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Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > Fossil fuel technologies > Petroleum technology
The author describes the history of industrial safety and the
emergence of process safety as an engineering discipline in the
20th century. The book sheds light on the difference between:
employers and workers.
Research on nanotechnology has mainly focused on the aspects of
synthesis of nanomaterials that have unique chemical, thermal, and
mechanical properties applicable to a wide range of applications. A
variety of properties and phenomena have been investigated, and
many of the studies have been directed toward understanding the
properties and applications of nanomaterials. Nanomaterials have
properties that are useful for enhancing surface-to-volume ratio,
reactivity, strength, and durability. Due to their enhanced
chemical and mechanical properties, the nanomaterials play
promising roles in enhancing the desulfurization. Nanocomposites
for the Desulfurization of Fuels is an essential reference source
that discusses the synthesis, properties, and technological
developments of nanomaterials and their applications in petroleum.
Featuring research on topics such as hybrid materials, catalytic
properties, and environmental concerns, this book is ideally
designed for chemical engineers, scientists, researchers,
academicians, and students in fields that include chemistry,
petroleum, materials science, physics, and engineering.
Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston,
Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards
created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal
governments should play in protecting the public from these
threats. James B. McSwain's Petroleum and Public Safety reveals how
officials in these cities created standards based on technical,
scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically
workable ordinances related to the storage and handling of fuel.
Each of the cities studied in this volume struggled through
protracted debates regarding the regulation of crude petroleum and
fuel oil, sparked by the famous Spindletop strike of 1901 and the
regional oil boom in the decades that followed. Municipal
governments sought to ensure the safety of their citizens while
still reaping lucrative economic benefits from local petroleum
industry activities. Drawing on historical antecedents such as
fire-protection engineering, the cities of the Gulf South came to
adopt voluntary, consensual fire codes issued by insurance
associations and standards organisations such as the National Board
of Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection Association, and
the Southern Standard Building Code Conference. The culmination of
such efforts was the creation of the International Fire Code, an
overarching fire-protection guide that is widely used in the United
States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In devising
ordinances, Gulf South officials pursued the politics of risk
management, as they hammered out strategies to eliminate or
mitigate the dangers associated with petroleum industries and to
reduce the possible consequences of catastrophic oil explosions and
fires. Using an array of original sources, including newspapers,
municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk-management
literature, McSwain demonstrates that Gulf South cities played a
vital role in twentieth-century modernization.
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