
Fossil Energy
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 16. September 2002
Book
Mixed media product
XVIII, 358 pages
978-3-540-42943-2 (ISBN)
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Description
The three volumes VIII/3A, B, C of Energy Technology should primarily serve scientists, engineers, and students to get information on physical, chemical and technical properties of all technologies to provide, convert, distribute, store and finally use energy, supplemented with economic background information and with specific concepts to allow the reader a proper comparison of different energy technologies. In this way these volumes on energy technology should finally be helpful to let the human society pave and walk towards sufficient and environmentally safe provision and use of energy. The various contributions have been written by experts from many countries all around the globe engaged in universities, public research institutions and private industrial companies.
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Series
Edition
2002 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XVIII, 358 p. With CD-ROM.
Dimensions
Height: 27 cm
Width: 19.3 cm
Weight
1360 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-42943-2 (9783540429432)
DOI
10.1007/b71804
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Contributions
Content
Introduction.- Energy Survey.- Fossil Fuels.- Fossil-fueled Power Plants.- Electric Power Generators.- Transmission of Electric Power.- Electric Batteries.- Fuel Cells.- Road Traffic Technologies.- Rail and Other Guided Transport Technologies.- Air Traffic Technologies.- Ship Traffic Propulsion Technologies.