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Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for our Planet
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Edited By
Trevor Letcher, Stratton on the Fosse, UK
Audience
Students, Professionals and researchers in energy engineering and the energy industry
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
List of Contributors
PART I FOSSIL FUEL and NUCLEAR ENERGY
Chapter 1 The Future of
Oil and Gas Fossil Fuels
A Goodwin
1 Introduction
2 Hydrocarbon Reserves
3 Hydrocarbon Recovery, Reserves, Production and Consumption
4 Global warming, Alternative Energy and CO2 Sequestration
5 Conclusion
Chapter 2 The Future of Clean Coal
M Balat
1 Introduction
2 Coal and Environmental Problems
3 Clean Coal Technologies
4 Cost and Plant Characteristics
5 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Nuclear Power
(Fission)
S Green and D Kennedy
1 Introduction
2 UK cost benefit analysis for 2007 Energy White Paper
3 Other recent studies on nuclear
generation costs
4 Global prospects for nuclear power
5 Conclusions
Chapter 4 The Alberta Oil Sands: Reserves and Supply Outlook
F Rahnama, K Elliott, RA Marsh and L Philip
1 Introduction
2 Bitumen Reserves in Alberta
3 Reserves Under Development
4 Bitumen
Recovery Techniques
5 Short Term Bitumen Supply in Alberta
6 Long Term Bitumen Supply in Alberta
7 Supply Costs of Bitumen Production
in Alberta
8 Conclusions
Chapter 5 The Future of Methane and Coal to Petrol and Diesel Technologies
AC Vosloo
1 Brief Description
of the Methane and Coal to Petrol and Diesel Technologies
2 Factors that will Influence the Future Demand for CTL and GTL Technologies
3 Environmental Factors that will Influence the Application of CTL and GTL Technologies
4 Future Developments to Reduce the Capital
and Operating Costs of CTL and GTL Plants
5 Conclusions
PART II RENEWABLE ENERGY
Chapter 6 Wind Energy
L Staudt
1 History and Present
Status
2 Technical Issues
3 Commercial Issues
4 Environmental Issues
5 Conclusions
Chapter 7 Tidal Current Energy: Origins and Challenges
A Owen
1 Introduction
2 Tidal Current Drivers
3 Devices
4 Anchors and Fixings
5 Bio-fouling
6 Summary
Chapter 8 Wave Energy
R Alcorn
1 Background, Context and Drivers of wave Energy
2 What is Ocean Wave Energy
3 The Energy Resource and How it is Measured
4 Forecasting
and Prediction
5 Challenges and Benefits
6 Converter Types
7 Device Rating
8 Modern Devices
9 Economics of Wave Energy
10 Alternative
Output
11 Future
Chapter 9 Bio-Mass
P Champagne
1 Introduction
2 Bio-mass Resources
3 Bio-energy and Bio-fuels
4 Bio-mass to Energy
Conversion Process
5 Bio-economics
6 Limitations and Knowledge Gaps
Chapter 10 Concentrating Solar Power
R Pitz-Paal
1 Introduction – Concept and Basic Characteristics
2 State of the Art
3 Cost Reduction Potential
4 Further Options
Chapter 11 Hydroelectric Power
D Spreng and M Balmer
1 History and Development
2 Technology
3 Hydropower and Sustainability
4 Economics of Hydropower
5 Hydropower
in Liberalised Electricity Markets
Chapter 12 Geothermal Energy
JL Renner
1 Heat Flow and Subsurface Temperatures
2 Tectonic Controls
3 Types of Geothermal Systems
4 Worldwide Geothermal Potential
5 Worldwide Geothermal Development
6 Methods for Electrical Generation
7 Direct Use of Geothermal Energy
8 Environmental Constraints
9 The Future
10 Source of Additional Information
Chapter 13 Solar Energy:
Photovoltaics
D Infield
1 Background
2 The Solar Resource
3 Outline of the Conversion Process
4 Manufacturing Processes
5 Applications
6 Brief Summary of Research Challenges
PART III POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT NEW TYPESOF ENERGY
Chapter 14 The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor
D Matzner
1 Historical Preface
2 Reactor Unit
3 Nuclear Safety
4 Technological Applications
5 Project Status
Chapter 15 Fuel Cells
and Batteries
J Salminen, D Steingard and T Kallio
1 Fuel Cells
2 Batteries
3 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 16 Methane Hydrates
E Allison
1 Background
2 Detection and Quantification
3 Production Technology
4 Economics
5 Time Scale for Development
Chapter 17 Nuclear
Fusion
L Grisham
1 What is Nuclear Fusion
2 Desirable Characteristics of Fusion Power
3 Why Fusion Power id Difficult
4 Approaches
to Fusion Reactors
5 Economics of Fusion Energy
6 Prospects for Fusion Energy
PART IV NEW ASPECTS TO FUTURE ENERGY
Chapter 18 Carbon
Capture and Storage for Greenhouse effect Mitigation
D Tondeur and F Teng
1 Introductory Aspects
2 The Capture Techniques
3 Geological
Storage of CO2
4 Costs
5 Conclusions
Chapter 19 Smart Energy Houses of the Future – self supporting in energy and zero emission
R
Wing
1 Design and Construction of Energy Efficient Buildings
2 Design of Very Low or Zero Energy Housing
3 Future Technical Developments
and Demonstration Projects
4 Guidelines for Future Energy Efficient Housing
Chapter 20 The Prospects for Electricity and Transport
Fuels to 2050
G Dutton and M Page
1 Introduction
2 Energy Future Scenarios
3 Primary Energy Policy Drivers
4 Future Energy Fuel Options
and supply Structures for Transport
5 Future Energy Supply Structures for Electricity
6 Conclusions
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Hardbound, 400 pages, publication date: JUL-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-054808-1
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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