Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century

Editor / Author : Ian Hore-Lacy
 
Publisher : Academic Press; 1 edition (September 22, 2006)

ISBN : 978-0123736222

Number of Pages :  167
 
File Type : PDF

The onset of the 21st century has coincided with mounting scientific evidence of the severe environmental impact of global energy consumption. In response, governments and environmentalists on every continent have begun to re-evaluate the benefits of nuclear power as a clean, non-emitting energy resource. Today nuclear power plants operate in some 30 countries, and nuclear energy has become a safe and reliable source of one-sixth of the world's electricity. This base has the potential to be expanded widely as part of a worldwide clean-energy revolution. 

Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century is an authoritative resource for educators, students, policy-makers and interested lay-people. This balanced and accessible text provides:

* An inroad into nuclear science for the non-specialist
* A valuable account of many aspects of nuclear technology, including industry applications
* Answers to public concerns about safety, proliferation, and waste management
* Up-to-date data and references 

This edition comes with a Foreword by Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, which attests to today's worldwide re-evaluation of nuclear power.

The World Nuclear University (WNU) is a global partnership of industry, inter-governmental, and academic institutions committed to enhancing education in nuclear science and technology. WNU partners include the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the OECD, and the World Nuclear Association (WNA). With a secretariat staffed by government-sponsored secondees, the London-based WNU Coordinating Centre fosters a diversity of collaborative projects to strengthen nuclear education and rebuild future leadership in nuclear science and technology.

· Global in perspective and rich in data
· Draws on the intellectual resources of the World Nuclear Association
· Includes Physics of uranium; uranium enrichment; waste management
· Provides technical perspective with an understanding of environmental issues

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Nuclear Systems II - Elements of Thermal Hydraulic Design

Editor / Author : Neil E. Todreas and Mujid S. Kazimi
 
Publisher : Taylor & Francis (September 1990)

ISBN : 978-1560320791

Number of Pages :  505
 
File Type : PDF

This book can serve as a textbook for two to three courses at the advanced undergraduate and the graduate student level. It is also suitable as a basis for continuing education of engineers in the nuclear power industry, who wish to expand their knowledge of the principles of thermal analysis of nuclear systems. The book, in fact, was an outgrowth of the course notes used for teaching several classes at MIT over a period of nearly 15 years.
 

The book is meant to cover more than thermal hydraulic design and analysis of the core of a nuclear reactor. Thus, in several parts and examples, other components of the nuclear power plant such as the pressurizer, the containment and the entire primary coolant system are addressed. In this respect the book reflects the importance of such considerations in thermal engineering of a modern nuclear power plant. The traditional concentration on the fuel elementdesign in earlier textbooks was appropriate when the fuel performance had a higher share of the cost of electricity than in modern plants. The cost of the nuclear electricity proved to be more influenced by the steam supply system and the containment building than previously anticipated.

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Nuclear Systems I - Thermal Hydraulic Fundamentals

Editor / Author : Neil E. Todreas and Mujid S. Kazimi
 
Publisher : Taylor & Francis; 2 edition (Dec 1 1989)

ISBN : 978-1560320517

Number of Pages :  720
 
File Type : PDF

Much material in this book originated from lectures developed at MIT by Professor Manson Benedict with Professor Thomas Pigford for a subject in Nuclear Reactor Engineering and by Professors Warren Rohsenow and Peter Griffith for a subject in Boiling Heat Transfer and Two-Phase Flow . We have had many years of pleasant association with these men as their students and colleagues and owe a great deal of gratitude to them for introducing us to the subject material . The development of the book has benefited from the discussion and comments provided by many of our colleagues and students . In particular Professor George Yadigaroglu participated in th; early stage of this work in defining the scope and depth of topics to be covered.

Most of the figures in this book were prepared by a number of students using a microcomputer under the able direction of Alex Sich . Many others have participated in the typing of the manuscript. We offer our warmest thanks to Gail Jacobson , Paula Cornelio and Elizabeth Parmelee for overseeing preparation of major portions of the finaL text.

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Enhanced Oil Recovery

Editor / Author : F. John Fayers
 
Publisher : Elsevier Science (September , 1981)

ISBN : 0-444-42033-9

Number of Pages :  596
 
File Type : PDF

This residential symposium is the third in the series of symposia which have been held on the subject of enhanced oil recovery ir, the United Kingdom; the other two being held a t Britannic House of BP in London in May 1977, and at Heriot-Watt University i n Edinburgh in July 1978.

Since 1977, when the first symposium was held i n London, the annual production and the number of fields in operation in the UK sector of the North Sea has roughly doubled and it is perhaps righttore - it erate the remarks of the Chairman of the organising committee of the first meeting. He said that , "There i s an urgent need to decide which enhanced oil recovery techniques are suitable for use in the North Sea. Once this decision is made, the select ed R&D goals should be vigorously pursued, leading, hopefully, to the development of specific tailor-made techniques effective in the individual fields in the North Sea area".

Although these remarks are still valid today, in the inter - vening period throughout Europe significant progress has been made. W e have seen an increase in the number of pilot f ield experiments undertaken by the oil industry, an increase i n the research work carriedout at universities , research institutes and oil company laboratories. A number of Government programmes have been initiated or expanded. Against th s background of an increased R&D activity , some significant , albeittentative , steps in the application of enhanced o i l recovery offshore have been taken.

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Fundamentals of Fractured Reservoir Engineering

Editor / Author : T.D.Van Golf-Racht
 
Publisher : Elsevier Science Ltd (April 1982)

ISBN : 978-0444420466

Number of Pages :  728
 
File Type : PDF

The history of fractured reservoirs is probably as long as the history of petroleum itself. During the Los Angeles Panel Discussion on Fractured Reservoirs (March 1952) Levorsen mentioned that the notion “fractured porosity” was introduced only two years after Drake’s discovery in 186 l by the geologist E.B. Andrews who wrote that if fractures are numerous along the anticline axis it represents the primary cause of an accumulation, and also that a law of proportionality was observed between the oil produced and the amount of fissures. But it was only in the early nineteen fifties, with the important discoveries in the Spraberry trend of West Texas and giant fields in the Middle East that an increasing interest for this type of fields started. In continuation in the late fifties, but especially in the last two decades, various concepts have been developed in various areas such as geology, reservoir description, flow toward the well, reservoir mechanisms, etc. But the studies and papers published in the literature presented single problems in a limited area and unrelated to a global concept of fractured reservoirs. Therefore, in order to integrate the existent published material and my personal views on natural fractured reservoirs, I have tried to write a self-contained book where the reader can find the necessary tools for the evaluation of fractures by processing the observed data, examining the flow behaviour towards a well and analysing reservoir behaviour during a field’s entire history, through its specific production mechanisms.

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Deconvolution of Geophysical Time Series in the Exploration for Oil and Natural Gas

Editor / Author : Manuel T. Silvia and Enders A. Robinson
 
Publisher : Elsevier Science (January 1, 1979)

ISBN : 978-0444416797

Number of Pages :  264
 
File Type : PDF

The closer you look at something, the more details you will see. This common experience is hardly better exemplified than by seismic exploration of the earth’s interior, in particular of its complicated near-surface structure. The seismic waves that leave a wave source, e.g. an explosion, experience lots of influences on their way to the receiver. At the same time as all such effects tend to complicate the records, they also convey the required information on the passed strata. But to disentangle all these various effects, we badly need methods which are capable not only of efficient earth-detective work, but which can also work at high speed -considering the large amount of data generally accumulated in seismic prospecting. The present book by two of the most capable earth detectives deals with these problems, and it is more exciting than any detective story. 

But this is not only a game for its own purpose. In order to run and to develop a modern community, in short, for its survival, mankind is nowadays hunting for energy more than ever. Oil and natural gas still constitute some of the most important energy sources. Therefore, we need skilled geophysicists, who are able to extract as much and as accurate information as possible from the records. This is especially important now when we have to explore new areas and can no longer be content with areas where “oil flows like water”. We have to search more intensively and to greater depths in the earth. Without efficient methods as developed in this book, there is hardly any chance for success in this hunting for energy.

The book has both theoretical and practical sides, and it can be equally recommended t o the university scientist who performs his geophysical work at his desk, in the laboratory or in the lecture room and to the practicing geophysicist who must know how to best perform his seismic prospecting and how to interpret the “text” that Earth writes for him. 

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Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering

Editor / Author : L. P. Dake

Publisher : Elsevier Science (January 15, 1978)

ISBN : 978-0444416674

Number of Pages :  460
 
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This teaching textbook in Hydrocarbon Reservoir Engineering is based on various lecture courses given by the author while employed in the Training Division of Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij B.V. (SIPM), in the Hague, between 1974 and 1977.

The primary aim of the book is to present the basic physics of reservoir engineering, using the simplest and most straightforward of mathematical techniques. It is only through having a complete understanding of the physics that the engineer can hope to appreciate and solve complex reservoir engineering problems in a practical manner.

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Fundamentals of Numerical Reservoir Simulation

Editor / Author : Donald W. Peaceman

 

Publisher : Elsevier Science Ltd (August 1977)

ISBN : 978-0444415783

Number of Pages :  190

File Type : PDF

Over the past decade, the use of numerical reservoir simulation with highspeed electronic computers hasngained wide acceptance throughout the petroleum industry for making engineering studies of a wide variety of oiland gas reservoirs throughout the world. These reservoir simulators have been designed for use by reservoir engineers who may possess little or no background in the numerical mathematics upon which they are based. Yet in spite of our best efforts t o improve numerical methods so as to make reservoir simulators as reliable, efficient, and automatic as possible, the user of a simulator is constantly faced with a myriad of decisions that have nothing to do with the problem he really wants to solve. He must decide on various numerical questions not directly germane t o the problem at hand. For example, he may have a choice among several simulators that use different numerical methods. He may have to pick an iteration method. He definitely will have to choose the grid spacing as part of the reservoir description, and probably will also have to select the time step size. And perhaps the biggest bugaboo of all is the choice of iteration parameters.

It is this engineer-user that I have had in mind while writing this book, one who wants to learn how to deal more effectively with the numerical decisions mentioned above. I hope he also has some curiosity about the inner workings of the “black box” that is a reservoir simulator, and I have tried to satisfy that curiosity, as well as to prepare him t o read the literature, should he wish to study recent developments and future research in greater depth than I have been able t o provide here.

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