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Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods for Unconventional
Oil Reservoirs, Volume 67 provides important guidance on which EOR
methods work in shale and tight oil reservoirs. This book helps
readers learn the main fluid and rock properties of shale and tight
reservoirs-which are the main target for EOR techniques-and
understand the physical and chemical mechanisms for the injected
EOR fluids to enhance oil recovery in shale and tight oil
reservoirs. The book explains the effects of complex hydraulic
fractures and natural fractures on the performance of each EOR
technique. The book describes the parameters affecting obtained oil
recovery by injecting different EOR methods in both the microscopic
and macroscopic levels of ULR. This book also provides proxy models
to associate the functionality of the improved oil recovery by
injecting different EOR methods with different operating
parameters, rock, and fluid properties. The book provides
profesasionals working in the petroleum industry the know-how to
conduct a successful project for different EOR methods in shale
plays, while it also helps academics and students in understanding
the basics and principles that make the performance of EOR methods
so different in conventional reservoirs and unconventional
formations.
Climate change and environmental pollution remain two primary areas
of concern in today's world. These detrimental influences continue
to have a strong impact on various aspects of humanity,
specifically public health in tropical regions. Researchers have
seen neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affected by climate change
and anthropogenic impacts. Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts
on Neglected Tropical Diseases is a pivotal reference source that
provides vital research on the association of environmental
pollutants and global warming with viruses in tropical regions.
While highlighting topics such as pathogenicity, travel impact, and
economic impacts, this publication explores the developments and
trends in these areas of medicine and ecology, as well as
prevention strategies to be used for educational and sensitization
purposes. This book is ideally designed for doctors, medical
practitioners, ecologists, epidemiologists, environmentalists,
world health organizations, researchers, biologists, policymakers,
academicians, and students.
Paleocological Research on Easter Island: Insights on Settlement,
Climate Changes, Deforestation and Cultural Shifts examines the
area's climatic and ecological history, a topic not usually
addressed in other literature. The book provides a thorough and
synthetic account of all paleoecological works developed to date,
including the latest discoveries. Finally, it attempts to match
paleoecological evidence with the results of other disciplines
creating a multidisciplinary framework. This approach to the field
is ideal for researchers, university professors and graduate
students in a varied range of disciplines and subdisciplines,
including ecology, paleoecology, paleoclimatology, biogeography,
sedimentology, and paleontology. Users will find synthesized
information on Easter Island from the last millennia that will help
pave the way towards an integrated interdisciplinary vision of the
island's environmental-ecological-cultural system as a complex
functional unit. Human and environmental deterministic views are
avoided and the Easter Island enigmas are analyzed under a holistic
perspective of continuous feedbacks and synergies among the
different components of the system.
It is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth. But in The Weight of Nature, award-winning journalist and neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern shows that the warming climate is not just affecting our planet - it is affecting our brains and bodies too. Drawing on six years of ground-breaking research, Aldern documents a burgeoning public health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Eco-anxiety, he shows us, is just the tip of the iceberg. The rapidly changing environment is directly intervening in our brain health, behaviour, decision-making and cognition in real time, affecting everything from spikes in aggravated assault to lower levels of productivity and concentration, to the global dementia epidemic. Travelling the world to meet the scientists and doctors unravelling the tangled connections between us and our environment, and reporting the stories of those who are already feeling these shifts most keenly, Aldern shows how a weary world is wearing on us. Written in urgent and deeply moving prose, The Weight of Nature is a revelation, bringing to light the myriad ways the changing environment is changing our very humanity from the inside out.
Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology, second edition, presents
the essentials of both disciplines through an approach accessible
to industry professionals, academic researchers, and students
alike. This new edition emphasizes the relationship between rocks
and minerals, right from the structures created during rock
formation through the economics of mineral deposits. While
petrology is classified on the lines of geological evolution and
rock formation, mineralogy speaks to the physical and chemical
properties, uses, and global occurrences for each mineral,
emphasizing the need for the growth of human development. The
primary goal is for the reader to identify minerals in all
respects, including host-rocks, and mineral deposits, with
additional knowledge of mineral-exploration, resource, extraction,
process, and ultimate use. To help provide a comprehensive analysis
across ethical and socio-economic dimensions, a separate chapter
describes the hazards associated with minerals, rocks, and mineral
industries, and the consequences to humanity along with remedies
and case studies. New to the second edition: includes coverage of
minerals and petrology in extra-terrestrial environments as well as
case studies on the hazards of the mining industry.
Rifted margins mark the transition between continents and oceans,
which are the two first-order types of land masses on Earth. Rifted
margins contribute to our understanding of lithospheric extensional
processes and are studied by various disciplines of Earth Science
(geology, geophysics, geochemistry). Thanks to better and wider
public access to high-quality data, our understanding in these
areas has improved significantly over these last two decades. This
book summarizes this knowledge evolution and details where we stand
today, with a series of case examples included. It is structured in
a practical way, with concise text descriptions and comprehensive
diagrams. Continental Rifted Margins 1 is a useful resource for
students and newcomers to the rifted margin community - a
"cookbook" of sorts to facilitate the reading of scientific
publications and provide basic definitions and explanations.
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