Materials for a sustainable future Letcher Trevor M.(Edited by) - Royal Society of Chemistry 【利用不可】
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Materials for a sustainable future
- 初版年月日
- 2012
- 登録日
- 2019年11月12日
- 最終更新日
- 2019年11月12日
紹介
Sustainability is becoming more and more important in our everyday lives and this book is a non-exhaustive look at materials and how they relate to sustainability. This concerns not only the elements that could be in short supply in the near future, such as phosphorus, helium, some rare earths and platinum metals, but also the pollutants such as carbon dioxide and methane which are being produced in sufficiently large quantities to be a threat to our lives on Earth. Covering fives themes in twenty five chapters, one of the great advantages of this book is that the chapters have been written by scientists or engineers who are experts in their field and include up-to-date statistics, recent research, and references to the latest work. The book includes chapters concerning chemicals and materials that might soon be required in large quantities to help create a more sustainable way of life. These include: biomass needed to manufacture plastics; special compounds and membranes for water purification, water-splitting, photovoltaic cells, batteries and fuel cells; and special materials for buildings, glass technologies and for storing hydrogen.
Aimed at industrialists and investors; policy makers in local and central governments; students, teachers, scientists and engineers working in the field; and finally editors, journalists and the general public who need information on the increasingly popular concepts of sustainable living, this book provides current information and points the way forward for new developments.
目次
Introduction
ELEMENTS THAT COULD SOON BE IN SHORT SUPPLY: Base metals
Improving materials/energy balances in metal recovery
Rare Earths
Gold
Platinum metals
Non-metals
Uranium
SUSTAINABILITY RELATED TO BIOMASS: Aquatic biomass for the production of fuel and chemicals
Chemicals from Sugarcane
Biomass for the production of chemicals
Plastics from biomass
Sustainable Aviation fuels
SUSTAINABILITY RELATED TO FEEDSTOCKS - CH4 AND CO2: CH4 for transport fuel production
CO2 capture
CO2 as a chemical feedstock in the production of chemicals and fuels
CO2 in the manufacture of plastics
CO2 as a solvent
MATERIALS RELATED TO ENERGY CONVERSION, STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION: Battery and fuel cell materials
Materials for photovoltaics
Materials for water splitting
Materials for storing hydrogen
SUSTAINABILITY RELATED TO MATERIALS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT AND TO WATER: Compounds used in membranes for water purification and recycling
Glass and new technologies
Sustainable materials in building and architecture
Biomass in composite materials
Subject Index
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