Energy and the Environment

This text looks at the interface between energy and environmental research. It begins with the latest trends in applied thermodynamics, the methods of energy analysis, entropy generation minimization and thermoeconomics, and continues with developments in energy processing.

Preface. Exergy analysis, costing, and assessment of environmental impact; M.J. Moran. The method of entropy generation minimization; A. Bejan. Advanced enhancement for heat exchangers; A.E. Bergles. Optimization of finned arrays; A.D. Kraus. Opportunities for heat exchanger applications in environmental systems; R.K. Shah et al. Inverse design of energy and environmental systems; F. Franca et al. Advances in modeling radiative transport in high temperature gases; B.W. Webb. Heat transfer in porous radiant burners; T.W. Tong, A. Tarafdar. Radiation heat transfer in materials processing and manufacturing; R. Viskanta. The production of improved plastic materials by chaotic mixing of polymer melts recovered from environmental waste; D.A. Zumbrunnen. Perspectives and directions of the electric power industry in the next millennium; D. Weiner. The impact of energy storage technologies on the environment; P. Vadász. Potential impact of pumped energy storage on the lower reservoir aquatic ecology; S. Olek. Development of industrial cooling systems and their impact on the environment; D.G. Kröger. Advances in the measurement of convective heat transfer in gas turbine applications; G.D.J. Smith et al. Thermally affected flows in power plants; J.H. Kim, K.-W. You. Advances in the technology of liquid synfuel production from coal; A.C. Vosloo. Some geophysical problems involving convection in porous media with application to energy and the environment; D.A. Nield. Convection of hazardous substances through rock fractures and faults; J.L. Lage. Radioactive waste repositories in fractured rocks formations: hydrodynamic aspects; C. Braester. Evaluation of energy efficient and environmentally acceptable pure and zeotropic refrigerants inair-conditioning and refrigeration; J.P. Meyer. Application of heat pumps in the South African commercial sector; G.P. Greyvenstein, P.G. Rousseau. Index.