Springer, 2019. — 350 p. — (Energy, Environment, and Sustainability). — ISBN: 978-981-13-3280-7. This book discusses different aspects of energy consumption and environmental pollution, describing in detail the various pollutants resulting from the utilization of natural resources and their control techniques. It discusses diagnostic techniques in a simple and...
Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, 2014, XVII, 318 p. 64 illus., 39 illus. in color. — ISBN: 978-3-319-01233-9, ISBN: 978-3-319-01234-6 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01234-6. Covers a diverse list of effluent management strategies important to practitioners, ranging from waste water gathering systems and oil/suspended solids removal to chemical flocculation...
Wiley, 2015. — 728 p. — 978-0470455517. Oil Spill Science and Technology provides a scientific approach to the clean up of oil spills. Topics include the analysis of oil behavior such as evaporation, solubility, and sedimentation. Other topics include the biodegradation and environmental effects of oil spills and case studies. An authoritative reference for professionals in the...
Second Edition. — Gulf Professional Publishing, 2017. — 1066 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-809413-6. This book, Second Edition, delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properties and behaviors, to remote sensing through the management side of contingency planning and communicating oil spill risk perceptions. Completely new case studies...
1st edition. — Elsevier Inc., 2011. 1189 p. Summary: The National Academy of Sciences estimate that 1.7 to 8.8 million tons of oil are released into world’s water every year, of which more than 70% is directly related to human activities. The effects of these spills are all too apparent: dead wildlife, oil covered marshlands and contaminated water chief among them. This...
CRC Press; 2 edition. 2000. 256 p. Constant media attention on oil spills has created global awareness of their risks and the damage they do. Often under-reported is the average cost of the cleanup - often as high as $200 per liter of oil spilled. Oil is a necessity in today's industrial society, and since our dependence on it is not likely to and any time soon, we will...
3rd Edition. — CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group 2013. XX, 250 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4398-6247-6 (eBook - PDF). Reflecting the rapid progress in cleanup technology since the previous edition, this revised and expanded third edition of The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup covers current cleanup techniques, how oil spills are measured and detected, and the properties of the oil and its...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 753 p. This book represents one of the most integrated and inclusive texts on the topics of materials for energy and environmental sustainability. It provides an inclusive and fair picture of all the different alternatives for energy generation, energy efficiency, and covers many new approaches to clean energy use. You will find...
Imperial College Press, 2010. — XXI, 202 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-84816-415-4, ISBN10: 1-84816-415-7. This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood,...
CSIRO Publishing, 2016. — 285 p. — ISBN: 9781486306367. The Oil Spill Monitoring Handbook completely updates the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s 2003 edition of the same name, taking into account the latest scientific advances in physical, chemical and biological monitoring, many of which have evolved as a consequence of major oil spill disasters in the last decade. It...
InTech, 2012. 314 p. ISBN: 9535102779, 9789535102779. The topics of this book move mostly seamlessly from fuel combustion and coexistencewith renewable energy, to the environment, and finally to the economics of energy, and food security. This book is a great read for researchers, practitioners, or just about anyone with an enquiring mind on this subject. The research and...
Springer, 2018. — 55 p. — (SpringerBriefs in Petroleum Geoscience & Engineering). — ISBN 9783030009212, ASIN 3030009211. This book presents a comprehensive review of the latest information on all aspects of the post-combustion carbon capture process. It provides designers and operators of amine solvent-based CO 2 capture plants with an in-depth understanding of the most...
ReferencePoint Press, Inc., 2011. — 96 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-60152-350-1 (e-book). Experts estimate that approximately 60 percent of the undiscovered oil fields in the United States are in offshore waters. Through objective overviews, primary sources, and full color illustrations this title examines Does the United States Need to Drill Offshore? Is Offshore Drilling Too Much of an...
Academic Press, 2018. — 468 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-809399-3. The Political Ecology of Oil and Gas Activities in the Nigerian Aquatic Ecosystem reviews the current status of the ecosystems and economic implications of oil and gas development in Nigeria, a key oil-producing state. The ecological and economic impacts of oil and gas development, particularly in developing nations, are...
Elsevier, 2019. — 289 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-814889-1. This book provides in-depth information on the current state of conventional energy sources used for electricity generation in the United States and Canada. As energy is a major force of civilization, determining, to a high degree, the level of economic and social development, this book provides relevant information and a deep...
Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, 1996. — 287 p. This book has evolved from course notes developed by the author for use in undergraduate and graduate classes. In preparing the book, the author has read thousands of pages of papers, reports, manuals, and books on the topic of environmental concerns facing the upstream petroleum industry. Although it is believed that this book...
Wiley-Scrivener, 2017. — 406 p. — ISBN10: 1119117372, ISBN13: 978-1119117377. Oil and gas still power the bulk of our world, from automobiles and the power plants that supply electricity to our homes and businesses, to jet fuel, plastics, and many other products that enrich our lives. With the relatively recent development of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), multilateral,...
Nova Science Publishers, 2016. — 395 p. — ISBN: 1620817128. Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology The integration of the thermodynamic quantity exergy with the environment and ecology provides a novel approach that offers significant potential to improve environmental and ecological management. A brief summary is presented here of existing analysis techniques which...
Wiley, 2014. — 392 p. This book provides a comprehensive overview of oil spill remediation from the perspectives of policy makers, scientists, and engineers, generally focusing on colloid chemistry phenomena and solutions involved in oil spills and their cleanup. First book to address oil spill remediation from the perspective of physicochemical and colloidal science Discusses...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2018. — 834 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-804434-6. This book includes 34 chapters that serve to present various aspects of environmental forensics in relation to “real-world” oil spill case studies from around the globe. Authors representing academic, government, and private researcher groups from 14 countries bring a diverse and global perspective to this volume....
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. 872 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-203-38610-1 (eBook - PDF). Features The book provides a broad overview of the latest advances made in the field of energy and environmental engineering Contributions focus on energy efficiency, management, exploration and exploitation, power generation technologies, water and air pollution and protection and...
Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, 2014. XXXI, 203 p. 76 illus. — ISBN: 978-3-319-02981-8, ISBN: 978-3-319-02982-5 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-02982-5. Analyzes the key energy and environmental challenges confronting Saudi Arabia Investigates what incentive structures the Saudi government must put in place to attract private sector investments in clean...
Changing Authority in the Environmental Governance of Shipping and Offshore Oil and Gas Production. — Wageningen Academic Publishers The Netherlands, 2010. 201 p. — ISBN: 978-90-8686-143-9, e-ISBN: 978-90-8686-696-0, DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-696-0. The marine environment is under serious pressure from human activities. The transboundary and large-scale nature of these threats...
CRC Press, 2016 - 278 p. - ISBN: 978-1-4987-1215-6. Starting with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident, Oil Spill Impacts: Taxonomic and Ontological Approaches chronicles a timeline of events that focus on the impact of oil spills and provides an understanding of these incidents using a number of approaches. The book includes an interdisciplinary oil...
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