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The Science of Sustainable Energy Production
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By
M. Rafiqul Islam
Arjun Bahadur Chhetri
Description
This book unravels the mysteries of current energy crisis and argues that solutions to global warming will come only from knowledge-based
technology development. Discussed here are the reasons why petroleum operations 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, this book
explains; instead, the practices involved from exploration to refining and processing are responsible for the current damage to the environment.
Critiquing current practices, while necessary, is insufficient. Therefore, this book focuses on long-term solutions that should "green"
all of the petroleum industry's practices, from management style to upstream to downstream. The discussion here follows two recently
developed theories: the theories of inherent sustainability, and of knowledge-based characterization of energy sources. Together they
show why current practices are fundamentally flawed and why new proposals to salvage efficiencies offer little hope for remedying the
situation.
From a scientific approach, this book approaches global warming and its apparent relationship with petroleum operations,
and provides detailed analysis of greenhouse gas emission ranging from pre-industrial and industrial ages to the golden petroleum era.
A newly developed theory is included which shows that carbon dioxides from some sources do not contribute to global warming. Here – for
the first time – carbon dioxide is characterized based on various criteria such as the origin, the path it travels, isotope numbers and
age of the fuel source from which it is emitted.
This book offers unique solutions to overcome major obstacles by developing genuinely
green technologies that satisfy the new sustainability criteria, are highly efficient, and produce zero waste. Various energy technologies
are ranked based on their global efficiency in this book, and it also compares petroleum operations with other energy development technologies,
including solar and biofuel energy systems.
Audience
Production/Process Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Petroleum Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Operation Managers, Resource Managers, Policy makers, Risk Analysts, Students
Contents
1. Introduction
2. History
i. Pre-industrial age
ii. Industrial age
iii. The petroleum golden era
- Refining for automobiles
-
Synthetic plastics
- chemical revolution
- synthetic crude
3. The current status
a. Greenhouse gas emissions from industrial activities
b. Greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles
c. Greenhouse gas from biosources
4. Classification of carbon dioxide
a. Current theories
b. Role of pathways
c. A new theory for classification of CO2
d. History matching of CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere
5. Long-term
impact of various energy systems
i. CO2 emission during combustion of oil and gas
ii. CO2 emission during combustion of coal
iii. CO2
emission during combustion of Hydro energy generation
iv. CO2 emission during Nuclear energy generation
v. CO2 emission during Photovoltaic
energy generation
vi. CO2 emission during Solar direct usage
vii. CO2 emission during Geothermal energy usage
viii. CO2 emission during
combustion of Biomass
ix. Comprehensive modeling of global warming under various energy production scenarios
6. Characterization energy
sources
a. Current status
b. A new criterion
c. Combustion
i. Wood
ii. Coal
iii. Petroleum fluids
iv. Synthetic fuel
d. Electricity generation
i. Photovoltaic
ii. Wind
iii. Geothermal
iv. Hydro
v. Combustion
vi. Nuclear
e. Fuel cell
i. Alkaline
ii. Ni-Cd
iii. Emerging materials
iv. Hydrogen
7. Current practices in the petroleum industry and their long-term effects
a. Management
b. Exploration
c. Drilling
d.
Production
e. Transportation
f. Refining and Processing
g. Decommissioning
h. Waste management
8. True sustainability criteria
9. Sustainable
practices and their principal features
a. Management
b. Exploration
c. Drilling
d. Production
e. Transportation
f. Refining and Processing
g. Decommissioning
h. Waste management
10. Economic evaluations of the alternate practices
a. Conventional analysis
b. Knowledge economics
11. Zero-waste energy systems
a. Global efficiency
b. Case studies
c. Direct usage of crude oil for combustion applications
d. High
efficiency jet engines
e. Value addition of by-products
12. Conclusions
| Bibliographic details |
e-Book, 500 pages, publication date: AUG-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-095189-8
Imprint: WILLIAM ANDREW
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