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Bioenergy for power generation, transportation and climate change mitigation
Title
Bioenergy for power generation, transportation and climate change mitigation / Anirudh Singh.
ISBN
9780750335553
9780750335546
9780750335539
9780750335560
Publication
Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2023]
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
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"Version: 20230401"--Title page verso.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Anirudh Singh (PhD) is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Queensland. He was a Professor in Renewable Energy at the University of Fiji from 2017-2021 and was at the University of the South Pacific from 2001-2017, where he managed two major capacity-building projects (Project DIREKT and Project L3EAP) in renewable energy within international EU-funded collaborations. With 22 years of university teaching/administration experience, Professor Singh has published two books (including Talking Renewables published by IOP Concise Physics), 14 book chapters, more than 60 papers in international journals and has made more than 50 presentations in 11 countries over the last 20 years.
Summary
Understanding bioenergy and climate change mitigation requires knowledge of several disciplines, from thermodynamics in the study of power generation to biochemistry and policy in the case of biofuels and energy trade. The first three parts of this book provide the scientific and technical background for the production and use of bioenergy. They consider the chemistry, biochemistry and physics of the production and use of solid, liquid and gaseous biofuels. The fourth part describes the political forces that drive and deter renewable energy production on the global scale, and demonstrates how global politics and economics combine with climate change policy to produce the energy transition. The book will be invaluable for graduate researchers, academics and climate change scientists, and decision-makers in the energy industry. Part of IOP Series in Renewable and Sustainable Power.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 24, 2023
Series
[IOP release $release]
IOP series in renewable and sustainable power
IOP ebooks. [2023 collection]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Audience
Researchers and practitioners in the fields of renewable energy, climate change and environmental protection; students of postgraduate biomass and biofuels courses.
Contents
part I. Introduction to bioenergy. 1. Renewable energy and biomass
1.1. Introduction
1.2. The energy use sectors
1.3. Energy flow
from primary to end-use energy
1.4. Global primary energy and total final energy consumption
1.5. Share of renewable energy in the global final energy consumption
1.6. Share of renewable energy in global electrical power generation
1.7. Global share of biomass energy
2. Introduction to solid biomass
properties and use
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Energy in biomass
2.3. Forms of solid biomass feedstock
2.4. Energy uses of solid biomass
2.5. The important properties of woody biomass
2.6. Energy-moisture relations
2.7. Density-moisture relations
2.8. Pre-treatment and densification of biomass
3. Thermal and thermochemical conversion of solid biomass
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Pathways for biomass conversion
3.3. Combustion
3.4. Pyrolysis
3.5. Gasification
3.6. Summary of thermochemical processes and products
4. Chemical, biochemical and electrochemical conversion of biomass
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Chemical conversion of biomass
4.3. Biochemical conversion of biomass through respiration
4.4. Anaerobic digestion and methane fermentation
4.5. Electrochemical conversion of biofuels
part II. The physics and technology of bioenergy use. 5. The thermodynamics of heat engines
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Heat engine
basic concepts
5.3. Basic concepts of thermodynamics
5.4. Principle of operation of the heat engine
5.5. Heat engine power cycles
5.6. Types of heat engines
5.7. The Rankine cycle and the steam turbine
5.8. The Brayton cycle and the gas turbine
6. Bioenergy-based power generation technology
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Principles of operation of thermal power plants
6.3. Types of thermal power plants
6.4. Combined cycle power plants
6.5. Bioenergy-fired thermal power plants in industrial application
7. Electrochemical conversion and storage of energy
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Types of fuel cells
7.3. Types of batteries
7.4. Battery research and development
part III. Liquid and gaseous biofuels for transportation and power generation. 8. Introduction to liquid biofuels
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Types of biofuels
8.3. Global production of biofuels
8.4. Engine fuel properties and standards
9. Bioethanol and biobutanol
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Bioethanol
9.3. Biobutanol
10. Biodiesel, biogas and biomethane
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Biodiesel
10.3. Biogas and biomethane
11. Emerging fuels for transport and power
11.1. Introduction
11.2. HVO
a better biofuel for diesel engines
11.3. Syngas
a gas for many applications
11.4. The FTS process
synthetic fuels for conventional engines
11.5. Pyrolysis oil
new fuel for sea transport and power generation
11.6. Hydrogen
green fuel for EVs and storage
part IV. Energy, climate change and an integrated global policy framework for development. 12. Drivers and threats to global renewable energy production
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Who are the stakeholders in global energy?
12.3. Energy and global conflicts
12.4. The role of fossil fuel subsidies
12.5. New drivers for global RE production
13. Climate change and future energy technology
13.1. Introduction
13.2. The net zero by 2050 ultimatum from the UNFCCC
13.3. The science behind climate change
13.4. COP26 and the global energy transition
13.5. The energy transition
an Australian case study
13.6. COP27
14. Energy, pandemics and an integrated global development plan
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Global poverty, the MDGs and the SDGs
14.3. Energy and economic well-being
14.4. Addressing global crises and disasters
14.5. An integrated approach to the global challenges.
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