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Droege P.

100 per cent renewable

Energy autonomy in action

This inspiring book has been long overdue. It tackles an essential question for human survival in the 21st century: will we be able to transform our lives, businesses, buildings, settlements and the transport networks connecting them from [...]

Droege P.

100 per cent renewable

Energy autonomy in action

The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power. Our massive dependence on fossil fuels has upset the very climatic system that made human evolution possible. The global economy and its [...]

Hewitt Crane

Edwin Kinderman

Ripudaman Malhotra

A cubic mile of oil

Realities and options for averting the looming global energy crisis

One cubic mile of oil (CMO) corresponds very closely to the world's current total annual consumption of crude oil. The world's total annual energy consumption - from all energy sources- is currently 3.0 CMO. By the middle of this century the world [...]

Walsh M.

Lake L.

A generalized approach to primary hydrocarbon recovery

Handbook of petroleum exploration and production

This reservoir-engineering textbook is a contemporary analysis of primary recovery. It covers rock and fluid properties, reservoir energies, surface separation, laboratory PVT methods, material balance, fluid flow, well deliverability, water influx, [...]

Sorensen B.

A history of energy

Northern Europe from the stone age to the present day

In this seminal book, Bent Sørensen views human society as driven by the quest for, and control of, energy. From allowing our prehistoric ancestors to survive harsh northern European winters to more recent global energy security and climate [...]

Ghose N.

Chatterjee N.

A petrographic atlas of ophiolite

An example from the eastern India-Asia collision zone

The book is a thoughtful discussion with scientists studying convergent plate boundaries such as the well-known, active India-Eurasia collision zone. It provides a comprehensive collection of petrographic images of ophiolitic rocks exhumed from [...]

Matthews C.

A quick guide to API 653 certified storage tank inspector syllabus

Example questions and worked answers

reviews one of API's three main ICPs: API 653: Certified storage tank inspector - discusses key definitions and scope, inspection regimes and testing techniques relating to tank design, linings, welds, protection systems, repair and alteration - [...]

Wu Y.

Carroll J. J.

Acid gas injection and related technologies

Large producers have started to use gas injection for their applications and in the future it is predicted that this trend will increase. This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of this technique, which is rapidly increasing in [...]

Lemos J. M.

Neves-Silva R.

Igreja J. M.

Adaptive control of solar energy collector systems

This book describes methods for adaptive control of distributed-collector solar fields: plants that collect solar energy and deliver it in thermal form. Controller design methods are presented that can overcome difficulties found in these type of [...]

Lee J. W.

Advanced biofuels and bioproducts

Designed as a text not only for students and researchers, but anyone interested in green technology, Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts offers the reader a vast overview of the state-of-the-art in renewable energies. The typical chapter sets out to [...]