Energy and the Environment
Series: MIT-Pappalardo Series in Mechanical Engineering;
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 21 March 2002
- ISBN 9780195150926
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 244x195x21 mm
- Weight 780 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line figures and halftones 0
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Short description:
This is a textbook for upper level undergraduate and first year graduate students, as well as professionals in the fields of energy and environmental sciences and technology. The text develops the scientific and technological background for understanding how rapidly growing use of energy threatens the degraduation of the natural environment at local, regional, and global scales. Also detailed are the newer technological developments that can mitigate these environmental effects,
especially electric power and transportation industries. This book aims to equip engineering and science majors and professionals with the basic factual knowledge needed to develope solutions to theses environmental problems.
Long description:
In an age of mounting energy crises, James A. Fay and Daniel Golomb's Energy and the Environment addresses a central and critical problem in urban-industrial societies: the destructive relationship between energy use and the environment. Intended for upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate students, as well as professionals in the fields of energy and environmental sciences and technology, this ground-breaking text develops the scientific and technological
background for understanding how rapidly increasing use of energy threatens the natural environment at local, regional, and global scales. Fay describes fossil, nuclear, and renewable energy technologies and their effectiveness in transforming the source of energy to useful mechanical or electrical power. Special
emphasis is given to the generation of electric power and the use of transportation vehicles, as well as the technological improvements that increase energy efficiency and reduce air pollutant emissions. In addition, the text analyzes the source of toxic emissions to air, water, and land that arise from energy uses and their effects on environmental quality at urban and regional scales. This book aims to equip engineering and science majors and professionals with the basic factual knowledge
needed to develop solutions to these environmental problems.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Energy and the Environment
Chapter 2. Global Energy Use and Supply
Chapter 3. Thermodynamic Principles of Energy Conversion
Chpater 4. Electrical Energy Generation, Transmission, and Storage
Chapter 5. Fossil Fueled Power Plants
Chapter 6. Nuclear Fueled Power Plants
Chapter 7. Renevable Energy
Chapter 8. Transportation
Chapter 9. Environmental Effects and Fossil Fuel Use
Chapter 10. Global Warming
Chapter 11. Concluding Remarks
Appendix A
