Thermodynamics and the destruction of resources / edited by Bhavik R. Bakshi, Timothy G. Gutowski, Dušan P. Sekulić.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bakshi, Bhavik R., editor.

Gutowski, Timothy George Peter, editor.

Sekulić, Dušan P., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power resources.

Energy consumption.

Conservation of natural resources.

Thermodynamics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 500 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Thermodynamics & the Destruction of Resources

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Bhavik R. Bakshi, Timothy Gutowski, 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, Jorge L. Hau

Part II. Products & 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, Dusan Sekulic

7. Case studies in energy use to realize ultra-high purities in semiconductor manufacturing / Eric Williams, Nikhil Krishnan, 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 & metrics: 9. Using thermodynamics and statistics to improve the quality of life cycle inventory data / Bhavik R. Bakshi, Hangjoon Kim, Prem K. Goel

10. Developing sustainable technology: metrics from thermodynamics / Geert Van der Vorst, Jo Dewulf, 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, 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, Brian D. Fath

19. Thoughts on the application of thermodynamics to the development of sustainability science / Timothy Gutowski, Dusan Sekulic, Bhavik R. Bakshi.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-21911-6

1-283-05500-7

9786613055002

1-139-01034-4

1-139-00982-6

1-139-00819-6

1-139-00708-4

0-511-97604-6

1-139-00929-X

OCLC:

710974651