1. Edition - January 2010
119.- Euro
2010. 368 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-23301-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-23301-6 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
Part of the Wiley's Environmentally Conscious Engineering series, Environmentally Conscious Fossil Energy Production, the seventh volume, provides environmental and economic impacts of conventional power generation technologies. This volume focuses on making conventional energy production systems more efficient and environmentally friendly. This book covers design optimization, cost reduction, and quality improvement while meeting environmental standards and regulations, as well as topics like environmental control in oil and gas exploration, onshore production, and more. With case studies from diverse industries, this resource provides guidance to practitioners interested in this field of study.

From the contents
Contributors.

Preface.

1 Environmentally Conscious Petroleum Engineering (M. Rafiqul Awal).

2 Carbon Management and Hydrogen Requirements in Oil Sands Operations (Ali Elkamel, J. Guillermo Ordorica-Garcia, Peter Douglas, and Eric Croiset).

3 Environmentally Conscious Coal Mining (R. Larry Grayson).

4 Maritime Oil Transport and Pollution Prevention (Sabah A. Abdul-Wahab).

5 Accidental Oil Spills Behavior and Control (M. R. Riazi).

6 Geological Sequestration of Greenhouse Gases (Ahmed Shafeen and Terry Carter).

7 Clean-Coal Technology: Gasification Pathway (J. Guillermo Ordorica-Garcia, Ali Elkamel, Peter L. Douglas, and Eric Croiset).

8 An Integrated Approach for Carbon Mitigation in the Electric Power Generation Sector (Ali Elkamel, Haslenda Hashim, Peter L. Douglas, and Eric Croiset).

9 Energy and Exergy Analyses of Natural Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Power Generation Systems (K. Mohammed and B. V. Reddy).

Index.