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  • Handbook of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations

    Methods, Technologies, and Environmental Impacts
    • 2nd Edition
    • James G. Speight
    • English
    The Handbook of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Methods, Technologies, and Environmental Impacts, 2nd Ed. offers a comprehensive overview of offshore energy extraction. This updated and expanded edition highlights the latest scientific advancements, technological innovations, safety protocols, and environmental considerations shaping current offshore practices. Covering foundational topics like geology, resource formation, exploration, drilling, and production, it emphasizes environmentally responsible operations and sustainable development strategies to support the reduction of carbon emissions.Authored by an industry expert, this reference explores the occurrence and formation of oil and gas, offshore geology, exploration techniques, platform types, and production methods, with insights into environmental impact mitigation. The final chapters address critical issues such as corrosion, oil spill response, legal regulations, and future industry trends. Notably, this edition introduces new chapters on oil spills and cleanup methods that bolster health, safety, and environmental (HSE) initiatives while promoting sustainability. Additionally, multiple chapters examine how offshore operations can help reduce carbon emissions, aligning industry practices with global climate goals. Rich with real-world case studies and current technical data, the book provides a thorough understanding of the entire offshore lifecycle.Designed for engineers, geologists, environmental scientists, safety managers, policymakers, and students, The Handbook of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: 2nd Ed. equips readers with the knowledge to navigate emerging technologies, legal frameworks, and environmental challenges, making it an indispensable reference for industry professionals, students, and researchers alike.

  • Air Pollution and Related Health Risks

    Investigating Environmental Health and Sustainability
    • 1st Edition
    • Umesh Chandra Dumka + 1 more
    • English
    Air Pollution and Related Health Risks: Investigating Environmental Health and Sustainability provides discussion on advanced atmospheric phenomena as they relate to health risks and environmental sustainability. Sections cover challenges, the carcinogenic effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on the atmosphere, and reviews of microplastics and organic aerosol compositions. The book's editors also complete a micro and macro analysis of PM2.5 and PM10 spatio-temporal properties in the Himalayan environment, and aerosol radiative and health impacts are also explored. Other sections cover wet deposition and scavenging of atmospheric pollutants and a risk assessment of living-non-living airborne particles to human health.Post-graduate... and early-career researchers in atmospheric sciences, geophysics, environmental science, and meteorology will find much to learn and apply in this valuable resource.

  • Microgrid Technology and Microgrid Cluster Development

    • 1st Edition
    • Baseem Khan + 2 more
    • English
    Microgrid Technology and Microgrid Cluster Development is a comprehensive guide to microgrid systems fundamentals, optimization, control, protection, and energy management.The book explains microgrid architectures that might be combined to create a cluster of microgrids. This is a valuable resource for all those looking to gain a complete understanding of current microgrid and cluster technology, including students, researchers, faculty, R&D professionals, engineers, and other industry personnel with an interest in grid integration, power systems, and renewable energy.The microgrid is first defined as a standalone entity with potential interconnections with external grids. Then, the layout, line technology, and interface technology of potential microgrid cluster topologies are designed, with comparison and analysis of the various microgrid and cluster designs in terms of price, scalability, security, dependability, stability, communications, and business models. Key aspects are covered in detail, including optimization algorithms and the role of machine learning and artificial neural networks, control and protection techniques, and energy management and storage.

  • Sustainable Nanomaterials

    • 1st Edition
    • Manviri Rani + 1 more
    • English
    Sustainable Nanomaterials provides core and advanced information about various sustainable nanomaterials and their synthetic approaches to natural and renewable resources. It summarizes various regulatory initiatives for ensuring sustainability goals and legal aspects of sustainable nanomaterials.This book also addresses potential nanomaterial risks and concludes that green nanotechnology is a concept that needs to be embedded and promoted in regulatory and voluntary initiatives to ensure nanotechnology’s sustainable development.This is a useful resource for advanced students, as well as environmental engineers, researchers, and the environmental industry.

  • Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers

    • 1st Edition
    • Alexei Tsyganov
    • English
    Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers provides human factors principles and findings to allow nonexperts to consider the road user’s capabilities and limitations more effectively into the practice of design, operations, and safety. It provides data and insights on the needs, capabilities, and limitations of road users, including perception and effects of visual demands, cognition, and influence of expectations on driving behavior. It bridges the gap between human factors research and practical application, presenting complex psychological insights in an accessible manner.This book begins with Part 1 explaining the significance of the traffic safety problem and giving an overview of the importance of human factors in highway design and traffic engineering. Part 2 focuses on driver information perception and processing, including perception of depth and speed, driver’s visual search, how road users search for information, and how mental and information load affects drivers’ performance. Part 3 provides results of investigations of traffic crash causation and reviews major driver errors. Part 4 then describes key principles of road users’ considerations during highway design and traffic operation. Finally, Part 5 focuses on safety analysis and assessment and describes in detail the existing methods to evaluate human factors during safety assessments.This is a valuable resource for professionals in highway and traffic engineering, researchers, policymakers, urban planners, and students to understand how human factors contribute to traffic incidents and how to mitigate these through design and operational strategies.

  • Internet of Things Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructures

    Case Studies in Energy Systems
    • 1st Edition
    • Monika Freunek
    • English
    Internet-of-Things Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructures: Case Studies in Energy Systems takes readers from the basic principles of cybersecurity in essential public infrastructure to the specific requirements of energy systems connected to the Internet-of-Things. This book provides a holistic approach to the challenges (legal, technological, and human) of AI and IOT integration for renewable, modern energy infrastructure. It outlines the fundamental challenges and technologies of cybersecurity for essential infrastructure and goes on to apply this specifically to energy grids and systems, in the light of the ML, AI, and IOT technologies required for renewable integration.Case studies are provided to ensure the reader is fully equipped to problem-solve and apply the knowledge in the development and planning of secure energy infrastructure. Packed with a wealth of practical experience and guidance, this book is a critical resource for energy system engineers looking for a primer on the cybersecurity needs of connected, renewable-integrated energy infrastructure.

  • Enhancing Resilience in Power Distribution Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Fangxing Fran Li + 2 more
    • English
    Enhancing Resilience in Power Distribution Systems presents practical guidance for readers on the challenges and potential solutions for resilience in modern power systems. The book begins by explaining the risks and problems for resilience presented by renewable-based power systems. It goes on to clarify the current state of research and propose several novel methodologies and technologies for analysis and improvement of power system resilience. These methods include deep learning, linear programming, and generative adversarial networks.Packed with practical steps and tools for implementing the latest technologies, this book provides researchers and industry professionals with guidance on the resilient systems of the future.

  • Artificial Intelligence

    Data and Model Safety
    • 1st Edition
    • Yu-Gang Jiang + 2 more
    • English
    Artificial Intelligence Data and Model Safety: Risks, Attacks and Defenses offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of AI and its security concerns. The book delves into how historical advancements in AI have both bolstered and complicated the issue of safeguarding data and models. By reflecting on the interplay between machine learning innovations and vulnerabilities, it sets the stage for readers to understand the critical importance of robust defenses in this era of digital and algorithmic reliance. In addition to contextualizing the historical trajectory of AI security, the book examines foundational elements of machine learning, emphasizing the mechanisms that contribute to, or mitigate, risks.Readers are guided through case studies of real-world attacks, illustrating the practical implications of security weaknesses, while proposed defense strategies provide actionable insights for strengthening AI systems.

  • Psoriatic Arthritis Updates, An Issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 51-3
    • Alexis Ogdie + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics, guest editors Drs. Alexis Ogdie and Eric M. Ruderman bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Psoriatic Arthritis Updates. Top experts discuss nail disease in PsD; obesity and comorbidity management in PsA; biomarkers and treatment response in PsD; gut manifestations of SpA and relevance for PsA; and many other timely topics, including recent research and treatment advancements that emphasize personalized care and multidisciplinary approaches for optimal patient outcomes.

  • Applications of Metal-Organic Framework Composites

    Exploring the Versatility of MOFs
    • 1st Edition
    • Hafezeh Nabipour + 1 more
    • English
    Applications of Metal-Organic Framework Composites: Exploring the Versatility of MOFs systematically describes the state-of-the-art knowledge and fundamentals of metal-organic frameworks' synthesis, structure, and functionalization. The book discusses the unique mechanical, optical, magnetic, ferroelectric, and electronic behaviors of metal-organic frameworks, covering various emerging applications across different fields, including environmental pollutant removal, biomedical applications, water desalination, packaging, supercapacitor and energy storage, EMI shielding, catalysis, gas separation, chemical sensing, fire retardancy, water splitting, antibacterial applications, and battery technology.All applications have been efficiently discussed in specific chapters, and in each case, the processing of metal-organic frameworks composites has also been addressed. The book enables readers to keep up with the latest advancements in the field and provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art research.

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