Energy industries and utilities

Handbook on Thermal Hydraulics of Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactors, Volume 1, Foundations and Principles includes all new chapters which delve deeper into the topic, adding context and practical examples to help readers apply learnings to their own setting.

This book is an unprecedented consideration of the challenges of what we can do for generations yet to come.

In September 2020, China announced that it would peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060.

Nanotechnology in Green Energy Generation provides a comprehensive review of modelling, processing, and applications of all major categories of green energy generation materials.

Towards Nearly Zero Energy: Urban Settings in the Mediterranean Climate discusses tactics that can be used to effectively reduce energy consumption towards zero energy.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Übersicht über die Entwicklung der Dampfturbinen in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik" verfügbar.

The Congress "e;Arsenic in the Environment"e; offers an international, multi- and interdisciplinary discussion platform for research aimed towards a holistic solution to the problem posed by the environmental toxin arsenic, with considerable societal impact.

Groundwater is an increasingly important resource to human populations around the world, and the study and protection of groundwater is an essential part of hydrogeology - the subset of hydrology that concentrates on the subsurface.

Ground based synthetic aperture radar (GB-SAR) is used to effectively mitigate natural disasters and monitor social infrastructure such as bridges, dams, and airport pavement surfaces.

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.

Africa is endowed with rich land and water resources, which significantly contribute to the development of many economies on the continent.

Na obra "Alimentação por energia solar e universal: imperativo num futuro próximo", o arquiteto Francisco Cunha Leão defende a alimentação através de fontes de energia: não somente a alimentação humana, mas também a alimentação, ou abastecimento, de uma série de atividades intrínsecas ao comportamento humano, nomeadamente transportes, indústria e exploração espacial.

¿Es la minería un elemento dinamizador de la economía de las naciones, o solamente una actividad guiada por la necesidad del lucro inmediato aun a costa de la salud de la población y de la destrucción del medio ambiente?

This book provides a comprehensive and unique perspective on China's oil and natural gas industry and a practical roadmap to reforms.

Volume V of theSix Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on the use of remote sensing technologies for studying water resources, including groundwater, floods, snow and ice, and wetlands.

Following FLINS '94, the 1st International workshop on fuzzy logic and intelligent technologies in nuclear science, FLINS '96 aimed to introduce the principles of intelligent systems and soft computing, such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms (and any combination of these three), knowledge-based expert systems and complex problem-solving techniques, in nuclear science and industry and in related fields.

Long-lived radioactive materials from the operation of nuclear power plants and from the maintenance and decommissioning of nuclear weapons pose environmental and security risks.

A surge in demand for oil due to rapid economic growth and stagnation in domestic oil output has turned China into a net oil importer since 1993.

China's power sector has performed impressively during the past twenty years in support of economic growth.

Energy may be the most important factor that will influence the shape of society in the 21st century.

This unique book offers a timely and insightful look into China's present energy situation and the emerging challenges of balancing energy supply and demand over the forthcoming decades.

There is widespread recognition - among policy-makers, business communities, and scholars - of the importance of improving environmental policy and management in China.

The world is rapidly approaching the end of the fossil fuel era.

This book offers the first set of quantitative analyses of the results of deregulation of the gas wellhead process coupled with partial deregulation of pipeline transportation and product storage.

Bringing together leading-edge research and innovative energy markets econometrics, this book collects the author's most important recent contributions in energy economics.

New and renewable energy systems will play an important role in the sustainable development of a future energy strategy.

As East and Southeast Asia continue to modernize and urbanize, their demand for energy will soar.

This book aims to prove that the so-called "e;energy crisis"e; is really an entropy crisis.

Will international wars where energy resources play a central role continue to hold sway over life and death for industrialized nations, or is this a transient phase in the evolution of industrial societies?

The markets for electricity, gas and temperature have distinctive features, which provide the focus for countless studies.

This book examines the political and conceptual metamorphosis of China's oil industry from self-reliance to internationalization.

This book looks at the emergence of China as a major importer and consumer of energy as well as examines contemporary issues within the Chinese oil industry.

This book focuses solely on the issues of agriculture and forest productivity analysis with advanced modeling approaches to bring solutions to food-insecure regions of South and Southeast Asia.

Energy may be the most important factor that will influence the shape of society in the 21st century.

With Asia, - especially China and India, - leading world energy consumption, Asian energy trends are now of global interest, with deep implications for the world economy and geopolitics.

Energy consumption level is a significant indicator in measuring a nation's economic, scientific and technological progress.

This book sheds light on how global warming has caused the ongoing environmental disaster in the Arctic, namely its melting.

The general public's aversion to drinking treated wastewater is evident, rooted in the reluctance to accept a direct pipe-to-pipe connection, for example, from a toilet to a drinking water tap.

This book focuses mainly on strategic decision making at a global level, which is rarely considered in approaches to sustainability.

Modeling the dynamics of energy markets has become a challenging task.

'The author leavens his discussion of a transition to a sustainable energy mix with the views of three prominent energy experts; following this is an introduction to aGoldilocks policy and a detailed discussion of its obstacles.

This book is an introduction to oil and gas designed to be both accessible to absolute beginners who know nothing about the subject, and at the same time interesting to people who work in one area (such as drilling or seismic exploration) and would like to know about other areas (such as production offshore, or how oil and gas were formed, or what can go wrong).

Most scientists now believe that carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are rapidly increasing, and that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels is a principal cause.

This book provides a concise but rigorous appraisal about the future of nuclear power and the presumed nuclear renaissance.

This easy-to-read book presents an elementary yet comprehensive introduction to modern energy economics.

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