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  • The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 3

    The Body of Knowledge around Disruptive Sustainability Innovation
    • 1st Edition
    • Mark Von Rosing
    • English
    The Sustainability Handbook: The Body of Knowledge around Disruptive Sustainability Innovation, Volume Three provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainability, bridging the gap between academic theory and business practices. Using numerous specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, the book shows how to strategically integrate sustainability into an organization, with extensive focus on policies, incentives, measures, operations, production, consumption and lifecycle management. Aimed at those who have already established a mature Sustainability Portfolio Management approach, it explores the “why” of Disruptive Sustainably Innovation and how to capture and use Sustainability Drivers and Requirements.Global climate change poses enormous environmental challenges, and societies across the world must adapt and innovate to further the goals of sustainability for present and future generations. The private sector especially must find new ways of doing business to align their practices with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community. Using a conceptually structured framework throughout, the book examines the latest academic research to summarize what environmental, social, and economic sustainability actually means in different contexts. This book will be ideal for researchers, students and businesspeople at all levels and sectors.
  • Ceramic Membranes for Liquid Separation Processes

    From Research to Real-World Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Zhenghua Zhang
    • English
    Ceramic Membranes for Liquid Separation Processes: From Research to Real-World Applications aims to provide an extensive review of both conventional and advanced ceramic membranes, focusing on their development and real-world applications. The book presents the latest advancements in catalytic ceramic membranes and provides a comprehensive overview of the ceramic membrane industry. It addresses significant topics such as material innovations, fabrication techniques, mechanistic insights, membrane fouling and mitigation strategies, and the use of catalytic membranes in water and wastewater treatment applications.By highlighting both academic and industrial perspectives, the book seeks to educate and empower researchers, engineers, and policymakers working in the field of membrane technology and environmental engineering to promote the adoption of catalytic ceramic membranes as a promising solution for clean water reclamation.
  • Intelligent Control in Smart Energy Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Satya Prakash Yadav + 3 more
    • English
    Intelligent Control in Smart Energy Systems provides a clear and practical guide to the implementation of Artificial Intelligent (AI) techniques in modern, sustainable energy systems. Building from essential theory to advanced application processes, this book outlines the essential challenge of control for renewable and distributed energy sources and applies a range of AI solutions from deep learning, data-driven decision-making, advanced control, and optimization algorithms for smart grids. Case studies and latest results cover control across design, development, and operation of smart energy systems, touching on control in generation, distribution, and supply.Catering to newly interdisciplinary researchers as well as those with a basic understanding of AI technologies, this book supports higher-stage undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and system engineers in implementing best practice control techniques for a sustainable energy grid.
  • Advancements in Thermoelectric Modules

    Harvesting Energy through Innovative Applications and Integrations
    • 1st Edition
    • Mohsen Sheikholeslami + 3 more
    • English
    Advancements in Thermoelectric Modules: Harvesting Energy through Innovative Applications and Integrations addresses fundamental principles of thermoelectricity, materials selection, fabrication techniques, simulation methodologies, and diverse applications in various industries such as automotive, aerospace, energy, and electronics. Readers will benefit from the book's practical guidance, case studies, and in-depth analyses of emerging trends and future directions in thermoelectric technology. From optimizing thermoelectric module performance to integrating with renewable energy systems, this book provides a holistic view of harnessing waste heat recovery, energy harvesting, and temperature control through thermoelectric modules and their applications.Researc... and engineers can access the latest research findings and optimization techniques while industry professionals will find guidance on system integration and economic feasibility. Educators and students will benefit from a comprehensive resource covering fundamental principles, practical applications, and emerging trends in thermoelectrics.
  • LLMs in Practice

    Real World Applications, Challenges and Success Stories
    • 1st Edition
    • Kiran Jot Singh + 3 more
    • English
    LLMs in Practice: Real World Applications, Challenges and Success Stories offers a deeply applied, interdisciplinary perspective on how Large Language Models (LLMs) are being integrated into the real world—spanning industries, healthcare, education, governance, mental health, creative domains, and intelligent systems. The book presents a blend of technical insights, sector-specific applications, governance frameworks, and ethical considerations. Designed for both academic and professional audiences, it equips readers to responsibly deploy LLMs while fostering innovation, equity, and scalability. The book addresses a significant gap in current literature by offering a focused, practice-oriented examination on how LLMs are being applied across diverse real-world domains.While there is widespread academic and public interest in generative AI, there exists no single resource that cohesively captures its deployment frameworks, sector-specific applications, ethical considerations, and pedagogical integration—especial... from a multidisciplinary and global perspective. This book provides deployment guidance, prompt optimization, and reliability strategies; governance frameworks, risk mitigation tools, and audit strategies; and offers case studies, instructional models, project templates, career-aligned examples, and skill-building paths.
  • Respiratory Medicine, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 56-4
    • Jonathan D Dear
    • English
    In this issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, guest editor Dr. Jonathan D. Dear brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Respiratory Medicine. Top experts discuss lymphoplasmacytic rhinitis: update and novel treatments; novel nasal tumor interventions; aerodigestive disease and impacts on airway health; nasopharyngeal disease: update on treatment recommendations; clinical use of biomarkers in lung disease; and more.
  • Pulmonary Vascular Disease: From Bench to Bedside, An issue of Heart Failure Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 22-3
    • Alberto Maria Marra + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Heart Failure Clinics, guest editors Drs. Alberto Maria Marra and Pablo Demero-Rodriguez bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Pulmonary Vascular Disease: From Bench to Bedside. Top experts discuss follow-up of pulmonary embolism; impact of COVID-19 on pulmonary hypertension; pulmonary embolism and cancer; efficacy of exercise training in pulmonary vascular disease; and much more.
  • Applied Machine Learning in Chemical Process Engineering

    A Practical Approach
    • 1st Edition
    • Zafar Said + 1 more
    • English
    As machine learning capabilities and functionality increases, more industry experts and researchers are integrating applied machine learning into their research. Applied Machine Learning in Chemical Process Engineering: A Practical Approach serves as a comprehensive guide to equip the reader with the fundamental theory, practical guidance, methodologies, experimental design and troubleshooting knowledge needed to integrate machine learning into their processes. This book offers a comprehensive overview of all aspects of machine learning, from inception to integration that will allow readers from any scientific discipline to begin to examine the capabilities of machine learning. This book will then build upon this overview to offer worked examples and case studies, alongside practical methods-based guidance to walk the reader through integrating machine learning end-to-end. Finally, this book will offer critical discussion of concepts that are interwoven into the ever-evolving principles of machine learning such as ethics, safety and culpability that are crucial when working with machine learning. Applied Machine Learning in Chemical Process Engineering: A Practical Approach will be an invaluable resource for researchers, professionals in industry and academia, and students at graduate level and above who work in chemical engineering and are looking to automate, optimize or intensify their chemical processes. This book will also help professionals in other disciplines and industries looking into integrate machine learning into their work, such as though looking to scale up their processes to an industrial scale or conduct novel research.
  • MXenes for Supercapacitors

    Design, Performance and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Mayank Pandey + 2 more
    • English
    MXenes for Supercapacitors: Design, Performance and Applications focuses on design principles and strategies for optimizing performance that are crucial for harnessing the full potential of these materials in supercapacitors, which include detailed discussions on MXene-based electrode materials, electrolyte systems, and device configurations. The book also offers new insights into enhancing energy storage capacity, power density, and cycling stability. By bridging the gap between fundamental research and practical implementation, it will equip the reader (researchers, engineers, and industry professionals) with the knowledge and tools necessary to develop the next generation of supercapacitor technologies with MXenes at the forefront of research.The book will serve as a comprehensive guide addressing, both fundamental aspects and practical implications for this cutting-edge technology and its use in supercapacitors.
  • Materials Informatics

    Molecules, Crystals, and Beyond
    • 1st Edition
    • Krishna Rajan
    • English
    Materials Informatics: Molecules, Crystals and Beyond discusses the role of information science in aiding the discovery and interpretation of multiscale relationships that are critical for materials discovery, design, and optimization. The book covers key challenges in applying information science methods to materials science, including the multidimensional nature of structure-property relationships, data sparsity, and the nature and sources of uncertainty, along with a brief overview of the algorithmic tools used for unsupervised and supervised learning.Building on these topics, chapters then cover the development of physics/chemistry informed data representations of structure and properties, the application of machine learning for structure and property prediction and screening for targeted properties, and the utilization of techniques such a graphics recognition, natural language processing, and statistically driven visualization tools in deciphering processing-structure... relationships in materials.