Table of Contents
Controversial Future
Introduction and Forecast
Reasons for Climate Change
Controversial Statements
Unavoided Carbon Capture at Zero Emissions Power Plant (ZEPP)
The Origin of Hydrocarbon Fuels
Thermodynamics of a Reaction with Methane Formation of CO2 and Fayalite
Emerging Task—The Sequestration
Cycles Review
Carbon Capture Methods
Early Attempts
Industry First Becomes Interested
Continued Development
ZEPP Cycles Incorporating Oxygen Ion Transport Membranes
Zero Emissions Vehicle Cycle—Preliminary Section
Toward Zero Emissions Industry
A Photocopy of an Important Paper
Some Additional Remarks
Zero Emission Quasicombined Cycle with External Oxygen Supply
Carbon Dioxide—Thermodynamic Properties, Pure and Mixtures
Gas Mixtures
Efficiency of Compressor and Turbine for Real Gas Conditions
Detailed Simulation of a Zero Emission Power Cycle on Pure Carbon Dioxide
Oxygen Ion Transport Membranes
Nernst Effect
Oxygen Ion Transport Membrane Reactors (ITMR) for ZEPPs
Chemical Looping Combustion
The ZEITMOP Cycle and Its Variants
The ZEITMOP Cycle with Separate ITMR and Coal-Powder Firing
Gas-Fired ZEITMOP Version with Combined ITMR and Combustor
A Zero Emission Boiler House for Heating and Cooling
A Transport Power Unit Version Using a Turbine
A Zero Emissions Aircraft Engine
A Membrane Smokeless Heater
A Zero Emission Rankine Cycle
Boiler Integrated with ITM Combustor
Detailed Simulation of the ZEITMOP Cycle
Turbomachinery for Carbon Dioxide as Working Substance
ZEIMOP Cycle Analysis
ZEITMOP Cycle with Combined Combustion Chamber and ITM Reactor
Simulation of Oxygen Transport Membrane Units
Results and Discussion
Zero Emissions Piston Engines with Oxygen Enrichment
Main Culprit
Zempes Outline
Hi-Ox Zempes
Addition of Thermochemical Recuperation (TCR)
Membrane Reactor for Piston Engines
Zero Emissions Turbodiesel
Membrane Reactor for Turbodiesel
Numeric Example
High Temperature Heat Exchanger for Turbodiesel
Economics of Zempes on Different Fuels
Piston Engine with Pressure Swing Adsorption Oxygen Reactor
Trigenerator for Enhancement of Oil Recovery (EOR)
Solar Energy Conversion through Photosynthesis and Zero Emission Oxy-Fuel Combustion
Biomass Combustion—Is It a Sustainable Energy?
A Short History of Algae Cultivation and Use
What Is ULVA?
Macroalgae as a Renewable Fuel
Macroalgae Cultivation in Israel and Italy
Energy Flow Concentration
Power Unit Outlook
Gasification
Water Desalination
Comparison with the First Soft Version of 1991
Associated Tool for Calculations
Introduction
What Is Exergy?
Exergonomics
Exergy Conversion in the Thermochemical Recuperator of a Piston Engine
Currentology as an Intermediate File
Pareto Optimization of Power Cycles
Two Lectures
To Ban or Not to Ban? (On the Human Right to Breathe and Global Warming)
On the Fate of a Mechanical Engineer
Concluding Remarks
Index
References appear at the end of each chapter.
