Ahmed F. Ghoniem (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Energy Conversion Engineering

Towards Low CO2 Power and Fuels

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Equips students with the concepts and tools needed to model, design, and build efficient, clean low-carbon energy conversion systems with this advanced undergraduate and graduate-level textbook. Features real-world examples, homework problems, and online instructor resources including lecture slides, solutions, and sample projects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1000
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 203mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1930g
• ISBN-13: 9781108478373
• ISBN-10: 1108478379
• Artikelnr.: 62124550

Autorenporträt

Ahmed F. Ghoniem is the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Center for Energy and Propulsion Research and the Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree from Cairo University, and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. His research covers computational engineering, turbulence and combustion, multiphase flow, clean energy technologies with focus on CO2 capture, renewable energy and fuels. He supervised more than 120 masters, Ph.D. and post-doctoral students; published more than 500 articles in leading journals and conferences; and consulted for the aerospace, automotive and energy industry. He is fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Physical Society, and the Combustion Institute, and associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received several awards including the ASME James Harry Potter Award in Thermodynamics, the AIAA Propellant and Combustion Award, the KAUST Investigator Award and the 'Committed to Caring Professor' at MIT.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Low carbon energy: Why?
2. Thermodynamics
3. Chemical thermodynamics
4. Electrochemical thermodynamics
5. Gas turbine cycles
6. Rankine cycles
7. Fuel cells at finite current
8. Combined, oxy-combustion and hybrid cycles
9. Solar thermal, geothermal and integration
10. Gas separation
11. Carbon capture cycles: natural gas
12. Coal power cycles, gasification and synfuels
13. Carbon capture cycles: coal
14. Biomass
Index.