Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Third Edition, provides you with the best, state-of-the-art coverage for every aspect of petroleum and natural gas engineering. With thousands of illustrations and 1,600 information-packed pages, this handbook is a handy and valuable reference. Written by dozens of leading industry experts and academics, the book provides the best, most comprehensive source of petroleum engineering information available. Now in an easy-to-use single vol...
American Choice-Of-Law Revolution in the Courts, The: Today and Tomorrow (Hague Academy of International Law Monographs)
by Symeon Symeonides
Theory and Technology of Multiscale Dispersed Particle Gel for In-Depth Profile Control
by Caili Dai, Guang Zhao, Qing You, Mingwei Zhao, Yifei Liu, and Fulin Zhao
Theory and Technology of Multiscale Dispersed Particle Gel for in-depth Profile Control systematically introduces concepts surrounding preparation principles and methods of DPG particles. The whole preparation process can be divided into two major stages: bulk gel crosslinking reaction period and DPG particle preparation period. The effects of bulk gel strength, shearing time, shearing rate and bulk gel-water ratio on PDPG particles are also systematically analyzed. Zirconium bulk gel, phenolic...
This book explains how society will face an energy crisis in the coming decades owing to increasing scarcity of fossil fuels and climate change impacts. It carefully explores this coming crisis and concisely examines all of the major technologies related to energy production (fossil fuels, renewables, and nuclear) and their impacts on our society and environment. The author argues that it is wrong to pit alternatives to fossil fuels against each other and proposes that nuclear energy, although b...
Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2013: Smart Systems for Safe and Green Vehicles (Lecture Notes in Mobility)
by Jan Fischer-Wolfarth and Gereon Meyer
Print Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE17), Volume 4
A collection of 96 full-length, peer-reviewed technical papers. It covers such topics as: Codes, Standards, Licensing and Regulatory Issues; and Student Paper Competition.
Proceedings of the ASME /JSME Fluids Engineering Conference (FED, v. 223)
Peri-Urban Areas and Food-Energy-Water Nexus (Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering)
This book explores the nexus among food, energy and water in peri-urban areas, demonstrating how relevant this nexus is for environmental sustainability. In particular it examines the effective management of the nexus in the face of the risks and trade-offs of mitigation policies, and as a mean to create resilience to climate change. The book delineates strategies and actions necessary to develop and protect our natural resources and improve the functionality of the nexus, such as: integrated ma...
Currently, less than one percent of the energy used by transport (automotive, rail, shipping, air and space) worldwide is renewable. However, due to environmental and energy security concerns, there is a growing political and public imperative that transportation be transformed from crude oil/petroleum-based to renewable-energy based. Unlike other books which typically address only a small part of the subject area, this book examines the technologies for utilizing bioenergy as well as other rene...
This book discusses the theory, general principles, and energy source conditions allowing for the emergence of life in planetary systems. The author examines the material conditions found in natural hydrothermal sites, the appropriate analogs of prebiotic environments on early Earth. He provides an overview of current laboratory experiments in prebiotic materials chemistry and substantiation of a new direction for the experiments in the origin of life field. Describes thermodynamic inversio...
Electricity market reforms have been underway worldwide for the last 20 years. They have included restructuring, privatization, regulation and the introduction of market mechanisms in electricity generation and trading. This publication analyses the impacts of these reforms as well as non-reform factors, on the selection of electricity generation technologies, including nuclear power, by investors. A country case study approach has been adopted in developing the material presented in the publica...
Alternative Energy Sources (Energy Research)
Climate change has become a major international issue and the British Government is committed to meeting ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the present decade and beyond. Much of this will rely on an increasing use of renewable energy. Within current technology this will depend almost exclusively upon the use of rural land, whether for wind turbines, for growing biomass and biofuels or for the production of biogas. Renewable energy is therefore of immediate interest t...
Power System Operations (Power Electronics and Power Systems)
by Antonio J. Conejo and Luis Baringo
This textbook provides a detailed description of operation problems in power systems, including power system modeling, power system steady-state operations, power system state estimation, and electricity markets. The book provides an appropriate blend of theoretical background and practical applications, which are developed as working algorithms, coded in Octave (or Matlab) and GAMS environments. This feature strengthens the usefulness of the book for both students and practitioners. Students w...
This volume addresses challenges and solutions in transport and mobility of people and goods with respect to environment, safety, security and socio-economics issues, exploring advanced computational research work and the latest innovations in transport. This book brings together lectures presented at the ECCOMAS Thematic CM3 Conference on Transport held in Jyvaskyla, Finland, 25-27 May 2015. It is divided into three parts, I: Reviews and Perspective, II: Computational Methods and Models and II...
Introducing the Green Power Analysis Tool (Corporate Guide to Green Power Markets, #4)
by Duncan Austin
This publication provides the outline of a programme to strengthen regulatory competences, based on the operating experience of countries with a developed nuclear programme and which are members of the Forum of Radiological and Nuclear Regulatory Agencies (FORO). The guidelines are designed to optimize the resources of the Ibero-American region and they complement and supplement the IAEA’s Safety Reports Series No. 79 as a frame of reference.