Full Description
This book focuses on carbon dioxide and its global role in our everyday life. Starting with society's dependency on energy, it demonstrates the various sources of carbon dioxide and discusses the putative effects of its accumulation in the atmosphere and its impact on the climate. It then provides an overview of how we can reduce carbon dioxide production and reviews innovative technologies and alternative energy resources. The book closes with a perspective on how carbon dioxide can be utilized reasonably and how mimicking nature can provide us with a solution.
Using simple language, this book discusses one of today's biggest challenges for the future of our planet in a way that is understandable for the general public. The authors also provide deep insights into specific issues, making the book a useful resource for researchers and students.
Contents
Chapter 1- Energy and our Society.- Chapter 2 - Fossil-C Application in the Energy and Chemical Industry.- Chapter 3 - The Atmosphere, the Natural Cycles and the "Greenhouse Effect".- Chapter 4 - Reduction of the CO2 Production.- Chapter 5 - The Alternative, Carbon-free Primary Energy Sources and Relevant Technologies.- Chapter 6 - Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Immission into the Atmosphere: the Capture and Storage (CCS) option.- Chapter 7 - Properties of the Carbon Dioxide Molecule.- Chapter 8 - Use of CO2 as Technical Fluid (Technological Uses of CO2).- Chapter 9 - Circular Economy and Carbon Dioxide Conversion.- Chapter 10 - Solar Chemistry and CO2 Conversion.- Chapter 11 - Enhancing Nature.- Chapter 12 - The CO2 Revolution.
