Vision 21 : fossil fuel options for the future / Committee on R & D Opportunities for Advanced Fossil-Fueled Energy Complexes, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council.
Material type: TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 144 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585284598
- 9780585284590
- 9780309515993
- 0309515998
- Vision twenty-one
- Fossil fuel options for the future
- Vision 21 (Program) -- Evaluation
- Vision 21 (Program)
- Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- Evaluation
- Fossil Fuels
- Environment
- United States
- Fossil energy
- Fossil fuels
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Chemical & Biochemical
- Evaluation
- United States
- Andre fag (naturvidenskab og teknik) Andre fag
- 662.6/2
- TP318 .V57 2000eb
Report resulting from a review of materials supplied by the National Research Council conducted under the aegis of the Committee on R & D Opportunities for Advanced Fossil-Fueled Energy Complexes.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Vision 21 program plan and goals -- Program goals -- 2. Overview of the Vision 21 program plan and goals -- Budget -- Goals -- Structure -- Achieving Vision 21 program goals -- 3. Enabling technologies -- Fuel-flexible gasification -- Advanced combustion -- Advanced fuels and chemicals -- Fuel cells -- Fuel-flexible turbines -- 4. Supporting technologies and systems intergration -- Advanced computational modeling and systems analysis -- Materials and heat exchangers -- Environmental control technologies -- Gas-stream purification -- Gas-separation technologies -- 5. Commercialization -- Characteristics of the future market -- Barriers to commercialization -- Overcoming barriers to commercialization -- Timing of Vision 21 program strategies -- Developing countries -- 6. Overall assessment of the Vision 21 program -- A. Biographical sketches of committee members -- B. Presentations and committee activities -- C. Vision 21 program plan: clean energy plants for the 21st century. April 1999.
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