Energy industries and utilities

Oil and natural gas are now acknowledged to be the driving forces of international politics.

What is involved in restoring a river?

Since China has now become the world's largest energy consumer, its energy sector has understandably huge implications for the global economy.

This book takes stock of and analyses the direct and indirect effects of the war in Ukraine, the policy response to the shock across countries, as well as the potential medium-term economic and social implications and policy challenges.

Retaining the same successful and proven format used in the bestselling first edition, Spellman's Standard Handbook for Wastewater Operators: Volume I, Fundamental Level, Second Edition contains the necessary information to successfully study for and pass currently administered certification examinations.

In recent years the water sector has undergone profound institutional, economic and political transformations.

A comprehensive collection of contributions from the Middle East and Japan, dealing with pressing problems concerning sustainability in arid zones, this time with the accent on environmental science and engineering.

Knowledge Media Design (KMD) beschäftigt sich mit der Generierung, Verarbeitung, Vermittlung und Bewahrung von medial behandelbarem Wissen.

An inspiring look at the Clean Energy RevolutionCombining the instincts of a journalist and the insight of the leader of a national business organization at the forefront of climate policy, Bob Keefe provides the first in-depth look at how the most important climate action in history is reshaping our economy, the way we live, and the future of our planet.

This book provides insight into how governments are using a variety of innovative fiscal and non-fiscal instruments to develop circular economies with significant economic and environmental benefits.

Industrial Process Plant Construction Estimating and Man-Hour Analysis focuses on industrial process plants and enables the estimator to apply statistical applications, estimate data tables, and estimate sheets to use methods for collecting, organizing, summarizing, presenting, and analyzing historical man-hour data.

Written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, this book provides a unique perspective on the connections between energy justice and human rights.

Natural gas purchasing is generally deregulated on a federal or interstate basis.

Due to increasing population, decreased cultivable land, and mounting scarcity of water, it is essential to optimize the use of available resources.

Edith Penrose was a remarkable woman and distinguished scholar who lived through, and witnessed at first hand, many of the major events of the 20th century; the great depression in the US; the rise of Nazism in Europe; the second world war when she worked as a special adviser to the US Ambassador in London; post-war reconstruction, assisting Eleanor Roosevelt with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the McCarthy era; and the oil crisis of the 1970s.

A synthesis of years of interdisciplinary research and practice, the second edition of this bestseller continues to serve as a primary resource for information on the assessment, remediation, and control of contamination on and below the ground surface.

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With the end of the British Raj in 1947, the Foreign Office replaced the Government of India as the department responsible for the Persian Gulf, and would proceed to manage relations with the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates, UAE) until British withdrawal in 1971.

The 2011 Kii Peninsula disaster was postwar Japan's largest sediment and flood disaster.

PV and the NEC presents a straightforward explanation of the National Electrical Code (NEC) in everyday language.

The 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP) works to reduce fuel consumption and emissions, increase heavy-duty vehicle safety, and support research, development, and demonstration to initiate commercially viable products and systems.

Sorption technique was employed to remove heavy metals from gold mining effluent using natural and plant materials for sustainability.

Industrial activities like textile processing and mining are typical sources of heavy metal-rich wastewaters.

In most of the industries, industrial effluent treatment plants are playing vital roles to ensure the efficient management of industrial effluent for supporting sustainable development of our society.

"e;Water: a way of life"e; takes the reader on a water journey through time and across the worlds continents.

In the post-9/11 world, the possibility of energy infrastructure-terrorism-the use of weapons to cause devastating damage to the energy industrial sector and cause cascading effects-is very real.

A comprehensive and detailed study on the scaling potential of calcium carbonate in seawater reverse osmosis systems (SWRO), this book provides a new approach for calculating the degree of supersaturation and the pH of the SWRO systems concentrates with the assistance of the feed-water pH and the inorganic carbon constituents.

This book identifies scenarios for changes in transmission infrastructure, contracting, consumption patterns and fossil fuel financing policies, considering climate goals and the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine.

This book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered?

In some important respects floodplain management and flood hazard research is different in Britain from that in other countries.

Liquid Assets shows that the common view of water as an inevitable cause of future wars is neither rational nor necessary.

The effect of corrosion in the oil industry leads to the failure of parts.

Advances in Subsurface Contamination of Porous Media: Indicators, Processes and Modelling provides a high level understanding of the processes concerning common and emergent contaminants through their passage from soil to groundwater.

Well activation is one of the most important aspects in the oil and gas industries and nitrogen gas is predominately used.

This book examines the need for greater legal coherence within international trade negotiations between the European Union (EU) and external trade relations.

Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications is a comprehensive eight-volume set of books that discusses in detail the theoretical basics and practical methods of various aspects of natural gas from exploration and extraction, to synthesizing, processing and purifying, producing valuable chemicals and energy.

Natural resources often stretch across borders that separate modern nation states.

Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.

The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East.

Fundamentals of Public Utilities Management provides practical information for constructing a roadmap for successful compliance with new and ever-changing regulatory frameworks, upgrading and maintenance, and general management of utilities operations.

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.

Sediment deposition threatens the performance of many irrigation systems.

This book introduces empirical methods for analyzing energy markets.

Energy from wave and tidal power is a key component of current policies for renewable sources of energy.

Economic and strategic power is not the exclusive province of powerful, developed countries.

The world's ever-increasing need for fresh water has led to the use of non-conventional sources such as rain and fog water collection.

Economic diversification remains at the top of the agenda for hundreds of regions around the world.