Fossil Fuels

This book explores the use of nanomaterials as diesel fuel additives. It extensively reviews the diesel engine characteristics and the most frequently used nanomaterials and nanofuels and discusses the practical issues regarding the viability of...

Hydraulic fracturing - fracking - is an unconventional extraction technique used in the oil and gas industry that has fundamentally transformed global energy politics. In Fracking Uncertainty, Heather Millar explains variation in Canadian provincial...

The energy transition is underway to low carbon, and energy companies need a guide to navigate through the uncertainties while maintaining an agile workforce. Powering through the Transition: Navigating the Energy Sector's Biggest Change since the...

How does fracking affect our children, grandchildren and future generations? In Just the Fracks Ma'am Greg Kozera takes the mystery out of the fracking process. He explains a very technical process and issues associated with it in a way that they are...

Despite their self-proclaimed reputation as the "greatest gamblers" and the fiercest of free-enterprise capitalists, Edward W. Constant II argues that oilmen in Texas quickly evolved a closely-knit fraternity defined by an altruistic, cooperative moral...

Hydraulic fracturing - fracking - is an unconventional extraction technique used in the oil and gas industry that has fundamentally transformed global energy politics. In Fracking Uncertainty, Heather Millar explains variation in Canadian provincial...

Many on-site power plants either fail outright or perform far below expectations- all because of poor planning and evaluation of the power plants from the beginning.This book is intended to help those interested in cogeneration power plants by laying out...

Transmission Pipeline Calculations and Simulations Manual is a valuable time- and money-saving tool to quickly pinpoint the essential formulae, equations, and calculations needed for transmission pipeline routing and construction decisions. The manual's...

Delves into the core and functional areas in the upstream oil and gas industry covering a wide range of operations and processes Oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) activities are costly, risky and technology-intensive. With the rise in global...

Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many...

Combustion Ash and Residue Management assists owners and operators of Coal-fired and Resource Recovery Power Plants. By applying the principles and reviewing the case studies examples described within this book, accidents and upsets can be avoided and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634633369Author Roger M WatersFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 304g

Practical Reservoir Characterization expertly explains key technologies, concepts, methods, and terminology in a way that allows readers in varying roles to appreciate the resulting interpretations and contribute to building reservoir characterization...

Natural gas, especially unconventional gas, has an increasingly important role in meeting the world's energy needs. Experts estimate that it has the potential to add anywhere from 60-250% to the global proven gas reserve in the next two decades. To...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633216266Author Jenna L AikenFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 314g

When Fracking Comes to Town traces the response of local communities to the shale gas revolution. Rather than cast communities as powerless to respond to oil and gas companies and their landmen, it shows that communities have adapted their local rules...

This book considers the most contemporary innovations propelling the extractive industries forward while also creating new environmental and social challenges. The socio-ecological fabric of innovation in the extractive industries is considered through...

Taking the case of the Norwegian petroleum industry as its vantage point, the book discusses the question of industrial transformations in resource-based industries. The book presents new, empirically-based analyses of the development of the petroleum...

This book explains the place of oil in the economic and political predicaments that now confront the West. Thompson explains the problems that the rising cost of oil posed in the years leading up to the 2008 crash, and the difficulties that a volatile...

The promise of "green jobs" and a "clean energy future" has roused the masses. But as Robert Bryce makes clear in this provocative book, that vision needs a major re-vision. We cannot- and will not- quit using carbon-based fuels at...

Roberts' dictionary is a comprehensive yet concise guide to the various legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, and financial abbreviations, acronyms, terms and phrases which define the oil and gas industry today. The dictionary is divided into three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338522Author Guthrie HuttonFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of...

This book covers the major physical and mechanical processes that unfold during cementing and subsequent well service, and which can affect the well integrity. Focusing on the underlying physics, it concisely presents the central concepts of well...

Quite a large number of major oil and gas projects are failures with respect to their costs, schedules, and operational performance. Owner companies and contractors are struggling with the issues causing these failures. The Front End Engineering Design...

Fuel is an idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined, historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film, and scientific treatises-most produced long before "climate change" was in circulation-Fuel argues...

Introduction to Energy Systems An in-depth introduction to applications and analysis of energy systems, covering both renewable and traditional types of energy systems In Introduction to Energy Systems, the content is uniquely designed to cover...

FUEL ADDITIVES Explore a complete and insightful review of fuel additives In Fuel Additives: Chemistry and Technology, petroleum industry chemist R. D. Tack delivers a comprehensive and practical exploration of various types of fuel additives, the...

This book offers an introduction to the geomechanical issues raised by both the extraction of actual and potential energy resources, and by the treatment of the ensuing environmental concerns. Discussions of the operations of injection of fluids into,...

Performance Management for the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries: A Systems Approach is a practical guide on the business cycle and techniques to undertake step, episodic, and breakthrough improvement in performance to optimize operating costs. Like many...

A groundbreaking perspective on energy history that reveals the early modern home, and not industry, as the first major driver of fossil-fuel adoption.This book explores how the homes of ordinary city dwellers sparked our modern dependence on fossil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502650320Author Derek MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Cavendish Square PublishingPublisher Cavendish Square PublishingWeight(grams) 23g

Quite a large number of major oil and gas projects are failures with respect to their costs, schedules, and operational performance. Owner companies and contractors are struggling with the issues causing these failures. The Front End Engineering Design...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464813849Author World BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839684098Author Ramasamy Marappa GounderFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789236187Author Ali Al-JubouryFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpenWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088239490Author Patrick FrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 118g

This short monograph focuses on the theoretical backgrounds and practical implementations concerning the thermodynamic modeling of multiphase equilibria of complex reservoir fluids using cubic equations of state. It aims to address the increasing needs...

This book describes the feasibility and status of the use of alternative fuels in marine engineering, as well as the application of liquefied natural gas, biodiesel and their blends as marine fuels, and the combustion of synthetic coal-based fuels. Each...

It is with great pleasure and satisfaction that I present to the international scientific community this collection of papers presented at the symposium on Surface Phenomena in Enhanced Oil Recovery held at Stockholm, Sweden, during August 20-25, 1979...