"Energy Conservation" ed. by Azni Zain Ahmed

This book covers the areas of fundamentals in energy conservation and its applications in selected industries. The topics range from energy fundamentals from cosmic radiation, tidal waves and dams. The book examines the potential of utilizing energy from sustainable resources and how energy consumption may be conserved from various new technologies.

The contents of this book include space energy, barotropic and baroclinic tidal energy, understanding energy conservation in biological context, Earth shelters, hydro power, biofuel from groundnut oil and low energy consumption in industrial production.
This book is suitable as a reference for students, educators, researchers, scientists, engineers and energy practitioners. It will also be a useful for the understanding of energy fundamentals, design and applications.

Contents
Section 1 Understanding Energy Conservation
1 Space Energy
2 Barotropic and Baroclinic Tidal Energy
3 Understanding Energy Conservation: Intersection Between Biological and Everyday Life Contexts
Section 2 Applications of Energy Conservation
4 Hydro Power
5 Earth Shelters; A Review of Energy Conservation Properties in Earth Sheltered Housing
6 Low Energy-Consumption Industrial Production of Ultra-Fine Spherical Cobalt Powders
7 Production and Characterization of Biofuel from Non-Edible Oils: An Alternative Energy Sources to Petrol Diesel
8 Production and Characterization of Biofuel from Refined Groundnut Oil
9 Optimalization of Extraction Conditions for Increasing Microalgal Lipid Yield by Using Accelerated Solvent Extraction Method (ASE) Based on the Orthogonal Array Design