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Greening of Petroleum Operations : the Science of Sustainable Energy Production.
This state-of-the-art text covers some of the most hot-button issues in the energy industry, covering new, greener processes for engineers, scientists, and students to move petroleum operations closer to sustainability. Petroleum is still the world's most diverse, efficient, and abundant energy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Greening of Petroleum Operations; Contents; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 A Delinearized History of Civilization and the Science of Matter and Energy; 3 Fundamentals of Mass and Energy Balance; 4 A True Sustainability Criterion and Its Implications; 5 Scientific Characterization of Global Energy Sources; 6 Scientific Characterization of Light and Light Sources; 7 The Science of Global Warming; 8 Diverging Fates of Sustainable and Unsustainable Products; 9 Scientific Difference Between Sustainable and Unsustainable Processes; 10 Comparison of Various Energy Production Schemes.
- 11 The Zero-Waste Concept and its Application to Petroleum Engineering12 Sustainable Refining and Gas Processing; 13 Flow Assurance in Petroleum Fluids; 14 Sustainable Enhanced Oil Recovery; 15 The Knowledge Economics; 16 Deconstruction of Engineering Myths Prevalent in the Energy Sector; 17 Greening of Petroleum Operations; 18 Conclusion; Appendix 1 Origin of Atomic Theory as Viewed by the European Scientists; Appendix 2 Nobel Prize in Physics (2008) given for discovering breakdown of symmetry; References and Bibliography; Index.