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    • Water Remediation Methods and Wastewater Treatment

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Olusola Olaitan Ayeleru + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Water Remediation Methods and Wastewater Treatment is an essential guide focusing on water reuse, wastewater, and wastewater applications for resource recovery and sustainability. The book's editors, all experts in the field, cover various physical, chemical, and biological methods which are being utilized to provide a complete remediation to an extent where wastewater could be discharged safely into inland waterbodies or could be possibly reused for agriculture or other purposes. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the current strategies and tools that are used to address water pollution and the efficient treatment of contaminated water sources.Using real-life applications and case studies, this comprehensive reference book is a necessary tool for students and researchers learning about waste remediation and wastewater treatment.

    • Fracture of Structural Steel Elements

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Maciej Dutkiewicz + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Fracture of Steel in Energy Machine Parts: High-Temperature Creep and Hydrogen Influence outlines modeling approaches for determining the effects of high-temperature creep, hydrogen diffusion, damage accumulation, and creep development in steam pipelines, steam turbine discs, heat exchange pipes, and steam boiler drums. The book starts by discussing the strength and durability of metallic materials and structural elements at volumetric damage, then at local damage, and finally at the end of residual life. It then presents models and algorithms for simulating the flow of these different phenomena (high-temperature creep, hydrogen diffusion, damage accumulation, and creep development) that occur at different speeds at different points in the volume of a structure. Different types of cracks are covered, including through cracks, internal cracks, surface cracks, and elliptical cracks.

    • Pyroelectric Ceramics

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Satyanarayan Patel
      • English
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      Pyroelectric Ceramics: Fundamentals, Synthesis and Emerging Applications discusses the latest advances in this important research field. The book explores the pyroelectric effect in various types of ceramics and discusses various routes to enhance properties for applications like sensors, energy harvesting, and catalysis. It provides insights into processing and design choices for optimizing pyroelectric properties and sensitivity, illustrating new approaches to leveraging the pyroelectric effect in ceramics for a broad range of different industrial applications. In will be a valuable reference resource for academic and industrial researchers, scientists, engineers, and postgraduate students working with ceramics, in pyroelectricity, and related fields.

    • Cooperative Control of Spacecraft Formation Flying

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Qinglei Hu + 2 more
      • English
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      Cooperative Control of Spacecraft Formation Flying: From Anti-Communication Delays to Resources Saving provides an in-depth, practically focused, exploration of secure cooperative control for spacecraft formation flying that addresses real-world challenges including communication latency, resource constraints, and information security, balancing foundational theory with actionable solutions, tailored to complex, resource-limited environments A comprehensive reference source for aerospace engineers and researchers covering anti-communication delays and resource-saving coordination strategies in spacecraft formation flying. For professionals and researchers in space systems, robotics and control engineering, the book provides detailed descriptions of robust security measures and practical application insights. The integration of secure communication protocols with control methods makes the book particularly relevant for professionals in high-stakes environments, where cyber threats and resource limitations are critical. For space agency mission planners and aerospace cybersecurity experts, the project addresses critical issues in secure, delay-tolerant communication and resource optimization for coordinated spacecraft missions. This enhances the development of secure and resilient communication protocols, which are critical to prevent data breaches and ensure reliable inter-spacecraft coordination in adversarial environments. The integration of advanced algorithms and the emphasis on real-world challenges, particularly the communication security issue, provides readers with a unique perspective that is missing in existing literature. The book equips readers with detailed information on advanced control strategies for multi-spacecraft coordination, particularly methods that address communication delays and optimize resource use.

    • Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Analytical Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Suresh Kumar Kailasa + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Analytical Chemistry: A Practical Approach provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental, theoretical aspects and advanced applications of fluorescence spectroscopy in analytical chemistry. The book provides basic knowledge and recent advances, enabling new users to effectively apply techniques. Readers will gain significant insights into recent developments of organic and inorganic fluorophores and their potential applications in fluorescence spectroscopy for quantitative analysis of various molecules. Sections explore the challenges and potential applications, with an emphasis on understanding the theory, detection mechanisms, and new fluorophores for molecular recognition.The book is a valuable resource, practical guide, and roadmap to fluorescence spectroscopy for all chemists, analytical scientists, academics, and researchers investigating organic and inorganic fluorophore-based sensor technology for molecular and ionic species sensing. It is also an important reference for researchers, bioanalytical chemists, and technologists working on fluorescence spectroscopy.

    • Energy Communities

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Carlos Cruz de la Torre + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, designing, and optimizing energy communities, with step-by-step breakdowns of the technical, economic, and practical principles at play. This book opens by examining the key agents, models, and impacts of energy communities, including infrastructure, generation, and storage technologies. Part II delves into economic considerations, discussing legislative frameworks, barriers, greenwashing risks, and support mechanisms. Part III focuses on complex practical arrangements, providing cutting-edge, detailed case studies examining collective assets and cost-sharing mechanisms. Finally, Part IV addresses energy management and dispatch, highlighting demand and storage technologies utilizing deep learning, big data, and digital twin technology. With its holistic perspective, blending theoretical insights with practical blueprints and real-world case studies, Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends is an essential resource for students, engineers, and academics designing decentralized energy systems to enable renewable energy integration, and future-proof the power infrastructure.

    • PEM Fuel Cells Performance

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Mehrzad Shams + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      PEM Fuel Cell Performance: Simulation and Optimization by AI introduces innovative methods to enhance the efficiency of PEM fuel cells through computational techniques such as multi-objective optimization, computational fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence, and exergy analysis. This book offers practical solutions, illustrated with examples, case studies, and numerical simulations, aimed at improving the design and optimization of PEM fuel cells and their components. Readers will explore the challenges and potentials of PEM fuel cells across various industries, including transport, power generation, and hydrogen production. The book thoroughly discusses the design, development, testing, and operation of PEM fuel cell systems and components.It also provides foundational knowledge for students, practical examples for researchers, and comprehensive guidance for engineers and practitioners, focusing on aspects like electrodes, gas diffusion layers, flow fields, thermal management, and operating conditions.

    • Decarbonization of Wastewater Pollutants as a Sustainable Solution

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Alok Prasad Das + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Decarbonization of Wastewater Pollutants as a Sustainable Solution: Developments in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes explores eco-friendly techniques for treating wastewater, enabling the recycling of pollutants and managing residual wastes in a biologically acceptable manner. The book addresses current and emerging technologies for wastewater treatment and reuse, discussing their limitations and future potential. It examines the transformation of anthropogenic waste into value-added products, emphasizing the critical need to handle waste more sustainably to mitigate hazards to humans, animals, and the environment.It delves into organic waste and fourth-generation biomass for targeted goods and provides insights into achieving full decarbonization by balancing residual emissions, including the carbon footprint of chemical use and transportation. The book covers technologies relevant to wastewater from municipal and industrial sources, as well as drinking water, and details physical, chemical, and thermal processes, making it indispensable for researchers in the field.

    • The Total Safety Factor Method for Tunnel Support Structure Design

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Mingqing Xiao
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Total Safety Factor Method for Tunnel Support Structure Design systematically discusses the entire process of mining tunnel design, including: analysis of surrounding rock self-stability; identification of local support and system support; calculation of rock pressure design value; load structure model and total safety factor calculation method of multi-layer support structure; deformation calculation method of support structure; integrated design method of support strength-deformation... and the dynamic adjustment method based on on-site deformation monitoring. It also presents the inspection and verification tests of total safety factor method and specific engineering application cases. The theoretical system of total safety factor method described in this book has broken through the design bottleneck of tunnel support structures that have long relied on engineering analogy methods. The The Total Safety Factor Method provides the basic theoretical guidance for the quantitative design, dynamic adjustment and intelligent construction of mining tunnel support structures. The book is based on the many years of experience of the team led by the author of this book: Xiao Mingqing. Professor Ming's team has been involved in the design of nearly 20% of the high-speed railway tunnels and 50% of large-diameter underwater shield tunnels in China, with a total design mileage of 4,000km.

    • Adapting to Urban Heat:

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Carmen Galán Marín + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Adapting to Urban Heat: Strategies and Tools for Resilience in Low Carbon Cities provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the issues associated with adapting to climate change and building urban resilience. The book's editors have gathered an impressive team of authors to examine the implications of urban heat, tools for decoding and coding urban heat, and design strategies for adapting to urban heat. Sections explore the issue from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, encompassing environmental engineering, climate change, ecology, data science, and architectural design.This reference is an essential resource for researchers and practitioners working in environmental science and climate change who are interested in building more resilient and sustainable cities.

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