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A thorough discussion on renewable energies and their implementation into the process industry, with an emphasis on efficiencies, demand of industrial processes and implementation in other industries, as well as in relation to current, integrated process plants.
Sommario
1. The energy scene
2. Generating renewable energy
3. Energy storage
4. Heating in the process industry
5. The implementation of renewable energy in various sectors
5a. Steel manufacture (and the role of carbon in steel manufacture)
5b. Cement manufacture (and methods to reduce CO2 emissions)
5c. Aluminum manufacture (as an example on how process scheduling may achieve `cheap adaptation to renewable energy)
5d. Glass manufacture (as an example of high temperature processing)
5e. Manufacture of ceramics
5f. Canning industry
5g. Industrial bakeries
5h. Pharmaceutical industry
5i. Wastewater treatment plants
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Eric van Steen is the South African Research Chair in Reaction Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Having obtained his academic degrees from Eindhoven University of Technology, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, he spent most of his career in the department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town. He is a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the South African Institute of Chemical Engineering and a Fellow of the University of Cape Town. Professor van Steen consults extensively in the process industry and has authored over 150 scientific publications.
Riassunto
A thorough discussion on renewable energies and their implementation into the process industry, with an emphasis on efficiencies, demand of industrial processes and implementation in other industries, as well as in relation to current, integrated process plants.
