Energy Resources and Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction

   Pages 1-22

3. Engineering Economics

   Pages 23-76

4. Units and Unit Conversions

   Pages 77-87

5. Thermodynamic Cycles

   Pages 89-140

6. Fundamentals of Heat Transfer

   Pages 141-157

7. Coal

   Pages 159-279

8. Natural Gas

   Pages 281-381

9. Petroleum

   Pages 383-451

10. Nuclear

    Pages 453-647

11. Hubbert Peak Theory

    Pages 649-676

12. Back Matter

    Pages 677-778

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In the lifetimes of the authors, the world and especially the United States have received three significant “wake-up calls” on energy production and consumption. The first of these occurred on October 15, 1973 when the Yom Kippur War began with an attack by Syria and Egypt on Israel. The United States and many western countries supported Israel. Because of the western support of Israel, several Arab oil exporting nations imposed an oil embargo on the west. These nations withheld five million barrels of oil per day. Other countries made up about one million barrels of oil per day but the net loss of four million barrels of oil production per day extended through March of 1974. This represented 7% of the free world’s (i. e. , excluding the USSR) oil production. In 1972 the price of crude oil was about $3. 00 per barrel and by the end of 1974 the price of oil had risen by a factor of 4 to over $12. 00. This resulted in one of the worst recessions in the post World War II era. As a result, there was a movement in the United States to become energy independent. At that time the United States imported about one third of its oil (about five million barrels per day). After the embargo was lifted, the world chose to ignore the “wake-up call” and went on with business as usual.

• Energy resources
• Energy systems
• Future energy sources
• Non-renewable energy
• natural gas
• petroleum
• renewable energy

From the reviews: “This work is the first in a planned three-volume series dealing with energy … . In this first volume, Ghosh and Prelas (both, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia) offer an outstanding consolidation of technical data and knowledge related to conventional energy sources and conversion systems. … This volume is ideally suited for the serious researcher interested in obtaining a thorough overview of conventional energy conversion systems. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.” (S. R. Walk, Choice, Vol. 47 (6), February, 2010)

• Nuclear Science & Engineering Institute, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, USA

  Tushar K. Ghosh, Mark A. Prelas

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