Energy industries and utilities

The evolution of the Nigerian oil and gas industry spanned about a century during which several challenges were encountered and surmounted by major International Oil Companies (IOCs).

This book provides a close analysis of the changes in the global oil and gas industry and the new energy industry.

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Corporate governance has become a household term and investors across the world are demanding more transparency and accountability from controllers of listed corporations.

Irrigation with Reclaimed Municipal Wastewater - A Guidance Manual is for use in the planning, design, and operation of agricultural and landscape irrigation systems using reclaimed municipal wastewater.

This book covers the basics and advancements in various solar thermal desalination systems that are highly affordable and viable even for applications in low-income countries.

This book presents a model for describing the hierarchical concept of China's water rights structure, one which takes into account pioneering theories on natural resources and environmental institutional economics.

Worldwide development of agriculture and industry creates burgeoning demands on natural resources.

Increasing demand for water, higher standards of living, depletion of resources of acceptable quality, and excessive water pollution due to urban, agricultural, and industrial expansions have caused intense environmental, social, economic, and political predicaments.

Production Processes of Renewable Aviation Fuel: Present Technologies and Future Trends presents the available production processes for renewable aviation fuel, including the application of intensification and energy integration strategies.

In this new and highly original textbook for a range of interdisciplinary courses and degree programmes focusing on marine and coastal resource management, readers are offered an introduction to the subject matter, a broad perspective and understanding, case study applications, and a reference source.

As water quality becomes a leading concern for people and ecosystems worldwide, it must be properly assessed in order to protect water resources for current and future generations.

Advanced Materials for Wastewater Treatment and Desalination: Fundamentals to Applications offers a comprehensive overview of current progress in the development of advanced materials used in wastewater treatment and desalination.

This book provides a broad and insightful guide to the economic, social, and environmental concerns seen within Africa.

Dieses Buch beleuchtet das Thema finanzielles Wasserrisiko, indem es die Modellierungs-Herausforderungen untersucht, die mit physischem, regulatorischem und Ruf-bedingtem Wasserrisiko in der Finanzwelt verbunden sind.

Substantially reducing the number of human beings who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation is one of the key Millennium Development Goals.

Based on the 'soft path approach to the energy sector, a transition is now under way to a soft path for water.

Advanced Materials and Technologies for Wastewater Treatment discusses the methods and technologies of physical, chemical, biological, and thermo-catalytic treatment techniques.

This book addresses growing tensions in Northeast Asia, notably between North Korea and China.

Sustainable Water Treatment and Management covers broad water and environmental engineering aspects relevant to water resources management as well as the treatment of storm water and wastewater.

This book discusses the requirements and preconditions for transforming the economy in order to achieve defined goals while maintaining and utilizing the efficiency of markets.

Kirkuk is Iraq's most multilingual city, for millennia home to a diverse population.

Revised and updated, this second edition of Design of Hydraulic Gates maintains the same goal as the original: to be used as a textbook and a manual of design of gates, presenting the main aspects of design, manufacture, installation and operation of hydraulic gates, while introducing new products, technologies and calculation procedures.

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.

The air transport system is a major industry with a global impact of 2.

This book presents a unique analysis of the sustainability performance of various renewable energy sources, based on Brazilian case studies.

Esta obra constituye un manual completo para el estudio y el proyecto de las instalaciones de calefacción desde una perspectiva eminentemente práctica sin olvidar el rigor y la necesidad de fundamentar los principios de esta apasionante y necesaria técnica de ingeniería.

This book highlights the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) of the energy and textile sectors.

Scientists, regulators, and the general public are now more and more aware of the chemicals present in surface waters worldwide.

This book presents new research on policy innovations that promote the development of the circular water economy.

The world's water resources are being tapped at an ever increasing rate, to the extent that sustainability and water quality are being compromised.

In order to properly plan, design, and operate groundwater resources projects, it is necessary to measure - over time or distance - pertinent groundwater variables such as drawdown and discharge in the field.

The current discourse on mine closure is informed predominantly by industry and corporate perspectives and predicated by experiences of mainly mining companies that are based in developed countries where necessary planning frameworks and regulatory requirements are well-established.

Efforts to direct the recovery of damaged sites and landscape date back as far as the 1930s.

A practical book for professionals who rely on water quality data for decision making, this book is based on three decades experience of three highly published water and watershed resource professionals.

The marine environment supports nearly half of the universal primary production, and a great share of which drives global fisheries.

Dieses Fachbuch beleuchtet wo wir global mit unserer bis heute noch fossilen Weltwirtschaft stehen und wie ein Umbau weg von fossilen Brennstoffen nicht allein in Deutschland sondern weltweit gelingen könnte.

Plastics show up in every area of our lives.

Expert analysis of the political challenges which may accompany a shift to a gas-fed world.

The book analyses how State aid law and the law of the free movement of goods apply to renewable energy support schemes, how they have impacted on the design and implementation of national support schemes, and how they have been instrumentalised to affect national renewable energy support policies.

The main objective of this research is to investigate the governing processes and characteristics that drive morphodynamic evolution in alluvial estuaries by application of a process-based numerical model (Delft3D).

With oil reaching $100 a barrel in January 2008 and the US facing challenges to dollar hegemony, few people would now deny that there is an energy crisis and that it is linked to economic uncertainty.

This volume is a guide to the state of the art of activated carbon adsorption technology as applied to wastewater treatment.

This book studies the extent to which nuclear safety issues have contributed towards the stagnation of nuclear power development around the world, and accounts for differences in safety regulations in different countries.

This book offers a comprehensive study concerning the reliability of renewable electricity production in the Faroe Islands.

Microalgae in Waste Water Remediation aims to point out trends and current topics concerning the use of microalgae in wastewater treatment and to identify potential paths for future research regarding microalgaebased bioremediation.

Intensifying Activated Sludge Using Media-Supported Biofilms will be of interest to practicing wastewater treatment process designers, along with those seeking more compact and energy-efficient wastewater treatment options.