Power Resources category: 2047 books
Renewable Heating and Cooling
Technologies and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Renewable Heating and Cooling: Technologies and Applications presents the latest information on the generation of heat for industry and domestic purposes, an area where a significant proportion of total energy is consumed. In Europe, this figure is estimated to be almost 50%, with the majority of...
Bioalcohol Production
Biochemical Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Bioethanol is one of the main biofuels currently used as a petroleum-substitute in transport applications. However, conflicts over food supply and land use have made its production and utilisation a controversial topic. Second generation bioalcohol production technology, based on (bio)chemical conversion...
Biofuels for Aviation
Feedstocks, Technology and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Biofuels for Aviation: Feedstocks, Technology and Implementation presents the issues surrounding the research and use of biofuels for aviation, such as policy, markets, certification and performance requirements, life cycle assessment, and the economic and technical barriers to their full implementation....
by Alireza Bahadori
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Thermal Insulation Handbook for the Oil and Gas Industries addresses relative design, materials, procedures, and standard installation necessities for various oil and gas infrastructure such as pipelines, subsea equipment, vessels, and tanks. With the continued increase in available natural gas ready...
Petrophysics
Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Petrophysics: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties, Fourth Edition provides users with tactics that will help them understand rock-fluid interaction, a fundamental step that is necessary for all reservoir engineers to grasp in order to achieve the highest...
Common Well Control Hazards
Identification and Countermeasures
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Heavily illustrated with 900 pictures of actual well control sites, Common Well Control Hazards: Identification and Countermeasures provides a visual representation of 177 common well control hazards and how to prevent or counteract them. The perfect companion for any engineer who needs to develop...
by Rabi Bastia, M. Radhakrishna
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
During the past 10 years, the Oil industry in India has seen a tremendous rise in exploration activity with several major E&P companies generating vast amount of new geological and geophysical data. The availability of such integrated data sets (gravity, magnetic, seismic, drilled wells), especially...
by L. Buryakovsky, Fred Aminzadeh, G.V. Chilingarian
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2001
In this information-packed volume, the authors present mathematical models and analyses for evaluating, assessing, and describing the petroleum geology of the oil-rich South Caspian Sea Basin, including eastern Azerbaijan and western Turkmenistan. Their mathematical models include descriptions of...
Lost Circulation
Mechanisms and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Lost Circulation: Mechanisms and Solutions provides the latest information on a long-existing problem for drilling and cementing engineers that can cause improper drilling conditions, safety risks, and annual losses of millions of wasted dollars for oil and gas companies.
While several conferences...
Big Barrels
African Oil and Gas and the Quest for Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Big Barrels takes aim at the perception that in Africa oil and gas can do no good.
For decades, resource wealth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been synonymous with corruption and dysfunction. The reality is far more complex and generally more encouraging.
In a series of eight case studies Big Barrels looks...
2012 Clean Energy Investments
Project Summaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This report summarizes the investments in clean energy made by the operations departments of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2012, condensing information from project databases and formal reports in an easy-to-reference format. This report was prepared by ADB's Clean Energy Program which provides...
2010 Clean Energy Investments
Project Summaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
This report summarizes the investments in clean energy made by the operations departments of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2010, condensing information from project databases and formal reports in an easy-to-reference format. This report was prepared by ADB's Clean Energy Program which provides...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Despite significant economic growth in Asia in recent decades, millions of people in rural Asia still lack access to electricity. A project has been implemented to develop small hybrid renewable energy systems in these areas. This publication highlights the experiences of these pilot projects in five...
The Energy of Nations
Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Systemic global risks of oil supply, climate shock and financial collapse threaten tomorrow's economies and mean businesses and policy makers face huge challenges in fuelling tomorrow’s world.
Jeremy Leggett gives a personal testimony of the dangers often ignored and incompletely understood...