Water for Energy and Fuel Production - 9781482216189

CRC Press

Water for Energy and Fuel ProductionAuthor(s): Yatish T. Shah\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: CRC Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9781482216189, 978-1482216189\nSynopsis\nWater, in all its forms, may be the key to an environmentally friendly energy economy. Water is free, there is plenty of it, plus it carries what is generally believed to be the best long-term source of green energyhydrogen.\n\nWater for Energy and Fuel Production explores the many roles of water in the energy and fuel industry. The text not only discusses waters use as a direct source of energy and fuelsuch as hydrogen from water dissociation, methane from water-based clathrate molecules, hydroelectric dams, and hydrokinetic energy from tidal waves, off-shore undercurrents, and inland waterwaysbut also:\n\nDescribes waters benign application in the production of oil, gas, coal, uranium, biomass, and other raw fuels, and as an energy carrier in the form of hot water and steam\nExa.