book has several chapters which discusses the methods of energy conservation. It explains various methods of heat production and explains production of mechanical energy. Finally, it gives real word implementation of methods which are used for conservation of industrial energy. It also contains case studies which could be useful for better understanding.
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| 2."The Efficient Use of Energy" by I G C Dryden and Butterworths
“The Efficient Use of Energy” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduate or undergraduate students who are under Industrial engineering or energy engineering. This book can also be used for students under mechanical and production engineering. Teachers who are teaching this area of subject can also refer to this book. The book is divided into 6 parts. Part I presents the various methods of heat production. Part 2 movies details about heat in industry and includes topics industrial heating, boiler plants. Part 3 explains production of mechanical and electrical energy. Part 4 covers total energy systems. Part 5 explains instrumentation . The final part 6 explains the importance of environmental aspects of energy production.
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| 3."Energy Management Handbook" by W C Turner
“Energy Management Handbook” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduate or undergraduate students who are under Industrial engineering or energy engineering. This book can also be used for students under mechanical and production engineering. Teachers who are teaching this area of subject can also refer to this book. This book tells about energy management controls systems and commissioning. Measurement and verification and high performance green buildings are also explained. Few chapters cover motors and drives and HVAC systems.There are so many detailed illustrations, tables, graphs and other helpful working aid in the book.
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| 4."Energy Management" by Murphy W R
“Energy Management” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduate or undergraduate students who are under Industrial engineering or energy engineering. Even teachers can use this book as a resource for codes. This book explains energy management controls. It has 11 chapters in total. Chapter 1 explains energy auditing. Energy sources, economics are explained later. Heat transfer theory and its media and equipment are also explained in the book. Electrical energy, air conditioning and heat recovery are discussed at the end of this book. | |
| 5."Energy Management and Conservation" by K V Sharma and P Venkataseshaiah
“Energy Management and Conservation” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduate or undergraduate students who are under Industrial engineering or energy engineering. Even teachers can use this book as a resource. This book explains a detailed treatment on the essential and practical principles of electrical energy management. This book has 6 chapters. Chapter 1 explains energy management. The chapter 2 explains surveying and auditing. Chapter 3 deals with conservation. Chapter 4 explains waste heat recovery. Methodologies for improvement of energy efficiency is explained in chapter 5. Chapter 6, the final chapter explains electrical energy management.
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| 6."Energy Management" by Umesh Rathore
“Energy Management” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduate or undergraduate students who are under Industrial engineering or energy engineering. Even teachers can use this book as a resource for codes. This book has 6 chapters in total. Chapter 1 explains non-conventional energy. Chapter 2 explains energy management. Chapter 3 discusses energy conservation. Chapter 4 deals with energy efficient technology. Chapter 5 explains energy audit. Chapter 6 explains environmental impact assessment. This book contains several case studies and illustrations for easy understanding.
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| 7."Energy Engineering and Management" by Chakrabarti A
“Energy Engineering and Management” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduate students in electrical or mechanical engineering. And also for graduate students of energy management. It tells about the energy analysis methodologies and tools to optimize the utilization of energy. It explains how to enhance efficiency during conversion of energy from one form to another. It discusses the thermodynamic principles of energy conversion and the constitution of energy balance equation for such systems. This book includes numerous questions and answers on energy management. It also provides MCQS and illustrations. It has 4 case studies.
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| 8."Energy and Environmental Management in Metallurgical Industries" by Gupta R C
“Energy and Environmental Management in Metallurgical Industries” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduate students in electrical or mechanical engineering or metallurgy. And also for graduate students of energy management. Teachers who are teaching this area of subject can also refer to this book. This book highlights the importance of environmental awareness for sustained industrial growth. It also explains the fundamentals of environmental aspects. It elaborates on how metallurgical industries are posing hazards to our environment.it also focuses on the health and safety guidelines for managers and executives of metallurgical industries.
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| 9."Energy Management, Audit and Conservation" by Barun Kumar De
“Energy Management, Audit and Conservation” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduate students in electrical or mechanical engineering or metallurgy. And also for graduate students of energy management. Students under production energy can also refer to this book. Students of BBA, MBA also can refer to this book. The book deals with availability of energy resources, classification of energy resources. It also explains things like costs of fuel, energy economics, methods of energy analysis, energy analysis of industrial systems. Manufacturing and processing sectors, transportation systems, energy production systems, are explained in this book. Energy management with particular emphasis on reduction of environmental pollution and pollution control, energy audit and energy conservation are given in this book. It is also useful for energy management and public systems management, electricity supply organisations as well as energy consuming industries. The text is also of use to consultants, NGOs, energy producing and refining companies. This book discusses the requirement of students, practicing engineers, producers and users of commercial energy. The book explains the availability of energy resources, classification of energy resources and costs of fuel. Also it suggests energy economics and methods of energy analysis of industrial systems. | |
| 10."Energy Management and Efficiency for the Process Industries" by Alan P Rossiter and Beth P Jones
“Energy Management and Efficiency for the Process Industries” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduate students in electrical or mechanical engineering or metallurgy. And also for graduate students of energy management. Students under production energy can also refer to this book. This book explains the energy management and places the technical issues that drive energy efficiency in context. This book covers success stories from three very different companies that have achieved excellence in their energy management efforts. It covers efficiency improvement opportunities in a wide range of utility systems and process equipment types. It also covers techniques to improve process design and operation.
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2. Energy Audit, Conservation and Management
| 1."Guide to Energy Management" by Barney L
“Guide to Energy Management” Book Review: This book explains the availability of energy resources, energy economics and its analysis. It teaches energy management, energy audit and energy conservation. The volume includes new chapters on creating green buildings and web-based building automation controls. Also, it examines the fundamental objectives of energy management and illustrates techniques and tools required. The topics included are distributed generation, energy auditing, rate structures, and economic evaluation techniques. The book consists of chapters based on topic lighting efficiency improvement, HVAC optimization and combustion. It also explains the use of industrial wastes, and steam generation and distribution system performance.
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| 2."Energy Audits: A Workbook for Energy Management in Buildings" by Tarik Al–Shemmeri
“Energy Audits: A Workbook for Energy Management in Buildings” Book Review: This textbook is to study energy management in buildings. It explains the fundamental principles of thermodynamics through day-to-day engineering concepts. Also the book helps to understand why energy losses occur and how they can be reduced. It suggests the tools to measure process efficiency and sustainability in power and heating applications. Moreover, this book is useful for engineers to recognize why energy losses occur and how they can be reduced utilizing familiar thermodynamic principles. The book explains the theory and illustrates it with case studies. It also includes worked examples and tests student understanding with tutorial problems. It is a resource for students on engineering and building courses where energy management is a core topic.
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| 3."Fundamentals of Energy Conservation and Audit" by Agarkar Santosh Vyankatro and Mateti Naresh Kumar
“Fundamentals of Energy Conservation and Audit” Book Review: This book is useful for Engineers and managers for various organizations. Also it is for the students of Science and Technology. It covers the fundamental concepts related to Energy conservation and Audit. The volume discusses the various types of Energy sources such as solar, wind, tidal, hydro power, thermal, etc. The importance of Energy conservation is also explained. There are chapters explaining procedure for various types of Energy audits with the help of audit formats.
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| 4."Energy Audits and Improvements for Commercial Buildings" by Ian M Shapiro
“Energy Audits and Improvements for Commercial Building” Book Review: This book helps to study measurable energy savings and carbon emission reductions in buildings. This book also merges real-world experience with the latest standards and practices. It helps energy managers and energy auditors transform energy use in the buildings. The book helps to reach energy reduction goals, carbon reduction goals, and sustainability goals. It suggests use of latest tools for more thorough analysis and reporting.
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| 5."Thermal Power Plants: Modeling, Control, and Efficiency Improvement" by Xingrang Liu and Ramesh Bansal
“Thermal Power Plants: Modeling, Control, and Efficiency Improvement” Book review: This comprehensive volume explains how to solve highly complex industry problems regarding identification, control and optimization. It helps to understand the use of integrating conventional technologies. The majorly discussed topics are modern control technology, computational intelligence-based multiobjective identification and optimization. Also there are chapters to understand distributed computing, and cloud computing with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology. The volume also introduces innovative methods utilized in industrial applications, explored in scientific research and taught at leading academic universities. This textbook discusses thermal power plant processes and process modeling. It also explains energy conservation, performance audits, efficiency improvement modeling and efficiency optimization. The book shows how to simulate fossil fuel power plant real-time processes, including boiler, turbine and generator systems.
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| 6."Industrial Energy Conservation (UNESCO Energy Engineering)" by Charles M Gottschalk
“Industrial Energy Conservation (UNESCO Energy Engineering)” Book Review: This text introduces a new kind of management cost accounting. It helps to understand how to increase productivity through the conservation of energy. The text mainly pinpoints the opportunities for improved performance within a specific industrial context. There are three main sections to the text. The main chapters are based on energy conservation management; economics and financial evaluation of energy projects; and planning and implementing energy conservation projects. At the end, the text provides a comprehensive question-and-answer section.
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| 7."Investment Grade Energy Audit" by Shirley J. Hansen and James W Brown
“Investment Grade Energy Audit” Book Review: This book helps energy-involved professionals to take their energy audits to the next level. It discusses the tools required to accurately predict a building’s future energy use. This book provides detailed guidelines on how to use the new tool and the investment grade audit (IGA). It also enables prediction of savings with much greater accuracy. The book covers every aspect of the IGA, including risk management. It majorly discusses the “people” factor, measurement and verification. Further, the volume concludes the financing issues, report presentation guidelines and master planning strategies.
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| 8."The Residential Energy Audit Manual" by D Schueman
“The Residential Energy Audit Manual” Book Review: This comprehensive textbook is for techniques and guidelines on implementing a residential energy audit programme. The book step by step shows how to perform an energy audit of the home. Moreover, it also offers authoritative advice from energy specialists. The volume includes topics on measurement methods, calculations for all aspects of the audit and home construction. There are chapters on considerations of mechanical, HVAC, electrical and furnace audit techniques.
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| 9."Energy Project Financing: Resources and Strategies for Success" by Albert Thumann and Eric Woodroof
“Energy Project Financing: Resources and Strategies for Success” Book Review: This reference provides a resource to utilize the innovative methods to finance energy projects. It covers topics like energy service performance contracting, rate of return analysis and measurement. Moreover, it also discusses verification of energy savings and more. The text contains the facts needed to assess a project’s payback in advance. It helps to anticipate and avoid potential risks and/or hidden costs. Other topics covered include financing international projects and ESCO’s (Energy Service Companies) financing.
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| 10."Energy Management in Textile Dyeing Industry" by Priyanka R
“Energy Management in Textile Dyeing Industry” Book Review: This book is written for the undergraduate students of textile engineering. It can also be used by working professionals of the textile industry. This book discusses the high amount of thermal energy used by textile dyeing systems. It reviews the various factors like form of the product being dyed and the dye type. It also reviews the concepts of machine type and state of the final product. It discusses the various types of dyeing machines and the energy consumption related to them. This book has included many illustrations. It also has many real-life case-studies.
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