Book Reviews: Mars Workshop Manual, Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale, Murmur

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 86-87
Author(s):  
M. Williamson ◽  
V. Vitaliev ◽  
H. Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Tar Sands

The Effect of Hydrotreatment of Diesel Fuel Derived from Canadian Tar Sands on Particulate Exhaust Emissions

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Hilden ◽  
Stephen P. Bergin ◽  
Harvey A. Burley ◽  
Ronald D. Tharby ◽  
Ian P. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Diesel Fuel ◽  
Exhaust Emissions ◽  
Tar Sands

Treatment of tar sands tailings with fly ash

1975 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narendra N. Bakhshi ◽  
Randal G. Gillies ◽  
Pradeep Khare
Keyword(s):  
Fly Ash ◽  
Tar Sands

PIGE-PIXE analysis of Nigerian tar sands

1994 ◽  
Vol 177 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. O. Olabanji ◽  
A. M. I. Haque ◽  
S. Fazinic ◽  
R. Cherubini ◽  
G. Moschini
Keyword(s):  
Pixe Analysis ◽  
Tar Sands

scholarly journals “There’s Always Winners and Losers”: Traditional Masculinity, Resource Dependence, and Post-Disaster Environmental Complacency

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis Milnes ◽  
Timothy Haney
Keyword(s):  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Outcome ◽  
Tar Sands ◽  
Technological Disasters ◽  
Traditional Masculinity

The 2013 Southern Alberta flood was a costly and devastating event. The literature suggests that such disasters have the potential to spur greater environmentalism and environmental action, as residents make connections between global environmental change and local events. However, the literature also suggests that residents in communities dependent on fossil fuel extraction might see technological disasters, like oil spills, as threats to their economic well-being, thereby limiting environmental reflexivity. Given that Alberta is home of the tar sands, how might a flood disaster affect men’s environmental views, given both traditional notions of masculinity and men’s economic dependence on oil production? Using a survey of 407 flood-affected residents of Calgary and in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 men directly impacted by the flood, this article demonstrates men’s decreased tendency to change their environmental views after the flood. The qualitative data reveal that men justify this reluctance by shifting blame for climate change to the Global South, by arguing for the economic centrality of the tar sands for Alberta, and by discussing how a warming climate will largely be a positive outcome for Alberta. The article concludes with discussion of relevance for environmental sociology and for public policy.

scholarly journals Alternate Fuels and the Gas Turbine Catalytic Combustor

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. C. Pfefferle
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Oxides ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Soot Formation ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Tar Sands ◽  
Aromatic Content ◽  
Percent Conversion ◽  
Catalytic Combustor ◽  
Alternate Fuels

Inasmuch as conventional gas turbine combustors often produce soot even with the present low aromatic content fuels, the production of acceptable liquid turbine fuels from hydrogen deficient raw materials such as coal and tar sands requires large quantities of high cost hydrogen if conventional combustors are to be used. The economics of producing alternate turbine fuels would be improved if high aromatic content fuels could be burned in gas turbines without soot formation. Gas turbines using the catalytic combustor not only can efficiently burn highly aromatic fuels without soot formation but can meet all existing or proposed regulations on emissions of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides. Under certain conditions, high fuels can be burned with as little as 10 to 15 percent conversion of the fuel nitrogen to nitrogen oxides. In view of the potential savings, any program for alternate fuels should take into account the opportunities offered by the catalytic combustor.

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