Title: Energy systems for the twenty-first century

Authors: Ben C. Ball, Thomas H. Lee, Richard D. Tabors

Addresses: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. ' Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. ' Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to identify the trends and the criteria, that will determine the energy and environmental requirements of the twenty-first century, and to propose a structure for responding to those requirements. The structure of an Integrated Energy System (IES) provides a new paradigm for the structure of future energy systems. An IES assumes an integration or connection of input fuels to output demands through a set of transformation processes that produce industrially useful gases. An IES is not so much a new system, as a new way of viewing existing systems. New Integrated Energy Systems can be evolved from existing technologies; examples are given of systems that are evolving and adapting in this way.

Keywords: energy sources; environmental impact; future trends; horizontal integration; industrial gases; integrated energy systems; IES.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.1989.063694

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 1989 Vol.1 No.1/2, pp.18-27

Published online: 19 Jul 2014 *

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