Synopses & Reviews
A survey of electrotechnologies and their status is presented here. Principles of operation and significant applications, both current and potential are outlined, and an assessment is made wherever possible of the selected topics.
Many of the technologies and processes discussed are in their infancy and development stages. Some have developed and are developing rapidly, while all show great future promise. Rapid progress is being made in numerous industrial and environmental applications. The electrotechnologies identified in the volume have been selected for evaluation based on their potential impact in key industrial sectors and implications for industrial energy patterns.
The objectives of this book are twofold:
To identify and describe the range of industrial and environmental applications of electrotechnologies.
To identify those applications that have potential for commercialization and that are likely to affect energy consumption patterns.
About the Author
Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff heads the Industrial Waste Management Program to eastern Ukraine under the United States Agency for International Development. He has nearly twenty years of industry and applied research experience in polymers, petrochemicals, and environmental and energy management in the heavy manufacturing and processing industries. Among his experience includes nearly thirteen years as product development manager and specialist for Exxon Chemical Company's elastomers product lines, and he actively provides consulting for private industry in the polymer technology areas. He has contributed extensively to the industrial press by having authored, co-authored or edited over 100 reference books and numerous articles. Dr. Cheremisinoff received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, New York.
Table of Contents
1. Electromagnetic Induction Heating General Principles | Existing Applications | Potential Applications | Future Assessment
2. Radiation Curing-Ultraviolet, Infrared, Electron Beam
Introduction | General Principles Applications | Potential Applications
3. Plasma Processing
Introduction | Background | Plasma System Description | Plasma-Fired Blast Furnaces for Ironmaking | Blast Furnace Superheating | Plasma Pyrolysis of Hydrocarbons Plasmas | Corona Phenomenon and Spectrum of Applications | High Temperature Plasmas | Physical Description of the Phenomena | Configuration and Devices | Future Projects
4. Lasers
Introduction | Applications | Purification of Materials | Microelectronics Fabrication | Miscellaneous Laser Applications | Laser Processing of Materials | Drilling | Cutting | Welding | Surface Treatment | Transformation Hardening | Cladding | Alloying | Melting | Machining | Wire Stripping | Product Marking | Laser Processing of Silicon | Future Uses
5. Dielectric Heating-Microwave, Radio Frequency Processes
Introduction | System | Techniques and Applications | Radio-Frequency Energy | Water Removal | Concentration and Dehydration Using | Radio-Frequency Energy
6. Materials Separation Processes
Electrodialysis (ED) | Reverse Osmosis (RO) | Ultra-filtration (UF) | Ultracentrifugation (UC)
7. Freeze Concentration
Introduction | Principles | Freeze Drying | Freeze Concentration | Competing Technologies | Future
8. Water Disinfection
The Scope of the Problem | Fundamental Methods | Applications