Efficiency and Sustainability in the Energy and Chemical Industries

Jakob de Swaan Arons received his MSc and PhD degrees from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He spent some 20 years with Shell International, before he was appointed to the chair of Applied Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria at Delft University of Technology. He is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary professor of the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. From 2003 to 2009, he served as chair in the chemical engineering department of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Much of his inspiration was drawn from his many visits to Japan and its research centers. He received the Hoogewerff Gold Medal for his lifetime contributions to process technology in 2006. Krishnan Sankaranarayanan received his MSc at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands and his PhD at Princeton University, New Jersey. At Delft, he did an extensive study of the energy effi ciency of the polyolefi n industry, for which activity DSM acted as host. He is currently group head reactor engineering and mixing at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Fairfax, Virginia. Hedzer J. van der Kooi received his MSc and PhD degrees from Delft University of Technology and specialized in phase equilibria. In the last decade, he worked closely together with Sankaranarayanan on the subject of this book, assisted by many students. He is currently active in the Department of Architecture at Delft University of Technology.

BASICS. Thermodynamics Revisited. Energy "Consumption" and Lost Work. Entropy Generation: Cause and Effect. Reduction of Lost Work. THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF PROCESSES. Exergy, a Convenient Concept. Chemical Exergy. Simple Applications. CASE STUDIES. Energy Conversion. Separations. Chemical Conversion. SUSTAINABILITY. Sustainable Development. Efficiency and Sustainability in the Chemical Process Industry. CO2 Capture and Sequestration. Sense and Nonsense of Green Chemistry and Biofuels. Solar Energy Conversion. Future? Future Trends. Epilogue. Problems. Index. Each chapter includes an "Introduction", "Concluding remarks", and "References".