Energy and the Environment

Energy and the Environment edited by Adrian Bejan, Peter Vadász, Detlev G. Kröger.

This book describes the state of the art at the interface between energy and environmental research. The contributing authors are some of the world leaders in research and education on energy and environmental topics. The coverage is worth noting for its breadth and depth. The book begins with the l...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bejan, Adrian (Editor), Vadász, Peter (Editor), Kröger, Detlev G. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
Edition:1st ed. 1999.
Series:Environmental Science and Technology Library, 15
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Energy systems.
Renewable energy resources.
Environmental management.
Climate change.
Environmental sciences.
Physical chemistry.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Exergy analysis, costing, and assessment of environmental impact
  • The method of entropy generation minimization
  • Advanced enhancement for heat exchangers
  • Optimization of finned arrays
  • Opportunities for heat exchanger applications in environmental systems
  • Inverse design of energy and environmental systems
  • Advances in modeling radiative transport in high temperature gases
  • Heat transfer in porous radiant burners
  • Radiation heat transfer in materials processing and manufacturing
  • The production of improved plastic materials by chaotic mixing of polymer melts recovered from environmental waste
  • Perspectives and directions of the electric power industry in the next millennium
  • The impact of energy storage technologies on the environment
  • Potential impact of pumped energy storage on the lower reservoir aquatic ecology
  • Development of industrial cooling systems and their impact on the environment
  • Advances in the measurement of convective heat transfer coefficient in gas turbine applications
  • Thermally affected flows in power plants
  • Advances in the technology of liquid synfuel production from coal
  • Some geophysical problems involving convection in porous media with application to energy and the environment
  • Convection of hazardous substances through rock fractures and faults
  • Radioactive waste repositories in fractured rocks formations: hydrodynamic aspects
  • Evaluation of energy efficient and environmentally acceptable pure and zeotropic refrigerants in air-conditioning and refrigeration
  • Application of heat pumps in the South African commercial sector.

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