Renewable Energy - Volume 2: Wave, Geothermal, and Bioenergy

Prof Olabi is Chair and Head of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department “SREE” at the University Of Sharjah. Before joining UOS, he was the director and founding member of the Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies at the University of the West of Scotland. Prof Olabi received his M.Eng and Ph.D. from Dublin City University, has worked at national and international institutes such as; National Research Centre-Italy, Research Centre of FIAT-Italy, Dublin City University and Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies at UWS. Prof Olabi is the founder of the International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Protection SEEP and the International Conference on Materials Science and Smart Materials. He is the Subject Editor of the Elsevier Energy Journal, Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (Elsevier), and Editor in Chief of Renewable Energy section of Energies.

1. Wave Energy 1.1 Introduction and Definition of Wave Energy 1.2 Recent progress in wave energy 1.3 Wave energy extraction technologies 1.4 Case Studies on Wave energy 1.5 SWOT Analysis of Wave Energy 1.6 Modelling and Simulation of wave energy 2. Geothermal Energy 2.1 Introduction and definition of geothermal energy 2.2 Shallow geothermal energy ground loop systems 2.3 Ground source heat pumps 2.4 Earth air heat exchangers 2.5 Geothermal power plants 2.6 Modelling and Simulation of Geothermal energy systems 3. Bioenergy 3.1 Definition of Bioenergy 3.2 Developments of Bioenergy 3.3 Applications of Bioenergy 3.4 Review of Bioenergy systems 3.5 Case studies and analysis of Bioenergy 3.6 Modelling and simulation of Bioenergy systems