Original and highly relevant insight and analysis of the interdependencies and interaction between multi–vector energy systems

Energy supply networks are undergoing a radical transformation affecting all energy vectors, from electric power and heating and cooling systems to gas and hydrogen networks. These developments significantly increase the coupling and interactions between the vectors as they increase the efficiency and lower the environmental impact of the energy supply system.

This book provides an introduction to the basic characteristics of energy supply systems including demand, generation, storage, and design and operation current practice of the interconnecting networks.  The analysis methods described include not only calculation approaches for each individual energy vector but also integrated analysis and optimisation. The applications of integrated multi–vector energy supply networks are introduced at different levels: from building to community level and then to national level. Integration of low carbon transport is also discussed.

Key features:

• Provides a self–contained, single–source resource to the analysis and realisation of integrated sustainable energy supply networks.
• Introduces energy supply networks from basic principles, assuming only basic knowledge of mathematics, physics, fluids and circuits.
• Describes the key technologies of integrated multi–vector energy supply networks enabling the reader to engage with the immediate development of the sustainable low carbon energy system and take part in the debate over future energy systems.

Integrated Energy Supply Networks is essential reading for undergraduate engineering students studying energy; lecturers; MSc and PhD students in energy related disciplines; energy network researchers; and consultants and research staff working on energy systems.

About the Author

Professor Jianzhong Wu received his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in 1999, 2002 and 2004 from Tianjin University, China. From 2006 to 2008, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He joined Cardiff University in June 2008 (Lecturer 2008; Senior Lecturer 2013; Reader 2014; Professor 2015). Professor Wu s research focuses on Smart Grid and energy infrastructure (modeling, analysis and design of integrated smart energy supply networks.  He has contributed to a number of EU, Research Councils UK and industry funded projects as a Principal Investigator or a Co–Investigator. He is a Subject Editor of Applied Energy and Director of Applied Energy UNiLAB on Synergies between Energy Networks. He has co–authored two books which include Smart Electricity Distribution Networks (CRC, 2016) and Smart Grid – Technologies and Applications (Wiley, 2012).

Nick Jenkins is Professor of Renewable Energy at the School of Engineering, Cardiff University. Before moving to academia, his career included 14 years industrial experience, of which 5 years were in developing countries. His industrial experience included periods with a firm of consulting engineers and manufacturers of wind turbines and photovoltaic equipment. While at University he has developed teaching and research activities in both electrical power engineering and renewable energy.  He is a Fellow of the IET, IEEE and Royal Academy of Engineering. For 3 years, he was the Shimizu Visiting Professor to the Atmosphere and Energy Program at Stanford University.

Geoffrey Hammond is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath. His research interests concern the technology assessment of energy systems, using methods derived from the engineering and environmental sciences. In 2010, Geoffrey Hammond was also appointed as an Honorary Professor in Sustainable Bioenergy at the University of Nottingham. He was Principal Investigator and Co–Leader of the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) nine–university Realising Transition Pathways Consortium, and is Co–Director of the EPSRC four–university Centre for Industrial Energy, Materials and Products . He was co–originator of the Inventory of Carbon and Energy , funded jointly by the Carbon Trust and the EPSRC, now widely used by practitioners for the calculation of carbon footprints for products and in construction. Three of his joint publications have received British engineering institution prizes: the Dufton Silver Medal (CIBSE), the George Stephenson Prize (IMechE), and the James Watt Medal (ICE).