Energy industries and utilities

Many standard industrial waste treatment texts sufficiently address a few major technologies for conventional in-plant environmental control strategies in the food industry.

The 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP), a cooperative research and development partnership formed by four federal agencies with 15 industrial partners, was launched in the year 2000 with high hopes that it would dramatically advance the technologies used in trucks and buses, yielding a cleaner, safer, more efficient generation of vehicles.

Agrochemicals and agricultural practices have a tremendous impact on environmental quality, particularly their role in water quality degradation.

Many countries have the capacity to construct nuclear weapons - even relatively poor and small ones, as the North Korean example shows us.

The term "e;emerging contaminants"e; and its multiple variants has come to refer to unregulated compounds discovered in the environment that are also found to represent a potential threat to human and ecological receptors.

This study investigates how an increase in the price of petroleum and natural gas would alter commodity prices in Ontario, and then estimates the effects on production and employment.

This book examines how the on-paper hydropower boom impacts the safe and fair access to water and energy in emerging economies.

Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems examines the effects of global climate change on intensively constructed or reconstructed ecosystems, focusing on land use changes in relation to forestry, agriculture, and wetlands including peatlands.

This book discusses the balance of priorities within the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus and its impact on policy development and implementation, highlighting innovative perspectives in adopting a holistic approach to identify, analyse and manage the nexus component interdependencies.

The tropical zones are dominated by developing countries, which mainly face problematic environmental issues.

The choices people make about drinking water reveal deeper lessons about trust in government and civic life.

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

Water management in industrialised western countries has long been seen as a technical process associated with pipes, drains and bureaucracies.

As certain oil and gas provinces near the end of their production lives, companies, governments and other stakeholders are turning their attention to decommissioning.

An original look from a microeconomic perspective for power system optimization and its application to electricity markets Presents a new and systematic viewpoint for power system optimization inspired by microeconomics and game theory A timely and important advanced reference with the fast growth of smart grids Professor Chen is a pioneer of applying experimental economics to the electricity market trading mechanism, and this work brings together the latest research A companion website is available Edit

Examines critical links between local content requirements and the application of sustainable development treaties in global energy markets.

The impacts of human-induced climate change are largely mediated by water, such as alterations in precipitation and glacial melt patterns, variations in river flow, increased occurrence of droughts and floods, and sea level rise in densely populated coastal areas.

Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps offers both professionals and students a concise reference detailing the design, performance, and principles of operation of the different pumps types defined by the Hydraulic Institute.

This book examines how current energy and water management processes affect Indigenous communities in North America, with a specific focus on Canada.

This book focuses on understanding Earth's geology, its mineral resources, their exploration, and management of the environment.

Mathematical techniques for trading and risk management.

This book examines the role played by business in urban water governance by analyzing the evolution of the global private water sector along with four public-private partnerships in Mexico and the U.

Marine resources and fish stocks are now high on the international and economic research agendas, and the management of highly complex marine ecosystems is increasingly important.

The world as we have known it for the past century would have been very different without petroleum.

The development of technology in the emergency sanitation sector has not been emphasised sufficiently considering that the management of human excreta is a basic requirement for every person.

Invasive non-native species are a major threat to global biodiversity.

This book intends to be an alert to the fact that the curve measuring environmental costs against the economic benefits of capitalism has irreversibly entered into a negative phase.

Sludge treatment and disposal used to be considered part of water and wastewater treatment, rather than a separate subject, but is now seen as an independent field of study, research and development.

This important book-the only complete, one-stop manual on microirrigation worldwide--offers knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system.

Is the world running out of oil?

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.

Get the latest on rapidly evolving global electricity markets direct from the scholars andthought leaders who are shaping reform.

This book explores the many dimensions of water quality problems in different parts of the globe, with focus on problems of governance, from legal frameworks to social discourses and compensation measures.

This book focuses on the evaluation, coordination, and effects of China's natural resource utilization.

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

Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Detection Algorithms (SARADA) for Oil Spills conveys the pivotal tool required to fully comprehend the advanced algorithms in radar monitoring and detection of oil spills, particularly quantum computing and algorithms as a keystone to comprehending theories and algorithms behind radar imaging and detection of marine pollution.

Advanced Bioseparation of Industrial Wastes: Sustainable Recovery of High-Value Metal Ions examines resource recovery from a variety of industrial waste streams, including sludge and wastewater, with an emphasis on both the fundamentals and the more advanced concepts involved.

Nowadays the environmental sustainability of the cropping systems is increasingly requested by the consumers.

The central challenge for Arizona and many other arid regions in the world is keeping a sustainable water supply in the face of rapid population growth and other competing demands.

Water Quality Data emphasizes the interpretation of a water analysis or a group of analyses, with major applications on ground-water pollution or contaminant transport.

Petrocinema presents a collection of essays concerning the close relationship between the oil industry and modern media-especially film.

Despite the growing demand for design strategies to reduce our petroleum use, no one has yet brought together the lessons of the world's leading post-petroleum designers into a single resource.

A compendium of current knowledge about conventional and alternative sources of energy.

In 2000, various UN organizations launched a collaborative effort to assess the vulnerability of groundwater in several African cities.

The challenges in Russia's energy sector are changing.

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

Forested wetlands are a major component of northern landscapes, important both for their ecological functions and their socioeconomic values.