Ethanol
Science and Engineering
- 1st Edition - August 28, 2018
- Latest edition
- Editors: Angelo Basile, Adolfo Iulianelli, Francesco Dalena, T. Nejat Veziroglu
- Language: English
Ethanol: Science and Engineering reviews the most significant research findings in both ethanol production and utilization. The book's contents are divided into four parts, be… Read more
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Description
Description
Ethanol: Science and Engineering reviews the most significant research findings in both ethanol production and utilization. The book's contents are divided into four parts, beginning with an explanation of the chemical reactions involved during the conversion of ethanol to more complex molecules. Other sections focus on various processes and their potential use, the modelling of various chemical processes, and finally, their economic and environmental impact. The book includes the most advanced production processes, new technologies, applications, and the economic role ethanol plays today. The book will be great for researchers and engineers in both academic and industry.
The idea of using ethanol as a fuel is one of the most promising options in the arena of alternative fuels because of it versatile use as an intermediate for producing hydrogen via reforming reactions, direct fuel cells feed and/or its production from biomass, which is also considered a sustainable feedstock.
Key features
Key features
- Reviews ethanol production methods from biomass
- Discusses the potential of ethanol as a viable future fuel
- Includes hydrogen production methods using ethanol in catalytic reforming processes
- Outlines the various technologies based on ethanol
- Includes ethanol powered fuel cells
Readership
Readership
Chemists and chemical engineers researching catalytic phenomena in an academic/government/industrial research environment, materials scientists. The book is a key reference text for R&D managers in industry interested in the development of bioenergy technologies as well as academic researchers and postgraduate students
Table of contents
Table of contents
Part 1: Science and Production1. Ethanol to chemicals: reactions, reactivities and application. An overview2. Ethanol from biomass3. Kinetics analysis of ethanol production processes4. Ethanol for food and transportation: a kind of competition?5. Bioethanol exploitation: future and perspectives
Part 2: Application and Innovation6. Catalysts for the ethanol reforming processes7. Steam reforming, preferential oxidation and autothermal reforming of ethanol for hydrogen production8. Ethanol as an internal combustion engine fuel9. Ethanol opportunities for electricity and hydrogen production in bioelectrochemical systems10. Direct ethanol fuel cells11. Crude bioethanol reforming processes: the advantages of a bio-source exploitation12. Ethanol in automotive applications
Part 3: Modelling and Technology13. State of the art on the conventional processes for ethanol production14. Hydrogen production technologies from ethanol15. Kinetic of the ethanol reforming16. Ethanol production in thermally coupled, fluidized bed, bubble column and membrane reactors17. Hydrogen production from ethanol reforming: a modeling approach18. Modeling and control of the output current of a direct ethanol fuel cell system19. Electrical Vehicles fueled by ethanol20. Ethanol for air transportation
Part 4: Environment and Economy21. Ethanol economy: environment, demand, and marketing22. Economic assessment of ethanol production23. Cost estimation of an integrated system for co-production of electricity and ethanol24. A technical and economic comparison of the bioethanol exploitation within agriculture and industry.
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: September 3, 2018
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Angelo Basile
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Adolfo Iulianelli
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Francesco Dalena
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T. Nejat Veziroglu
Dr. Veziroglu, a native of Turkey, graduated from the City and Guilds College, the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, with degrees in Mechanical Engineering (A.C.G.I., B.Sc.), Advanced Studies in Engineering (D.I.C.) and Heat Transfer (Ph.D.).
In 1962 – after doing his military service in the Ordnance Section, serving in some Turkish government agencies and heading a private company – Dr. Veziroglu joined the University of Miami Engineering Faculty. In 1965, he became the Director of Graduate Studies and initiated the first Ph.D. Program in the School of Engineering and Architecture. He served as Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering 1971 through 1975, in 1973 established the Clean Energy Research Institute, and was the Associate Dean for Research 1975 through 1979. He took a three years Leave of Absence (2004 through 2007) and founded UNIDO-ICHET (United Nations Industrial Development Organization – International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies) in Istanbul, Turkey. On 15 May 2009, he attained the status of Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami.
Dr. Veziroglu organized the first major conference on Hydrogen Energy: The Hydrogen Economy Miami Energy (THEME) Conference, Miami Beach, 18-20 March 1974. At the opening of this conference, Dr. Veziroglu proposed the Hydrogen Energy System as a permanent solution for the depletion of the fossil fuels and the environmental problems caused by their utilization. Soon after, the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) was established, and Dr. Veziroglu was elected president. As President of IAHE, in 1976 he initiated the biennial World Hydrogen Energy Conferences (WHECs), and in 2005 the biennial World Hydrogen Technologies Conventions (WHTCs).
In 1976, Dr. Veziroglu started publication of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE) as its Founding Editor-in-Chief, in order to publish and disseminate Hydrogen Energy related research and development results from around the world. IJHE has continuously grew; now it publishes twenty-four issues a year. He has published some 350 papers and scientific reports, edited 160 volumes of books and proceedings, and has co-authored the book “Solar Hydrogen Energy: The Power to Save the Earth”.
Dr. Veziroglu has memberships in eighteen scientific organizations, has been elected to the Grade of Fellow in the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the Founding President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy.
Dr. Veziroglu has been the recipient of several international awards. He was presented the Turkish Presidential Science Award in 1974, made an Honorary Professor in Xian Jiaotong University of China in 1981, awarded the I. V. Kurchatov Medal by the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy of U.S.S.R. in 1982, the Energy for Mankind Award by the Global Energy Society in 1986, and elected to the Argentinean Academy of Sciences in 1988. In 2000, he was nominated for Nobel Prize in Economics, for conceiving the Hydrogen Economy and striving towards its establishment.