Energy category: 1670 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
This book focuses on the latest reactor concepts, single pass core and experimental findings in thermal hydraulics, materials, corrosion, and water chemistry. It highlights research on supercritical-pressure light water cooled reactors (SCWRs), one of the Generation IV reactors that are studied around...
Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass
Advances in Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Fast pyrolysis and related catalytic pyrolysis are of increasing interest as pathways to advanced biofuels that closely mimic traditional petroleum products. Research has moved from empirical investigations to more fundamental studies of pyrolysis mechanisms. Theories on the chemical and physical...
by Takashi Kiguchi
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This book focuses on core design and methods for design and analysis. It is based on advances made in nuclear power utilization and computational methods over the past 40 years, covering core design of boiling water reactors and pressurized water reactors, as well as fast reactors and high-temperature...
by Karl W. Böer
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
This handbook is a compendium giving a comprehensive description of the basics of semiconductor physics relevant to the design and analysis of thin film solar cell materials. It starts from the basics of material science, describing the material and its growth, defect and electrical properties, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Computational studies on fuel cell-related issues are increasingly common. These studies range from engineering level models of fuel cell systems and stacks to molecular level, electronic structure calculations on the behavior of membranes and catalysts, and everything in between. This volume explores...
by Dario Narducci, Peter Bermel, Bruno Lorenzi
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive overview on fully thermal and hybrid solar generators based on thermoelectric devices. The book fills a gap in the literature on solar conversion and thermoelectrics, because despite the growing number of papers dealing with the use of thermoelectrics in solar power...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book provides an overall view of the new and highly promising materials and thin film deposition techniques for printable solar cell applications. The book is organized in four parts. Organic and inorganic hybrid materials and solar cell manufacturing techniques are covered in Part I. Part II...
Reaction Pathways and Mechanisms in Thermocatalytic Biomass Conversion I
Cellulose Structure, Depolymerization and Conversion by Heterogeneous Catalysts
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Volume I mainly focuses on the current understanding of the reaction pathways and mechanisms involved in several important catalytic conversions of cellulose and carbohydrates. It starts with nanoscale illustrations of biomass structures and describes various reactions including cellulose depolymerization...
Reaction Pathways and Mechanisms in Thermocatalytic Biomass Conversion II
Homogeneously Catalyzed Transformations, Acrylics from Biomass, Theoretical Aspects, Lignin Valorization and Pyrolysis Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Volume II presents the latest advances in catalytic hydrodeoxygenation and other transformations of some cellulosic platform chemicals to high value-added products. It presents the theoretical evaluation of the energetics and catalytic species involved in potential pathways of catalyzed carbohydrate...
Biofuels
Technology, Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book is intended to serve as a compendium on the state-of-the-art research in the field of biofuels. The book includes chapters on different aspects of biofuels from renowned international experts in the field. The book looks at current research on all aspects of biofuels from raw materials to...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Transformation and Utilization of Carbon Dioxide shows the various organic, polymeric and inorganic compounds which result from the transformation of carbon dioxide through chemical, photocatalytic, electrochemical, inorganic and biological processes. The book consists of twelve chapters demonstrating...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
This multi-authored book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in porous CO2 capture materials, including ionic liquid–derived carbonaceous adsorbents, porous carbons, metal-organic frameworks, porous aromatic frameworks, micro porous organic polymers. It also reviews the...
Eco-Nationalism
Anti-Nuclear Activism and National Identity in Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1996
Eco-nationalism examines the spectacular rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its substantial decline after 1991. Jane I. Dawson argues that anti-nuclear activism, one of the most dynamic...
by Adam Briggle
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
From the front lines of the fracking debate, a “field philosopher” explores one of our most divisive technologies.
When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative to ban...