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Zero Waste Engineering : a New Era of Sustainable Technology Development.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Somerset :
Wiley,
2016.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 The Deficiency of Current Engineering Practices; 1.3 The Zero-Waste Approach; 1.4 Scope of the Book; 1.5 Organization of the Book; 2 A Delinearized History of Time and Its Impact on Scientific Cognition; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 The Culture of Addiction; 2.2 The Importance of The Continuous Long-Term History; 2.3 Delinearized History of Time and Knowledge; 2.3.1 A Discussion; 2.4 Role of Water, Air, Clay and Fire in Scientific Characterization; 2.5 A Reflection on the Purposes of Sciences.
- 2.5.1 Purpose of Humanity2.5.1.1 Cognitive Background: Beyond 'original sin'; 2.5.1.2 Purpose of Life and Ideal Behaviour; 2.6 Role of Intention in Technology Development; 2.7 Cyclic Nature of Civilization; 2.8 About the "New Science" of Time and Motion; 2.8.1 Time-Conceptions, the Tangible-Intangible Nexus, and the Social Role of Knowledge; 2.8.2 More about Time: Newtonian "Laws of Motion"
- Versus Nature's; 2.8.3 Science and the Problem of Linearized Time; 2.8.4 Reproducibility and the Extinction of Time; 2.8.5 The Long Term as an Infinite Summation of "Short Terms", or T = ∞∑i=1fi(t)
- 2.8.6 Erasing History in Order to "Disappear" the Long-Term and Enshrine the Steady State2.8.7 First Interim "Time"-Ly Conclusion: the Anti-Nature Essence of Linearized Time; 2.8.8 Second Interim "Time"-Ly Conclusion: Making Time Stand Still by Way of Linearized Visualization of Space; 2.9 What is New Versus what is Permitted: Science and the Establishment?; 2.9.1 "Laws" of Motion, Natural "Law" & Questions of Mutability; 2.9.2 Scientific Disinformation; 2.10 The Nature-Science Approach; 2.10.1 The Origin-Pathway Approach of Nature-Science Versus The Input-Output Approach of Engineering.
- 2.10.2 Reference Frame and Dimensionality2.10.3 Can "Lumped Parameters" Address Phenomena of Only Partial Tangibility?; 2.10.4 Standardizing Criteria and the Intangible Aspects of Tangible Phenomena; 2.10.5 Consequences of Nature-Science for Classical Set Theory and Conventional Notions of Mensuration; 2.11 Conclusions; 3 Towards Modeling of Zero-Waste Engineering Processes with Inherent Sustainability; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Development of a Sustainable Model; 3.3 Problem with the Current Model: The Case of Electricity; 3.4 How Could We Have Averted the Downturn?
- 3.4.1 Violation of Characteristic Time3.5 Observation of Nature: Importance of Intangibles; 3.6 Analogy of Physical Phenomena; 3.7 Intangible Cause to Tangible Consequence; 3.8 Removable Discontinuities: Phases and Renewability of Materials; 3.9 Rebalancing Mass and Energy; 3.10 ENERGY
- The Existing Model; 3.10.1 Supplements of Mass Balance Equation; 3.11 Conclusions; 4 The Formulation of a Comprehensive Mass and Energy Balance Equation; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy; 4.3 Continuity of Matter and Phase Transition; 4.3.1 Redefining Force and Energy.