Author: Grossman, G. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: These volumes of Proceedings are the record of the 1999 ISES Solar World Congress, held in Jerusalem, Israel on the 45th Anniversary of the International Solar Energy Society. The Congress was held u...
Author: Learning Directory, Open Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: * Clear and concise, information is analysed and presented in both a resource-by-resource and country-by-country approach * Comprehensive, the outlook for seventeen energy resources including all maj...
Author: Ishii, K. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In order to reduce the cost of running blast furnaces (BFs), injected pulverized coal is used rather than coke to fire BFs. As a result of this, unburned fine materials are blown with the gas into th...
Author: Renpu, Wan Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Once a natural gas or oil well is drilled, and it has been verified that commercially viable, it must be "completed" to allow for the flow of petroleum or natural gas out of the formation and up to th...
Author: Zhao, Tim Publisher: Elsevier Science Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fuel cells have been recognized to be destined to form the cornerstone of energy technologies in the twenty-first century. The rapid advances in fuel cell system development have left current informat...
Author: Li, Chun - Zhu Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Over the past decade, extensive research has been conducted on the subject of coal as one of the world's leading energy sources. The current and future status of this resource is a topic of considerab...
Author: N/A Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Scientific terms are defined in context; Identical dramatic four-color covers (back cover color band identifies books that are the lower level); Teacher's Guides with reproducible activities allow stu...
Author: Bazilian, Morgan Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is an ideal volume for professionals in academia, industry and government interested in the rapidly evolving area at the nexus between energy and climate change policy. The cutting-edge internati...
Author: Guo, PhD, Boyun / Liu, Gefei Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Used to clean the borehole, stabilize rock, control pressures, or enhance drilling rates, drilling fluids and their circulation systems are used in all phases of a drilling operation. These systems ar...
Author: Sims, Ralph E.H. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bioenergy Options for a Cleaner Environment describes the biomass resource and its delivery. A panel of international experts describe the range of conversion technologies both commercially available ...
Description: Hydrogen is an almost ideal fuel and its wider use will result in an improvement in the environment due to factors including decreased air pollution. Hydrogen is the element of greatest abundance in t...
Author: Thomas, David Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Over the past decade, the prospect of climate change resulting from anthropogenic CO2 has become a matter of growing public concern. Not only is the reduction of CO2 emissions extremely important, but...
Author: Samaras, Constantine / Drezner, Jeffrey A. / Willis, Henry H. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: To determine whether the industrial base for the U.S. domestic coal-based electricity generation industry can maintain the capability to design, construct, operate, and maintain coal-fired electricity...
Author: Samaras, Constantine / Drezner, Jeffrey A. / Willis, Henry H. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: To determine whether the industrial base for the U.S. domestic coal-based electricity generation industry can maintain the capability to design, construct, operate, and maintain coal-fired electricity...
Author: Marketos, Thrassy N. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: China's need for energy has become a driving factor in contemporary world politics and a precondition for sustaining China's continuing high economic growth. This book argues that a US presence in Cen...
Author: Wang, H.H. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This authoritative book on China's oil demand and government policies and practices rests on two essential foundations: first and foremost on the author's considerable knowledge of China's oil situati...
Author: Miller, Bruce Publisher: Academic Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Coal is the most abundant fossil fuel in the world. There is approximately twice as much recoverable coal in the world as there is oil and natural gas combined. The US has over 200 years of coal reser...
Author: Pajares, J.A. / Tascón, J.M.D. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume contains papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Coal Science, held in Oviedo, Spain, September 10-15, 1995. Volume I contains papers dealing with Fundamentals and General ...
Author: Roy, Gabriel Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Chemical propulsion comprises the science and technology of using chemical reactions of any kind to create thrust and thereby propel a vehicle or object to a desired acceleration and speed. This book...
Author: Caenn, Ryen / Darley, HCH / Gray, George R. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The petroleum industry in general has been dominated by engineers and production specialists. The upstream segment of the industry is dominated by drilling/completion engineers. Usually, neither ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Concise Encyclopedia of the History of Energy draws together in a single volume a comprehensive account of the field from the prestigious and award-winning Encyclopedia of Energy (2004). This...
Author: Kiesling, L. Lynne Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book delves into regulatory and technological change affecting the electricity industry and provides a previously unexplored synthesis of new institutional economics, experimental economics, evol...
Author: Cutler, J. Cleveland Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Written by the editor of The Encyclopedia of Energy, Cutler Cleveland, this dictionary gives professionals across the multi-disciplinary field of energy a tool to better communicate on energy matters ...
Author: Popov, Alexander / Pushak, Nataliya Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This study examines the question of private versus public performance in a natural monopoly setting. It analyzes data from 301 utilities with private sector participation (PSP) and 926 utilities witho...
Author: Soliman, S.A. Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Succinct and understandable, this book is a step-by-step guide to the mathematics and construction of Electrical Load Forecasting models. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on the subject,...
Author: Lund, Tom Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Energy is a treasure to be intelligently managed and developed. The modern world thrives on energy. Indeed, it has become a necessary part of our existence for heating, cooking, transportation, commun...
Author: Smil, Vaclav Publisher: AEI Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There are many misconceptions about the future of global energy often presented as fact by the media, politicians, business leaders, activists, and even scientists-wasting time and money and hampering...
Author: O'Sullivan, Kyran, / Barnes, Douglas, F. Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) is a global technical assistance program that promotes the role of energy in poverty reduction and economic growth with redistribution. ESMAP u...
Author: Parker, Russ Publisher: Rosen Central Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a fascinating book on how our world needs energy, and how future power from the sun, wind,water, plants, and atoms will provide our energy needs in the 21st century and beyond.
Author: Chorafas, Dimitris N. Publisher: Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dimitris Chorafas reviews Europe, America and Asia's energy needs in the coming decade, pointing out that current policies are inadequate at best, and more likely disastrous for the economy. Governmen...
Author: Midttun, A. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The electricity generation and supply industry is undergoing rapid changes in the 1990s. As demands for economic power continue to increase, governments throughout Europe are contemplating a reformati...
Author: Cory, William Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The practical reference book and guide to fans, ventilation and ancillary equipment with a comprehensive buyers' guide to worldwide manufacturers and suppliers. Bill Cory, well-known throughout the fa...
Author: Tordo, Silvana Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although host governments and investors may share one common objective - the desire for projects to generate high levels off revenue - their other goals are not entirely aligned. Host governments aim ...
Author: Lapeyrouse, Norton J. / Lyons, Ph.D., P.E., William C. / Carter, Thomas Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A quick reference for day-to-day work out on the rig or a handy study guide for drilling and well control certification courses, Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production and Workover has ser...
Author: Stewart, Maurice / Arnold, Ken Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Raw natural gas typically contains a substantial amount of water, which can degrade heating value and contribute to the formation of corrosion in piping and other equipment. Under certain conditions, ...
Author: Boyce, Meherwan P. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Written by one of the field's most well known experts, the Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook has long been the standard for engineers involved in the design, selection, maintenance and operation of gas...
Author: Grant, Malcolm Alister / Bixley, Paul F Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As nations alike struggle to diversify and secure their power portfolios, geothermal energy, the essentially limitless heat emanating from the earth itself, is being harnessed at an unprecedented rate...
Author: Solomon, Joan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This work considers the different meanings of energy and its effects upon language and personality. It highlights, through a range of practical examples, the difficulties of teaching the concept of "e...
Author: Fusaro, Peter C. / Yuen, Marion Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The United States accounts for 25% of the Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. To keep pace with growing electricity demands, the U.S and developing countries are turning more to coal-fired generat...
Author: Kaya, Yoichi Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Climate change is an issue that is highly debated around the globe. This book brings together the papers that were presented at a conference dedicated to this issue, held in Kyoto in October 2002. Co...
Author: Singhal, S.C. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The growing interest in fuel cells as a sustainable source of energy is pulling with it the need for new books which provide comprehensive and practical information on specific types of fuel cell and ...
Author: Sorensen (Sorensen), Bent Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A hydrogen economy, in which this one gas provides the source of all energy needs, is often touted as the long-term solution to the environmental and security problems associated with fossil fuels. Ho...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The vast majority of the world's climate scientists believe that the build-up of heat-trapping CO2 in the atmosphere will lead to global warming unless we burn less fossil fuels. At the same time, ene...
Author: Fanchi, John Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: All too often, senior reservoir managers have found that their junior staff lack an adequate understanding of reservoir management techniques and best practices needed to optimize the development of o...
Author: Schobert, H.H. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Providing a comprehensive survey of the origin, the fundamental properties, and the technology of utilization of the lignites of North America, this book will be of particular interest to professional...
