Автор: Appel Hannah, Mason Arthur, Watts Michael Название: Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas ISBN: 0801453445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801453441 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16302.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."—Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs
The scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of quantity, output, and price. As an industry typified by concentrated economic and political power, its operations are obscured by secrecy and security. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that the social sciences typically approach oil as a metonym—of modernity, money, geopolitics, violence, corruption, curse, ur-commodity—rather than considering the daily life of the industry itself and of the hydrocarbons around which it is built.
Subterranean Estates gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars and experts to instead provide a critical topography of the hydrocarbon industry, understood not solely as an assemblage of corporate forms but rather as an expansive and porous network of laborers and technologies, representation and expertise, and the ways of life oil and gas produce at points of extraction, production, marketing, consumption, and combustion. By accounting for oil as empirical and experiential, the contributors begin to demystify a commodity too often given almost demiurgic power.
Subterranean Estates shifts critical attention away from an exclusive focus on global oil firms toward often overlooked aspects of the industry, including insurance, finance, law, and the role of consultants and community organizations. Based on ethnographic research from around the world (Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Oman, the United States, Ecuador, Chad, the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Canada, Iran, and Russia), and featuring a photoessay on the lived experiences of those who inhabit a universe populated by oil rigs, pipelines, and gas flares, this innovative volume provides a new perspective on the material, symbolic, cultural, and social meanings of this multidimensional world.
Автор: Thomson George Название: Renewable Energy Resources ISBN: 1682863352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682863350 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 25264.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides a detailed study on renewable energy resources covering the full range of renewable energy technologies and their implementations. Renewable energy mitigates pollution and climate changes. These benefits are analyzed and illustrated with case studies and examples in this text. The book includes reviews of methods and techniques for applications of renewable energy such as electrical power, etc. The chapters included herein have undergone a tremendous reviewing process and aims to serve as valuable reference for graduates, researchers and professionals.
Автор: DORRAJ/DORRAJ/MITROV Название: Global impact of unconventional energy resources / ISBN: 1498566073 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498566070 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 23021.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume presents the reader with a comprehensive account of the development of shale oil and gas reserves globally. This study provides a comparative perspective that enables readers to situate the unique US experience in a broader global context and appreciate the limitations of reproducing it elsewhere in the immediate future.
Описание: A comprehensive overview of photoelectrochemical water splitting, from theoretical aspects to systems analysis, for the energy research community.
Описание: Modelling Distributed Energy Resources in Energy Service Networks focuses on modelling two key infrastructures in urban energy systems with embedded technologies. These infrastructures are natural gas and electricity networks and the embedded technologies include cogeneration and electric vehicle devices. The subject is addressed using a holistic modelling framework which serves as a means to an end; this end being to optimize in a coordinated manner the operation of natural gas and electrical infrastructures under the presence of distributed energy resources, thus paving the way in which smartgrids should be managed.
The modelling approach developed and presented in this book, under the name "time coordinated optimal power flow" (TCOPF), functions as a decision maker entity that aggregates and coordinates the available DERs according to multiple criteria such as energy prices and utility conditions. In addition, the book contains an innovative methodology of representing the temporal and spatial elements of electric vehicle mobility via agent based modelling. This representation is used to better portray how electric vehicles will influence power flows in electrical networks.
Engineers will value the easy to understand and detailed representation of old and new energy systems via mathematical equations that will allow them to develop and study their own scenarios of future energy systems.
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