Thermodynamics and the Destruction of Resources (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bakshi, Bhavik R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a unique, multidisciplinary effort to apply rigorous thermodynamics fundamentals, a disciplined scholarly approach, to problems of sustainability, energy, and resource uses. Applying thermodynamic thinking to problems of sustainable behavior is a significant advantage in bringing order to ill-defined questions with a great variety of proposed solutions, some of which are more destructive than the original problem. The articles are pitched at a level accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduate students in courses on sustainability, sustainable engineering, industrial ecology, sustainable manufacturing, and green engineering. The timeliness of the topic, and the urgent need for solutions make this book attractive to general readers and specialist researchers as well. Top international figures from many disciplines, including engineers, ecologists, economists, physicists, chemists, policy experts and industrial ecologists among others make up the impressive list of contributors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139005845
• Artikelnr.: 38279786

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Bhavik R. Bakshi, Timothy Gutowski and Dusan Sekulic; Part I.
Foundations: 1. Thermodynamics: generalized available energy and
availability or exergy Elias Gyftopoulos; 2. Energy and exergy: does one
need both concepts for a study of resources use Dusan Sekulic; 3.
Accounting for resource use via thermodynamics Bhavik R. Bakshi, Anil Baral
and Jorge L. Hau; Part II. Products and Processes: 4. Material separation
and recycling Timothy Gutowski; 5. Entropy based metric for
transformational technologies development Dusan Sekulic; 6. Thermodynamic
analysis of resources used in manufacturing processes Timothy Gutowski and
Dusan Sekulic; 7. Case studies in energy use to realize ultra-high purities
in semiconductor manufacturing Eric Williams, Nikhil Krishnan and Sarah
Boyd; 8. Energy resources and use: the present (2008) situation, possible
sustainable paths to the future and the thermodynamic perspective Noam
Lior; Part III. Life Cycle Assessments and Metrics: 9. Using thermodynamics
and statistics to improve the quality of life cycle inventory data Bhavik
R. Bakshi, Hangjoon Kim and Prem K. Goel; 10. Developing sustainable
technology: metrics from thermodynamics Geert Van der Vorst, Jo Dewulf and
Herman Van Langenhove; 11. Entropy production and resource consumption in
life cycle assessments Stefan Gößling-Reisemann; 12. Exergy and material
flow in industrial and ecological systems Nandan Ukidwe and Bhavik R.
Bakshi; 13. Materials flow analysis and input-output analysis: a synthesis
Shinichiro Nakamura; Part IV. Economic, Social Industrial, Eco Systems: 14.
Early development of input-output analysis of energy and ecologic systems
Bruce Hannon; 15. Exergoeconomics and exergoenvironmental analysis George
Tsatsaronis; 16. Entopy, economics and policy Matthias Ruth; 17.
Integration and segregation in a population - a thermodynamicist's view
Mueller Ingo; 18. Exergy use in ecosystems analysis: background and
challenges Roberto Pastres and Brian D. Fath; 19. Thoughts on the
application of thermodynamics to the development of sustainability science
Timothy Gutowski, Dusan Sekulic and Bhavik R. Bakshi.