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.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction: environmental assessment of renewable energy and storage technologies: current status - p. 3 2. Section B - p. 8 3. Section B - p. 8 4. Chapter 2. Life cycle analysis of photovoltaic systems: a review - p. 11 5. Chapter 3. Life cycle assessment review in solar thermal systems - p. 37 6. Chapter 4. Environmental assessment of wind turbines and wind energy - p. 55 7. Chapter 5. Environmental assessment of biomass thermochemical conversion routes through a life cycle perspective - p. 85 8. Chapter 6. Environmental assessment of biomass to biofuels: biochemical conversion routes - p. 129 9. Chapter 7. Environmental assessment of biomass-to-biofuels mechanical conversion routes (pelleting, briquetting) - p. 157 10. Chapter 8. Life cycle assessment of geothermal power technologies - p. 181 11. Section C - p. 207 12. Section C - p. 207 13. Chapter 9. Environmental impact assessment of hydropower stations - p. 213 14. Chapter 10. A stakeholder impact analysis of the production of the energy vector hydrogen - p. 231 15. Chapter 11. Environmental impact assessments of compressed air energy storage systems: a review - p. 249 16. Chapter 12. Environmental impact assessment of battery storage - p. 277 17. Section D - p. 299 18. Section D - p. 299 19. Chapter 13. Environmental assessment of renewable energy and storage technologies: future challenges - p. 305 20. Index - p. 311
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.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction: environmental assessment of renewable energy and storage technologies: current status - p. 3 2. Section B - p. 8 3. Section B - p. 8 4. Chapter 2. Life cycle analysis of photovoltaic systems: a review - p. 11 5. Chapter 3. Life cycle assessment review in solar thermal systems - p. 37 6. Chapter 4. Environmental assessment of wind turbines and wind energy - p. 55 7. Chapter 5. Environmental assessment of biomass thermochemical conversion routes through a life cycle perspective - p. 85 8. Chapter 6. Environmental assessment of biomass to biofuels: biochemical conversion routes - p. 129 9. Chapter 7. Environmental assessment of biomass-to-biofuels mechanical conversion routes (pelleting, briquetting) - p. 157 10. Chapter 8. Life cycle assessment of geothermal power technologies - p. 181 11. Section C - p. 207 12. Section C - p. 207 13. Chapter 9. Environmental impact assessment of hydropower stations - p. 213 14. Chapter 10. A stakeholder impact analysis of the production of the energy vector hydrogen - p. 231 15. Chapter 11. Environmental impact assessments of compressed air energy storage systems: a review - p. 249 16. Chapter 12. Environmental impact assessment of battery storage - p. 277 17. Section D - p. 299 18. Section D - p. 299 19. Chapter 13. Environmental assessment of renewable energy and storage technologies: future challenges - p. 305 20. Index - p. 311
