Environmentally Conscious Fossil Energy Production

Myer Kutz

John Wiley & Sons

2020

354 páginas

11h 48m

ISBN-13: 9780470233016

Inglês

Best practices for mitigating environmental damage fromconventional power generation This volume of the Wiley Series in Environmentally ConsciousEngineering, Environmentally Conscious Fossil EnergyProduction, seeks to provide new solutions to one of the grandchallenges of this century: supplying energy to a growingpopulation while reducing environmental pollution and greenhousegas emissions. The first five chapters cover extraction andtransport of fossil fuels; the last four chapters cover powerplants. An international roster of contributors, from the UnitedStates, Canada, and the Middle East, deals with the wide variety ofchallenges posed by converting oil, natural gas, and coal toenergy. Chapters include: Environmentally Conscious Petroleum Engineering Carbon Management and Hydrogen Requirements in Oil Sands Environmentally Conscious Coal Mining Maritime Oil Transport and Pollution Prevention Accidental Oil Spills Behavior and Control Geological Sequestration of Greenhouse Gases Clean Coal Technology: Gasification Pathway An Integrated Approach for Carbon Mitigation in the ElectricPower Generation Sector Energy and Exergy Analyses of Natural Gas Fired Combined CyclePower Generation Systems Turn to all of the books in the Wiley Series inEnvironmentally Conscious Engineering for the mostcutting-edge, environmentally friendly engineering practices andtechnologies.