Industrial Decarbonization and the Energy Transition
Innovative Solutions for a Carbon-Free, Sustainable, and Clean Environment
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2024
- Editors: Suresh Sundaramurthy, Sakthivel Sundaresan, Sarat Kumar Swain
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 9 2 9 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 9 3 0 - 6
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Request a sales quoteIndustrial Decarbonization and the Energy Transition: Innovative Solutions for a Carbon-Free, Sustainable, and Clean Environment provides detailed information on a range of cutting-edge solutions, supporting decarbonization, clean energy production, and energy transition. Sectors covered include chemical and photochemical, cement and concrete, class, pulp and paper, steel and iron-making, fertilizer, clay, methanol, refineries, sugar, and thermal power plants. Technology, regulations, climate impact, and finance are considered for each sector, and throughout the book, emphasis is placed on the industry perspective and expertise, with thorough techno-economic analysis and in-depth discussion of other key considerations such as scale-up, cost reductions, waste, and future possibilities.
This book is of interest to engineers, R&D, and other professionals involved in energy transition and decarbonization of industrial processes and plants across a range of industrial sectors, as well as academic researchers, scientists, and advanced students in energy transition, renewable energy, engineering, decarbonization, and sustainability.</p>
- Offers in-depth coverage of decarbonization and energy transition for specific target industries
- Provides practical solutions, along with industry expertise, scale-up strategies, and economic analysis
- Highlights novel technologies and new pathways, such as green hydrogen production and storage
Industry: Engineers, R&D, and other professionals involved in energy transition and decarbonization of industrial processes and plants across a range of sectors. Academic: Researchers, scientists, and advanced students with an interest in energy transition, renewable energy, engineering, decarbonization, and sustainability
1. Decarbonization in industrial sectors: Global context
2. Clean energy production
3. Potential pathways to green chemical industrial processes
4. Decarbonization and energy transition of chemical and photochemical industries
5. Decarbonization and energy transition for cement and concrete industries
6. Decarbonization and energy transition in glass industry
7. Decarbonization and energy transition for pulp and paper industry
8. Decarbonization and energy transition for steel and iron making industry
9. Decarbonization and energy transition for fertilizer industry
10. Decarbonization and energy transition in clay industry
11. Decarbonization and energy transition for methanol
12. Decarbonization and energy transition for refineries
13. Decarbonization and energy transition in sugar industry
14. Decarbonization and energy transition in thermal power plant
15. Decarbonization by scale-up techniques
16. Energy storage techniques for decarbonization and energy transition
17. Hydrogen storage materials: solution to new generations
18. Strategies for cost reduction of clean energy production
19. Future perspectives for a clean energy economy
20. Decarbonization of industrial waste: Challenges and solutions
2. Clean energy production
3. Potential pathways to green chemical industrial processes
4. Decarbonization and energy transition of chemical and photochemical industries
5. Decarbonization and energy transition for cement and concrete industries
6. Decarbonization and energy transition in glass industry
7. Decarbonization and energy transition for pulp and paper industry
8. Decarbonization and energy transition for steel and iron making industry
9. Decarbonization and energy transition for fertilizer industry
10. Decarbonization and energy transition in clay industry
11. Decarbonization and energy transition for methanol
12. Decarbonization and energy transition for refineries
13. Decarbonization and energy transition in sugar industry
14. Decarbonization and energy transition in thermal power plant
15. Decarbonization by scale-up techniques
16. Energy storage techniques for decarbonization and energy transition
17. Hydrogen storage materials: solution to new generations
18. Strategies for cost reduction of clean energy production
19. Future perspectives for a clean energy economy
20. Decarbonization of industrial waste: Challenges and solutions
- No. of pages: 450
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443219290
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Suresh Sundaramurthy
Suresh Sundaramurthy is a faculty member and former head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MA-NIT) Bhopal, in India. He is a recipient of the IUSSTF Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the government of India. He has supervised nine PhD students, 55 MTech students, and 150 BTech/project students. He has published more than 100 research publications in the following areas: new sorbents and catalysts, reactor design, environmental biotechnology, waste-to-energy, decarbonization, energy transition, nanoengineered materials, technical textiles, gas separation, sensing of toxic gases, process safety, and hazard and disaster management. He has also published two Indian patents and is involved in the development of three international book series and has published more than 22 book chapters and six edited books and proceedings.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, IndiaSS
Sakthivel Sundaresan
Dr. Sakthivel Sundaresan is a Senior Technologist in the Technology Group of Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd., based in Mumbai, India. His areas of focus include green chemicals, green ammonia, green fuels, the energy transition, and decarbonization, with responsibility for the evaluation of emerging technologies and commercialization. Dr. Sakthivel has experience in process engineering, technology analysis, screening and selection, techno-economic analysis, pilot setups, process hazard analysis, basic, applied and market research, and powder and science technology. He holds a PhD and has published several articles in national and peer-reviewed international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Technology Team, TATA Consulting Engineers Ltd., Mumbai, IndiaSS
Sarat Kumar Swain
Prof. Sarat Kumar Swain is a Professor of Chemistry at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Sambalpur, India, since 2011. Before joining VSSUT, he worked at North Odisha University (now renamed as Sriram Chandra Bhaanja Deo University), as Associate Professor, and was formerly Dean (Academic Affairs), Dean (PG Studies & Research), and Head of the Department of Chemistry at VSSUT. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA after receiving his Doctoral degree from Utkal University, and also worked as a visiting researcher at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced and Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru. Prof. Swain has more than 25 years of experience in teaching and research, and his interests include hybrid nanomaterials, advanced materials, and applications in environmental remediation and decarbonization. He has published over 120 research papers in SCI indexed international journals of repute, authored or edited 5 books and 35 book chapters, and published two patents (one in the USA and one in India).
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemistry, Veer Surendra Sai University Technology, Odisha, India