Hazardous Gases Underground (Applications to tunnel engineering)

Doyle, BarryPublished by CRC Press
ISBN10: 0824704835 / ISBN13: 9780824704834Supplemented with over 800 literature references, equations, drawings, and tables, Hazardous Gases Underground helps readers develop critical skills for managing risk and designing reliable gas control measures within project time and cost constraints. The author describes the hazardous properties of methane, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, and gasoline vapors; reviews characteristics and types of bacterial, thermogenic, and geothermal gases; explains biological and geological generation processes, migration paths, and retention mechanisms related to hazardous gases; offers techniques for identifying potentially dangerous geological environments; and more.