Skip to main content
Search Button

Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“merv fingas”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “merv fingas”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup

    by Merv Fingas ...
    Reflecting the rapid progress in cleanup technology since the previous edition, this revised and expanded fourth edition of The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup covers current cleanup techniques, how oil spills are measured and detected, and the properties of the oil, and its long-term fate in the environment. It also deals with why, how often, and where oil spills occur as well as the chemical ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • In-Situ Burning for Oil Spill Countermeasures

    by Merv Fingas ...
    Shelving Guide: Environmental EngineeringIn-situ burning is recognized as a viable alternative for cleaning up oil spills on land and water. It can rapidly reduce the volume of spilled oil and eliminate the need to collect, store, transport, and dispose of recovered oil, and can also shorten the response time to a spill, thus reducing the chances that the spill will spread on the water surface or ... Read more

    $345.99 CAD

  • Above Ground Storage Tank Oil Spills

    Applications and Case Studies

    Edited by Merv Fingas ...
    Supply of oil and gas continues to increase as well as natural events such as hurricanes, while engineers and safety managers are not well trained on storage tank engineering and leak detection, one of the most vulnerable and least studied components of oil and gas storage equipment. Above Ground Storage Tank Oil and Chemical Spills gives engineers and researchers a training guide on tank design, ... Read more

    $194.39 CAD

  • Survey of Chemical Spill Countermeasures

    Edited by Jennifer Charles, Merv Fingas, P.G. Langille, L.B. Solsberg ...
    Until now, information regarding chemical spill clean-up was available only through manufacturer's literature from an individual firm, or scattered in the traditional textbooks on remediation engineering and hazardous waste management. Survey of Chemical Spill Countermeasures provides a one-stop source of information on how to clean up spill sites in safe, acceptable ways. Because of the ever ... Read more

    $331.99 CAD

  • Oil Spill Science and Technology

    Edited by Merv Fingas ...
    Oil Spill Science and Technology, Third Edition delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properties and behaviors to remote sensing through the management side of contingency planning and communicating oil spill risk perceptions. This new edition compiles information on oil spills from a scientific point of view and with new case studies and ... Read more

    $243.19 CAD

  • Handbook of Oil Spill Science and Technology

    Edited by Merv Fingas ...
    Provides a scientific basis for the cleanup and for the assessment of oil spillsEnables Non-scientific officers to understand the science they use on a daily basisMulti-disciplinary approach covering fields as diverse as biology, microbiology, chemistry, physics, oceanography and toxicologyCovers the science of oil spills from risk analysis to cleanup and through the effects on the ... Read more

    $185.99 CAD

  • Oil Spill Science and Technology

    Edited by Merv Fingas ...
    Oil Spill Science and Technology, Second Edition, delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properties and behaviors, to remote sensing through the management side of contingency planning and communicating oil spill risk perceptions. Completely new case studies are included with special attention to the Deepwater Horizon event, covering the impacts ... Read more

    $220.79 CAD

  • Oil Spill Science and Technology

    Edited by Merv Fingas ...
    The National Academy of Sciences estimate that 1.7 to 8.8 million tons of oil are released into world's water every year, of which more than 70% is directly related to human activities. The effects of these spills are all too apparent: dead wildlife, oil covered marshlands and contaminated water chief among them. This reference will provide scientists, engineers and practitioners with the latest ... Read more

    $185.59 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Techno-Economic Challenges of Green Ammonia as an Energy Vector

    by Agustin Valera-Medina, Rene Banares-Alcantara ...
    Techno-Economic Challenges of Green Ammonia as an Energy Vector presents the fundamentals, techno-economic challenges, applications, and state-of-the-art research in using green ammonia as a route toward the hydrogen economy. This book presents practical implications and case studies of a great variety of methods to recover stored energy from ammonia and use it for power, along with transport and ... Read more

    $132.79 CAD

  • Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids

    by Ryen Caenn, HCH Darley, George R. Gray ...
    The petroleum industry in general has been dominated by engineers and production specialists. The upstream segment of the industry is dominated by drilling/completion engineers. Usually, neither of those disciplines have a great deal of training in the chemistry aspects of drilling and completing a well prior to its going on production. The chemistry of drilling fluids and completion fluids have a ... Read more

    $159.19 CAD

  • The Petroleum Engineering Handbook

    Sustainable Operations

    by M.R. Islam, M.I. Khan ...
    This is the first book in the petroleum sector that sheds light on the real obstacles to sustainable development and provides solutions to each problem encountered. Each solution is complete with an economic analysis that clarifies why petroleum operations can continue with even greater profit than before while ensuring that the negative environmental impact is diminished. The new screening tools ... Read more

    $172.79 CAD

  • Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

    Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control

    by Frank Lees ...
    Over the last three decades the process industries have grown very rapidly, with corresponding increases in the quantities of hazardous materials in process, storage or transport. Plants have become larger and are often situated in or close to densely populated areas. Increased hazard of loss of life or property is continually highlighted with incidents such as Flixborough, Bhopal, Chernobyl, ... Read more

    $701.59 CAD