0520435 - ÚCHP 2020 CZ eng M - Monography Chapter
Hanika, Jiří - Šolcová, Olga - Kaštánek, František
Planet Earth – Global Batch Bioreactor. Chapter 1.2.
Biorefining in the 21st Century. Prague: Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS, v. v. i., 2019 - (Šolcová, O.; Hanika, J.; Topka, P.), s. 17-21. ISBN 978-80-86186-02-3
R&D Projects: GA TA ČR TE01020080
Institutional support: RVO:67985858
Keywords : earth and sun * depletion of resources * global batch system
OECD category: Chemical process engineering

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 heat losses of the land, water and ice by radiation emitted from the Earth surface to its surrounding space at night. It is evident that in this macro-reactor, the complex transport phenomena occur in phases, involving mass, heat and momentum. Obviously, such a responsive batch system can only be limited by resources of carbon materials utilized in the energy production for industrial and chemical processes.

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