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Introduction to Energy and Sustainability - Hardcover

Miljanic, Ognjen S.; Pratt, Joseph A.

 
9783527345403: Introduction to Energy and Sustainability
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 352734540X ISBN 13: 9783527345403
Verlag: Wiley-VCH, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Offers a comprehensive review of the currently existing energy production and consumption technologies

Offering unique perspectives from one social and one natural scientist and combining them with the view of an industry expert, this book covers definitions and ways of quantifying energy and sustainability, and examines today's energy production and consumption technologies paying particular attention to the environmental, historic, and regulatory aspects of each introduced energy technology. It also deals with alternative and future energy technologies, as well as examples of sustainable approaches to everyday issues of transportation, urban planning, and home construction.

Introduction to Energy and Sustainability starts with a section on introductory concepts and covers such things as the history of our relationship with energy; defining and quantifying both energy and sustainability; flows and conversions of energy and matter; and the laws of thermodynamics energy production today. It examines how energy is produced and consumed in our modern world and looks at what types of energy exist and how we use it. The book also discusses the future of energy and how we will provide and utilize our current and forthcoming sources of power as our world changes.

-Balances the treatment of hard science and engineering concepts of energy and sustainability with a thorough discussion of their socioeconomic and geopolitical implications
-Offers a unique perspective of one social and one natural scientist, combined with the view of an industry expert
-Filled with chapters that feature practice questions and solutions
-Relevant to students in energy fields and environmentalists

Introduction to Energy and Sustainability is an ideal text for post-graduate level students of energy fields. It will also greatly benefit environmentalists, engineers, power engineers, and chemists in industry.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ognjen S. Miljanic, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston. His research focuses on the use of porous materials to capture greenhouse gases. He has been teaching energy and sustainability to diverse student audience for more than 10 years.
Joseph Pratt earned a PhD in economic history from Johns Hopkins University (1976). He taught at UC Berkeley, the Harvard Business School (as a visitor), and Texas A&M University before accepting a chaired position in history and business at the University of Houston, where he retired as an emeritus professor in 2016. With Ognjen S. Miljanic, he helped create a minor in Energy and Sustainability at the University of Houston.

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Verlag
Wiley-VCH
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
352734540X
ISBN 13 
9783527345403
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
608
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