Energy Sources: Fundamentals of Chemical Conversion Processes and Applications - Hardcover

Viswanathan, Balasubramanian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444563539 ISBN 13: 9780444563538

Publisher: Elsevier, 2016

Synopsis

Energy Sources: Fundamentals of Chemical Conversion Processes and Applications provides the latest information on energy and the environment, the two main concerns of any progressive society that hopes to be sustainable in the future. Continuous efforts have to be exercised in both these areas by any of the developing communities, as concern over energy conversion continues to evolve due to various ecological imbalances, including climate change.

This book provides the fundamentals behind all energy conversion processes, identifies future research needs, and discusses the potential application of each process in a clear-and-concise manner. It is a valuable source for both chemists and chemical engineers who are working to improve current and developing future energy sources, and is a single reference that deals with almost all energy sources for these purposes, reviewing the fundamentals, comparing the various processes, and suggesting future research directions.

• Compiles, in a single source, all energy conversion processes, enabling easy evaluation and selection
• Explains the science behind each conversion process and facilitates understanding
• Contains many illustrations, diagrams, and tables, enabling a clear and comprehensible understanding of the pros and cons of the various processes
• Includes an exhaustive glossary of all terms used in the conversion processes
• Presents current status and new direction, thus enabling the planning process for future research needs
• Provides a concise and comprehensive overview of all energy sources

About this title

From the Back Cover

Energy and environment are the two main concerns of any progressive society. Continuous efforts have to be exercised in both these areas by any of the developing communities. Energy conversion has evolved as the main concern today due to various ecological imbalances including climate change. Only a well informed society on energy can be a sustainable in the future. Energy Sources attempts to inform and provide the fundamentals behind all energy conversion processes, identifies future research needs and discusses the potential application of each processes in a clear and concise manner. The book is a valuable source for chemists/chemical engineers improving current and developing future energy sources.   Today one of the major scientific areas of research is to devise suitable energy conversion devices which can work over and above the Carnot limitation. Secondly the device or methodology adopted must be equipotential to the global community. The third factor is that the possible devise of conversion technology should be capable of being adopted in a large scale and thus bring the society together rather than divide it. This book is a single source dealing with almost all energy sources for these purposes, reviews the fundamentals, compares the various processes and suggests future research directions.

• Presents a single source of energy conversion processes and enables the user to make an easy evaluation and selection of a suitable process
• Explains the science behind each conversion process and facilitates understanding of the fundamentals in order to identify new research needs
• Contains many illustrations, diagrams and tables enabling a clear and easy comparison of the various processes, their pros and cons and selection of the most appropriate process.
• Includes an exhaustive glossary of all terms used in the conversion processes providing a link among all groups working on this multidisciplinary area and makes the content accessible to a wide audience
• Presents the current status and future directions enabling good identification of future research needs and planning new research
• Presents a concise and comprehensive overview of all energy sources and it could be used a reference text in advanced energy courses or as a self teaching text for engineers and energy specialists

About the Author

Balasubramanian Viswanathan (Head, National Center for Catalysis Research, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, 600036, India):

The author’s current areas of research include Heterogeneous catalysis, solid state chemistry, fuel cells, hydrogen energy and theoretical chemistry. He had been a professor of chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology since 1990 to 2004, head of the department of Chemistry for a period 2001-2003, head of the Materials Science Research Centre for 2 terms and Dean at IITM during 1998-2001. Presently he is the head of the National centre for Catalysis Research at IITM only national centre of this kind in India and works with a team of 4 professors and about 30 scholars.

The author is one of the pioneers to introduce chemical and electrochemical energy systems as a course in Masters level curriculum at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in the early 80s. Since then, this course has been developed in various formats keeping in mind the audience (post graduate, both science and engineering background) and teachers. The author initially brought out a book Chemical and electrochemical energy systems co-authored with is colleague of that time ( Prof R Narayan) published by the University press in early 90s. Following this a comprehensive book on Fuel cells was brought out co-authored by M Aulice Scibioh which was also reprinted by CRC press. A monograph on Photo-electrochemical cells Principles and practices is under production. The author has an ebook on energy sources. The author has over 600 research publications, 30 books and about 25 patents to his name in areas of energy and catalysis and has been invited speaker in many international conferences (eg ACS, etc)

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0444563539
• ISBN 13: 9780444563538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408