Energy and the Environment

280 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Preface. Exergy analysis, costing, and assessment of environmental impact; M.J. Moran. The method of entropy generation minimization; A. Bejan. Advanced enhancement for heat exchangers; A.E. Bergles. Optimization of finned arrays; A.D. Kraus. Opportunities for heat exchanger applications in environmental systems; R.K. Shah et al. Inverse design of energy and environmental systems; F. Franca et al. Advances in modeling radiative transport in high temperature gases; B.W. Webb. Heat transfer in porous radiant burners; T.W. Tong, A. Tarafdar. Radiation heat transfer in materials processing and manufacturing; R. Viskanta. The production of improved plastic materials by chaotic mixing of polymer melts recovered from environmental waste; D.A. Zumbrunnen. Perspectives and directions of the electric power industry in the next millennium; D. Weiner. The impact of energy storage technologies on the environment; P. Vadász. Potential impact of pumped energy storage on the lower reservoir aquatic ecology; S. Olek. Development of industrial cooling systems and their impact on the environment; D.G. Kröger. Advances in the measurement of convective heat transfer in gas turbine applications; G.D.J. Smith et al. Thermally affected flows in power plants; J.H. Kim, K.-W. You. Advances in the technology of liquid synfuel production from coal; A.C. Vosloo. Some geophysical problems involving convection in porous media with application to energy and the environment; D.A. Nield. Convection of hazardous substances through rock fractures and faults; J.L. Lage. Radioactive waste repositories in fractured rocks formations: hydrodynamic aspects; C. Braester. Evaluation of energy efficient and environmentally acceptable pure and zeotropic refrigerants inair-conditioning and refrigeration; J.P. Meyer. Application of heat pumps in the South African commercial sector; G.P. Greyvenstein, P.G. Rousseau. Index.