Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes, 3rd Edition

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by “f” indicate figures and “t” indicate tables.

A

Abrupt compression, 53

cylinder-and-piston system , 53–54

example, 54, 57

irreversible process, 54

using adiabatic conditions , 53–54

Absorption, 441

Accelerator, 224

Acceptors, 618

Acene , 853–854

Acetogenesis, 568

Acid electrolytes, 290

Acidogenesis, 567

Activation barrier , 354–355

Activation energy, 356

activated complexes, 355

activation barrier , 354–355

Arrhenius equation, 356

reverse activation barrier , 355–356

tail-end of Maxwellian distribution, 356

Adiabatic, 49

reservoirs, 69

system, 53

Adiabatic process

abrupt compression. See Abrupt compression

adiabatic system, 53

gradual compression, 57

polytropic law, 58

reversible compression, 58

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