Energy technology and engineering

The petroleum industry spends millions of dollars every year to combat the formation of hydrates-the solid, crystalline compounds that form from water and small molecules-that cause problems by plugging transmission lines and damaging equipment.

This book provides design methods for Digital Signal Processors and Application Specific Instruction set Processors, based on the author's extensive, industrial design experience.

Liquid loading can reduce production and shorten the lifecycle of a well costing a company millions in revenue.

"e;This book is fast becoming the standard text in its field"e;, wrote a reviewer in the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology soon after the first appearance of Dake's book.

Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, Second Edition is a comprehensive and current introduction to the upstream industry, drawing together the many inter-disciplinary links within the industry.

Combustion Engineering, a topic generally taught at the upper undergraduate and graduate level in most mechanical engineering programs, and many chemical engineering programs, is the study of rapid energy and mass transfer usually through the common physical phenomena of flame oxidation.

Advances in Ecological Research

Gasification is a process that if properly utilized can transform the world in which we live.

Dynamos is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on "e;Dynamos"e;.

This compendium of 29 chapters from 18 countries contains both fundamental and advanced insight into the inevitable shift from cities dominated by the fossil-fuel systems of the industrial age to a renewable-energy based urban development framework.

Fundamentals of Nuclear Reactor Physics offers a one-semester treatment of the essentials of how the fission nuclear reactor works, the various approaches to the design of reactors, and their safe and efficient operation .

Gas-Liquid And Liquid-Liquid Separators is practical guide designed to help engineers and operators develop a ?

Power Quality in Power Systems and Electrical Machines, Second Edition helps readers understand the causes and effects of power quality problems and provides techniques to mitigate these problems.

Scientist and engineers working in the field renewable energy must overcome the challenges of conversion, transmission and storage before it can replace more traditional power sources such as oil and gas.

The problem of removing water which is emulsified with produced oil has grown more widespread and often times more difficult as producers attempt to access more difficult reserves.

The third edition of Air and Gas Drilling Manual describes the basic simulation models for drilling deep wells with air or gas drilling fluids, gasified two-phase drilling fluids, and stable foam drilling fluids.

The IMS is the foundation architecture for the next generation of mobile phones, wireless-enabled PDAs, PCs, and the like.

Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells, Second Edition covers the optimization and integration of energy systems, with a particular focus on fuel cell technology.

Design, construct and utilize fuel systems using this comprehensive reference work.

Newnes has worked with Marty Brown, a leader in the field of power design to select the very best design-specific material from the Newnes portfolio.

Sealed Lead Acid.

This major reference book offers the professional engineer - and technician - a wealth of useful guidance on nearly every aspect of gas turbine design, installation, operation, maintenance and repair.

Control plays a very important role in all aspects of power plants and power systems.

The latest edition of this best-selling title is updated and expanded for easier use by engineers.

Ron DiPippo, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is a world-regarded geothermal expert.

Fuel cells are, according to some, the answer to the future problems of energy resources.

This book provides a comprehensive practical treatment of the modelling of electrical power systems, and the theory and practice of fault analysis of power systems covering detailed and advanced theories as well as modern industry practices.

This book includes a survey of all RFID fundamentals and practices in the first part of the book while the second part focuses on UHF passive technology.

This book will explain how to verify SoC (Systems on Chip) logic designs using "e;formal and "e;semiformal verification techniques.

Maintaining appropriate power systems and equipment expertise is necessary for a utility to support the reliability, availability, and quality of service goals demanded by energy consumers now and into the future.

This book on hydrocarbon exploration and production is the first volume in the series Developments in Petroleum Science.

The great strides made over the past decade in the complexity and network functionality of embedded systems have significantly enhanced their attractiveness for use in critical applications such as medical devices and military communications.

Fabless (no fabrication) IC (integrated circuit) techniques are growing rapidly and promise to become the standard method of IC manufacturing in the near future, this book will provide readers with what will soon be required knowledge of the subject.

A majority of people now have a digital mobile device whether it be a cell phone, laptop, or blackberry.

Hydrogen may someday fuel our cars and power and heat our homes and businesses and revolutionize the way we use energy.

This book provides an introduction to understanding combustion, the burning of a substance that produces heat and often light, in microgravity environments-i.

Small-scale gas turbines, known as Microturbines, represent an exciting new development in gas turbine technology.

The book provides the most up-to-date information on testing and development of hydroprocessing catalysts with the aim to improve performance of the conventional and modified catalysts as well as to develop novel catalytic formulations.

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In order to reduce the cost of running blast furnaces (BFs), injected pulverized coal is used rather than coke to fire BFs.

This book on well test analysis, and the use of advanced interpretation models is volume 3 in the series Handbook of Petroleum Exploration and Production.

The communications industry is at the onset of new expansion of WDM technology necessary to meet the new demand for bandwidth.

Wave energy, together with other renewable energy resources is expected to provide a small but significant proportion of future energy requirements without adding to pollution and global warming.

You get information needed to evaluate a reservoir, determine the particular requirements of the job, and design a storage facility that will operate at its full potential.

Biocatalysis in Oil Refining focuses on petroleum refining bioprocesses, establishing a connection between science and technology.

The United States accounts for 25% of the Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

The Thermoeconomics of Energy Conversions presents the developed methodologies that reveal the cost effectiveness of energy-resource-saving ideas design.

No fishing job is a welcome operation, but this new edition of a classic reference helps you do the job efficiently and economically.

Petroleum engineering now has its own true classic handbook that reflects the profession's status as a mature major engineering discipline.

Magnetic storms may cause damage to satellites, radiation hazard to astronauts, disruption of radio communications, and interruption of ground electric power lines.