This book discusses recent developments in renewable and sustainable materials from a green technology perspective and how these materials interact with the environment. It highlights the fundamental processes involved in the production of renewable and sustainable materials, including chemical and biological approaches as well as these materials' potential application as green technological option. Written in a didactic style, it offers a guide and insights into renewable and sustainable materi...
Bio-oil Production and Utilisation
Das vorliegende Buch ist aus einer 2-stiindigen Vorlesung mit dem TItel Weitver- kehrstechnik entstanden, die flir Studenten der Fachrichtung Elektrische Nach- richtentechnik im 6. Semester angeboten wird. Wichtige Aufgaben der Nach- richtentechnik sind die Ubertragung, Vermittlung und Verarbeitung von Nach- richten. Aus diesen drei Bereichen wurde bevorzugt die Ubertragungstechnik aus- gewahlt und in einzelnen voneinander fast unabhlingigen Kapiteln behandelt. Dieses Buch ist als eine Kurzdarst...
Social and Ethical Aspects of Radiation Risk Management (Radioactivity in the Environment)
Social and Ethical Aspects of Radiation Risk Management provides a comprehensive treatment of the major ethical and social issues resulting from the use of ionizing radiation. It covers topics such as nuclear fuel cycles, radioactive waste treatment, nuclear bomb testing, nuclear safety management, stakeholder engagement, cleanup after nuclear accidents, ecological risks from radiation, environmental justice, health and safety for radiation workers, radiation dose standards, the ethics of clinic...
Small and Medium Reactors
Introduction to Light Trapping in Solar Cell and Photo-Detector Devices
New Approaches to Light Trapping in Solar Cell Devices discusses in detail the use of photonic and plasmonic effects for light trapping in solar cells. It compares and contrasts texturing, the current method of light-trapping design in solar cells, with emerging approaches employing photonic and plasmonic phenomena. These new light trapping methods reduce the amount of absorber required in a solar cell, promising significant cost reduction and efficiency. This book highlights potential advanta...
It is estimated that a large fraction of natural gas reserves are found in locations from where transport is not economical. If these isolated natural gas reserves could be converted to synthetic fuels, they would generate around 250 billion barrels of synthetic oil-a quantity equal to one-third of the Middle East's proven oil reserves. Small-Scale Gas to Liquid Fuel Synthesis explores next-generation technologies geared toward overcoming the significant cost and technical barriers prohibiting...
Biorefinery Production Technologies for Chemicals and Energy
by Arindam Kuila and Mainak Mukhopadhyay
This book covers almost all of the diverse aspects of utilizing lignocellulosic biomass for valuable biorefinery product development of chemicals, alternative fuels and energy. The world has shifted towards sustainable development for the generation of energy and industrially valuable chemicals. Biorefinery plays an important role in the integration of conversion process with high-end equipment facilities for the generation of energy, fuels and chemicals. The book is divided into four parts. The...
Progress in Sustainable Aviation (Sustainable Aviation)
Progress in Sustainable Aviation looks at recent progress and new technological developments in sustainable aviation, presenting readers with engineering solutions and methodologies for efficiency and cost savings, performance improvement, and emission reduction. Coverage includes alternative fuel types, propulsion technologies, and emission technologies used in different aerial vehicles, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, drones, and passenger aircraft. Operational areas, such as the building of...
Solar Incentives
In recent years, the number of utilities across the country offering incentives to encourage customers to adopt solar power has grown substantially. Often this is because utilities are required to meet solar energy mandates or generation targets. Utilities have voluntarily encouraged the adoption of solar energy or established incentive programs to meet internal clean energy goals. While solar photovoltaic (PV) system costs are rapidly falling, costs for distributed systems are still above retai...
Cibse National Conference, Alexandra Palace, 1997
Energie-Weltatlas
by Stephan Bosch, Friederike Schlenker, Jochen Bohn, Simone Kupies, and Matthias Schmidt
Sehr anschauliche kartographische Visualisierungen, nationale Steckbriefe zu den Energiesystemen, globaler Überblick und das Buch ermöglicht Vergleiche.
Project Plowshare, the Development of the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions
by Ralph Sanders
The Supply to Installations (Electrical Installations, Pt. 3)
by M. Doughton
Continuous Advances in QCD 200404/12/2008: Proceedings of the Conference, Minneapolis, USA 13 - 16 May 2004
Chemical Engineering for Renewables Conversion (Advances in Chemical Engineering)
Biomass has received considerable attention as a sustainable feedstock that can replace diminishing fossil fuels for the production of energy and chemicals. At the present moment in the oil refining, petrochemical and chemical industry, after fractionation of crude oil, various fractions are upgraded either to fuels or functionalized to produce intermediates and specialty chemicals. An analogous concept of biorefining is based on the utilization of biomass as a renewable source of carbon, which...
Optimal Control Systems (Electrical Engineering)
Aline Leon In the last years, public attention was increasingly shifted by the media and world governmentsto the conceptsof saving energy,reducingpollution,protectingthe - vironment, and developing long-term energy supply solutions. In parallel, research funding relating to alternative fuels and energy carriers is increasing on both - tional and international levels. Why has future energy supply become such a matter of concern? The reasons are the problems created by the world's current energy...
Energy from Biomass and Wastes Symposium, 3rd, August 1978
Handbook Of Fuel Additives For Internal Combustion Engines
This book presents an innovative methodology for identifying optimum investment strategies in the power industry. To do so, it examines results including, among others, the impact of oxy-fuel technology on CO2 emissions prices, and the specific cost of electricity production. The technical and economic analysis presented here extend the available knowledge in the field of investment optimization in energy engineering, while also enabling investors to make decisions involving its application....