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  • Proceedings of the 3rd International Gas Processing Symposium

    Qatar, March 2012
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English
    Natural gas continues to be the fuel of choice for power generation and feedstock for a range of petrochemical industries. This trend is driven by environmental, economic and supply considerations with a balance clearly tilting in favor of natural gas as both fuel and feedstock. Despite the recent global economic uncertainty, the oil and gas industry is expected to continue its growth globally, especially in emerging economies. The expansion in LNG capacity beyond 2011 and 2012 coupled with recently launched and on-stream GTL plants poses real technological and environmental challenges. These important developments coupled with a global concern on green house gas emissions provide a fresh impetus to engage in new and more focused research activities aimed at mitigating or resolving the challenges facing the industry.Academic researchers and plant engineers in the gas processing industry will benefit from the state of the art papers published in this collection that cover natural gas utilization, sustainability and excellence in gas processing.

  • Progress in Medicinal Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 51
    • English
    Progress in Medicinal Chemistry provides a review of eclectic developments in medicinal chemistry. This volume continues in the serial's tradition of providing an insight into the skills required of the modern medicinal chemist; in particular, the use of an appropriate selection of the wide range of tools now available to solve key scientific problems.

  • Comprehensive Renewable Energy

    • 1st Edition
    • Trevor Letcher
    • English
    Comprehensive Renewable Energy, Eight Volume Set, winner of a 2012 PROSE Award for Best Multi-volume Reference in Science from the Association of American Publishers, is the only work of its type at a time when renewable energy sources are seen increasingly as realistic alternatives to fossil fuels. As the majority of information published for the target audience is currently available via a wide range of journals, seeking relevant information (be that experimental, theoretical, and computational aspects of either a fundamental or applied nature) can be a time-consuming and complicated process. Comprehensive Renewable Energy, Eight Volume Set, is arranged according to the most important themes in the field (photovoltaic technology; wind energy technology; fuel cells and hydrogen technology; biomass and biofuels production; hydropower applications; solar thermal systems: components and applications; geothermal energy; ocean energy), and as such users can feel confident that they will find all the relevant information in one place, with helpful cross-referencing between and within all the subject areas, to broaden their understanding and deepen their knowledge. It is an invaluable resource for teaching as well as in research. Available online via SciVerse ScienceDirect and in print.

  • Engineering for Sustainability

    A Practical Guide for Sustainable Design
    • 1st Edition
    • Gerald Jonker + 1 more
    • English
    This book provides engineers with the necessary information to design sustainable processes, products and value chains. It describes the current consensus on sustainable development for four context levels: Planet, Society, Business, and Engineers. It also presents all required design steps: from problem definition, via synthesis of potential solutions, analysis of solutions, improvements to the final solution evaluation. For each design step, methods and guidelines are provided in relation to the goal of obtaining a sustainable solution; a solution that meets both the needs of people and all specific context constraints with regard to the planet and prosperity.

  • Energy Potential of the Russian Arctic Seas

    Choice of Development Strategy
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 58
    • Alexey Piskarev + 1 more
    • English
    The structure of sedimentary basins of the Russian Arctic Seas is studied and illustrated by a number of maps, cross-sections and geophysical models. The calculated density models of the Earth crust illustrate the deep structure of the main blocks of the crust. Five major gas-condensate and gas fields are discovered here: three (Shtokman, Ludlov, Ledovoe) in the Barents and two (Leningrad and Rusanov) in the Kara Sea.Geological and geophysical characteristics of the Russian Arctic Sea sedimentary basins allow an estimation of their hydrocarbon potential by comparison with the known world analogues.Total potential resources of giant deposits of hydrocarbons in Russian Arctic Seas are estimated at 470 billion barrels of oil equivalent. The richest resources are the Kara Sea and Laptev Sea. Less rich is Barents Sea. The relatively smaller contribution to the overall estimation of the resources makes the resources of East-Siberian Sea and Chukchi Sea.Development the energy capacity of the continental shelf of Russia can play a stabilizing role in the dynamics of oil and gas production in the period 2010-2020. A key role in developing the capacity of the Arctic shelf oil and gas play is the innovative technology in exploration, production and management of the relevant investment projects. World offshore experience indicates that the combination of these factors is achieved through the formation of international firms and organizations.

  • High-Pressure Fluid Phase Equilibria

    Phenomenology and Computation
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • Ulrich K Deiters + 1 more
    • English
    The book begins with an overview of the phase diagrams of fluid mixtures (fluid = liquid, gas, or supercritical state), which can show an astonishing variety when elevated pressures are taken into account; phenomena like retrograde condensation (single and double) and azeotropy (normal and double) are discussed. It then gives an introduction into the relevant thermodynamic equations for fluid mixtures, including some that are rarely found in modern textbooks, and shows how they can they be used to compute phase diagrams and related properties. This chapter gives a consistent and axiomatic approach to fluid thermodynamics; it avoids using activity coefficients. Further chapters are dedicated to solid-fluid phase equilibria and global phase diagrams (systematic search for phase diagram classes). The appendix contains numerical algorithms needed for the computations. The book thus enables the reader to create or improve computer programs for the calculation of fluid phase diagrams.

  • The Climate of the Mediterranean Region

    From the Past to the Future
    • 1st Edition
    • P. Lionello
    • English
    The Mediterranean region contains a diverse and interesting climate ranging from areas with permanent glaciers to areas of subtropical, semiarid regions. The region is potentially sensitive to climate change and its progress has environmental, social, and economic implications within and beyond the region. Produced by the Mediterranean Climate Variability and Predictability Research Networking Project, this book reviews the evolution of the Mediterranean climate over the past two millennia with projections further into the twenty-first century as well as examining in detail various aspects of the Mediterranean region’s climate including evolution, atmospheric variables, and oceanic and land elements. Integrated with this, the book also considers the social and economic problems or vulnerabilities associated with the region. Written and reviewed by multiple researchers to ensure a high level of information presented clearly, Mediterranean Climate Variables will be an invaluable source of information for geologists, oceanographers, and anyone interested in learning more about the Mediterranean climate.

  • Vínculos de NOC y NIC a NANDA-I y diagnósticos médicos

    Soporte para el razonamiento crítico y la calidad de los cuidados
    • 3rd Edition
    • Marion Johnson + 5 more
    • Spanish
    Obra que explora los vínculos entre los tres lenguajes estandarizados reconocidos por la profesión, NANDA, NOC y NIC. Se organiza en tres secciones: Introducción a las interrelaciones, Interrelaciones entre los tres lenguajes y etiquetas y Definiciones de NOC y NIC. Un complemento perfecto de NIC y NOC que, utilizado junto a estas dos obras y los diagnósticos de la NANDA, ofrece la información que enfermeros e instituciones necesitan para documentar los cuidados enfermeros. Cuenta con un nuevo capítulo en la toma de decisiones clínicas, otro sobre el uso de NANDA, NIC y NOC en sistemas de información, listados de intervención más concisa y 20 nuevas interrelaciones con diagnósticos comunes, con altos costes sanitarios.

  • Texto ilustrado e interactivo de biología molecular e ingeniería genética

    Conceptos, técnicas y aplicaciones en ciencias de la salud
    • 2nd Edition
    • Ángel Herráez Sánchez
    • Spanish
    Se trata de una obra con un planteamiento muy novedoso, escrita con el objetivo de responder a las necesidades reales del alumno. Es lo que se conoce como "libro dialogante", que estimula al estudiante y le hace reflexionar. El doctor Herráez continúa en la presente edición con la filosofía de recoger, de forma conjunta y concisa, los conceptos básicos de la biología molecular e ingeniería genética, para, posteriormente, establecer sobre estas bases sus cada vez mayores aplicaciones tecnológicas y la terapéutica del futuro. La presente edición no renuncia a estos aspectos básicos, pero también incluye otros más novedosos. Incorpora un nuevo capítulo de clonación y células madre. Destaca la integración de la información y el enfoque gráfico-visual seguido en la exposición de la misma, con predominio de esquemas y figuras sobre texto escrito. Para facilitar esta explicación visual, todo el libro es a cuatro colores, con un diseño novedoso, atractivo y didáctico y unas figuras espectaculares. Como novedad en esta edición, la obra se encuentra en dos soportes complementarios, soporte impreso y soporte electrónico. La página web incluye multitud de recursos interactivos y desde el texto se hacen llamadas a la web con el objetivo de que el alumno aprenda de una forma más entretenida.

  • Particulate Morphology

    Mathematics Applied to Particle Assemblies
    • 1st Edition
    • Keishi Gotoh
    • English
    Encompassing over fifty years of research, Professor Gotoh addresses the correlation function of spatial structures and the statistical geometry of random particle assemblies. In this book morphological study is formed into random particle assemblies to which various mathematics are applied such as correlation function, radial distribution function and statistical geometry. This leads to the general comparison between the thermodynamic state such as gases and liquids and the random particle assemblies. Although structures of molecular configurations change at every moment due to thermal vibration, liquids can be regarded as random packing of particles. Similarly, gaseous states correspond to particle dispersion. If physical and chemical properties are taken away from the subject, the remainder is the structure itself. Hence, the structural study is ubiquitous and of fundamental importance. This book will prove useful to chemical engineers working on powder technology as well as mathematicians interested in learning more about the subject.

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