Introduction to Energy and Sustainability (eBook)

Ognjen S. Miljanic, Joseph A. Pratt (Autoren)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
608 Seiten
Wiley-VCH (Verlag)
978-3-527-81861-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Offers a comprehensive review of the currently existing energy production and consumption technologies

Offering unique perspectives from one social and one natural scientist and combining them with the view of an industry expert, this book covers definitions and ways of quantifying energy and sustainability, and examines today?s energy production and consumption technologies?paying particular attention to the environmental, historic, and regulatory aspects of each introduced energy technology. It also deals with alternative and future energy technologies, as well as examples of sustainable approaches to everyday issues of transportation, urban planning, and home construction.

Introduction to Energy and Sustainability starts with a section on introductory concepts and covers such things as the history of our relationship with energy; defining and quantifying both energy and sustainability; flows and conversions of energy and matter; and the laws of thermodynamics energy production today. It examines how energy is produced and consumed in our modern world?and looks at what types of energy exist and how we use it. The book also discusses the future of energy and how we will provide and utilize our current and forthcoming sources of power as our world changes.

-Balances the treatment of hard science and engineering concepts of energy and sustainability with a thorough discussion of their socioeconomic and geopolitical implications
-Offers a unique perspective of one social and one natural scientist, combined with the view of an industry expert
-Filled with chapters that feature practice questions and solutions
-Relevant to students in energy fields and environmentalists

Introduction to Energy and Sustainability is an ideal text for post-graduate level students of energy fields. It will also greatly benefit environmentalists, engineers, power engineers, and chemists in industry.


Prof. Ognjen Miljanic is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston. He
holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley (2005) and a Diploma from the University of
Belgrade (2000). For the past seven years, he has been teaching energy and sustainability to diverse
student audiences. Prof. Miljanic authored more than 70 research papers. His research focuses on the use of porous materials to capture greenhouse gases.
Joseph Pratt earned a PhD in economic history from Johns Hopkins University (1976). He taught at UC Berkeley, the Harvard Business School (as a visitor), and Texas A&M University before accepting a chaired position in history and business at the University of Houston, where he retired as an emeritus professor in 2016. His research has focused on energy and environmental issues, and he is the author or coauthor of twelve books. With Professor Ognjen Miljanic, he helped create a minor in energy & sustainability at the University of Houston.
Jami Summey-Rice is in the Downstream Commercial Graduate Programme at Shell. She holds a
BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston (2017) with minors in Petroleum Engineering and Energy and Sustainabililty. During her time at the University of Houston she served as the teaching assistant for Introduction to Energy and Sustainability. She also published a federal policy recommendation for High Speed Rail in 2015 in conjunction with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE). Jami currently serves on the Public Affairs and Information Committee (PAIC) at AIChE supporting the WISE program and the Climate Change Task Force.

Autor

Ognjen S. Miljanic, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston. His research focuses on the use of porous materials to capture greenhouse gases. He has been teaching energy and sustainability to diverse student audience for more than 10 years. Joseph Pratt earned a PhD in economic history from Johns Hopkins University (1976). He taught at UC Berkeley, the Harvard Business School (as a visitor), and Texas A&M University before accepting a chaired position in history and business at the University of Houston, where he retired as an emeritus professor in 2016. With Ognjen S. Miljanic, he helped create a minor in Energy and Sustainability at the University of Houston.

Inhalt

Introductory Concepts
1. Brief History of Our Relationship with Energy
2. Defining and Quantifying Energy
3. Flows and Conversions of Energy and Matter
4. Defining and Quantifying Sustainability
5. Laws of Thermodynamics

Energy Production Today
6. Fossil Fuels and Pollution
7. Coal
8. Oil
9. Natural Gas
10. Unconventional Sources of Fossil Fuels
11. Nuclear Energy
12. Hydroelectric Power
13. Production and Storage of Electricity

Energy Consumption Today
14. Energy Use in Transportation
15. Agricultural Energy Use
16. Energy Use in Buildings: Residential and Commercial Consumption
17. Industrial Energy Consumption

Energy Transitions
18. Sustainability Transition: Why, When, How Long?
19. Climate Change

Energy Production Tomorrow
20. Biomass as a Source of Energy
21. Wind Energy
22. Solar Energy
23. Hydrogen as a Fuel
24. Geothermal Energy

Energy Consumption Tomorrow
25. Changes in Global Energy Consumption Patterns
26. Energy Conservation
27. Future of Cars
28. Energy Conservation in Architectural Design and Urban Planning

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• Schlagworte: Alternative Energy • Chemie • Chemistry • earth sciences • Energie • Energy • energy production • Engineering • Erneuerbare Energien • Geowissenschaften • Green Energy • Grüne Chemie • Hydrological Sciences • Hydrologie • Industrial Chemistry • <p>energy • Nachhaltige u. Grüne Chemie • Nachhaltigkeit • Power engineering • Power System • renewable energy • sustainability • Sustainable • Sustainable Chemistry & Green Chemistry • Sustainable energy • Technische u. Industrielle Chemie • Transportation • urban planning</p>
• ISBN-10: 3-527-81861-8 / 3527818618
• ISBN-13: 978-3-527-81861-7 / 9783527818617