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Exergy analysis of resources and processes

By: Valero Delgado, Alicia ,Valero Capilla, Antonio

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Exergy analysis of resources and processes

By: Valero Delgado, Alicia ,Valero Capilla, Antonio

La humanidad necesita urgentemente técnicas que ahorren energía y recursos. La única manera de calcular la cantidad de energía que puede ahorrarse en un proceso determinado es analizando las irreversibilidades que genera. La segunda ley de la termodinámica las indica de forma precisa por medio del balance de exergía. No es un método, es el método: no hay otro. Este libro explica el modo de calcular la exergía asociada a los procesos y a cualquier sustancia compleja. Constituye, por ello, un instrumento sumamente útil para una introducción rigurosa a la teoría general del ahorro de recursos.

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Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza

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8492774762

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Thanatia: The Destiny Of The Earth's Mineral Resources - A Thermodynamic Cradle-to-cradle Assessment

By: Antonio Valero Capilla,Alicia Valero Capilla

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Thanatia: The Destiny Of The Earth's Mineral Resources - A Thermodynamic Cradle-to-cradle Assessment

By: Antonio Valero Capilla,Alicia Valero Capilla

Is Gaia becoming Thanatia, a resource exhausted planet? For how long can our high-tech society be sustained in the light of declining mineral ore grades, heavy dependence on un-recycled critical metals and accelerated material dispersion? These are all root causes of future disruptions that need to be addressed today.This book presents a cradle-to-cradle view of the Earth's abiotic resources through a novel and rigorous approach based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics: heat dissipates and materials deteriorate and disperse. Quality is irreversibly lost. This allows for the assessment of such depletion and can be used to estimate the year where production of the main mineral commodities could reach its zenith. By postulating Thanatia, one acquires a sense of destiny and a concern for a unified global management of the planet's abiotic resource endowment.The book covers the core aspects of geology, geochemistry, mining, metallurgy, economics, the environment, thermodynamics and thermochemistry. It is supported by comprehensive databases related to mineral resources, including detailed compositions of the Earth's layers, thermochemical properties of over 300 substances, historical energy and mineral resource inventories, energy consumption and environmental impacts in the mining and metallurgical sector and world recycling rates of commodities.

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World Scientific

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9814602493

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Thanatia

The Destiny of the Earth's Mineral Resources : a Thermodynamic Cradle-to-cradle Assessment

By: Antonio Valero Capilla,Alicia Valero,Alicia Valero Delgado,World Scientific (Firm)

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Thanatia

The Destiny of the Earth's Mineral Resources : a Thermodynamic Cradle-to-cradle Assessment

By: Antonio Valero Capilla,Alicia Valero,Alicia Valero Delgado,World Scientific (Firm)

Is Gaia becoming Thanatia, a resource exhausted planet? For how long can our high-tech society be sustained in the light of declining mineral ore grades, heavy dependence on un-recycled critical metals and accelerated material dispersion? These are all root causes of future disruptions that need to be addressed today. This book presents a cradle-to-cradle view of the Earth's abiotic resources through a novel and rigorous approach based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics: heat dissipates and materials deteriorate and disperse. Quality is irreversibly lost. This allows for the assessment of such depletion and can be used to estimate the year where production of the main mineral commodities could reach its zenith. By postulating Thanatia, one acquires a sense of destiny and a concern for a unified global management of the planet's abiotic resource endowment. The book covers the core aspects of geology, geochemistry, mining, metallurgy, economics, the environment, thermodynamics and thermochemistry. It is supported by comprehensive databases related to mineral resources, including detailed compositions of the Earth's layers, thermochemical properties of over 300 substances, historical energy and mineral resource inventories, energy consumption and environmental impacts in the mining and metallurgical sector and world recycling rates of commodities.

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Exergy analysis of resources and processes

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Thanatia: The Destiny Of The Earth's Mineral Resources - A Thermodynamic Cradle-to-cradle Assessment

Thanatia: The Destiny Of The Earth's Mineral Resources - A Thermodynamic Cradle-to-cradle Assessment

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