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Informationen zum Autor Horacio Perez-Blanco is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. A fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers! Dr. Perez-Blanco teaches short courses on gas turbines for the International Gas Turbines Institute and has developed an energy systems laboratory for his department. His research interests include thermal systems! simultaneous heat and mass transfer! and gas turbine inlet cooling. Klappentext Focuses on the dynamic modeling of energy supply and introduces time as a meaningful variable. This work evaluates energy supplies! including coal! gas! oil! nuclear and renewables. It emphasizes the importance of response time in determining the commercial viability of energy technologies! while discussing mainstream conversion technologies. Zusammenfassung Assessing the existing and future possibilities of energy sources and technologies, this book helps develop competence in energy matters on three levels: basic concepts, essential computations, and dynamic modeling. It provides a complete portfolio of various energy technologies to enhance understanding of the present and enable innovative specu Inhaltsverzeichnis The LawsEnergyEnergy in MotionThe Second LawThe First LawIf Energy Is Conserved! Why Worry about Energy Supplies?Temperature: Can It Get Any Colder?Entropy: Does It Really Exist?Entropy Grows Like WeedsIrreversibility and EntropyConversions-Cyclical and DirectSummaryThe Equations for Transient PhenomenaState! Properties! and ProcessEnthalpyReynold's Transport TheoremConservation of MassConservation of MomentumConservation of EnergyEntropy GenerationNo "Lost and Found" for Lost WorkExergy! or Work Not Yet LostReversible Work and Real WorkDirect Conversion Processes: Is an Efficiency Close to One Possible?Other Useful Empirical Dissipation LawsSummary Predicting Peaks: A Difficult ArtDisclaimer and MethodResource Lifetime and the Laws of ThermodynamicsExample of Resource Lifetime EstimationProjecting into the PastUnits: A Practical ChoiceA RecapitulationThe FuelsRenewablesThe Center of It AllAn Overview: All Together NowFossil Fuels and Their TechnologyNatural GasOilCoalNuclearRenewable TechnologySolarPhotovoltaicWindSolar ThermalHydroArea: Not a Superficial TopicSummaryAprès Conversion: Utilization TechnologyResidentialCommercialIndustrialTransportationSummaryChain Efficiencies: From Capture to UtilizationOn This ChapterSteady-State EfficienciesExtraction Energy CostsEnergy Conversion/Distribution EfficienciesStorage EfficiencyEnergy AnalysisExamplesEnergy and Its SequelsConstant Travel with a Brief Stop on EarthCombustionAll Together NowNuclearRenewablesDynamic ModelingVariables and ElementsGeneral Forms of Commonly Used LawsProgramming in VisSimThe Future: A Moving Green TargetThe Future and CriteriaCoal: Many Possible FuturesCO2 Capture and Its PossibilitiesOil and GasMoving Fuels aroundNuclear EnergyRenewablesEnergy Savings through Enhanced EfficiencyA Convergence to Renewables?IndexReferences appear at the end of each chapter. ...
