Project Details:

Future Energy Revisited

Project No.:2012-041-1-100
Start date:2013-02-01
End date:0000-00-00
Division:Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division
Objective:

This book, FUTURE ENERGY REVISITED, is an upgraded and expanded version, completely rewritten, of a previous IUPAC project (2007-015-2-100) entitled FUTUE ENERGY, published in 2008 by Elsevier (ISBN 13: 978-0-08-054808-1) and translated into Chinese by the same publisher. 

The topic is so very important in the world today and huge advances have been made over the past five years in most of the topics covered in the 2008 book. Time is now ready for this topic to be presented again taking in the new advances and the new focuses that have recently shaped this broad and exciting subject.  These include new advances in: Arctic oil drilling; fracking; nuclear fission using thorium, new battery technology; nuclear fusion; methane hydrates; photo-voltaics; fuel cells;  and tidal and wave technologies. The book will also include a chapter on China’s future energy needs and projections, energy saving options for the west, how the third world will power their industries and above all, the looming prospect of climate change as a result of the increase of CO2 levels in the atmosphere and how the energy sector will cope it.  

Description:

Draft outline

  1. Introduction with focus on atmospheric CO2 and climate change  
    FOSSIL FUELS
  2. Conventional Oil and Gas
  3. Frontier Oil and Gas: Deepwater, Arctic
  4. Unconventional Oil and Gas: Tar Sands, Shale Gas/Shale Oil, Coalbed Methane
  5. Unconventional Oil and Gas: Oil Shales (Fracking) possibly
  6. Methane Hydrates
  7. Coal
     
    NUCLEAR POWER
  8. Nuclear Fission and the new Thorium process
  9. Nuclear Fusion

    TRANSPORT ENERGY
  10. Transport fuel  - ethanol and biofuels
  11. Transport fuel – coal to liquid and methane to liquid processes
  12. Transport fuel – LNG and methane
  13. Transport energy – batteries

    RENEWABLES
  14. Wind
  15. Tidal Energy
  16. Wave Energy
  17. Solar Energy – Photo Voltaics
  18. Solar Energy – Concentrated Solar Power
  19. Solar –water heating by someone from an Israel Research Institute
  20. Hydro Electric Power
  21. Geothermal

    OTHER ENERGY TYPES
  22. Hydrogen
  23. Fuel Cells
  24. Micro energy – Hydro Electric, Solar (heating water, photovoltaic), Wind, etc in the Western World

    OTHER ISSUES
  25. CO2 Capture and Storage -Sequestration (CCS)
  26. Energy Storage (Hydrogen storage, pumping water, phase changes, etc)
  27. Energy Saving Devices
  28. Energy Resources in Developing Nations
  29. The transition to future energy
  30. Chinese Energy use and projections for the future 

 

Progress:
Last update 16 April 2013
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