1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783463003321

Autore

Miller Bruce G., M.S.

Titolo

Coal energy systems [[electronic resource] /] / Bruce G. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; London, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2005

ISBN

1-4933-0159-4

1-281-00827-3

0-08-047660-0

9786611008277

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (550 p.)

Collana

Sustainable world series

Disciplina

662.62

Soggetti

Coal

Coal-fired power plants

Coal-fired furnaces

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction to Coal; Publisher Summary; What Is Coal?; Origin of Coal; Coalification; Classification of Coal; Coal Distribution and Resources; Chapter 2: Past, Present, and Future Role of Coal; Publisher Summary; The Use of Coal in the Pre-Industrial Revolution Era; The Use of Coal during the Industrial Revolution; Post-Industrial Revolution Use of Coal; Overview of Energy in the United States; Coal Production in the United States; Coal Consumption in the United States; U.S. Coal Exports and Imports

World Primary Energy Production and ConsumptionFuture Projections of Energy Use and Coal's Contribution to the Energy Mix; Role of Coal in the United States' 2001 Energy Policy; Chapter 3: The Effect of Coal Usage on Human Health and the Environment; Publisher Summary; Coal Mining; Coal Preparation; Coal Transportation; Coal Combustion By-Products (CCB); Emissions from Coal Combustion; Chapter 4: Coal-Fired Emissions and Legislative Action in the United States; Publisher Summary; Major Coal-Related Health Episodes; History of Legislative Action for Coal-Fired Power Plants

Emissions Legislation in other CountriesAir Quality and Coal-Fired



Emissions; Chapter 5: Technologies for Coal Utilization; Publisher Summary; Coal Combustion; Carbonization; Gasification; Liquefaction; Chapter 6: Emissions Control Strategies for Power Plants; Publisher Summary; Currently Regulated Emissions; Pollutants with Pending Compliance Regulation; Potential Future Regulated Emissions; Multipollutant Control; Chapter 7: Future Power Generation (Near-Zero Emissions During Electricity Generation); Publisher Summary; Clean Coal Technology Demonstration Program

Power Plant Improvement Initiative (PPII)Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI); Vision 21; FutureGen; Benefits of the DOE's Clean Coal Power Program/Demonstrations; Chapter 8: Coal's Role in Providing United States Energy Security; Publisher Summary; Overview of U.S. Energy Security Issues; National Energy Plan and Coal Utilization; Energy and the Economy; Natural Gas Use in Power Generation; The Potential of Coal to Reduce U.S. Dependency on Imported Crude Oil; The Resurgence of Coal in Electric Power Generation; Production of Hydrogen from Coal

The Role of Coal in Providing Security to the U.S. Food SupplyCoal's Role in International Energy Security and Sustainable Development; Concluding Statements; APPENDIX A: Coal-Fired Emission Factors; APPENDIX B: Original List of Hazardous Air Pollutants; APPENDIX C: Initial 263 Units Identified in Phase I (SO2) of the Acid Rain Program; APPENDIX D: Commercial Gasification Facilities Worldwide; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Coal is currently a major energy source in the United States as well as throughout the world, especially among many developing countries, and will continue to be so for many years. Fossil fuels will continue to be the dominant energy source for fueling the United States economy, with coal playing a major role for decades. <br><br>Coal provides stability in price and availability, will continue to be a major source of electricity generation, will be the major source of hydrogen for the coming hydrogen economy, and has the potential to become an important source of liquid fuels. Conservation and



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910563098303321

Autore

Natermann Diana Miryong

Titolo

Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies : Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884–1914) / / Diana Miryong Natermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Münster, : Waxmann, 2018

ISBN

9783830986904

3830986904

Edizione

[1st, New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Historische Belgienforschung ; 3

Soggetti

colonies

egodocuments

Germany

Sweden

Belgium

colonial history

Africa

identities

Kongo

Tansania

Gender Studies

postcolonial theories

19./20. Jahrhundert

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Africa. The transcolonial approach is based on egodocuments from Belgian, German and Swedish men and women



who migrated to Central Africa for reasons like a love for adventure, social betterment, new gender roles, or the conviction that colonising was their patriotic duty.    The author presents how colonisers constructed their whiteness in relation to the subalterns in everyday situations connected to friendship, animals, gender and food. White culture was often practiced to maintain the idea(l) of European supremacy, for example by upholding white dining cultures. The welcoming notion of ‘breaking bread’ was replaced by a dining culture that reinforced white identity and segregated white from non-white people.  By combining colonial history with whiteness studies in an African setting the author provides a different understanding of imperial realities as they were experienced by colonisers in situ.

Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. [...] By combining colonial history with whiteness studies in an African setting the author provides a different understanding of imperial realities as they were experienced by colonisers in situ. – Caroline Herfert für die: Forschungsstelle Hamburgs (post-)koloniales Erbe

Die feinfühlige Beachtung der Widersprüche des alltäglichen Lebens jenseits der Verallgemeinerungen der Gesellschaftsanalyse verleiht dieser gut belegten Darstellung eine sehr nuancierte Dimension. – Jean-Luc Vellut, in: Historische Zeitschrift 309 (2019), S. 521f. (Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Jürgen Müller)