Energy category: 1670 books
Analysis and Control of Oilwell Drilling Vibrations
A Time-Delay Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
This book reports the results of exhaustive research work on modeling and control of vertical oil well drilling systems. It is focused on the analysis of the system-dynamic response and the elimination of the most damaging drill string vibration modes affecting overall perforation performance: stick-slip...
by Jebraeel Gholinezhad, John Senam Fianu, Mohamed Galal Hassan
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This book addresses the problems involved in the modelling and simulation of shale gas reservoirs, and details recent advances in the field. It discusses various modelling and simulation challenges, such as the complexity of fracture networks, adsorption phenomena, non-Darcy flow, and natural fracture...
Gas Hydrates 2
Geoscience Issues and Potential Industrial Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Gas hydrates in their natural environment and for potential industrial applications (Volume 2).
ICIPEG 2016
Proceedings of the International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book presents the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences 2016 (ICIPEG 2016), held under the banner of World Engineering, Science & Technology Congress (ESTCON 2016) at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from August 15 to 17, 2016. It...
Shale Analytics
Data-Driven Analytics in Unconventional Resources
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This book describes the application of modern information technology to reservoir modeling and well management in shale. While covering Shale Analytics, it focuses on reservoir modeling and production management of shale plays, since conventional reservoir and production modeling techniques do not...
by Fadi Henri Nader
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This book is both a review and a look to the future, highlighting challenges for better predicting quantitatively the impact of diagenesis on reservoir rocks. Classical diagenesis studies make use of a wide range of descriptive analytical techniques to explain specific, relatively time-framed fluid-rock...
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Fusion
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book provides readers with an introductory understanding of Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC), a type of fusion meant to retain plasma using an electrostatic field. IEC provides a unique approach for plasma confinement, as it offers a number of spin-off applications, such as a small neutron...
by Randall F. Barron, Gregory F. Nellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Cryogenic Heat Transfer, Second Edition continues to address specific heat transfer problems that occur in the cryogenic temperature range where there are distinct differences from conventional heat transfer problems. This updated version examines the use of computer-aided design in cryogenic engineering...
by Subhajit Ganguly
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Over some years now, a large part of the energies of the scientific community has been employed solely for finding a theory that will fit in all known happenings of the physical world. Various groups of scientists have tried to attack the problem from different ends. Some of these theories have been...
Geothermics
Heat Flow in the Lithosphere
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive and modern treatment on the background knowledge of heat transfer processes in the lithosphere. In the light of the success of the first edition, several chapters of the book have been revised and the book has been enriched with a new chapter...
by Glenn E Sjoden
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Foundations in Applied Nuclear Engineering Analysis (2nd Edition) covers a fast-paced one semester course to address concepts of modeling in mathematics, engineering analysis, and computational problem solving needed in subjects such as radiation interactions, heat transfer, reactor physics, radiation...
by Janet Amber
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Thank you for your interest in this booklet. The "...The Basics" series, is a series of booklets designed to help you get the basics or foundations about a subject. Time is one of our most precious resources and as such it does not comeback, for that reason the Amber siblings have created...
by E.H. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book presents the fundamental principles of drilling en gineering, with the primary objective of making a good well using data that can be properly evaluated through geology, reservoir engineering, and management. It is written to assist the geologist, drilling engineer, reservoir engineer,...
Neutron Fluctuations
A Treatise on the Physics of Branching Processes
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
The transport of neutrons in a multiplying system is an area of branching processes with a clear formalism. Neutron Fluctuations presents an account of the mathematical tools used in describing branching processes, which are then used to derive a large number of properties of the neutron distribution...