Can 'green petroleum’ reverse global warming and bring down high gasoline prices? Written in non-technical language for the layperson, this book investigates and details how the oil and gas industry can 'go green’ with new processes and technologies, thus bringing the world’s most important industry closer to environmental and economic sustainability.
This book unravels the mysteries of the current energy crisis and argues that solutions to global warming will come only from the development of new technologies. Discussed here are the reasons why petroleum operations, as they are now, are not sustainable; how each practice treads an inherently implosive path; and how each spells irreversible damage to the planet’s ecosystem. Fossil fuel consumption is not the culprit; rather, the practices involved, from exploration to refining and processing, are responsible for the current damage to the environment.
Spis treści
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: From the Pharaonic Age to the Information Age: Have
We Progressed in Technology Development Skills?
Chapter 3: How long has this 'technological
disaster’ been in the making? Delinearized History of
Civilization and Technology Development
Chapter 4: Is Modern Science Capable of Discerning Between True
and False?
Chapter 5: Fundamentals of Mass and Energy Balance
Chapter 6: A True Sustainability Criterion and Its
Implications
Chapter 7: What is Truly Green Energy?
Chapter 8: Good Light and Bad Light
Chapter 9: Do You Believe in Global Warming?
Chapter 10: Is the 3R’s mantra sufficient?
Chapter 11: Truly Green Refining and Gas Processing
Chapter 12: Greening of Flow Operations
Chapter 13: The Greening of Enhanced Oil Recovery
Chapter 14: Deconstruction of Engineering Myths Prevalent in the
Energy Sector
Chapter 15: Conclusions
References
O autorze
M. R. Islam is Professor of Petroleum Engineering in the
Civil and Resource Engineering Department at Dalhousie University,
Canada. He has over 700 publications to his credit, including six
books, and is on the editorial boards of several scholarly
journals. In addition to his teaching duties, he is also Director
of Emertec Research and Development Ltd. and has been on the boards
of a number of companies in North America and overseas.
M. M. Khan was recently a lecturer in chemical
engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and
Technology, before moving to Canada. He has written a dozen papers
and coauthored a book on zero-waste engineering and sustainable
technology.
A. B. Chhetri is a Carbon and Energy Analyst with Golder
Associates Ltd. in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where he
delivers consulting services in carbon and energy management. He
has over twelve years of experience in energy development and
management.
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