Energy Solutions to Combat Global Warming

✍ Scribed by XinRong Zhang, Ibrahim Dincer (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 852
• Series: Lecture Notes in Energy 33
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book gathers an in-depth collection of 45 selected papers presented at the Global Conference on Global Warming 2014 in Beijing, China, covering a broad variety of topics from the main principles of thermodynamics and their role in design, analysis, and the improvements in performance of energy systems to the potential impact of global warming on human health and wellbeing. Given energy production’s role in contributing to global warming and climate change, this work provides solutions to global warming from the point of view of energy. Incorporating multi-disciplinary expertise and approaches, it provides a platform for the analysis of new developments in the area of global warming and climate change, as well as potential energy solutions including renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy storage, hydrogen production, CO2 capture and environmental impact assessment. The research and analysis presented herein will benefit international scientists, researchers, engineers, policymakers and all others with an interest in global warming and its potential solutions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Development of Supercritical CO2 Solar Rankine Cycle System....Pages 3-27
Study on the Solar Energy Heat Pump Space Heating System in the Agricultural and Pastoral Areas in Inner Mongolia....Pages 29-45
LNG Cold Energy Utilization Technology....Pages 47-66
Cold Thermal Energy Storage Materials and Applications Toward Sustainability....Pages 67-117
Economic Analysis of LNG Cold Energy Utilization....Pages 119-132
Zeotropic Mixture and Organic Ranking Cycle....Pages 133-168
Methane Production from Napier Grass by Co-digestion with Cow Dung....Pages 169-180
Possibilities for Biogas Production from Waste—Potential, Barriers, and Legal Notices....Pages 181-191
Research on Tidal Current Energy Converter Using Artificial Muscles and VIV Theory....Pages 193-206
The Energy Capture Efficiency Increased by Choosing the Optimal Layout of Turbines in Tidal Power Farm....Pages 207-226
Modelling Analysis of the Influence of Wave Farm to Nearshore Hydrodynamics Forces....Pages 227-245
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Energy Saving and Emission Reduction from the Steel Industry: Heat Recovery from High Temperature Slags....Pages 249-280
The Feasibility Study on Blast Furnace Low Temperature Heat Source Refrigeration for Dehumidified Blast....Pages 281-291
Sludge Treatment by Low-Temperature Heat....Pages 293-306
Resourceful Treatment of Seawater Desalination or High Concentrated Sewage by Renewable Energy....Pages 307-327
Microbiological Assessment of Sewage Sludge in Terms of Use as a Fertilizer....Pages 329-337
Establishment of Changes in the System “Soil-Fertilizer-Plant” as a Result of Fertilization with Sludge from Wastewater Treatment Plant....Pages 339-349
Agrochemical and Chemical Assessment of Waste from Livestock Farms....Pages 351-361
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Super Clean Marine Diesel Engines with Nonthermal Plasma Aftertreatment Technology....Pages 365-390
Natural Convection Supercritical Fluid Systems for Geothermal, Heat Transfer, and Energy Conversion....Pages 391-433
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Numerical Analysis of Air Flow Around a Hot Water Radiator for Its Structure Improvement....Pages 435-449
Sustainability Assessment of a Turboprop Engine: Exergy-Based Method....Pages 451-464
Exergy Approach to Evaluate Performance of a Mini Class Turboprop Engine....Pages 465-475
The Efficient Use of the Water Resources and the Global Warming: The Case of North Cyprus “Water of Peace Project”....Pages 477-495
Investigation and Analysis of New Energy Technology Application Status in Beijing—Water Source Heat Pump System....Pages 497-507
Analysis of the Thermal Effect About Groundwater Flowing to the Nest of Tubes Heat Transfer....Pages 509-521
Hydraulic Characteristics of the Francis Turbine with Various Groove Shapes of Draft Tube....Pages 523-537
Front Matter....Pages 539-539
Progress in Sorption Thermal Energy Storage....Pages 541-572
Mitigating Global Warming by Thermal Energy Storage....Pages 573-594
Enhance the Wind Power Utilization Rate with Thermal Energy Storage System....Pages 595-610
A Review of PCM Energy Storage Technology Used in Buildings for the Global Warming Solution....Pages 611-644
Front Matter....Pages 645-645
Transition Engineering....Pages 647-706
Optimal Operation of a Self-regulating Smart Distribution System with Wind Energy Integration and Demand Response....Pages 707-734
Greenization Factor as a Sustainability Measure for Energy Systems....Pages 735-751
Home Energy Management Systems: A Review of Modelling and Complexity....Pages 753-793
The Micro-cogeneration and Emission Control and Related Utilization Field....Pages 795-834
Coping with Global Warming: Compliance Issue Compliance Mechanisms Under MEAs....Pages 835-854
Back Matter....Pages 855-855

✦ Subjects

Energy Policy, Economics and Management;Renewable and Green Energy;Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts;Climate Change Management and Policy