Energy industries and utilities

Electricity is the lifeblood of modern society, and for the vast majority of people that electricity is obtained from large, interconnected power grids.

The Indian Ocean is of tremendous geo-political and strategic relevance.

Nuclear Reactions explores the nuclear consensus that emerged in postWorld War II America, characterized by widespread support for a diplomatic and military strategy based on nuclear weapons and a vision of economic growth that welcomed nuclear energy both for the generation of electricity and for other peaceful and industrial uses.

High gas prices aren't the end of the world- but they may be the beginning of the end.

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The latest practical applications of electricity market equilibrium models in analyzing electricity markets Electricity market deregulation is driving the power energy production from a monopolistic structure into a competitive market environment.

Although valuable resources in river basins and other aqueous environments, sediments often receive much less attention from researchers, policymakers, and other professionals than other components of the ecosystem.

Quite a large number of major oil and gas projects are failures with respect to their costs, schedules, and operational performance.

This book includes concepts, methodologies, and techniques used in soil nutrients and irrigation water management with regional and global prospects.

Creating Freshwater Wetlands, Second Edition clearly demonstrates the step-by-step processes required to restore or create freshwater wetlands.

The greatest challenge facing humanity today is the transition to a more sustainable energy infrastructure while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

A novel, interdisciplinary account of the global politics of producing, financing, governing and mobilising energy system transformation.

In recent years, there have been emerging concerns regarding the fate and effects of pulp and paper mill effluents on the environment.

This book reveals key challenges to ensuring the secure and sustainable production and use of energy resources, and provides corresponding solutions.

The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower.

Existing and impending water shortages argue for improving water quantity and quality management.

Northeast India, apart from being the rainiest in India, is drained by two large river systems of the world - the Brahmaputra and the Barak (Meghna) - both transnational rivers cutting across bordering countries.

Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android investigates the threat conveyed and maintained by the nuclear cycle: mining, research, health, power generation and weaponry.

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The focus of the book is on how to use mass and heat balances to simulate and design biological wastewater treatment processes.

This book is devoted to CO2 capture and utilization (CCU) from a green, biotechnological and economic perspective, and presents the potential of, and the bottlenecks and breakthroughs in converting a stable molecule such as CO2 into specialty chemicals and materials or energy-rich compounds.

Advances and Technology Development in Greenhouse Gases: Emission, Capture and Conversion is a comprehensive seven-volume set of books that discusses the composition and properties of greenhouse gases, and introduces different sources of greenhouse gases emission and the relation between greenhouse gases and global warming.

This book provides an analysis of the concurrence of energy politics and global climate change.

The Science of Fluid Mechanics: Applications in Water and Wastewater Operations examines the intricacies of hydrology and hydraulic systems within the context of water and wastewater management.

This book presents an integrated theory of firms' strategies and two types of policies, namely environmental policies, and merger control policies.

For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.

Originally published in 1959, the author has observed at first hand the workings of public enterprise in Britain.

This book provides simplified models explaining flows in heterogeneous rocks, their physics and energy production processes, for researchers, energy industry professionals and graduate students.

This book examines existing mineral fiscal policies covering income taxation, royalties, free carried and participative (community and government) interests and also highlights the impacts of these policies on the feasibility of mineral projects as well as on revenue and other benefits to the State.

With the rapid increase of population, industrialization, urbanization, and the abuse of science and technology, environmental problems have showed an explosive development trend.

This book offers a new perspective about the Gulf Arab states entering a post-oil era by looking at the political factors behind the green transformation.

This book provides a basic understanding of waste management problems and issues faced by modern society.

Pollution of water sources with emerging contaminants (micropollutants) is a fact known worldwide.

Once a prosperous region, the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river basin-inhabited by about a tenth of the world's population-is currently one of the poorest.

This book answers the question: is Polish property tax legislation ready for the upcoming energy transformation?

Starting with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident, Oil Spill Impacts: Taxonomic and Ontological Approaches chronicles a timeline of events that focus on the impact of oil spills and provides an understanding of these incidents using a number of approaches.

This book systematically investigates the depositional process and reservoir characteristics of organic-rich shales, including (1) The types and development mechanisms of organic-rich shales under ancient ocean and climatic backgrounds.

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

This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa's resource curse.

Compact and practical, Spellman's Standard Handbook for Wastewater Operators: Volume III, Advanced Level, Second Edition rounds out the revision of this three-volume set.

The loss of water from lakes, rivers, oceans, vegetation, and the earth, as well as man-made structures such as reservoirs and irrigation conduits, is a major concern of hydrologists and irrigation specialists.

Waste management is a topical issue worldwide.

This second edition of Fundamentals of Open Channel Flow focuses on theory followed by clear, fully-solved examples, and practical computational tools such as spreadsheets and industry standard software.

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.

The Covid-19 pandemic is a repeating biophysical shock yet one for which our current socio-economic structure was not prepared.