Energy and Environment: Technological Challenges for the Future

by Y.H. Mori (Editor), K. Ohnishi (Editor)

Overview

It is becoming evident that satisfying the ever-increasing global demand for energy is having a major impact on the environment. The technologies required to minimize such impacts are discussed here in an in-depth overview and review of a broad spectrum of energy and environmental issues. The first five sections of the book deal directly with scientific and technological topics: the production, transportation, and utilization of electric power; thermal science and engineering for energy conservation/utilization processes; gas hydrates; multiphase mechanics for energy and environmental technology; pollutants and radioactive wastes in the earth. The sixth section, unique in a book of this type, focuses on education, recording a panel discussion on solutions to problems of energy and environment. For specialists and nonspecialists alike, the book is thus a valuable guide to the technological challenges for the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784431683278
Publisher:	Springer Japan
Publication date:	04/19/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

I: Production,Transportation and Utilization of Electric Power.- Restructuring of Electric Power Industry in Korea.- Electric Energy and Environment: Some Technological Challenges in Brazil.- Superconducting Magnet Technology: a Magnet Engineer’s View.- II: Thermal Science and Engineering for Energy Conversion/Utilization Processes.- Novel Optical Instrumentation Meeting the Challenges for Energy and the Environment.- Industrial Drying Technologies: Current Status and Future Trends.- Critical Heat Flux in Subcooled Flow Boiling.- The Importance of Thermophysical Properties in Optimum Design and Energy Saving.- III: Gas Hydrates:Their Impact on Energy and Environmental Prospects.- Energy, Environment and Naturally Occurring Methane Gas Hydrate: Connections.- The Phase Changes in CH4+C2H6 Hydrates, and Their Impact on Oil and Gas Production.- IV: Multiphase Mechanics for Energy and Environmental Technology.- Size Reduction of Solids: An Energy Intensive and Highly Inefficient Process.- Experiments on Turbulent Particle-Laden Flows.- V: Pollutants and Radioactive Wastes in the Earth.- The Atmospheric Environment Problem in East Asia for the 21st Century.- Demonstrating the Safety of Repositories for the Final Disposal of Radioactive Wastes.- VI: Education on Energy and Environmental Concerns.- On the Educational Issues and the Environmental-Energy Concern.- Panel Discussion.- Key Word Index.