Energy and Environment
Subtitle: Technological Challenges for the Future
By: edited by Yasuhiko H. Mori, Kouhei Ohnishi
Contributors: Ohnishi, Kouhei
Publisher: Springer Japan
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9784431683278; 9784431683254
Subjects: Electrical engineering; Environmental sciences
Description: It is becoming evident that satisfying the ever-increasing global demand for energy is having a major impact on the environment. The technologies required to minimize such impacts are discussed here in an in-depth overview and review of a broad spectrum of energy and environmental issues. The first five sections of the book deal directly with scientific and technological topics: the production, transportation, and utilization of electric power; thermal science and engineering for energy conservation/utilization processes; gas hydrates; multiphase mechanics for energy and environmental technology; pollutants and radioactive wastes in the earth. The sixth section, unique in a book of this type, focuses on education, recording a panel discussion on solutions to problems of energy and environment. For specialists and nonspecialists alike, the book is thus a valuable guide to the technological challenges for the future.
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Table of contents: title: Part I: Production, Transportation and Utilization of Electric Power; title: Part II: Thermal Science and Engineering for Energy Conversion/Utilization Processes; title: Part III: Gas Hydrates: Their Impact on Energy and Environmental Prospects; title: Part IV: Multiphase Mechanics for Energy and Environmental Technology; title: Part V: Pollutants and Radioactive Wastes in the Earth; title: Part VI: Education on Energy and Environmental Concerns; title: Panel Discussion.