Sustainable resource development / Gary M. Zatzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zatzman, Gary M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renewable energy sources.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (542 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Beverly, Mass. : Srivener Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""True sustainability"" is the line of engineering research and practice that is giving rise to a series of Scrivener textbooks, such as Khan & Islam's best-selling The Greening of Petroleum Operations. Making explicit reference to his own recently-published book in this series, Sustainable Energy Pricing, as the companion volume of this book, the author applies the principles of true economic sustainability developed there to re-examine actual engineering practices in fossil fuel and as well as alternative-energy (such as wind and tidal power) exploration and development.

Contents:

Sustainable Resource Development; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 A True Sustainability Criterion and Its Implications; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Importance of a Sustainability Criterion; 1.3 Criterion: The Switch that Determines Direction at a Bifurcation Point; 1.3.1 Some Applications of the Criterion; 1.4 Current Practices in Petroleum Engineering; 1.4.1 Problems of Current Operations; 1.4.2 Problems in Technological Development; 1.5 Development of a Sustainable Model; 1.6 Violation of Characteristic Time; 1.7 Analogies with Physical Phenomena

1.8 Intangible Cause to Tangible Consequence 1.9 Removable Discontinuities: Phases and Renewability of Materials; 1.10 Rebalancing Mass and Energy; 1.11 Holes in the Current Energy Model; 1.11.1 Supplementing the Mass Balance Equation; 1.12 Tools Needed for Sustainable Petroleum Operations; 1.13 Conditions of Sustainability; 1.14 Sustainability Indicators; 1.15 Assessing the Overall Performance of a Process; 2 ""Alternative"" and Conventional Energy Sources: Trail-Mix, Tom Mix or Global Mixup?; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Global Energy Scenario; 2.2.1 The Whole-Earth Catalog of All Energy Sources

2.2.2 The Catalog of Alternatives to Fossil Fuel 2.3 Solar Energy; 2.4 Hydroelectric Power; 2.5 Ocean Thermal, Wave and Tidal Energy; 2.6 Wind Energy; 2.7 Bioenergy; 2.8 Fuelwood; 2.9 Bioethanol; 2.10 Biodiesel; 2.11 Nuclear Power; 2.12 Geothermal Energy; 2.13 Hydrogen Energy; 2.14 Global Efficiency; 2.15 Solar Energy; 2.15.1 Solar Energy to Electricity Conversion; 2.15.1.1 PV Cells; 2.15.1.2 Battery Life-Cycle in Photovoltaic Systems; 2.15.1.3 Compact Fluorescent Lamp; 2.15.2 Global Efficiency of the Direct Application of Solar Energy

2.15.2.1 Global Efficiency of a Steam Power Plant to Cooling System 2.15.3 Combined-Cycle Technology; 2.15.4 Hydroelectricity to Electric Stove; 2.15.5 Global Efficiency of Biomass Energy; 2.15.6 Global Efficiency of Nuclear Power; 2.16 ""Global Warming""; 2.16.1 Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming; 2.16.2 Nuclear Energy and Global Warming; 2.17 Impact of Energy Technology and Policy; 2.18 Energy Demand in Emerging Economies; 2.19 Conventional Global Energy Model; 2.20 Renewable vs Non-renewable: Is There a Boundary?; 2.21 Knowledge-Enriched Global Energy Model; 2.22 Conclusions

3 Electricity and Sustainability 3.1 Electrical Power as the World's Premier Non-Primary Energy Source; 3.2 Consequences of the Ubiquity of Electric Power Services; 3.2.1 The R-D-R' Cycle; 3.2.2 Electrical Services as a Private Monopoly, in Light of the R-D-R' Cycle; 3.3 The Last Twenty Years of ""Electrical Services Reform"" in the United States; Document; Introduction; A. History of the U.S. Electric Power Industry, 1882-1991; Beginnings: 1882-1900; Era of Private Utilities: 1901-1932; Emergence of Federal Power: 1933-1950; 1933-1941; 1942-1950; Utility Prosperity: 1951-1970; The 1950's

The 1960's

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781118568859

1118568850

9781299190290

1299190294

9781118568866

1118568869

9781118568811

1118568818

OCLC:

823860238