"The Soaring Pilot's Manual" advances the reader from elementary flying to confident soaring by clearly and precisely explaining the basic soaring mechanisms and techniques. Explanatory diagrams illustrate the text throughout, making a complicated subject simple to understand. Having covered the fir[...]
This is the story of struggles against management regimes in the car industry in Britain from the period after the Second World War until the contemporary regime of lean production. Told from the viewpoint of the workers, the book chronicles how workers responded to a variety of management and unio[...]
Offers a picture of surface production operations, from the production stage to the process stage with applications to process and production engineers. This book provides coverage of hydrocarbon characteristics, the different kinds of reservoirs, and impurities in crude.[...]
A guide to understanding emulsion theory, methods and equipment, and practical design of a treating system. It explains methods such as: demulsifiers, temperature, electrostatics and non-traditional methods of modulated or pulsed voltage control, and equipment such as: electrostatic treater (dehydra[...]
Helps familiarize operators with the knowledge and tools required to understand design flaws and solve everyday operational problems for types of separators. This book covers fundamentals such as - physical properties, phase behaviour and calculations. It also contains topics such as separator const[...]
Provides information on gas-handling systems and facilities. This book features such sections as: Heat recovery units; Kinetic inhibitors and anti-agglomerators; Trays and packing for distillation and absorption towers; Compressor valves; Pressure vessel issues and components; Nox reduction in engin[...]
Raw natural gas typically contains a substantial amount of water, which can degrade heating value and contribute to the formation of corrosion in piping and other equipment. This book defines the various methods of gas dehydration and discusses the differences between adsorption and absorption.[...]
Although the processing of natural gas is in many respects less complicated than the processing and refining of crude oil, it is equally as necessary before its use by end users. This title provides engineers with the ability to understand and select the most efficient and cost effective method to f[...]
Produced water is mainly salty water trapped in the reservoir rock and brought up along with oil or gas during production. Suitable for those who are involved in the design, operation, maintenance and sizing of produced water treatment systems, this book deals with the technology, management, treatm[...]