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Alberta Oil Sands: Energy, Industry and the Environment [Kõva köide]

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Volume editor (Wood Buffalo Environmental Association, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 528 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm
  • Sari: Developments in Environmental Science 11
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2013
  • Kirjastus: Elsevier Science Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 0080994431
  • ISBN-13: 9780080994437
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Alberta Oil Sands: Energy, Industry and the Environment
  • Formaat: Hardback, 528 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm
  • Sari: Developments in Environmental Science 11
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2013
  • Kirjastus: Elsevier Science Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 0080994431
  • ISBN-13: 9780080994437
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Püsilink: https://www.kriso.ee/db/9780080994437.html
Märksõnad:

At 170 billion barrels, Canada's Oil Sands are the third largest reserves of developable oil in the world. The Oil Sands now produce about 1.6 million barrels per day, with production expected to double by 2025 to about 3.7 million barrels per day. The Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) in northeastern Alberta is the largest of the three oil sands deposits. Bitumen in the oil sands is recovered through one of two primary methods – mining and drilling. About 20 per cent of the reserves are close to the surface and can be mined using large shovels and trucks. Of concern are the effects of the industrial development on the environment. Both human-made and natural sources emit oxides of sulphur and nitrogen, trace elements and persistent organic compounds. Of additional concern are ground level ozone and greenhouse gases.

Because of the requirement on operators to comply with the air quality regulatory policies, and to address public concerns, the not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder Wood Buffalo Environmental Association (WBEA) has since 1997 been closely monitoring air quality in AOSR. In 2008, WBEA assembled a distinguished group of international scientists who have been conducting measurements and practical research on various aspects of air emissions and their potential effects on terrestrial receptors. This book is a synthesis of the concepts and results of those on-going studies. It contains 19 chapters ranging from a global perspective of energy production, measurement methodologies and behavior of various air pollutants during fossil fuel production in a boreal forest ecosystem, towards designing and deploying a multi-disciplinary, proactive, and long-term environmental monitoring system that will also meet regulatory expectations.

  • Covers measurement of emissions from very large industrial sources in a region with huge international media profile
  • Validation of measurement technologies can be applied globally
  • The new approaches to ecological monitoring described can be applied in other forested regions

    • Arvustused

    "This volume contains papers presented at an eponymous international symposium held in conjunction with the 43rd International Air Pollution Workshop (May 2011), in Alberta, Canada. These papers, along with other included material, come from projects undertaken by the Wood Buffalo Environmental Association (WBEA), which has, since 2008, undertaken intense study of environmental monitoring activities."--Reference & Research Book News, October 2013

    1. Energy Production: A Global Perspective
    2. Energy Developments in the
    Alberta Oil Sands
    3. Energy and Environment: Toward Achieving the Balance in
    Alberta
    4. Air Quality in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
    5. Development and
    Application of Statistical Approaches for Reducing Uncertainty in Ambient Air
    Quality Data,
    6. Co-Measurement of Volatile Organic and Sulphur Compounds in
    the Athabasca Oil Sands Region by Dual Detector Pneumatic Focusing Gas
    Chromatography (PFGC)
    7. Overview of Real-World Emission Characterization
    Methods
    8. Measurement of Real-World Stack Emissions with a Dilution Sampling
    System
    9. Applying the Forest Health Approach to Monitoring a Boreal
    Ecosystem in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
    10. Ecological Analogues for
    Bio-monitoring Industrial Sulfur Emissions in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
    11. Tracing Industrial Nitrogen and Sulfur Emissions in the Athabasca Oil
    Sands Region using Stable Isotopes
    12. Air Quality Modeling in the Athabasca
    Oil Sands Region
    13. WBEA Receptor Modeling Study in the Athabasca Oil Sands:
    An Introduction
    14. Method for Extraction and Multi-element Analysis of the
    Epiphytic Lichen Hypogymnia physodes from the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
    15.
    Coupling Lead Isotopes and Element Concentrations in Epiphytic Lichens to
    Track Sources of Air Emissions in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
    16. Mercury
    Concentration and Isotopic Composition of Epiphytic Tree Lichens in the
    Athabasca Oil Sands Region
    17. Measurement of Polynuclear Aromatic
    Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Epiphytic Lichens for Receptor Modeling in the
    Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR): A Pilot Study
    18. Receptor Modeling of
    Epiphytic Lichens to Elucidate the Sources and Spatial Distribution of
    Inorganic Air Pollution in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region,
    19.
    Concluding Remarks