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  • Fuel Flexible Energy Generation

    Solid, Liquid and Gaseous Fuels

    Edited by John Oakey ...
    Fuel Flexible Energy Generation: Solid, Liquid and Gaseous Fuels provides updated information on flexible fuel energy generation, the process by which one or more fuels can be combusted in the same boiler or turbine to generate power. By adapting or building boilers and turbines to accept multiple fuel sources, they can be co-fired with biomass and waste derived fuels, allowing a reduction in ... Read more

    $207.99 CAD

  • Power Plant Life Management and Performance Improvement

    Edited by John E Oakey ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
    Coal- and gas-based power plants currently supply the largest proportion of the world's power generation capacity, and are required to operate to increasingly stringent environmental standards. Higher temperature combustion is therefore being adopted to improve plant efficiency and to maintain net power output given the energy penalty that integration of advanced emissions control systems cause. ... Read more

    $278.99 CAD

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    ExxonMobil and American Power

    by Steve Coll ...
    **“ExxonMobil has met its match in Coll, an elegant writer and dogged reporter . . . extraordinary . . . monumental.” —The Washington Post“Fascinating . . . Private Empire is a book meticulously prepared as if for trial . . . a compelling and elucidatory work.” —BloombergFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, an extraordinary exposé of Big Oil. ... Read more

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  • The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

    by Alex Epstein ...
    Could everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong?For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better.How can this be?The explanation, energy expert Alex Epstein ... Read more

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  • The Curve of Binding Energy

    A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor

    by John McPhee ...
    Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and shows us how close we are to terrorist attacks employing homemade nuclear weaponry. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Liquefied Natural Gas

    by Saeid Mokhatab, John Y. Mak, Jaleel V. Valappil, David A. Wood ...
    Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a commercially attractive phase of the commodity that facilitates the efficient handling and transportation of natural gas around the world. The LNG industry, using technologies proven over decades of development, continues to expand its markets, diversify its supply chains and increase its share of the global natural gas trade. The Handbook of Liquefied Natural Gas ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Nuclear Energy

    An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes

    by Raymond L. Murray, Keith E. Holbert ...
    Nuclear Energy is one of the most popular texts ever published on basic nuclear physics, systems, and applications of nuclear energy. This newest edition continues the tradition of offering a holistic treatment of everything the undergraduate engineering student needs to know in a clear and accessible way. The book presents a comprehensive overview of radioactivity, radiation protection, nuclear ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field Chemicals and Fluids

    by Johannes Fink ...
    The oil and gas engineer on the job requires knowing all the available oil field chemicals and fluid applications that are applicable to the operation. Updated with the newest technology and available products, Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field Chemicals and Fluids, Second Edition, delivers all the necessary lists of chemicals by use, their basic components, benefits, and environmental ... Read more

    $155.99 CAD

  • Guide to the Practical Use of Chemicals in Refineries and Pipelines

    by Johannes Karl Fink ...
    Guide to Practical Use of Chemicals in Refineries and Pipelines delivers a well-rounded collection of content, references, and patents to show all the practical chemical choices available for refinery and pipeline usage, along with their purposes, benefits, and general characteristics. Covering the full spectrum of downstream operations, this reference solves the many problems that engineers and ... Read more

    $132.99 CAD

  • Remembering AEE Winfrith

    A Technological Moment in Time

    by Peter Fry ...
    This history of the Atomic Energy Establishment at Winfrith covers the entire timeline of the project, from its planning and inception through to the shutting down of the last reactor and the decommissioning of the site. Winfrith was one of the innovative solutions engineered to solve a nation’s growing energy concerns. With several experimental reactor designs, the installation was crucial in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Water-Based Chemicals and Technology for Drilling, Completion, and Workover Fluids

    by Johannes Fink ...
    Oil and gas engineers today use three main factors in deciding drilling fluids: cost, performance, and environmental impact, making water-based products a much more attractive option. Water-Based Chemicals and Technology for Drilling, Completion, and Workover Fluids effectively delivers all the background and infrastructure needed for an oil and gas engineer to utilize more water-based products ... Read more

    $106.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Nuclear Energy

    Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era

    Edited by Behnam Taebi, Sabine Roeser ...
    Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international team of scholars focusing on the key issues ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD