Oil Shales
A Complete Story
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Beschreibung
This book provides thorough knowledge and detailed information of oil shales using a range of conventional and unconventional techniques and methodologies combined to elucidate the composition of oil shale deposits. As these rocks are mined for energy production their composition and mineral constituents are of special interests to individuals and communities that are likely to be effected by these resources when mined and processed. The book highlights the environmental and health hazards of the spent shales after processing. These are significantly greater in volume than the rocks originally mined before processing. Toxic metals tend to double and triple their concentrations in the spent shales and will be leached into water sources and soils.Since oil shales as an energy resource are totally uneconomical; all oil shales, their mining and processing are heavily subsidised by governments and institutions using taxpayers money.
This book provides thorough knowledge and detailed information of oil shales using a range of conventional and unconventional techniques and methodologies combined to elucidate the composition of oil shale deposits. As these rocks are mined for energy production their composition and mineral constituents are of special interests to individuals and communities that are likely to be effected by these resources when mined and processed. The book highlights the environmental and health hazards of the spent shales after processing. These are significantly greater in volume than the rocks originally mined before processing. Toxic metals tend to double and triple their concentrations in the spent shales and will be leached into water sources and soils.Since oil shales as an energy resource are totally uneconomical; all oil shales, their mining and processing are heavily subsidised by governments and institutions using taxpayers money.
Provides detailed information via analytical data on oil shales Offers an explanation of why oil shales are not the right source of oil or the answer to energy production Highlights the composition of organic matter in oil shales and sediments in general, showing pictures of different bacteria involved in the break-down of organic matter when buried deep in the ground Full colour photoraphs and descriptions of the oil-secreting fascinating alga Botryococcus; showing its ‘hydrocarbon bodies’ in transmission electron microscopy
Autor*in
Miryam Glikson-Simpson
Themen in »Oil Shales«
Organic Matter Humic Acids C-isotopes Trace Elements Environmental Problems Environmental Politics Oil Shales and Energy Production