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- Presents up-to-date estimates of fossil reserves and resources for coal, gas, and petroleum
- Covers recovery technologies for unconventional resources such as shale gas and shale oil, coal-to-liquids, gas-to-liquids, and natural gas hydrates
- Describes current developments aimed at improving efficiency and minimizing environmental impact, such as new designs for internal combustion engines and technologies for scrubbing emissions
- Reviews global developments in carbon capture and sequestration
- Provides an excellent introduction for those entering the field, as well as new insights for advanced researchers and industry experts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- CO2
- Coal Preparation
- Coal Reserves
- Coal to Liquids
- Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
- Fossil Energy Book
- Fossil Reserves
- Gas Reserves
- Gas to Liquid
- Internal Combustion Engines
- Mining Industry Sustainability
- Natural Gas
- Natural Gas Power
- Oil Sands Exploration
- Oil Shale Processing
- Petroleum Refining Environmental Effects
- Petroleum Reserves
- Pulverized Coal-fired Boilers Pollution Control
- quantitative geology
Editors and Affiliations
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Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Lab., SRI International, Menlo Park, USA
Ripudaman Malhotra
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fossil Energy
Book Subtitle: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
Editors: Ripudaman Malhotra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5722-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8536-1Published: 28 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5722-0Published: 12 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 634
Topics: Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Energy Systems, Quantitative Geology, Sustainable Development, Nature Conservation