Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. The definitive guide to petroleum hydrocarbon fuel spill and leak causes, prevention, response, and cost recovery
Oil Spills and Gas Leaks highlights the complex nature of petroleum hydrocarbon fuel extraction methods, the unintended consequences when disasters occur, spill behavior, and environmental impact mitigation. This practical resource discusses engineering techniques; long-term biological and environmental effects; dealing with insurance claims, litigation, and legislation in overlapping jurisdictions; and much more. Featuring global case studies and best practices, this timely volumeprovides an in-depth understanding of how oil spills and gas leaks occur and describes the most effective environmental assessment, remediation, and restoration options available to respond to these industrial accidents.
COVERAGE INCLUDES:
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<li>The role of petroleum hydrocarbon fuels in society</li>
<li>Geology and geochemistry of oil and gas deposits</li>
<li>Oil and gas well drilling and production issues</li>
<li>Behavior of oil spills in various environments</li>
<li>Behavior of gas leaks in various environments</li>
<li>Assessment of spills and leaks</li>
<li>Toxicity issues and exposure pathways</li>
<li>Subsurface investigations</li>
<li>Sampling strategies and remedial approaches</li>
<li>Sampling methods on land and offshore</li>
<li>Prevention, oversight, and mitigation</li>
<li>Remediation of oil spills</li>
<li>Case histories and cost recovery</li>
<li>Oil spills and wildlife</li>
<li>Oil spills and safety issues</li>
<li>Conclusions and recommendations</li>
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Oil Spills and Gas Leaks: Environmental Response, Prevention and Cost Recovery

Science & Math

Jacobs, James A.

Testa, Stephen M.

Earth Sciences

McGraw=Hill

This exceptionally readable reference offers current and cutting edge information on “materials.” —Knowledge that can simplify and make living more enjoyable for people who maintain households, and purchase such life necessities as automobiles and houses. It helps create informed and intelligent consumers who know how to care for and maintain the things they purchase, and maintain the only place we have to live, namely this earth—which is running out of its natural raw materials and is being polluted with the products of our technological world. Chapter topics include engineering materials technology; nature and family of materials; processing and structure of solid materials; and properties, degradation, failure, and selection of materials. These subjects cover metallic, polymeric, ceramic, and composite materials. For anyone who works and/or lives with materials.

Engineering Materials Technology: Structures, Processing, Properties and Selection (4th Edition)

Engineering & Transportation

Jacobs, James

Kilduff, Thomas F.

Engineering

Pearson College Div

Engineering Materials Technology continues to cover basic concepts in materials science, engineering and technology dealing with traditional as well as advanced materials.In addition to coverage of metals, polymers, ceramics and composites, the book offers introductions to emerging technologies such as micro/nano technology, environmentally friendly processes and products, smart and morphing materials and trends in surface science and engineering. Industrial and apprentice trainers.

Engineering Materials Technology

The unique design of this book provides many helpful features for a sound and proven approach to learning about modern materials science and technology. Interesting case studies, applications, and illustrations, with numerous sample problems and activities, have been provided to facilitate the learning process. The book's extensive index and handy tables qualifies it as a useful "ready reference," on the job or elsewhere. You will learn about engineering materials and many associated topics through an integrated approach centering around innovative trends in design and manufacturing that often focus on environmentally friendly processes and products. Special strategies and clear explanations clarify the relationships among the major facets of materials technology.

Engineering Materials Technology: Structure, Processing, Properties & Selection

PRENTICE/HALL

Provides the tools needed to analyze and solve acid drainage problems Featuring contributions from leading experts in science and engineering, this book explores the complex biogeochemistry of acid mine drainage, rock drainage, and acid sulfate soils. It describes how to predict, prevent, and remediate the environmental impact of acid drainage and the oxidation of sulfides, offering the latest sampling and analytical methods. Moreover, readers will discover new approaches for recovering valuable resources from acid mine drainage, including bioleaching. Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage, and Acid Sulfate Soils reviews the most current findings in the field, offering new insights into the underlying causes as well as new tools to minimize the harm of acid drainage: <ul>
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Part I: Causes of Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage and Sulfate Soils focuses on the biogeochemistry of acid drainage in different environments.</li> <li>
Part II: Assessment of Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage and Sulfate Soils covers stream characterization, aquatic and biological sampling, evaluation of aquatic resources, and some unusual aspects of sulfide oxidation.</li> <li>
Part III: Prediction and Prevention of Acid Drainage discusses acid-base accounting, kinetic testing, block modeling, petrology, and mineralogy studies. It also explains relevant policy and regulations.</li> <li>
Part IV: Remediation of Acid Drainage, Rock Drainage and Sulfate Soils examines both passive and active cleanup methods to remediate acid drainage.</li> </ul>
Case studies from a variety of geologic settings highlight various approaches to analyzing and solving acid drainage problems. Replete with helpful appendices and an extensive list of web resources, Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage, and Acid Sulfate Soils is recommended for mining engineers and scientists, regulatory officials, environmental scientists, land developers, and students.

Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage, and Acid Sulfate Soils: Causes, Assessment, Prediction, Prevention, and Remediation

Lehr, Jay H.

wiley

During the quarter century between 1945 and 1970, Americans crafted a new manner of living that shaped and reshaped how residential builders designed and marketed millions of detached single-family suburban houses. The modest two- and three-bedroom houses built immediately following the war gave way to larger and more sophisticated houses shaped by casual living, which stressed a family's easy sociability and material comfort and were a major element in the cohesion of a greatly expanded middle class. These dwellings became the basic building blocks of explosive suburban growth during the postwar period, luring families to the metropolitan periphery from both crowded urban centers and the rural hinterlands. 
 Detached America is the first book with a national scope to explore the design and marketing of postwar houses. James A. Jacobs shows how these houses physically document national trends in domestic space and record a remarkably uniform spatial evolution that can be traced throughout the country. Favorable government policies, along with such widely available print media as trade journals, home design magazines, and newspapers, permitted builders to establish a strong national presence and to make a more standardized product available to prospective buyers everywhere. This vast and long-lived collaboration between government and business―fueled by millions of homeowners―established the financial mechanisms, consumer framework, domestic ideologies, and architectural precedents that permanently altered the geographic and demographic landscape of the nation.

Detached America: Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia (Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design)

History

Americas

University of Virginia Press

A guide to environmental and communication issues related to fracking and the best approach to protect communities Environmental Considerations Associated with Hydraulic Fracturing Operations offers a much-needed resource that explores the complex challenges of fracking by providing an understanding of the environmental and communication issues that are inherent with hydraulic fracturing. The book balances the current scientific knowledge with the uncertainty and risks associated with hydraulic fracking. In addition, the authors offer targeted approaches for helping to keep communities safe. The authors include an overview of the historical development of hydraulic fracturing and the technology currently employed. The book also explores the risk, prevention, and mitigation factors that are associated with fracturing. The authors also include legal cases, regulatory issues, and data on the cost of recovery. The volume presents audit checklists for gathering critical information and documentation to support the reliability of the current environmental conditions related to fracking operations and the impact fracking can have on a community. This vital resource: <ul>
<li>Contains the technical information and mitigation recommendations for safety and environmental issues related to hydraulic fracturing</li> <li>Offers an historical overview of conventional and unconventional oil and gas drilling</li> <li>Explains the geologic and technical issues associated with fracking of tight sand and shale formulations</li> <li>Presents numerous case studies from the United States EPA and other agencies</li> <li>Discusses issues of co-produced waste water and induced seismicity from the injection of wastewater</li> </ul>
Written for environmental scientists, geologists, engineers, regulators, city planners, attorneys, foresters, wildlife biologists, and others, Environmental Considerations Associated with Hydraulic Fracturing Operations offers a comprehensive resource to the complex environmental and communication issues related to fracking.

Environmental Considerations Associated with Hydraulic Fracturing Operations: Adjusting to the Shale Revolution in a Green World

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Oil Spills and Gas Leaks: Environmental Response, Prevention and Cost Recovery

Engineering Materials Technology: Structures, Processing, Properties and Selection (4th Edition)

Engineering Materials Technology

Engineering Materials Technology: Structure, Processing, Properties & Selection

Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage, and Acid Sulfate Soils: Causes, Assessment, Prediction, Prevention, and Remediation

Detached America: Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia (Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design)

Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage, and Acid Sulfate Soils: Causes, Assessment, Prediction, Prevention, and Remediation

Environmental Considerations Associated with Hydraulic Fracturing Operations: Adjusting to the Shale Revolution in a Green World