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Shell of Planet Earth – Global Batch Bioreactor
Author(s) -
Hanika Jiri,
Solcova Olga,
Kastanek Petr
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.201700079
Subject(s) - planet , earth (classical element) , raw material , momentum (technical analysis) , astrobiology , environmental science , shell (structure) , physics , chemistry , mechanical engineering , engineering , organic chemistry , finance , astrophysics , economics , mathematical physics
Our planet Earth, precisely speaking its surface shell, might be considered as a huge multiphase batch biochemical reactor heated by the Sun, whose energy is a unique resource. The Sun ensures our earthly life unconditionally; moreover, it compensates the heat losses of land, water, and ice by radiation emitted from the Earth surface to its surrounding space at night. It is evident that in this macroreactor the complex transport phenomena occur in many phases, involving mass, heat, and momentum. Obviously, such a responsive batch system is strongly limited by raw resources of all elements including carbon materials necessary for a good living standard and utilized both in the energy production and for the main industrial chemical processes.