PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS, Third Edition, surveys the range of sustainable energy sources and the tools that engineers, scientists, managers, and policy makers use to analyze energy generation, usage, and future trends. The text provides complete and up-to-date coverage of all renewable technologies, including solar and wind power, biofuels, hydroelectric, nuclear, ocean power, and geothermal energy. The economics of energy are introduced, with the SAM software package integrated so students can explore the dynamics of energy usage and prediction. Climate and environmental factors in energy use are integrated to give a complete picture of sustainable energy analysis and planning.

Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Introduction to Modeling the Transport and Transformation of Contaminants in the Environment Chapter 2 Nature of Environnemental Polluants Chapter 3 Inter-Media Contaminant Transfer: Equilibrium Analysis Chapter 4 Kinetics of Inter-media Chapter 5 Transport Fundamentals Chapter 6 Overview of Numerical Methods in Environmental Modeling Chapter 7 Overview of Probabilistic Methods and Tools for Modeling Chapter 8 Models of Transport in Air Chapter 9 Models of Transport in Individual Media: Soil and Groundwater Chapter 10 Models of Transport in Surface Water Chapter 11 Atmospheric Transformation and Loss Processes Chapter 12 Modeling Chemical Transformations in Water Chapter 13 Exposure and Risk Assessment Chapter 14 Tools for Evaluation, Analysis and Optimization of Environmental Models Index.

"Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems provides students with a fundamental and practical understanding of the energy transition. It discusses the design, production, and economics of energy conversion and storage technologies, as well as requirements and technologies for the end-use sectors of transportation, buildings, and industry. The book begins by introducing students to the important field of sustainability and then presents comprehensive coverage of solar, wind, hydropower, biomass and biofuels, geothermal, nuclear, and ocean-based energy technologies. This new edition features recent advances in batteries and other storage technologies, electricity transmission, electric vehicles, and beneficial electrification and demand response in buildings, as well as approaches for reducing emissions from shipping and aviation. It introduces new material on low-carbon building materials, heat pumps, and the practical design aspects of solar photovoltaics systems. The book also covers economics and energy systems analysis methods such as life cycle analysis and greenhouse gas accounting, including detailed examples of design and financial analysis using the System Advisor Model (SAM). The book is intended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate engineering students taking courses in Renewable Energy, Energy Systems, and Energy Conversion. Instructors will be able to utilize a Solutions Manual and Figure Slides for their course"-- Provided by publisher.

In managing their air resources, Native American tribes face two sets of challenges: Regulating pollution sources within their jurisdiction and addressing transboundary air pollution from upwind jurisdictions. The 1990 Clean Air Act amendments and the Environmental Protection Agency's implementing regulations establish a legal framework for federally enforceable tribal regulation of sources within reservation boundaries, including sources on non-Indian-owned fee land. However, most tribes lack the resources needed to develop comprehensive air programs. EPA currently administers permits for most major sources in Indian Country, while hundreds of minor sources go unregulated. Transboundary air pollution threatens health and welfare and may simultaneously constrain economic development on many reservations. While states are increasingly trying to resolve transboundary problems through regional planning organizations, few tribes have the staff and resources required to actively participate in them.

Waste-to-energy (WTE) technology burns municipal solid waste (MSW) in an environmentally safe combustion system to generate electricity, provide district heat, and reduce the need for landfill disposal. While this technology has gained acceptance in Europe, it has yet to be commonly recognized as an option in the United States. Section 1 of this report provides an overview of WTE as a renewable energy technology and describes a high-level model developed to assess the feasibility of WTE at a site. Section 2 reviews results from previous life cycle assessment (LCA) studies of WTE, and then uses an LCA inventory tool to perform a screening-level analysis of cost, net energy production, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and conventional air pollution impacts of WTE for residual MSW in Boulder, Colorado. Section 3 of this report describes the federal regulations that govern the permitting, monitoring, and operating practices of MSW combustors and provides emissions limits for WTE projects.