Problems in energy conversion

C. S. Tedmon, Jr., Corrosion Problems in Energy Conversion Generators, Electrochemical Society, Princeton, N.J., 1974. 

The following two papers deal mainly with problems in energy conversion, in piarticular, the transformation of irradiation energy into electrical or chemical energy. The present status and future possible developments of photoelectrochemical energy conversion is presented. In a second paper electrochemical developments are connected to colloidal chemistry and the application of colloidal particles as catalysts for electron transfer reactions and as photocatalysts are discussed. 

Weeks, J. R. "Corrosion of Steam Generator Tubing in Operating Pressurized Water reactors". In Corrosion Problems In Energy Conversion and Generation Electrochem. Scl., 1975... 

Kinoshita, K. and Bett, J.A.S. (1974). Corrosion problems in energy conversion and generation. The Electrochemical Society. 

Tedmon, Craig S., editor, "Corrosion Problems in Energy Conversion and Generation," Corrosion Division, Electrochemical Society (1974). 

One of the primary problems to be encountered in energy conversion facilities will be the variability of the feedstock. A coal or oil shale facility will probably see greater variability, day-by-day, than experienced in planned changes in oil refinery crude runs. Even with extensive blending in the feed stockpile, the variation in feed characteristics will be significant. 

In the final discussion G. R. Burbidge stressed that the problems of energy conversion from a primary energy source to the form of relativistic particles needed for the radio emission are entirely unsolved. In particular, the production of cosmic ray particles requires an acceleration mechanism, of an efficiency at least a few orders of magnitude larger than that of the best man-made accelerators.109... 

The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for chemists, chemical engineers, and combustion scientists to discuss the most recent advances in combustion research of fuel sprays in order to improve the eflBciency in energy conversion, to eliminate soot and pollution by-products, and to improve the fuel quality by chemical means. It is also befitting the occasion of our Nations Bicentennial Celebration and of our Society s Centennial Meeting to address ourselves to one of the most urgent problems of our nation—conservation of energy and environmental resources. 

Davtyan, O. K., The Problem of Direct Conversion of the Chemical Energy of Fuels into Electrical Energy [in Russian], Rublishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1947. 

As this volume attests, a wide range of chemistry occurs at interfacial boundaries. Examples range from biological and medicinal interfacial problems, such as the chemistry of anesthesia, to solar energy conversion and electrode processes in batteries, to industrial-scale separations of metal ores across interfaces, to investigations into self-assembled monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett films for nanoelectronics and nonlinear optical materials. These problems are based not only on structure and composition of the interface but also on kinetic processes that occur at interfaces. As such, there is considerable motivation to explore chemical dynamics at interfaces. 

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