**Meet the editor**

Dr. Pavel Tsvetkov is an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University. His research efforts are focused on novel energy systems meeting the globally growing need for sustainable resources. System design and optimization methods for complex engineered systems enable development of advanced sustainable nuclear energy technologies towards

"environmentally benign" system designs and their deployment. The integrated systems approach of Dr. Tsvetkov's research program makes it possible to holistically optimize choices for the system. Dr. Tsvetkov is a member of ANS, ASME, ASEE, Alpha Nu Sigma, and Phi Kappa Phi. Dr. Tsvetkov and his students have published over 340 papers in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, and books.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Energy Resources 1**

**Section 2 Energy Conversion 59**

Chapter 1 **Diversifying Electricity Customer Choice: REVing Up the New York Energy Vision for Polycentric Innovation 3**

Chapter 2 **Energy Resources in Agriculture and Forestry: How to be**

**Conservation, and Emission Analysis 41**

Chapter 4 **Exergy Flows Inside Expansion and Compression Devices**

Chapter 5 **New Passive Cooling as a Technique for Hot Arid Climate 83**

Mikhail Sorin and Mohammed Khennich

Chapter 6 **Biogas Production from Brown Grease and the**

Amr Sayed Hassan Abdallah

**Kinetic Studies 97** Pengchong Zhang

Cleonilson Protasio de Souza and Orlando Baiocchi

Chapter 3 **CCHP System Performance Based on Economic Analysis, Energy**

Kibria K. Roman, Mahmudul Hasan and Hossain Azam

**Operating below and across Ambient Temperature 61**

**Prepared for the Internet of Things (IoT) Revolution 25**

Joseph Nyangon and John Byrne
