The greening of petroleum operations

The Future of Petroleum Operations This state-of-the-art text analyzes some of the most contentious issues in the energy industry, covering new and greener processes for engineers and scientists and urging them to move petroleum operations closer to sustainability. Although petroleum is still the wo...

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Main Author: Islam, Rafiqul, 1959-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Chhetri, A. B, Khan, M. M
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Salem, Mass. : Scrivener, c2010
Salem, Mass. : c2010
Series:THEi Wiley ebooks
Wiley-Scrivener
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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
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520 |a The Future of Petroleum Operations This state-of-the-art text analyzes some of the most contentious issues in the energy industry, covering new and greener processes for engineers and scientists and urging them to move petroleum operations closer to sustainability. Although petroleum is still the world's most diverse, efficient, and abundant energy source, there is a growing initiative from global political and industry leaders to ""go green,"" because of climate concerns and high gasoline prices. This book investigates and details how to do that. This groundbreaking new volume: 
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