Energy Materials by Singh, Surinder; Sundaramurthy, Suresh; Ibhadon, Alex;

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This book emphasizes the engineering scalability of a circular economy approach to development and use of energy materials. It focuses on waste minimization and its valorization, recycling and reuse, and emerging sustainable materials and technologies required for production of these materials in the process industry and manufacturing sectors.

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Energy Materials: A Circular Economy Approach emphasizes the engineering scalability of a circular economy approach to development and use of energy materials. It focuses on waste minimization and its valorization, recycling and reuse, and emerging sustainable materials and technologies. It offers a view of the eco-friendly energy materials and state-of-the-art technologies required for production of these materials in the process industry and manufacturing sectors.

• Covers fundamentals, concepts, and current initiatives within the circular economy

• Outlines technologies and materials with specific applications for energy systems, sustainability aspects and societal benefits

• Focuses on detailed aspects of processing of energy materials, kinetics, their utilization, and end-of-life management and application of circular economy in waste utilization and valorization

• Discusses technologies, processing methods, and production of materials related to fuel cells, super capacitors and battery materials, carbon based hetrostructures, catalysis, functional materials, nanotechnology, biofuels, solar and wind energy, and valuable chemicals

• Details topics related to synthesis and application of energy materials, their recycle, reuse, and life cycle

This book is aimed at students, researchers and professional engineers and scientists working in chemical, materials, energy, and environmental engineering, as well as materials chemistry.

Tartalomjegyzék:

1. Circular economy for energy materials—state of the art initiatives and regulatory issues.  2. Circular Economy: An Industrial Perspective for Sustainable Future.  3. Lithium as new gold for advanced energy material, availability in nature, recovery from waste, and sustainability.  4. Photo-Catalytic Materials for Production of Hydrogen from Water Using Solar Energy.  5. Valorisation of lignocellulosic biomass into high value chemicals: Forging a route towards the circular economy.  6. Sustainable electrode materials/composites for Batteries and Fuel cells for achieving supercapacitance and environmentally benign mobility.  7. Carbon-based heterostructures: A circular economy energy application towards electrochemical sensors.  8. Technologies for conversion of Biomass to valuable chemicals and Fuels.  9. Microgrid structure for tapping renewable energy.  10. Plastic Waste to Value Added Products via Recycling and Upcycling.  11. Closing the Loop: Circular Economy for Food-Based Emulsions and Films for Energy Materials.  12. MOF-Based Nanocomposites for Energy Storage and Supercapacitor Applications.  13. A Circular Economy Approach to Solar Energy.  14. Recycling Within the Chemical Industry: The Circular Economy Approach- Industrial Perspectives.  15. The Future Perspectives of Global Circular Economy Transition and Comprehensive Cost analysis.