Hydrogen Energy: Part a

ISBN-13: 9781468426090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 674 str.

T. Veziroglu

Opis

There are three important problems facing the world: deple- tion of fossil fUels, demand for more energy, and the pollution of our environment. The world contains limited amounts of fossil fuels. They are being depleted, at an ever-growing rate. Peoples of the world are demanding more and more energy. This is due to the desires of peoples to improve their standard of living--and the standard of living is directly proportional to the energy con- sumed. In addition, the world is demanding a cleaner environment to live in. Many of us, scientists and engineers, believe that replacing fossil fuels with the inexhaustible and clean synthetic fuel, hydrogen (produced from non-fossil primary sources of energy) will answer the above problems. Hydrogen, as the fUel of the post-fossil-fUel era, was pre- dicted more than a hundred years ago by that great forecaster of the future, Jules Verne, in his novel The Mysterious Island: Water decomposed into its primitive elements, and decom- posed doubtless by electricity, which will then have become a powerful and manageable force. - - . Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen, which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light of an intensity, of which coal is not capable -. -. I believe, then, that when the deposits of coal are exhausted, we shall heat and warm ourselves with water. Water will be the coal of the future.

Spis treści

of Part A.- Banquet Address.- 1. Primary Energy Sources.- 1.1 Is Massive Solar Energy Conversion a Practical Prospect?.- 1.2 A Tower-Top Point Focus Solar Energy Collector.- 1.3 Reliability of Low Cost Cu2S/CdS Solar Cells for Large-Scale Conversion of Solar to Electrical Energy.- 1.4 Geothermal Energy as a Resource in a Hydrogen Energy Economy.- 1.5 The Effect of Atmospheric Turbulence on Windmill Performance.- 1.6 Hydrogen: The Ultimate Energy Source.- 2. Hydrogen Production.- 2.1 Nuclear Water-Splitting and High Temperature Reactors.- 2.2 High Temperature Nuclear Reactors as an Energy Source for Hydrogen Production.- 2.3 Hydrogen Production with a High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR).- 2.4 Hydrogen Production from Decomposition of Water by Means of Nuclear Reactor Heat.- 2.5 Aqueous Homogeneous Reactor for Hydrogen Production.- 2.6 Wind Capture and Diversion Through Pneumatic Energy Recovery with Large Capacity Aerogenerators.- 2.7 Sea Thermal Power as a Hydrogen and Methanol Generator.- 2.8 Ocean Based Solar-To-Hydrogen Energy Conversion Macro System.- 2.9 Thermochemical Water Cracking Using Solar Heat.- 2.10 Photolysis of Water as a Solar Energy Conversion Process: An Assessment.- 2.11 The Technology and Economics of Hydrogen Production from Fusion Reactors.- 2.12 Economic Criteria of Selection for Closed Cycle Thermochemical Water-Splitting Processes.- 2.13 Comparative Study of Hybrid Energy Systems of Hydrogen and Electric Power.- 2.14 An Economic Perspective on Hydrogen Fuel.- 2.15 The Utilization of Solar Energy for Hydrogen Production by Cell Free System of Photosynthetic Organisms.- 2.16 An Analysis of Hydrogen Production Via Closed-Cycle Schemes.- 2.17 Hydrogen and Food Production from Nuclear Heat and Municipal Wastes.- 2.18 Hydrogen as Energy Storage Element.- 2.19 Hydrogen Opportunities in Saudi Arabia.- 2.20 On Methods for the Large-Scale Production of Hydrogen From Water.- 2.21 Electrolytic Hydrogen Generators.- 2.22 Electrolysis of Sea Water.- 2.23 Hydrogen Generation Through Static Feed Water Electrolysis.- 2.24 Hydrogen Generation by Solid Polymer Electrolyte Water Electrolysis.- 2.25 Evaluation of Multi-Step Thermo Chemical Processes for the Production of Hydrogen From Water.- 2.26 Considerations on Iron-Chlorine-Oxygen Reactions in Relation to Thermochemical Water-Splitting.- 2.27 Thermochemical Hydrogen Production Research at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.- 2.28 Analysis of Thermo Chemical Water- Splitting Cycles.- 2.29 A Search for Thermochemical Water-Splitting Cycles.- 3. Hydrogen Storage and Transmissions.- 3.1 Pipeline Transportation of Hydrogen.- 3.2 Economics of Pipeline Transport for Hydrogen and Oxygen.- 3.3 Low Thermal Flux Glass-Fiber/Metal Vessels for LH2 Storage Systems.- 3.4 Electric Power and Fuel Transmission by Liquid Hydrogen Superconductive Pipeline.- 3.5 Optimal Location of Hydrogen Supply Centers to Minimize Distribution Costs.- 3.6 The Activation of a Lanthanum-Nickel-Five Hydrogen Absorbent.- 3.7 An Engineering-Scale Energy Storage Reservoir of Iron Titanium Hydride.- 3.8 Modeling Studies of Fixed-Bed Metal-Hydride Storage Systems.- 3.9 The Safety Characteristics of LaNi5 Hydrides.- 3.10 The Formation and Properties of Rare-Earth and Transition Metal Hydrides.