Clean Energy
Presenting a broad survey of the energy problems facing society over the coming decades and the prospects for their solution, this book emphasizes the importance of developing a strategy for the world's future energy supply.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Clean Energy
Glossary of Terms
- Active material
- The material in the electrodes of batteries that takes part in the electrochemical reactions to store and deliver the electrical energy.
- Adiabatic process
- A process that takes place without heat entering or leaving the system.
- Alternating current
- Electric current that flows for an interval of time (half-period) in one direction and then for the same time in the opposite direction. The normal waveform is sinusoidal.
- Angular velocity
- Quantitative expression of the amount of rotation that a spinning object undergoes per unit time.
- Anion
- Ion in an electrolyte that carries a negative charge and that migrates towards the anode under the influence of a potential gradient.
See also Anode.
See also Ion.
- Anode
- An electrode at which an oxidation process, i.e. loss of electrons, is occurring. During electrolysis, the anode is the positive electrode. In a rechargeable battery, the anode is the positive electrode on charge and the negative electrode on discharge.
- Aquifer
- Underground water-bearing, porous rock strata that yields economic supplies of water, sometimes heated, to wells or springs.
- Automotive battery
- A battery designed to provide electrical power for an internal-combustion-engined vehicle.
- Band-gap energy
- The energy gap, generally measured in electron-volts (eV), between the top of the valence band and the bottom of the conduction band in a Crystalline solid.
See also Conduction band.
See also Energy band.
See also Valence band.
- Barrel
- A measure of crude oil (petroleum), approximately 159 L.
- Battery
- A multiple of electrochemical cells of the same chemistry housed in a...
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