Advances in Carbon Management Technologies: Carbon Removal, Renewable and Nuclear Energy, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9780367198428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 476 str.

Subhas Sikdar; Frank Princiotta

Opis

This book was motivated by the desire to compile recent advances in carbon management to examine promises and limitations of emissions measurements, energy efficiencies, carbon capture and sequestration, biomass waste utilization, electric power generation, energy storage, and carbon neutral power from nuclear, hydro, solar and wind.

Spis treści

Introductory. What key low-carbon technologies are needed to meet serious climate mitigation targets and what is their status. SECTION 1. GLOBAL AND REGIONAL VIEWS OF CARBON MANAGEMENT. Introduction. Removing greenhouse gases from the air to stabilize the climate. Low carbon technologies in global energy markets. Carbon Management: forest conservation and management. Reducing carbon footprint of products (CFP) in the value chain. Significance of GHG measurement on carbon management technologies. SECTION 2. FOSSIL SECTOR: COAL/PETROLEUM/NATURAL GAS. Carbon policies for reducing emissions in power plants. Carbon mitigation in the power sector: challenges and opportunities. The environmental impact of implementing CO₂ capture process in power plants: effect of type of fuel and energy demand. Systems integration approaches to monetizing CO_2. Energy-water-CO₂ nexus of fossil fuel-based power generation. Natural gas reforming to industrial gas and chemicals using chemical looping. Alternative pathways for CO₂ utilization via dry reforming of methane. Ranking carbon emissions mitigation options under uncertainty. Carbon management in the CO₂-rich natural gas to energy supply chain. Coal to chemicals: a smart choice. Optimal planning of biomass co-firing networks with biochar-based carbon sequestration. Trends in transportation greenhouse gas emissions and implications for carbon management. SECTION 3. WIND/SOLAR/HYDRO/NUCLEAR. Nuclear energy and carbon emission reduction - promise and problems. Concentrated solar energy driven multi-generation systems based on the organic Rankine cycle technology. Solar photovoltaic technologies and systems. Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Wind Energy: What Can Be Learned from Life-Cycle Studies? Hydropower.