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Global environment protection strategy through thermal engineering

edited by Keizo Hatta, Yasuo Mori

Hemisphere Pub. Corp., c1992

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"Papers from the final report of the research subcommittee in the thermal engineering division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. The subcommittee was named Energy Consumption and Thermal Engineering Study of Global Environmental Problems"--Pref

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Based on papers from a thermal engineering conference which discuss concrete measures, models and methodologies in thermal engineering, this book addresses world energy consumption and global environmental problems the greenhouse effect, depletion

Table of Contents

  • Kinds of thermal energy and present conditions of energy consumption
  • global trends of greenhouse gases and stratospheric ozone
  • carbon dioxide problems
  • hydrogen fuel
  • CFC problems and alternatives
  • NOx, SOx and acid rain problems
  • research and development of alternative energy
  • high- temperature gas-cooled reactor and its application to hydrogen production
  • advanced energy conservation
  • efficiency improvement of energy-related facilities from an environmental viewpoint.

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