Название: Efficiency of Biomass Energy: An Exergy Approach to Biofuels, Power, and Biorefineries
Автор: Krzysztof J. Ptasinski
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2016
ISBN: 9781119118145
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 784
Размер: 15,4 mb
Язык: English

Today, fossil fuels (coal, petroleum, and natural gas) are the major primary energy sources. Serious global problems related to the use of fossil resources are a fast depletion, environmental damage, and global warming. It is widely acknowledged that the existing fossil fuels should be replaced in future by renewable energy such as biomass, solar, wind, and geothermal. At present biomass is the fourth largest energy resource in the world, after oil, gas and coal. Biomass can be converted into all major energy carriers such as electricity, heat, and traasport fuels as well as a wide diversity of chemicals and materials that are at present produced from fossil fuels. The key features of biomass are renewability and neutral C02 impact.

The book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the efficiency of biomass energy systems using the uniform thermodynamic approach based on the exergy concept.