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Liberating Energy from Carbon analyzes energy options in a carbon-constrained world. Major strategies and pathways to decarbonizing the carbon-intensive economy are laid out with a special emphasis on the prospects of achieving low-risk atmospheric CO2 levels. The opportunities and challenges in dev...
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Springer Science+Business Media,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Lecture notes in energy ;
volume 22 |
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| Summary: |
Liberating Energy from Carbon analyzes energy options in a carbon-constrained world. Major strategies and pathways to decarbonizing the carbon-intensive economy are laid out with a special emphasis on the prospects of achieving low-risk atmospheric CO2 levels. The opportunities and challenges in developing and bringing to market novel low- and zero-carbon technologies are highlighted from technical, economic and environmental viewpoints. This book takes a unique approach by treating carbon in a holistic manner{u2014}tracking its complete transformation chain from fossil fuel sources to the unique properties of the CO2 molecule, to carbon capture and storage, and, finally, to CO2 industrial utilization and its conversion to value-added products and fuels. This concise but comprehensive sourcebook guides readers through recent scientific and technological developments as well as commercial projects that aim for the decarbonization of the fossil fuel-based economy and CO2 utilization that will play an increasingly important role in the near- and mid-term future. This book is intended for researchers, engineers, and students working and studying in practically all areas of energy technology and alternative energy sources and fuels. |
| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781493905447 (hardback) : 1493905449 |
| Index Number: | TD885 |
| CLC: |
X16 X511 |
| Call Number: | X511/M972 |
| Contents: | Earth's Carbon Budget -- Fossil Fuels as Basis of Caron Economy -- Environmental Impact of Carbon Economy -- Fossil Fuel Decarbonization Strategies -- CO2 Capture and Sequestration (CCS) -- Decarbonizing Carbon Economy: Beyond Fossil Fuels. |