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- ISBN: 9781420087918 | 1420087916
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/23/2009
The Most Comprehensive Review of Nearly All Zero Emissions Cycles
Preface | |
Biographical Notes | |
Acronyms | |
Controversial Future | p. 1 |
Introduction and Forecast | p. 1 |
Reasons for Climate Change | p. 4 |
Controversial Statements | p. 5 |
Unavoided Carbon Capture at ZEPP (Zero Emission Power Plant) | p. 7 |
The Origin of Hydrocarbon Fuels | p. 9 |
Thermodynamics of a Reaction with Methane Formation of CO2 and Fayalite | p. 14 |
Emerging Task-The Sequestration | p. 16 |
References | p. 16 |
Cycles Review | p. 19 |
Carbon Capture Methods | p. 19 |
Early Attempts | p. 21 |
Industry First Becomes Interested | p. 23 |
Continued Development | p. 26 |
ZEPP Cycles Incorporating Oxygen Ion Transport Memberanes | p. 34 |
Zero Emissions Vehicle Cycle-Preliminary Section | p. 40 |
Toward a Zero Emissions Industry | p. 43 |
An Important Paper | p. 45 |
Some Additional Remarks | p. 45 |
References | p. 67 |
Zero Emissions Quasicombined Cycle with External Oxygen Supply | p. 73 |
Carbon Dioxide-Thermodynamic Properties, Pure and Mixtures | p. 73 |
Gas Mixtures | p. 80 |
Efficiency of Compressor and Turbine for Real Gas Conditions | p. 83 |
Detailed Simulation of a Zero Emissions Power Cycle on Pure Carbon Dioxide | p. 85 |
References | p. 93 |
Oxygen Ion Transport Membranes | p. 95 |
Nernst Effect | p. 95 |
Oxygen Ion Transport Membrane Reactors for ZEPPS | p. 98 |
Chemical Looping Combustion | p. 103 |
References | p. 105 |
The ZEITMOP Cycle and Its Variants | p. 107 |
The ZEITMOP Cycle with Separate ITMR and Coal-Powder Firing | p. 107 |
Gas-Fired ZEITMOP Version with Combined ITMR and Combustor | p. 108 |
A Zero Emissions Boiler House for Heating and Cooling | p. 111 |
A Transport Power Unit Version Using a Turbine | p. 111 |
A Zero Emissions Aircraft Engine | p. 114 |
A Membrane Smokeless Heater | p. 115 |
A Zero Emissions Rankine Cycle | p. 116 |
Boiler Integrated with ITM Combustor | p. 116 |
References | p. 118 |
Detailed Simulation of the ZEITMOP Cycle | p. 121 |
Turbomachinery for Carbon Dioxide as a Working Substance | p. 121 |
ZEITMOP Cycle Analysis | p. 126 |
ZEITMOP Cycle with Combined Combustion Chamber and ITM Reactor | p. 130 |
Simulation of Oxygen Transport Membrane Units | p. 133 |
Results and Discussion | p. 135 |
References | p. 138 |
Zero Emissions Piston Engines with Oxygen Enrichment | p. 141 |
Main Culprit | p. 141 |
ZEMPES Outline | p. 141 |
Hi-Ox ZEMPES | p. 145 |
Addition of Thermochemical Recuperation (TCR) | p. 147 |
Membrane Reactor for Piston Engines | p. 148 |
Zero Emissions Turbodiesel | p. 151 |
Membrane Reactor for Turbodiesel | p. 153 |
Numeric Example | p. 154 |
High-Temperature Heat Exchanger for Turbodiesel | p. 157 |
Economics of ZEMPES on Different Fuels | p. 158 |
Piston Engine with Pressure Swing Adsorption Oxygen Reactor | p. 162 |
The Proposed Schematics | p. 162 |
Oxygen Separation from Air | p. 166 |
Calculation Results | p. 167 |
Trigenerator for Enhancement of Oil Recovery (EOR) | p. 169 |
Calculations | p. 171 |
References | p. 174 |
Solar Energy Conversion through Photosynthesis and Zero Emissions Oxy-Fuel Combustion | p. 177 |
Biomass Combustion-Is It a Sustainable Energy? | p. 177 |
A Short History of Algae Cultivation and Use | p. 179 |
What Is ULVA? | p. 180 |
Macroalgae as a Renewable Fuel | p. 184 |
Macroalgae Cultivation in Israel and Italy | p. 187 |
Energy Flow Concentration | p. 187 |
Power Unit Outlook | p. 188 |
Gasification | p. 191 |
Water Desalination | p. 191 |
Comparison with the First Soft Version of 1991 | p. 194 |
References | p. 194 |
Associated Tool for Calculations | p. 197 |
Introduction | p. 197 |
What is Exergy? | p. 197 |
Natural Questions | p. 198 |
Mountain Bike | p. 198 |
Waterfall | p. 200 |
Carnot Analogy | p. 201 |
Thermal Friction | p. 203 |
A Warning | p. 204 |
Rubber Balloon | p. 204 |
What Is Exergy? | p. 206 |
Reference State | p. 208 |
Exergy Unit | p. 208 |
Exergy Efficiency | p. 210 |
Where Is Exergy Lost? | p. 211 |
Exergy Flow Direction | p. 212 |
Exergy from Ocean | p. 212 |
Heating of Dwellings | p. 215 |
The Magic Number | p. 217 |
Exergonomics | p. 218 |
Exergy versus Money | p. 219 |
The Main Criterion of Exergonomics | p. 220 |
Invested Exergy Models | p. 221 |
DC Electrical Conductor | p. 222 |
Heat Transfer through a Wall | p. 223 |
Thermal Insulation Optimization | p. 225 |
Exergy Conversion in the Thermochemical Recuperator of a Piston Engine | p. 227 |
Example of Exergy Calculation | p. 227 |
Processes in TCR | p. 228 |
Exergy Balance | p. 230 |
Results of Calculations | p. 233 |
Currentology an an Intermediate File | p. 234 |
Divergence Form Equation | p. 234 |
Information as Negative Entropy | p. 236 |
Thermal Charges | p. 238 |
Generalized Friction | p. 239 |
Some Equations | p. 239 |
Impulse Conservation | p. 240 |
Energy Conservation | p. 241 |
Exergy Current Vector | p. 243 |
Conductive, Convective and Wave Transfer | p. 244 |
Infoelectric Effect Expectation | p. 245 |
Pareto Optimization of Power Cycles | p. 246 |
Coordinates Frame | p. 247 |
Invested and Current Expenditures | p. 248 |
Exergy Minimization | p. 249 |
Monetary and Pollution Optimization | p. 250 |
Pareto Optimization Procedure | p. 251 |
Numeric Illustrations | p. 252 |
References | p. 254 |
Two Lectures for Students and Faculty of Dublin Institute of Technology (2003) | p. 257 |
To Ban or Not To Ban? (On the Human Right To Breathe and Global Warming) | p. 257 |
On the Fate of a Mechanical Engineer (Lecture at Dublin Institute of Technology, October 30, 2003) | p. 262 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 271 |
Index | p. 273 |
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