Crises in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries

Disasters and Environmental Challenges

1st Edition - July 13, 2023
Imprint: Elsevier
Editors: Mohammad Reza Rahimpour, Babak Omidvar, Nazanin Abrishami Shirazi, Mohammad Amin Makarem
Language: English
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Crises in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries: Disasters and Environmental Challenges provides an overview of both natural and manmade disasters occurring in oil, gas and petrochemical industries while also covering special solutions based on their types. This volume includes the effects of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes as well as manmade incidents including fire events, explosions and the release of dust and toxic substances on various related units and plants. In addition, the long-term side effects on both humans and the environment resulted from these industries are presented.

Problems such as releasing wastes and venting gases into the environment and challenges from overusing the natural resources and producing noise pollutants are also discussed in detail.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Biographies
Preface
Section I. Crisis management in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
1. Introduction to decision-making and disaster management systems
1. Introduction
2. Disaster management
3. Process of decision-making
4. Conclusion
2. Introduction to oil, gas, and petrochemical industries: importance to the current world
1. Introduction
2. An overview of the oil and gas industry in the world
3. Overview of oil and gas industries
4. Oil and gas processing
5. Unconventional sources of oil and gas
6. Conclusion and future outlooks
3. Application of disaster engineering in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
1. Introduction
2. Research in the field of resilience engineering history
3. Measures of resilience
4. Strategies and principles of resilience
5. Chemical plants' resiliency
6. Different stages of resilience
7. Factors that contribute to resilience
8. Resilience characteristics
9. Case study
10. Conclusion
Abbreviations and symbols
4. Hazards in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
1. Introduction
2. Hazards in the oil and gas industry
3. Accidents and fatalities data in the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry
4. Risk management in the oil and gas industry
5. Conclusion and future outlook
Section II. Natural disasters in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
5. Effects of floods on the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries: case study in Iran
1. Introduction
2. Flood definition and flooding
3. Flood literature and analysis method
4. Conclusion
6. Effect of hurricane and storm on oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
1. Introduction
2. Hurricanes and their components: Categories and features
3. Hurricane effects on oil, gas, and petrochemical industrial facilities
4. Released oil, gas, and petrochemical after hurricanes
5. Hurricane effects on oil, gas, and petrochemical economic: Advantages and disadvantages
6. Reduction in destructive effects of hurricanes on oil, gas, and petrochemical industry
7. Conclusion and future outlook
Abbreviations and symbols
Section III. Manmade disasters in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
7. Fire event in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
1. Introduction
2. Combustion theory
3. Fire growth and propagation factors in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
4. Fire hazards in oil, gas, and petroleum industries
5. Different fire types
6. Fire protection in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
7. Conclusion
8. Explosion in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
1. Introduction
2. Explosion theory
3. Explosion hazards
4. Explosion protection
5. Conclusion
9. Release of toxic substances in disasters of oil, gas, and petrochemical units
1. Introduction
2. Overview of oil and gas disasters
3. Categorization of oil and gas hazards
4. Release of toxic substances from oil and gas accidents
5. Oil and gas disaster risk mitigation
6. Conclusions and future outlooks
10. Hazardous materials and dust release in disasters of oil, gas, and petrochemical units
1. Introduction
2. Dust and hazardous materials releases
3. Hazardous chemical and dust releases by industrial disasters
4. Conclusion
List of abbreviation
11. Short-term and long-term health problems in exposure to chemicals
1. Introduction
2. Long-term and short-term effects
3. Ways of exposure to chemicals
4. Chemicals and their effects on human health
5. Conclusion
List of abbreviation
Section IV. Environmental issues regarding oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
12. Global warming and greenhouse effect resulted from oil, gas, and petrochemical units
1. Introduction
2. Climate change
3. Fossil fuel birth
4. Health-relevant emissions
5. CO2 emission
6. Reduction in the emission of GHG in different industries
7. CO2 utilization
8. Conclusion
Abbreviations and symbols
13. Environmental concerns of wastes released from oil, gas, and petrochemical units
1. Introduction
2. Concerns regarding population health
3. Potential environmental exposure concerns
4. Laws and regulatory concerns
5. Concerns regarding the effectiveness of disposal methods
6. Conclusion and future outlook
14. Environmental challenges of gases vent from flares and chimneys
1. Introduction
2. Gas flaring
3. Environmental considerations
4. Reducing the emissions sent to flare
5. Treatment methods of flared gas
6. Conclusion and future outlook
Abbreviations
15. Environmental effects of dust release from oil, gas, and petrochemical units
1. Introduction
2. Petroleum and its components
3. Petroleum product
4. Particulate matter and their detrimental effects
5. Global scenario on dust release
6. Conclusion
Abbreviations
16. Environmental challenges of extracting unconventional petroleum reserves
1. Introduction
2. History of the emergence of oil shales
3. Hydraulic fracturing
4. Hydraulic fracturing in shale resources
5. Environmental considerations
6. Costs and energy consumption
7. Uncertainty about possible technologies
8. Environmental costs
9. Unconventional resource extraction: challenges
10. Conclusion and future outlook
Abbreviations
17. Natural resources overusing in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries and challenges
1. Introduction
2. Natural resources
3. Non-renewable energy-based industries
4. Overusing of oil, gas, and petrochemical in industries
5. Overusing challenges and solutions
6. Conclusion
Abbreviations
18. Noise pollution from oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
1. Introduction
2. Parameters for measuring noise pollution
3. Types of noise pollution
4. Fundamental sources of noise pollution
5. Overview of industrial and commercial sources of noise pollution
6. Noise emission from oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
7. Effect of noise pollution on human health
8. Preventive action to reduce noise pollution
9. Conclusion
19. Environmental benefits and challenges of fossil fuel replacement with clean energy
1. Introduction
2. Low energy prices versus clean energies
3. Energy efficiency
4. Climate change and policies
5. Conclusion
Index

Mohammad Reza Rahimpour

Prof. Mohammad Reza Rahimpour is a professor in Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University, Iran. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Shiraz University joint with University of Sydney, Australia 1988. He started his independent career as Assistant Professor in September 1998 at Shiraz University. Prof. M.R. Rahimpour, was a Research Associate at University of California, Davis from 2012 till 2017. During his stay in University of California, he developed different reaction networks and catalytic processes such as thermal and plasma reactors for upgrading of lignin bio-oil to biofuel with collaboration of UCDAVIS. He has been a Chair of Department of Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University from 2005 till 2009 and from 2015 till 2020. Prof. M.R. Rahimpour leads a research group in fuel processing technology focused on the catalytic conversion of fossil fuels such as natural gas, and renewable fuels such as bio-oils derived from lignin to valuable energy sources. He provides young distinguished scholars with perfect educational opportunities in both experimental methods and theoretical tools in developing countries to investigate in-depth research in the various field of chemical engineering including carbon capture, chemical looping, membrane separation, storage and utilization technologies, novel technologies for natural gas conversion and improving the energy efficiency in the production and use of natural gas industries.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Babak Omidvar

Dr Babak Omidvar is an associate professor at the University of Tehran. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran in 2001. He started his work as Assistant Professor in September 2002 at the graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran. His research interests are resilience, risk and reliability analysis in various fields of urban areas and infrastructures. The courses he teaches at the University of Tehran include “Disaster resistant structures”, “Loss estimation studies”, “Infrastructure protection against natural disasters”, “Vulnerability assessment”, “Risk analysis and management”, “Resilience engineering”, “Environmental statistics”, “Environmental economics”, “Reliability in water resource management” and “Engineering Mathematics”. His recent research focus is on robust optimization, deep uncertainty, decision making under uncertainty, infrastructure performance assessment considering inter- and intra- dependencies, catastrophe theory, complex systems, network analysis and Multi-hazards analysis which all of them are used in natural disaster engineering and management category. In this regard, he has conducted many research studies and supervised more than 180 national and international graduate students in performing their Ph.D. and MSc theses.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Nazanin Abrishami Shirazi

Nazanin Abrishami Shirazi is a PhD Candidates at University of Tehran. Her focus is on vulnerability assessment in various fields including engineering apparatus and materials, and finding proper solutions for crisis prevention and environmental side effects management. Recently he has collaborated in writing and editing various scientific works including book chapters with prestigious publishers such Elsevier and Springer.

Affiliations and expertise

Research Associate, Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Amin Makarem

Dr. Mohammad Amin Makarem is a research associate at Taylor's University, Malaysia. He former worked at Shiraz University. His research interests are gas separation and purification, nanofluids, microfluidics, catalyst synthesis, reactor design and green energy. In gas separation, his focus is on experimental and theoretical investigation and optimization of pressure swing adsorption process, and in the gas purification field, he is working on novel technologies such as microchannels. Recently, he has investigated methods of synthesizing bio-template nanomaterials and catalysts. Besides, he has collaborated in writing and editing various books and book-chapters for famous publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and Wiley, as well as guest editing journals special issues.

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Taylor's University, Malaysia

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