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Submit a ProposalZero Waste Engineering
 | By M.R. Islam and M.M. Khan Copyright: 2012 | Status: Published ISBN: 9780470626047 | Hardcover | 482 pages Price: $195 USD  |
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Outlines how to develop zero-waste engineering following natural pathways that are truly sustainable.
Audience
Engineers and scientists of all industries, including the energy industry, construction, the process industries, and manufacturing. Chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, petroleum engineers, process engineers, civil engineers, and many other types of engineers.
Engineers and scientists of all industries, including the energy industry, construction, the process industries, and manufacturing. Chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, petroleum engineers, process engineers, civil engineers, and many other types of engineers.
Description
As the world tries to create new ways of living efficiently and eliminating waste, scientific exploration continues to provide answers to the engineers who construct our homes, generate our fuel, process our food, and build our products. Sustainability is, perhaps, the most important issue facing our society today, with much of the world still turning to coal and oil to fuel its growth, buildings continuing to be built based on antiquated designs, and industry continuing to create environmental hazards and turning natural habitats into unsafe zones.
The authors delve into the engineering aspects of sustainability and the principle of “zero waste,” not just from a philosophical or hypothetical point, but they present detailed methods for eliminating waste in many important areas of engineering, such as civil engineering, agriculture, construction, and energy production.
If nature is recyclable and, by its condition, “perfect,” in the sense that it cannot be wasteful or destructive without renewing itself, and if humans are, by their actions, responsible for the waste and devastation that we see in the world today, it seems that a return to natural pathways would be the logical way to achieve sustainability and zero-waste. The authors explore these issues and questions, offering mathematical models, new processes, and new, sustainable products for achieving this ultimate, desired result: Zero-Waste Engineering.
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As the world tries to create new ways of living efficiently and eliminating waste, scientific exploration continues to provide answers to the engineers who construct our homes, generate our fuel, process our food, and build our products. Sustainability is, perhaps, the most important issue facing our society today, with much of the world still turning to coal and oil to fuel its growth, buildings continuing to be built based on antiquated designs, and industry continuing to create environmental hazards and turning natural habitats into unsafe zones.
The authors delve into the engineering aspects of sustainability and the principle of “zero waste,” not just from a philosophical or hypothetical point, but they present detailed methods for eliminating waste in many important areas of engineering, such as civil engineering, agriculture, construction, and energy production.
If nature is recyclable and, by its condition, “perfect,” in the sense that it cannot be wasteful or destructive without renewing itself, and if humans are, by their actions, responsible for the waste and devastation that we see in the world today, it seems that a return to natural pathways would be the logical way to achieve sustainability and zero-waste. The authors explore these issues and questions, offering mathematical models, new processes, and new, sustainable products for achieving this ultimate, desired result: Zero-Waste Engineering.
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Author / Editor Details
M. R. Islam is Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the Civil and Resource Engineering Department of Dalhousie University, Canada. He has over 700 publications to his credit, including 6 books. He is on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, and, in addition to his teaching duties, he is also director of Emertec Research and Development Ltd. and has been on the boards of a number of companies in North America and overseas.
M. R. Islam is Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the Civil and Resource Engineering Department of Dalhousie University, Canada. He has over 700 publications to his credit, including 6 books. He is on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, and, in addition to his teaching duties, he is also director of Emertec Research and Development Ltd. and has been on the boards of a number of companies in North America and overseas.
M. M. Khan has recently been a lecturer in chemical engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, before moving to Canada. He has written a dozen papers and co-authored a book on zero-waste engineering and sustainable technology.
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: A Delinearized History of Time and Its Impact on Scientific Cognition
Chapter 3: TOWARDS MODELING OF ZERO WASTE ENGINEERING PROCESSES WITH INHERENT SUSTAINABILITY
Chapter 4: The Formulation of a Comprehensive Mass and Energy Balance Equation
Chapter 5: COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER (CCD): THE CASE FOR A SCIENCE OF INTANGIBLES AND ZERO WASTE ENGINEERING
Chapter 6: ZERO WASTE LIFESTYLE WITH INHERENTLY SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES
Chapter 7: A Novel Sustainable Combined Heating/Cooling/Refrigeration System
Chapter 8: A ZERO WASTE DESIGN FOR DIRECT USAGE OF SOLAR ENERGY
Chapter 9: INVESTIGATION OF VEGETABLE OIL AS THE THERMAL FLUID IN A PARABOLIC SOLAR COLLECTOR
Chapter 10: The Potential of Biogas in the Zero waste Mode in the Cold-Climate Environment
Chapter 11: THE NEW SYNTHESIS: APPLICATION OF ALL NATURAL MATERIALS FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
Chapter 12: SUSTAINABILITY OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
Chapter 13: HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
Chapter 14: ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF ZERO WASTE ENGINEERING
Chapter 15: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
References
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: A Delinearized History of Time and Its Impact on Scientific Cognition
Chapter 3: TOWARDS MODELING OF ZERO WASTE ENGINEERING PROCESSES WITH INHERENT SUSTAINABILITY
Chapter 4: The Formulation of a Comprehensive Mass and Energy Balance Equation
Chapter 5: COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER (CCD): THE CASE FOR A SCIENCE OF INTANGIBLES AND ZERO WASTE ENGINEERING
Chapter 6: ZERO WASTE LIFESTYLE WITH INHERENTLY SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES
Chapter 7: A Novel Sustainable Combined Heating/Cooling/Refrigeration System
Chapter 8: A ZERO WASTE DESIGN FOR DIRECT USAGE OF SOLAR ENERGY
Chapter 9: INVESTIGATION OF VEGETABLE OIL AS THE THERMAL FLUID IN A PARABOLIC SOLAR COLLECTOR
Chapter 10: The Potential of Biogas in the Zero waste Mode in the Cold-Climate Environment
Chapter 11: THE NEW SYNTHESIS: APPLICATION OF ALL NATURAL MATERIALS FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
Chapter 12: SUSTAINABILITY OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
Chapter 13: HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
Chapter 14: ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF ZERO WASTE ENGINEERING
Chapter 15: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
References
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BISAC SUBJECT HEADINGS
TEC000000: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General
TEC009000: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General)
SCI026000: SCIENCE / Environmental Science
BIC CODES
TB: TECHNOLOGY: GENERAL ISSUES
THX: Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology
TQ: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
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