Micro Energy Systems: Review of Technology, Issues of Scale and Integration
Edited by Michael Knowles, Bob Beith and Ian Burdon
Wiley
September 2004
Hardcover 180 pp ISBN 1860584268
£105.00
This interesting book aims to contrast the existing and developing generating systems typically in the range
1kW to 2MW for use in hospitals, supermarkets, leisure centres, government and commercial building and
domestic housing generally and for direct connection to the grid.
Contents
Renewable energy in the UK -an issue of scale
Wind turbines - a reviewof smaller units
Run of river hydro for the UK and overseas
Small hydro for remote areas -an international view
Micro CHP - energy services and smart metering
Micro combined heat and power
Stirling engine based microenergy systems
Running microturbines on biogas
Community biomass gasification CHP
Really small micro-scale generation (PV)
The 'RICT'engine in micro energy and CHP systems
Pressurized hybrid fuel cell system
Reinventing electricity distribution
Micro Energy Systems will be useful to project developers, power generators, local government
and building services engineers in the industrial and commercial sector in the UK and throughout the world.
