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Future Energy

Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for Our Planet

  • 3rd Edition - January 16, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Trevor Letcher
  • Language: English

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Description

Future Energy: Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for Our Planet, Third Edition provides scientists and decision-makers with the knowledge they need to understand the relative importance and magnitude of various energy production methods in order to make the energy decisions necessary for sustaining development and dealing with climate change. The third edition of Future Energy looks at the present energy situation and extrapolates to future scenarios related to global warming and the increase of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

This thoroughly revised and updated edition contains over 40 chapters on all aspects of future energy, with each chapter updated and expanded by expert scientists and engineers in their respective fields.

Key features

  • Provides readers with an up-to-date overview of available energy options, both traditional and renewable, as well as the necessary tools needed to make informed decisions
  • Covers a wide spectrum of future energy resources presented in a single book with chapters written by experts from each particular field
  • Includes many new chapters that cover topics on conventional oil and fossil fuels, a new section on energy storage, and a look at new energy

Readership

Primary: Researchers working in the field of future energy, Government decision makers, Investors looking for new investments, Engineers and scientists working in the field of energySecondary: Students in environmental sciences and engineering (usually 3rd year or 4th year students as well as MSc and PhD students working in the area)

Table of contents

Part I Introduction

1. Introduction with a Focus on Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change
Trevor Letcher

Part II FOSSIL FUELS (ENERGY SOURCES)

2. Coal: Past, Present and Future Sustainable Use
Rajender Gupta

3. Unconventional Oil and Gas: Oilsands
Arno De Klerk

4. Shale Gas, Tight Oil, Shale Oil and Hydraulic Fracturing
Jeremy Boak

5. Coal bed Methane: Reserves, Production, and Future Outlook
Maria Mastalerz

6. Natural Gas Hydrates: Status of Potential as an Energy Resource
Ray Boswell

Part III NUCLEAR POWER (ENERGY SOURCES)

7. Nuclear Fission- new Generation Reactors
Aiden Peakman and Francis Livens

8. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
Giorgio Locatelli and Benito Mignacca

Part IV TRANSPORT ENERGY (ENERGY SOURCES)

9. Biofuels for Transport
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz

10. Transport Fuel: Biomass-, coal-, gas- and waste-to-liquids processes
Arno De Klerk

11. The Electric Vehicle Revolution
Paul Nieuwenhuis

Part V ENERGY STORAGE

12. The use of Batteries in Storing Electricity
Matthias Vetter

13. The use of Flow Batteries in Storing Electricity for National Grids
Christian Doetsch

14. Compressed Air Energy Storage
Jihong Wang and Mark Dooner

Part VI RENEWABLES (ENERGY SOURCES)

15. Hydroelectric Power
Ånund Killingveit

16. Wind Energy
S Bhattachary

17. Tidal Current Energy: Origins and challenges
Alan Owen

18. Solar Energy – Photovoltaics, including new technologies (thin film) and a discussion on panel efficiency
Vitezslav Benda

19. Concentrating Solar Power
Robert Pitz-Paal

20. Geothermal Energy
Rosalind Archer

21. Energy from Biomass
Charles Chunbao Xu

Part VII NEW POSSIBLE ENERGY OPTIONS

22. Hydrogen: An Energy Carrier
Mary Helen McCay

23. Fuel Cells: Energy Conversion Technology
Johannes Lindorfer

24. Space Solar
Paul Jaffe

25. Nuclear Fusion
Richard Kembleton

26. Synthetic Fuel Development
Heather Willauer

Part VIII ENVIRONMENTAL AND RELATED ISSUES

27. Energy and the Environment
Daniel Alan Vallero

28. Sustainable Energy and Energy Efficient Technologies
Andy Ford

Part IX THE CURRENT SITUATION AND THE TRANSITION TO THE FUTURE

29. The Life Cycle Assessment of various Energy Technologies
Nawshad Haque

30. Integration of high penetrations of intermittent renewable generation in future electricity networks, using storage
Charalampos Patsios

31. Carbon Capture and Storage
Karl Bandilla

32. Energy Options and Predictions for China
Kejun Jiang

33. Metals and Elements needed to support Future Energy
Gavin Mudd

34. A Global Overview of Future Energy
Christian Breyer

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 18, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Trevor Letcher

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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