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Environmental Management of Energy from Biofuels and Biofeedstocks
By James G. Speight and Kamel Singh
Copyright: 2014   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
The most comprehensive and thorough volume on the environmental aspects of energy from biofuels and biofeedstocks.


 
Electromagnetic Well Logging
Models for MWD/LWD Interpretation and Tool Design
By Wilson C. Chin
Copyright: 2014   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
Mathematically rigorous, computationally fast, and easy to use, this new approach to electromagnetic well logging does not bear the limitations of existing methods and gives the reservoir engineer a new dimension to MWD/LWD interpretation and tool design.


 
Measurement While Drilling
Signal Analysis, Optimization and Design
By Wilson C. Chin, Yinao Su, Limin Sheng, Lin Li, Hailong Bian and Rong Shi
Copyright: 2014   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
The only book explaining modern MWD technology, to include hardware design, signal processing and telemetry, offering unique approaches to high-data-rate well logging.


 
Gas Injection for Disposal and Enhanced Recovery
Edited by Ying Wu, John J. Carroll, and Qi Li
Copyright: 2014   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
This fourth volume in the series, Advances in Natural Gas Engineering, offers the most in-depth and up-to-date treatment of the disposal and enhanced recovery of natural gas.


 
Wave Propagation in Drilling, Well Logging and Reservoir Applications
By Wilson C. Chin
Copyright: 2014   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
The only book providing validated math models for drillstring vibrations, swab-surge, mud pulse telemetry, seismic ray tracing, ocean wave loading and borehole geophysics, a must for every petroleum engineer, researcher and software developer!


 
Oil Spill Risk Management
Modeling Gulf of Mexico Circulation and Oil Dispersal
By David E. Dietrich, Malcolm J. Bowman, Konstantin A. Korotenko, and Hamish M. E. Bowman
Copyright: 2014   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
This book describes and applies state-of-the-art software designed to help balance cost and profit estimates against risk in the petrochemical industry using oil extracted from ocean bottom deposits.


 
The Economic Competitiveness of Renewable Energy
A Rules of Thumb Approach for Scientists, Engineers, and Policy Makers
By Winfried Hoffmann
Copyright: 2013   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
The book lays out the economics and science of renewable energy and argues that the costs will continue to fall dramatically so that adoption is no longer a leap of faith but is financally feasible.


 
Sustainable Resource Development
By Gary G. Zatzman
Copyright: 2013   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
Taking a new, fresh look at how the energy industry and we, as a planet, are developing our energy resources, this book looks at what is right and wrong about energy resource development, aiding engineers and scientists in achieving a true sustainability in this field, both from an economic and environmental perspective.


 
Troubleshooting Vacuum Systems
Steam Turbine Surface Condensers
and Refinery Vacuum Towers

By Norman P. Lieberman
Copyright: 2013   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
Vacuum towers and condensing steam turbines require effective vacuum systems for efficient operation, and this text describes in easy to understand language, without reference to complex mathematics, how vacuum systems work, what can go wrong, and how to make field observations to pinpoint the particular malfunction causing poor vacuum.


 
Industrial Gas Flaring Practices
By Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff
Copyright: 2013   |   Status: Published   |   Expected Pub Date:March 2013   |   Hardcover
 
With the consequences of the world's gas flaring practices only just beginning to be understood or even studied, this volume is the first in decades to tackle a very difficult hot-button issue for our time that could significantly reduce CO2 emissions and affect global warming.


 
Coal-Fired Power Generation Handbook
By James G. Speight
Copyright: 2013   |   Status: Published   |   Expected Pub Date:March 2013   |   Hardcover
 
The most complete and up-to-date handbook on power generation from coal, this book covers all of today’s new, cleaner methods for creating electricity from coal, the environmental challenges and concerns involved in its production, and developing technologies.


 
Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion
Edited by Vikas Mittal
Copyright: 2013   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
One of the first comprehensive books to focus on the role polymers is playing in the burgeoning energy materials market.


 
Fracking
The Operations and Environmental Consequences of Hydraulic Fracturing
By Michael D. Holloway and Oliver Rudd
Copyright: 2013   |   Status: Published   |   Expected Pub Date:May 2013   |   Hardcover
 
This book explores the history, techniques, and materials used in the practice of induced hydraulic fracturing, one of the hottest and most contested issues of today, for the production of natural gas, while examining the environmental and economic impact.


 
The Fundamentals of the Petrophysics of Oil and Gas Reservoirs
By Leonid Buryakovsky, George V. Chilingar, Herman H. Rieke, and Sanghee Shin
Copyright: 2012   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
Written by some of the world's most renowned petroleum and environmental engineers, this volume is the first book to offer the practicing engineer and engineering student these new cutting-edge techniques for prediction and forecasting in petroleum engineering and environmental management.


 
Biogas Production
Pretreatment Methods in Anaerobic Digestion
Edited by Ackmez Mudhoo
Copyright: 2012   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
This volume covers the most cutting-edge pretreatment processes being used and studied today for the production of biogas during anaerobic digestion processes using different feedstocks, in the most efficient and economical methods possible.


 
Green Petroleum
How Oil and Gas Can Be Environmentally Sustainable
By M.R. Islam, M.M. Khan, and A.B. Chhetri
Copyright: 2012   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
Can "green petroleum" reverse global warming and bring down high gasoline prices? Written in non-technical language for the layperson, this book investigates and details how the oil and gas industry can "go green"� with new processes and technologies, thus bringing the world's most important industry closer to environmental and economic sustainability.


 
Time to Shine
Applications of Solar Energy Technology
By Michael Grupp
Copyright: 2012   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
The perfect primer for the engineer, scientist, and layperson alike, for learning about the practical applications of solar energy technology and how it is being used today to heat homes, light city streets, and provide power worldwide. As solar energy becomes increasingly more important in all of our lives, it is more important to learn how it works and how it can be implemented.


 
Corrosion Chemistry
By Volkan Cicek and Bayan Al-Numan
Copyright: 2012   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
This timely volume covers the state-of-the art in corrosion chemistry today, for use in industrial applications and as a textbook.


 
Bioremediation of Petroleum and Petroleum Products
By James G. Speight and Karuna Arjoon
Copyright: 2012   |   Status: Published   |   Expected Pub Date:September 2012   |   Hardcover
 
With petroleum-related spills, explosions, and health issues in the headlines almost every day, the issue of remediation of petroleum and petroleum products is taking on increasing importance, for the survival of our environment, our planet, and our future.


 
Mechanics of Fluid Flow
By Kaplan S. Basniev, Nikolay M. Dmitriev, and George V. Chilingar
Copyright: 2012   |   Status: Published   |   Expected Pub Date:September 2012   |   Hardcover
 
The mechanics of fluid flow is one of the most important fundamental engineering disciplines explaining both natural phenomena and human-induced processes. A group of some of the best-known petroleum engineers in the world give a thorough understanding of this important discipline, central to the operations of the oil and gas industry.


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