Energy industries and utilities

The reclamation of wastewater (and other essential materials) is among the major research areas for understanding the effects of implementing a circular economic model.

This book explores the continuation of coal mining in Australia despite growing awareness of its contribution to the climate crisis.

This book is a machine-generated literature overview highlighting the importance of natural capital while studying the economics of ecology.

Petroleum Science and Technology: Petroleum Generation, Accumulation and Prospecting describes natural hydrocarbon geology along with applicable aspects of physics, chemistry, biology, environmental science, mathematics, and engineering/technology.

This revised edition of Energy Law and the Environment considers how international and national legislation now requires the energy sector to focus more on sustainability and the circular economy in response to new policies at both international and national levels.

Turbulence in Open Channel and River Flows covers turbulence and related fluid mechanics in open-channel flows, addressing both basic mechanisms and their applications.

Corrosion Atlas Case Studies: 2019 Edition provides engineers with expedient daily corrosion solutions for common industrial equipment, no matter the industry.

The expansion of unconventional petroleum resources in the recent decade and the rapid development of computational technology have provided the opportunity to develop and apply 3D numerical modeling technology to simulate the hydraulic fracturing of shale and tight sand formations.

The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India.

The heart of the contemporary argument on climate change and energy transition focuses on how energy supply should be decarbonized to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

Although much is known about the processes and effects of land degradation and climate change, little is understood about the links between them.

Source separation of waste and subsequent recycling processes are promising solutions on the road to a circular economy.

Managing Global Warming: An Interface of Technology and Human Issues discusses the causes of global warming, the options available to solve global warming problems, and how each option can be realistically implemented.

Wastewater Treatment Using Green Synthesis discusses advances in wastewater treatment with a focus on biological processes.

OPEC and the World's Energy Future offers a complete account of OPEC's past, present, and possible future in relation to economic, political, and technological changes.

During the great oil speculations in the 1920s, both promoters and investors became victims of their common greed.

Despite the strong economic growth of the last decades, our modern global society is facing the existential threat of climate change.

Climate change, combined with the rapid and often unplanned urbanisation trends, is associated with a rising trend in the frequency and severity of disasters triggered by natural hazards.

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

The protection of water resources from deterioration in quality by pollution discharges is probably the biggest challenge in sustainable water resources management in the recent decades.

Smart Metering: Infrastructure, Methodologies, Applications and Challenges combines the fundamentals of smart meters in smart grids with the latest advances and technologies in advanced smart infrastructure.

Vorstellungen von der Zukunft bestimmen das menschliche Handeln.

Electricity is a basic requirement for a modern economy, and transmission grids at the center of transition to a low-carbon power system.

An essential text documenting the foundation and rise of queer theory.

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) have been shown to produce changes in the endocrine system of organisms, leading to increases in cancers and abnormalities in reproductive structure and function.

Three quarters of our current electricity usage and transport methods are derived from fossil fuels and yet within two centuries these resources will dry up.

After 2 decades, policymakers and regulators agree that electricity market reform, liberalization and privatization remains partly art.

An essential resource to navigate a fast-changing and challenging world, this book presents core concepts and practical insights for enterprise risk management, business continuity management, and organizational resilience.

Reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the use of renewable energy continue to be critical goals for the power industry and electrical engineers to promote energy cost reductions.

Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources Handbook: Evaluation and Development is a must-have, helpful handbook that brings a wealth of information to engineers and geoscientists.

The authors also offer practical advice to improve reform policies.

Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally.

Are you developing strategies for a future sustainable energy supply?

This book argues that law has a vital role in shaping the electricity system to enable a more active role for consumers in liberalizsed electricity industries.

Aquaculture is increasingly complementing global fisheries and is relevant to ocean and freshwater health, biodiversity and food security, as well as coastal management, tourism and natural heritage.

This book focuses on cloud-based platforms, advanced programming, machine learning models and programming approaches to assess water and other natural resources, flood impact, land use land cover (LULC), global forest change, global forest canopy height and pantropical nation-level carbon stock, among other areas.

Published in 1971: At first glance it might seem that the three subjects dealt with in the essays written over the last twenty years and now collected in this volume could hardly be more diverse, beginning with the growth of the firm and moving from the international petroleum industry to the Middle East generally.

This book gathers contributions from a multidisciplinary research team comprised of control engineering and economics researchers and formed to address a central interdisciplinary social issue, namely economically enabled energy management.

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The Eastern Nile riparian countries Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are currently developing several reservoir projects to contribute to the needs for energy and food production in the region.

This book is an initial attempt to estimate the loads of heavy metal and nutrient loads into an industrial effluent receiving rivers of a typical industrializing catchment.

Energy, and access to energy, are essential to human life, civilisation and development.

Hydrodynamics and Transport for Water Quality Modeling presents a complete overview of current methods used to describe or predict transport in aquatic systems, with special emphasis on water quality modeling.

The result of over 25 years of research, this book is a concise guide to the microbiological and technical aspects of bulking and foaming control.

This informative new book takes an interdisciplinary look at agricultural and food production and how new engineering practices can be used to enhance production.

Unconventional Reservoir Rate-Transient Analysis provides petroleum engineers and geoscientists with the first comprehensive review of rate-transient analysis (RTA) methods as applied to unconventional reservoirs.

Hydrogen technologies are key for achieving a carbon-neutral economy; these offer solutions for the further expansion of renewable energy supplies, climate-neutral industry processes and sustainable mobility.

This book explains how new sources of energy increased productivity, thereby transforming industry and changing England permanently and fundamentally.

Hydraulic engineering of dams and their appurtenant structures counts among the essential tasks to successfully design safe water-retaining reservoirs for hydroelectric power generation, flood retention, and irrigation and water supply demands.