Handbook of Pollution Prevention and Cleaner Production Vol. 1: Best Practices in the Petroleum Industry


This new Handbook provides a series of reference guides to cleaner production methods, technologies, and practices for key industry sectors.

Each volume covers, for each industry sector: * the manufacturing technologies * waste management * pollution * methods for estimating and reporting emissions * treatment and control technologies * worker and community health risk exposures * cost data for pollution management * cleaner production and prevention alternatives Best Practices in The Petroleum Industry provides an overview of refineries and gas plant operations and identifies the key Environmental Aspects, supported by case studies of major incidents that resulted in catastrophic releases of oil and refined products, and a critical assessment of the methodology and calculation procedures that the industry relies on in preparing emissions inventories.  The authors offer alternative approaches to providing more accurate emissions estimates, and guidelines on cleaner production and pollution prevention practices for improving overall environmental performance.

  • Overview of the key Environmental Aspects of gas plant operations and refineries
  • Case studies of major incidents that resulted in catastrophic releases of oil and refined products, including the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969 and the EXXON Valdez incident
  • Provides guidelines on cleaner production and pollution prevention practices for improving overall environmental performance
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UPC9780815520368
Author Nicholas P Cheremisinoff, Paul E. Rosenfeld
Pages 272
Language English
Format PDF
Publisher Elsevier Science
SKU9780815520368
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