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Sustainable Energy : Towards a Zero-Carbon Economy Using Chemistry, Electrochemistry and Catalysis /
"Sustainable Energy, Towards a Zero-Carbon Economy Using Chemistry, Electrochemistry and Catalysis provides the reader with a clear outline of some of the strategies, particularly those based on various chemical approaches, that have been put forward with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego :
Elsevier,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Sustainable Energy: Towards a Zero-Carbon Economy using Chemistry, Electrochemistry and Catalysis
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Energy production and the greenhouse effect
- Solar activity and global warming
- The greenhouse effect
- Greenhouse gases
- Water vapour
- Carbon dioxide
- Methane
- Nitrous oxide
- Ozone and chlorofluorocarbons
- Consequences of the greenhouse effect
- The sources of greenhouse gas emissions
- Chapter 2: Traditional methods of producing, transmitting and using energy
- Introduction
- Coal
- Coal combustion for heating purposes
- Coal for power generation and the steam engine
- Coal for electricity generation
- Coal use in cement production
- Coal usage in iron and steel production
- Crude oil
- Natural gas
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 3: Less conventional energy sources
- Introduction
- Nuclear energy
- Geothermal energy
- Tidal energy
- Wave power
- Hydroelectric power
- Wind power
- Solar power
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 4: The production and uses of hydrogen
- Introduction
- The production of hydrogen from natural gas by steam reforming
- The production of hydrogen from natural gas by other methods
- Autoreforming
- Dry reforming of methane
- Methane pyrolysis
- Electrolysis of water
- The generation of hydrogen from biomass by various processes
- Comparison of hydrogen production costs for different processes
- Methanol production
- Production of fuels using the Fischer Tropsch process
- Production of ammonia
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5: Biomass as a source of energy and chemicals
- Introduction
- Wood as a source of energy and paper
- The use of wood in paper production
- Paper recycling
- Non-traditional uses of biomass: First and second generation bio-refinery processes
- Organic residues and grasses
- Ethanol and bioethanol production
- Conversion of oil crops and oil-based residues to biodiesel and chemicals
- Fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic crops
- Gasification and pyrolysis of biomass
- Gasification
- Pyrolysis
- Other sources of biomass
- Seaweed and algae
- Microalgae
- Chitin
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 6: Transport
- Introduction
- Historical development of mechanically driven transport
- Exhaust emission control
- Hybrid vehicles
- Plug-in hybrid vehicles
- Battery electrical vehicles
- Fuel cell vehicles
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 7: Batteries, fuel cells and electrolysis
- Introduction
- The Volta pile, Faraday and the electrochemical series
- Half-cell EMFs and the electrochemical series
- The kinetics of electrochemical processes
- Electrochemical batteries
- Flow batteries
- Fuel cells
- Electrolysis
- Chapter 8: The way forward: Net Zero
- Introduction
- Hydrogen production using renewable energy
- Fuel cells to be used for transportation purposes