Power Resources category: 2047 books
by Wenyuan Li
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
The book is composed of 12 chapters and three appendices, and can be divided into four parts. The first part includes Chapters 2 to 7, which discuss the concepts, models, methods and data in probabilistic transmission planning. The second part, Chapters 8 to 11, addresses four essential issues in...
by Phil Andrews, Jim Playfoot
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Volume 1: Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry: Case Studies in Partnership and Collaboration highlights, for the first time, 8 powerful case studies in which universities, colleges and training providers are working with oil companies to produce capable, competent people.
This...
Shale Oil and Gas Handbook
Theory, Technologies, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Shale Oil and Gas Handbook: Theory, Technologies, and Challenges provides users with information on how shale oil and gas exploration has revolutionized today’s energy industry. As activity has boomed and job growth continues to increase, training in this area for new and experienced engineers is...
by Phil Andrews, Jim Playfoot
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Volume 2 of the Getenergy Guides series explores the challenges of developing a technically competent workforce for the oil and gas sector globally. The cases in this Volume explore practical examples of the efforts of oil and gas companies, contractors, educational institutions and governments to...
Systemic Design Methodologies for Electrical Energy Systems
Analysis, Synthesis and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This book proposes systemic design methodologies applied to electrical energy systems, in particular analysis and system management, modeling and sizing tools.
It includes 8 chapters: after an introduction to the systemic approach (history, basics & fundamental issues, index terms) for designing...
Bittersweet Sands
Twenty-Four Days in Fort McMurray
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Rick Ranson has collected stories from all over North America, from the DEW Line and the drill ships of Working North to the raging waters of the Mississippi in Paddling South. Now, join this engaging raconteur as he ventures to one of Canada’s most talked-about locations: Fort McMurray, home of...
Cars and Carbon
Automobiles and European Climate Policy in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
This volume contains articles from leading analysts and researchers on sustainable transportation, who provide critical reflections on how automobile-related climate policies have evolved up to now in Europe and around the world, in view of the widely recognized need to substantially curb global emissions...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book focusses on the challenges and changes organizational management faces in an era when the need to develop environmentally aware processes meets high levels of competition. It covers the synergetic effects, how re-use, recycling, waste reduction, and other sustainable production strategies...
by Lewis Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Energy policy is a mess: a tangle of interconnected problems stirred by competing political agendas. Whether it’s soaring fuel prices, noxious pollution, climate worries, security risks, or threats to the economy and jobs, energy politics are vexed by the tendency of single-issue solutions to make...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The Biomass Program is one of the 11 technology development programs within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. This Multi-Year Program Plan (MYPP) sets forth the goals and structure of the Biomass Program. It identifies the research, development,...
Logistics Management
Products, Actors, Technology - Proceedings of the German Academic Association for Business Research, Bremen, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This book gathers papers presented at the Logistik-Management-Konferenz 2013, which was organized by the VHB Wissenschaftliche Kommission Logistik and held in Bremen, Germany. The papers reflect the current state-of-the-art in logistics and supply chain management, focusing on environmental sustainability...
Green Manufacturing
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Green Manufacturing: Fundamentals and Applications introduces the basic definitions and issues surrounding green manufacturing at the process,machine and system (including supply chain) levels. It also shows, by way of several examples from different industry sectors, the potential for substantial...
TV Format Mogul
Reg Grundy’s Transnational Career
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Since the late 1990s, when broadcasters began adapting such television shows as Big Brother, Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for markets around the world, the global television industry has been struggling to get to grips with the prevalence of programme franchising across international...
Service Network Design of Bike Sharing Systems
Analysis and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This monograph presents a tactical planning approach for service network design in metropolitan areas. Designing the service network requires the suitable aggregation of demand data as well as the anticipation of operational relocation decisions. To this end, an integrated approach of data analysis...