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Pipelines
Emerging Technologies and Design Criteria
- 1st Edition - June 28, 2023
- Author: M. Rafiqul Islam
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 6 0 0 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 6 1 5 - 7
Pipelines: Emerging Technologies and Design Criteria, the latest release in the Sustainable Oil and Gas Development series, delivers the tools needed to understand more environment… Read more
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Request a sales quotePipelines: Emerging Technologies and Design Criteria, the latest release in the Sustainable Oil and Gas Development series, delivers the tools needed to understand more environmentally-friendly design, construction and maintenance of oil and gas pipelines. Designed to introduce ideal solutions and current state-of-the-art practices, the reference includes guidelines on environmental impact assessment and sustainable route design as well as the sustainability of additives and power systems. Material selection, real-time processing of smart well data and remote sensing are also discussed.
Rounded out with inspection tools and emerging technology such as novel corrosion protection, this book gives pipeline engineers a guide on safer alternatives and upcoming guidelines in the race to reduce emissions.
- Provides insights to more environmentally-friendly protocols for material selection, construction and integrity
- Helps readers determine more accurate protection plans and learn the latest techniques, including nanotechnology and sustainable hydrate and wax mitigation
- Presents valuable insights from a well-known author with extensive experience in both academia and industry
Petroleum engineers, pipeline engineers, graduate students, researchers developing sustainable practices in petroleum engineering
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Summary
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Abstract
- 1.1 Opening statement
- 1.2 Petroleum processing and separation
- 1.3 Introduction to transportation processes and flow assurances
- 1.4 Introduction to storage
- 1.5 Sustainability status of current technologies
- Chapter 2. Petroleum in the big picture
- Abstract
- 2.1 World energy
- 2.2 Energy in 2020: the year of COVID
- 2.3 New world order
- 2.4 What is “green”?
- 2.5 Role of oil and gas
- 2.6 Key events and future outlook of oil and gas
- Chapter 3. Fundamentals of processing
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Comprehensive mass and energy balance
- 3.3 Atmospheric and vacuum distillation
- 3.4 Refining and gas processing
- 3.5 Sustainable development
- Chapter 4. Fundamentals of separation of oil and gas
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Fundamental of surface chemistry
- 4.3 The separation and refining process
- 4.4 Additives and their functions
- 4.5 Benefits of natural chemicals
- 4.6 Science of nanoscale
- 4.7 Zeolite as a refining catalyst
- 4.8 Restoring science of nature
- 4.9 The science of lightening
- 4.10 Nitrogen cycle: part of the water/nitrogen duality
- Chapter 5. Transportation of oil and gas
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Gas pipeline systems
- 5.3 Historical perspective
- 5.4 Heavy crude oil pipelines
- 5.5 Digital networking technologies
- 5.6 Pipeline monitoring system
- Chapter 6. Advances in pipeline designs
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Sustainability of CO2 sequestration and storage
- 6.3 Advances in sensory technologies
- 6.4 Performance comparison of leak detection technologies
- 6.5 Guideline for pipeline leakage detection method selection
- 6.6 Research gaps and open issues
- Chapter 7. Storage of petroleum fluids
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Oil storage
- 7.3 Tankers for oil storage
- 7.4 Gas storage
- Chapter 8. Fundamental considerations of oil and gas separation
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Gravity separation
- 8.3 Oil–water separation
- 8.4 Sand jets and drains
- 8.5 Vapor/liquid separation
- 8.6 Ideal gas law
- 8.7 Subatomic representation
- 8.8 Reconstituting mass and energy spectrum
- 8.9 Vapor–liquid equilibria
- Chapter 9. Gas hydrate and its mitigation
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 The importance of natural gas
- 9.3 Natural gas hydrates
- 9.4 Prevention of hydrate formation
- 9.5 Problems with synthetic chemicals
- 9.6 Proposed solutions
- 9.7 Emerging technologies
- Chapter 10. Corrosion and its mitigation
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Background and historical context
- 10.3 The science of corrosion
- 10.4 Types of corrosion
- 10.5 Microbially influenced corrosion
- 10.6 Remedy of microbially influenced corrosion
- 10.7 Modeling of microbially influenced corrosion
- Chapter 11. Conclusions
- Abstract
- 11.1 Chapter 1: Introduction
- 11.2 Chapter 2: Petroleum in the big picture
- 11.3 Chapter 3: Fundamentals of processing
- 11.4 Chapter 4: Fundamentals of separation of oil and gas
- 11.5 Chapter 5: Transportation of oil and gas
- 11.6 Chapter 6: Advances in pipeline designs
- 11.7 Chapter 7: Storage of petroleum fluids
- 11.8 Chapter 8: Fundamental considerations of oil and gas separation
- 11.9 Chapter 9: Gas hydrate and its mitigation
- 11.10 Chapter 10: Corrosion and its mitigation
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 800
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 28, 2023
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128206003
- eBook ISBN: 9780128206157
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M. Rafiqul Islam
M. Rafiqul Islam is currently the President of Emertec Research and Development Ltd., a company he co-founded in late 1980’s. Previously, he spent over 20 years as Professor, Research Chair and Director for various Universities, including Killam Chair at Dalhousie University. He earned Diplome d’État in petroleum production engineering from Institut Algérien du Pétrole. He then attended graduate programs at the University of Texas Austin and the University of Alberta, from where he received a M.Sc. and a Ph.D., both in petroleum engineering. He has been awarded multiple awards, including the Einstein Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, which is the highest honor. He has over 700 publications to his name, including dozens of books in several disciplines and multiple TV appearances within Canada and worldwide.
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President, Emertec Research and Development Ltd., Canada; Director, Oil and Gas, TransCanada Training, CanadaRead Pipelines on ScienceDirect