Thomas O. Miesner

The move from carbon-based fuels to renewables – particularly wind and solar which produce electricity – make this book a "must read" for anyone who works in the energy space or just wants to know more about energy and its future.Covering generation to distribution, this book provides a practical guide to the electrical power industry, with a special focus on renewables – their opportunities and challenges. Starting with an explanation of electricity, how it works, and why it works that way, the book moves on to a history of the industry that generates, transmits, and distributes electricity. The book also covers the materials, hardware, and instruments the industry uses, and how utilities construct, operate, and maintain "the grid", encompassing control rooms, wide area controls, and cybersecurity. The final chapters explain regulations, grid reliability, markets, and the challenges the industry faces in the future.Features and Benefits:Electrical energy basicsHistory of electricityRenewables and clean energyThe electricity value chainCybersecurityOperationsStorageRole of natural GasSystem reliabilityMarketsChallenges for the futureAudience:Field level personnelManagementEnergy lending and finance professionalsAnyone who seeks to understand how, or relies upon, energyStudents

In this edition of Oil and Gas Pipelines in Nontechnical Language, Tom Miesner and Bill Leffler leverage the hundreds of courses they have taught in the past decade, along with the interaction with their audiences, clients, and opposing attorneys to present a totally understandable view of pipeline inception, planning, construction, start-up, and operation. Those experiences allowed them to expand but simplify the complexities of pipelines, including a totally revised chapter on equipment that provides a complete view of pipeline components. A separate chapter on control systems updates this technology. An expanded discussion of pipeline integrity including the concept of risk management demonstrates how important the subjects of safety, reliability, efficiency, and environmental performance have become.Hundreds of pictures, drawings, and graphs taken and developed by the authors since the first edition bring the material to life. With all these changes and upgrades, the final conclusion is the same as the first edition - an overriding challenge to the oil and gas pipeline industry remains balancing the needs and wants of the industry's myriad of stakeholders.Features and BenefitsConcise overviews of the various pipeline functions and operations.Individual coverage of oil, natural gas, and chemical pipeline operations and their differences.Descriptive photos, charts, and tables for easy comprehension.

Offering complete coverage of natural gas local distribution companies (LDCs), Local Distribution Pipelines in Nontechnical Language begins with a basic overview of pipelines and the history of "town gas" used to light city streets as an alternative to whale oil, and takes the reader right up to present-day industry.Along the way it discusses the basic-design, construction, materials, equipment, maintenance, operations of LDCs. Following up where Oil and Gas Pipelines in Nontechnical Language left off, Miesner explains the hows and whys of local distribution lines. This book will be valuable to anyone working with local distribution lines-from the novice to the veteran pipeline professional.Features include: Robust chapters explaining LNG and the LDC industry's future challenges Complete coverage of natural gas local distribution companies Numerous pictures, drawings, and simple examples that explain LDC pipelines in layman's terms