Post-Oil Energy Technology The World's First Solar-Hydrogen Demonstration Power Plant

With an emphasis on solar-hydrogen technology, this volume focuses on how to solve the global warming problem. This book explores clean, permanent, and un-exhaustible energy solutions for the future. Each chapter presents one of the new alternative energy processes - including solar, wind, tide, hydrogen, geothermal, and fuel cell - and discusses the consequences of inaction. A special section describes the design of the world's first solar-hydrogen demonstration plant and addresses its significance. In addition, Post-Oil Energy Technology provides in-depth coverage of sensors, analyzers, control valves and final control elements, as well as the optimization of alternative energy processes.

A solution to the climate and energy crisisThe reversible fuel cell (RFC) described in this volume stores solar energy and thereby makes it continuously available. This can make the building of energy-free homes and all electric transportation a reality. The foldout drawing at the back of this book also describes the detailed design of the world’s first 1,000 megawatt solar-hydrogen power plant. How is this possible?Our planet receives more solar energy in an hour than humans use in a year. In fact, 5% of the Sahara could meet the total energy requirement of mankind. This energy can then be stored and transported in the form of hydrogen. Converting from an exhaustible energy economy to a clean, free, and inexhaustible oneIn this timely book, author Béla Lipták explains why a solar-hydrogen economy is technically feasible and cost-effective. He first outlines existing conservation technologies and renewable energy processes as well as evolving technologies, such as energy-free homes, roof shingle solar collectors, and RFCs. He goes on to discuss energy optimization techniques that could reduce the global energy consumption by one third and finally presents the detailed design of a full size solar-hydrogen power plant. It is time to harness the power of solar energyWith global energy consumption quadrupling in the last fifty years and atmospheric carbon dioxide reaching the highest level ever recorded, now is the time to prevent further damage to the planet and ensure the survival of human civilization. It is debatable how much time we have before our fossil and uranium deposits are exhausted. It is also debatable how much climate change we can live with or how much of our economic resources should be devoted to stabilizing and reversing mankind’s growing carbon footprint. What is not debatable is that our resources are exhaustible and that we must not give reason for our grandchildren to ask, "Why did you not act in time?".

The Case for Renewable Energy Processes Global Trends Global Warming Nonsolar Renewable Technologies Solar Energy Hydrogen Technology The Renewable Energy Economy Costs and Efficiencies Conclusion Control and Optimization of Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Processes Boiler Control and Optimization Building Conditioning Optimization Chiller and Heat Pump Optimization Compressor Optimization Control and Optimization Theory Cooling Tower Optimization Distillation Optimization Fuel Cell Controls Geothermal Controls Heat Exchanger Optimization Hydrogen Process Optimization Power Plant Optimization Pumping Station Optimization Solar Collector Farm Controls Steam Turbine Optimization Sensors and Analyzers for Renewable Energy Processes Analyzers Anemometers BTU and Heat Rate Measurement Electric Meters and Peak Shedding Energy Management Systems Explosion Suppression Fire, Flame, and Smoke Detectors Leak Detectors Temperature Weather Stations and Solar Detectors The Design of the World’s First Full-Size Solar-Hydrogen Demonstration Power Plant Solar-Hydrogen Demonstration Power Plant The Process                     Unique Design Features and Inventions               Profitability Optimization               Optimizing Control Systems         Solar Farm Optimization                        Boiler and Heat Storage Optimization  Boiler Feedwater Optimization              Geothermal Heat Pump Optimization   Regenerative Electrolyzer Optimization Hydrogen Liquefier Optimization           Methanol Converter System                   Optimized Hydrogen Compression     Conclusions

Bela G. Liptak