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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1536115770
Author : Nicholas J. Bartlett
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Clean energy industries
ISBN : 1612098290
Includes reports by the Department of Energy and Marc Humphries, Congressional Research Service.
Author : Steven Chu
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781437944181
This report examines the role of rare earth metals and other materials in the clean energy economy. It was prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) based on data collected and research performed during 2010. In the report, DoE describes plans to: (1) develop its first integrated research agenda addressing critical materials, building on three technical workshops convened by the DoE during November and December 2010; (2) strengthen its capacity for information-gathering on this topic; and (3) work closely with international partners, including Japan and Europe, to reduce vulnerability to supply disruptions and address critical material needs. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Author : Arda Işıldar,Eric D. van Hullebusch,Donald Huisingh
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781003810964
Critical minerals play a vital role in the ongoing energy transition, which aims to shift global energy systems towards more sustainable and low-carbon alternatives. These minerals, also known as critical minerals, are essential components in various clean energy technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, and energy storage systems. They possess unique properties that enable efficient energy generation, storage, and transmission. For instance, neodymium, a rare earth element, is crucial for the production of high-performance magnets used in wind turbines and electric motors. Lithium, another critical mineral, is a key component in rechargeable batteries powering electric vehicles and energy storage solutions. As the demand for clean energy technologies continues to rise, securing a sustainable and reliable supply of critical minerals becomes increasingly important to support the global energy transition and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. In this book, we investigate various aspects of critical mineral governance in the context of sustainability transition. We give perspectives around the critical metal requirements of sustainability transition in a forward-looking manner. We discuss the answers to the following questions: What role do the critical raw materials play in the transition to a sustainable economy and energy systems transformation? What are the bottlenecks in achieving a sustainable critical material supply? How do the critical minerals enable renewable energy transition and sustainable development? What is their role in the sustainability transition? How is mineral criticality assessed? And how critical are minerals? What are some regional differences in terms of critical mineral availability, processing capacity, and the supply chain? What strategy should be followed in deciding between primary raw materials and secondary raw materials in supplying critical raw materials for the transition to a sustainable economy? What is the (known) critical material budget, and how does it fit with the climate pledges? The authors of the chapters of this book take a multi-perspective approach and provide insights from industrial ecology, environmental engineering, and sustainable management of natural resources. The information provided will help readers to understand critical metal requirements of present and future key technologies and will help societies to develop and implement sustainable supply strategies.
Author : Arda Işıldar,Eric van Hullebusch,Donald Huisingh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Strategic materials
ISBN : 1032112247
"Critical minerals play a vital role in the ongoing energy transition, which aims to shift global energy systems towards more sustainable and low-carbon alternatives. These minerals, also known as critical minerals, are essential components in various clean energy technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, and energy storage systems. They possess unique properties that enable efficient energy generation, storage, and transmission. For instance, neodymium, a rare earth element, is crucial for the production of high-performance magnets used in wind turbines and electric motors. Lithium, another critical mineral, is a key component in rechargeable batteries powering electric vehicles and energy storage solutions. As the demand for clean energy technologies continues to rise, securing a sustainable and reliable supply of critical minerals becomes increasingly important to support the global energy transition and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. In this book, we investigate various aspects of critical mineral governance in the context of sustainability transition. We give perspectives around the critical metal requirements of sustainability transition in a forward-looking manner. We discuss what role do the critical raw materials play in transition to a sustainable economy and energy systems transformation and what are the bottlenecks in achieving a sustainable critical material supply. We also show how the critical minerals enable renewable energy transition & sustainable development and what their role is in the sustainability transition. Further, the book discusses how mineral criticality is assessed and how critical are minerals. We also answer questions such as what are some regional difference in terms of critical mineral availability, processing capacity and supply chain, and what strategy should be followed in deciding between primary raw materials and secondary raw materials in supplying critical raw materials for the transition to a sustainable economy. We discuss the (known) critical material budget and how does it fit with the climate pledges. The book takes a multi-perspective approach and gives insights from an industrial ecology, environmental engineering and sustainable management of natural resources perspective. It will help the reader understand critical metal requirements of future key technologies and the decide for the supply strategy"--
Author : Alena Bleicher,Alexandra Pehlken
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128235546
The Material Basis of Energy Transitions explores the intersection between critical raw material provision and the energy system. Chapters draw on examples and case studies involving energy technologies (e.g., electric power, transport) and raw material provision (e.g., mining, recycling), and consider these in their regional and global contexts. The book critically discusses issues such as the notion of criticality in the context of a circular economy, approaches for estimating the need for raw materials, certification schemes for raw materials, the role of consumers, and the impact of renewable energy development on resource conflicts. Each chapter deals with a specific issue that characterizes the interdependency between critical raw materials and renewable energies by examining case studies from a particular conceptual perspective. The book is a resource for students and researchers from the social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, as well as interdisciplinary scholars interested in the field of renewable energies, the circular economy, recycling, transport, and mining. The book is also of interest to policymakers in the fields of renewable energy, recycling, and mining, professionals from the energy and resource industries, as well as energy experts and consultants looking for an interdisciplinary assessment of critical materials. Provides a comprehensive overview of key issues related to the nexus between renewable energy and critical raw materials Explores interdisciplinary perspectives from the natural sciences, engineering, and social sciences Discusses critical strategies to address the nexus from a practitioner's perspective
Author : Martin David,Stephen M. Lyth,Robert Lindner,George F. Harrington
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030768065
As the world accelerates towards a renewable energy transition, the demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) for energy generation, conversion, and storage technologies is seeing a drastic increase. Such materials are not only subject to limited supply and extreme price volatility but can also represent serious burdens to the environment, to human health, and also to socio-political systems. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this book provides a novel perspective on the discussion about material dependencies of energy technologies. It examines CRMs use in fuel cells, an emerging energy conversion technology, and discusses governance strategies for early-stage fuel cell development to predict and avoid potential issues. This will be an invaluable resource for researchers in energy studies, engineering, sociology and political science as well as those with a general interest in this field looking for an accessible overview.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Industrial minerals
ISBN : MINN:31951D03647633Z
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822038356507
Author : Abul Kalam Azad,Subhash Sharma
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128054246
Clean Energy for Sustainable Development: Comparisons and Contrasts of New Approaches presents information on the fundamental challenge that the energy sector faces with regard to meeting the ever growing demand for sustainable, efficient, and cleaner energy. The book compares recent developments in the field of energy technology, clean and low emission energy, and energy efficiency and environmental sustainability for industry and academia. Rasul, Azad and Sharma, along with their team of expert contributors, provide high-end research findings on relevant industry themes, including clean and sustainable energy sources and technologies, renewable energy technologies and their applications, biomass and biofuels for sustainable environment, energy system and efficiency improvement, solar thermal applications, and the environmental impacts of sustainable energy systems. This book uses global institutes and case studies to explore and analyze technological advancements alongside practical applications. This approach helps readers to develop and affirm a better understanding of the relevant concepts and solutions necessary to achieve clean energy and sustainable development in both medium and large-scale industries. Compares in-depth research on a wide range of clean technologies, from global institutes in Australia, Europe, and India Evaluates the recent developments in clean technologies against the efficiency of tried and tested applications Considers case studies on the advancements of sustainable energy into industry from around the world
Author : Shafiq Alam,Donna Post Guillen,Fiseha Tesfaye,Lei Zhang,Susanna A.C. Hockaday,Neale R. Neelameggham,Hong Peng,Nawshad Haque,Yan Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031226380
Clean and sustainable energy is of paramount importance for industrial activities, economic development, environment, and public welfare. Aiming to reach NetZero, researchers in both academia and industry as well as policymakers are now putting tremendous efforts into the generation, storage, and applications of clean energy. This collection focuses on new and efficient energy technologies including innovative ore beneficiation, smelting technologies, recycling and waste heat recovery, and emerging novel energy solutions. The volume also covers a broad range of mature and new technological aspects of sustainable energy ecosystems, processes that improve energy efficiency, reduce thermal intensity and pollutants, and reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions. Topics include, but are not limited to:• Energy efficient technologies for minerals, metals & materials processing • Clean energy technologies, such as biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear including SMRs, hydrogen, etc. • Renewable energy resources to reduce the consumption of traditional fossil fuels • Emerging technologies for renewable energy harvesting, conversion, and storage • New concepts or devices for energy generation, conversion, and distribution • Waste heat recovery and other industrial energy efficient technologies • Energy education and energy regulation • Scale-up, stability, and life-cycle analysis of energy technologies and improvement of existing energy-intensive processes • Theory and simulation in energy harvesting, conversion, and storage • Design, operation, and optimization of processes for energy generation (e.g., carbon capture) and conversion of energy carriers • Energy efficiency improvement in process engineering (e.g., for biomass conversion and improved combustion) and electrical engineering (e.g., for power conversion and developing smart grids) • Thermo-electric/electrolysis/photo-electrolysis/fundamentals of PV • Emission control, CO2 capture, and conversion • Carbon sequestration techniques • CO2 and other greenhouse gas reduction metallurgy in ferrous (iron & steel making and forming), non-ferrous and reactive metals including critical rare-earth metals • Sustainability and life cycle assessment of energy systems • Thermodynamics and modelling for sustainable metallurgical processes • 'Smart cool materials' for urban heat island mitigation (such as cool roof infrared reflecting material, and low-temperature heat absorbers for use in air conditioner condensers - like 'endothermic materials') • Methodologies for reducing the cost of energy materials production • Circular economy and developing resource efficiency model for cutting down the transport from remote places • Materials extraction and processing steps for enhancing energy efficiencies in batteries, supercapacitors, and energy efficient cells • Foundational industry (metals-alloys, chemicals, refractories, cement) and energy economy and role of mineral extraction
Author : Alexander King
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128187906
Critical Materials takes a case-study approach, describing materials supply-chain failures from the bronze age to present day. It looks at why these failures occurred, what the consequences were, and how they were resolved. It identifies key lessons to guide responses to current and anticipated materials shortages at a time when the world’s growing middle class is creating unprecedented demand for manufactured products and the increasingly exotic materials that go into them. This book serves as a guide to materials researchers and industrial end-users for finding effective approaches to shortages of specialty materials. The lessons in the book are also appropriate to those who use materials and for those involved in manufacturing supply-chain management and industrial design. Instructs the reader on how to select the most effective strategies to deal with materials supply-chain failures Discusses technical feasibility, economic viability and the political context Includes an extensive use of case studies to illustrate key concepts of criticality
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Federal aid to energy development
ISBN : MINN:31951D035565541
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Federal aid to energy development
ISBN : IND:30000144592684
Author : Antonio Valero Capilla,Alicia Valero Delgado
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814602495
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. Contents:The Threads: Minerals, Economy and Thermodynamics:The Depletion of Non-Renewable Abiotic ResourcesEconomic versus Thermodynamic AccountingFrom Thermodynamics to Economics and EcologyPhysical Geonomics: A Cradle-Grave-Cradle Approach for Mineral Depletion AssessmentOver the Rainbow: From Nature to Industry:The Geochemistry of the EarthThe Resources of the EarthAn Introduction to Mining and MetallurgyMetallurgy of Key MineralsDown the Rainbow: From Grave to Cradle:Thermodynamics of Mineral ResourcesThanatia and the Crepuscular Earth ModelThe Exergy of the Earth and Its Mineral ResourcesThe Exergy Replacement Costs of Mineral WealthThe Exergy Evolution of Mineral WealthTying the Rainbows: Towards a Rational Management of Resources:Recycling SolutionsThe Challenge of Resource DepletionThe Principles of Resource EfficiencyEpilogue Readership: Thermodynamicists, geologists, economists, policy makers, and mining, environmental and chemical engineers. Keywords:Exergy;Mineral Resources;Depletion;Hubbert Peak;Gibbs Free Energy;Mineralogical Composition of the Earth;ThermodynamicsReviews: "This is an exhaustive treatment of the subject with numerous tables of the baseline date and discussions going from basic thermodynamics to economics and social sciences. It is an essential read for any scientist who is concerned with resource evaluation and how we can best manage these assets and continue to live on an Earth in which we appreciate the service provided by the resource and thus avoid Thanatia in defence of Gaia." John Ludden Executive Director, British Geological Survey “'Thanatia' presents a refreshing way of analysing the run-down of our mineral inheritance … To serious students of the resource problem the numerous tables in 'Thanatia' are useful because they are thought-provoking as much as for the numerical data. 'Thanatia' is a big book, with a wealth of data and background material on the minerals industry, representing many years of intensive investigation and analysis.” Jane H Hodgkinson & Frank D Stacey CSIRO, Australia Authors of The Earth as a Cradle for Life “The unusual title of the book Thanatia (death in Greek) leads its readers to understand what sustainability really means and to quantify the problem of mineral depletion using both disciplines thermodynamics and economics. ” Ph. Vieillard Director of Research C.N.R.S., Poitiers, France
