RSC Energy Series

Compound Energy Systems

Optimal Operation Methods

Shin'ya Obara (Author), Arif Hepbasli (Author)
ISBN: 978-1-84973-031-0
Copyright: 2010
Format: Hardback
Extent: 288
Price:  £121.99

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Synopsis

This book, a distillation of information only touched upon in other books, is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, scientists, engineers and industrialists with an interest in the field.

Author Information

Shin'ya Obara is a Professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Kitami Institute of University, Hokaido, Japan. He received B.S. in mechanical engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan in 1987, M.S. in mechanical system from Nagaoka University of Technology, in 1989 and a Ph.D. in mechanical science from Hokkaido University in 2000, while he was working in companies and academic organizations. He worked as a researcher in Department of Mechanical Science of Hokkaido University from 2000-2001. Dr. Shin'ya Obara joined Tomakomai National College of Technology in 2001 after an eight-year period in industry (as engineer and assistant manager for researches, in two different companies, namely Takasago Thermal Engineering Co., Ltd. and Aisin AW Co., Ltd. in Japan). He was associate professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tomakomai National College between 2001-2007. Moreover, he was professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tomakomai National College in 2008 and Professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Kitami Institute of Technology between 2008 to data. His research has been involved with power and heat energy and operation optimization analyses of energy compound systems and energy efficiency, microgrid technology, energy network system with renewable energy sources. Dr. Obara is author and co-author of over 90 papers on a national and international journal.

Arif Hepbasli, having the work life philosophy which is to attain Industry (I), Profession Institutions (P) and University (U), Balanced IPU simultaneously, is a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. He received B.S. (first class honor) in mechanical engineering from Selcuk University (SU), Turkey in 1980, M.S. from Istanbul Technical University of Istanbul (studied one year at the German-Preparation Class of Institution of Higher Education for Foreign Languages, Technical University o