ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY AND EXERGY ENHANCED APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT

395 Pages·2016·4.195 MB·English

by  MARC A. ROSEN ,  MOHSEN DARABI

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Mohsen Darabi

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Environment, ecology, and exergy : enhanced approaches to environmental and ecological
management / editor, Marc A. Rosen.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: (cid:28)(cid:26)(cid:27)(cid:16)(cid:20)(cid:16)(cid:25)(cid:21)(cid:19)(cid:27)(cid:20)(cid:16)(cid:26)(cid:23)(cid:20)(cid:16)(cid:23) (eBook)
1. Environmental management. 2. Environmental management--Methodology. 3. Ecosystem
management. 4. Exergy. I. Rosen, Marc (Marc A.)
GE300.E556 2016
333.7--dc23
2012013598
Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.  New York
To Allison, Cassandra, Ryan and Amanda, in hopes of a cleaner world

CONTENTS

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Notation xiii
Acronyms xvii
Glossary xix
Part I: Introduction and Background
Chapter 1 Motivation 1
Chapter 2 Background: Society, Sustainability, Environment and Energy 9
Chapter 3 An Introduction to the Environment, Ecology and Exergy 27
Chapter 4 History of Exergy and Environmental and Ecological Methods 35
Part II: Concepts and Methods
Chapter 5 Exergy 47
Chapter 6 Suitable Reference Environments for Environmental
and Ecological Assessments 57
Chapter 7 Exergy and the Environment 71
Chapter 8 Exergy and Ecology 81
Chapter 9 Correlations between Exergy and Other Indicators
of Environmental Impact 95
Chapter 10 Exergy-Based Environmental and Ecological Methods 99
Chapter 11 Extending Exergy, Environment and Ecology
Relations to Economics 121
Part III: Applications
Chapter 12 Exergy Applications 135
Chapter 13 Exergy and Environment Applications 143
viii Contents
Chapter 14 Exergy and Ecology Applications 155
Chapter 15 Assessing Earth‘s Resources Using Exergy 161
Chapter 16 Assessing Polluted Materials 165
Chapter 17 Allocating Carbon Dioxide Emissions for Cogeneration
Using Exergy 169
Chapter 18 Assessing Environmental Impacts of Aerospace
Operations with Exergy 191
Chapter 19 Environmental Planning with Exergy 201
Part IV: Case Studies
Chapter 20 Coal-fired Electricity Generation 215
Chapter 21 Smokestack Operations 235
Chapter 22 Cogeneration 241
Chapter 23 Nuclear Electricity Generation 261
Chapter 24 Biofuels Processing 273
Chapter 25 Hydrogen Production 283
Chapter 26 Automotive Operations 297
Chapter 27 Exergy-guided Environmental Management for Countries,
Regions and Sectors 315
Chapter 28 Closure and Future Directions 323
References 327
About the Author 359
Index 361