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Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Julia Kowal + 1 more
  • English
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Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications: Simulation Models of Secondary Batteries: From Quantum Physics to Techno-economic Scale gives an overview of the different modeling approaches for battery simulation models used for different purposes, such as battery pack design or state of charge estimation. Solutions for different applications are presented, and a classification into electrical, thermal, aging models is given, along with degree of precision ranging from physico-chemical, over impedance based to energy flow or empirical models with their specific advantages and disadvantages.In applications such as a vehicle energy management, it is important to know the state of the battery, e.g., what is the remaining driving range or when should the battery be replaced.

Photothermal Materials and Membranes for Solar-Driven Water Treatment

  • 1st Edition
  • January 15, 2025
  • Jaydevsinh M. Gohil + 1 more
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Photothermal Materials and Membranes for Solar-Driven Water Treatment provides a comprehensive understanding of the chemistry of different photothermal materials, mechanistic pathways for light-to-heat energy conversion, design, and development of various 3D evaporation systems configurations, and photothermal membranes for water treatment. The book contributes to the understanding of photothermal materials to system design for efficient solar-to-heat conversion and solar-steam generation and paves the way forward to meet increasing freshwater demand through a sustainable and environmentally friendly approach. The book provides an in-depth introduction to emerging concepts such as steam generation; gives the basics of solar light and solar-light-adsorbing materials’ function, efficiency, and applications; discusses the preparation of photothermal materials and membranes; analyzes the key characteristic properties of photothermal materials; elaborates on water evaporation using nature-inspired system design; and highlights the key commercialization approaches and technologies. This book is an excellent resource for chemical engineers, materials scientists, energy technologists, environmentalists, policymakers, and regulatory bodies working on water treatment, wastewater decontamination, photothermal materials and membranes, photocatalytic materials, membrane separation, and membrane filtration.

Optical Properties of Semiconducting Nanostructures for Photocatalysis

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Ramin Yousefi
  • English
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Optical Properties of Semiconducting Nanostructures for Photocatalysis: Fundamentals, Materials Design, and Applications investigates the most important factors in improving the photocatalytic process of nanostructures. It focuses on the key parameters that define the effective factors in the photocatalytic process by a nanostructured semiconductor: bandgap energy, structural defects, morphology, size, lifetime of the electron-hole pair created in the semiconductor by photon radiation, quantum efficiency of the nanostructured semiconductor, and surface porosity The photocatalytic materials explored by the book include metal-oxide and metal-chalcogenide based materials, graphene, graphite carbon nitride (g-C3N4) as a metal-free semiconductor, carbon/semiconductor nanocomposites, inorganic/organic nanocomposites, and noble metals to increase the efficiency of photocatalytic properties. The variety of semiconductor materials covered in this book ensures that it will be essential reading for researchers and students in the field of photocatalysis. Thoroughly explores the application of nanostructured semiconductors in the photocatalysis process

Homogeneous Isomerization, Amination and Silicon Compounds Reactions

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 3 more
  • English
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Homogeneous Isomerization, Amination and Silicon Compounds Reactions, a volume in the Advances in Homogeneous Catalysis series, is separated into three parts to provide comprehensive coverage of isomerization, amination, and silicon compounds reactions with homogeneous catalysts. The first part presents isomerization of functionalized and non-functionalized alkenes. Homogeneous amination and hydroamination reactions are investigated in the second, while the final part covers homogeneous reactions of silicon compounds. The comprehensive coverage of the subject means this volume will be particularly useful to help bridge the gap between chemists and engineer’s knowledge and use of homogeneous catalysis.

Sustainable and Green Catalytic Processes for Renewable Fuel Production with Net-Zero Emissions

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Sreedevi Upadhyayula + 1 more
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Sustainable and Green Catalytic Processes for Renewable Fuel Production with Net-Zero Emissions describes the significance of catalysis for the sustainable production of biofuels and biochemicals, with a particular emphasis on the state-of-the-art catalysts and catalytic processes for "green and sustainable" production of fuels and chemicals from biomass feedstock. The book also offers a multidisciplinary, thorough, and insightful analysis of the problems that must be solved in order to develop sustainable fuel technologies and processes while also reporting on recent research developments and taking pertinent sustainability, economic, energy, and social impact issues into account.

Homogeneous Catalysts Development

  • 1st Edition
  • October 25, 2024
  • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 3 more
  • English
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Homogeneous Catalysts Development, a volume in the Advances in Homogeneous Catalysis series, covers hydrogenation and metathesis reactions in two separate sections. The first section is devoted to homogeneous hydrogenation reactions and related processes, including hydrogenation of alkenes, esters, olefins, etc. In the second section, the metathesis reactions of olefins, alkenes, and alkynes are presented. In addition, the industrial application of homogeneous metathesis reactions is investigated.

Homogeneous Polymerization and Oligomerization Reactions

  • 1st Edition
  • October 25, 2024
  • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 3 more
  • English
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Homogeneous Polymerization and Oligomerization Reactions, a volume in the Advances in Homogeneous Catalysis series, covers polymerization and oligomerization reactions with homogeneous catalysts. In section one, homogeneous polymerization of alkenes, olefins, polycarbonates and polystyrene are discussed, while the second section, presents in detail homogeneous oligomerization, cyclopolymerization, dimerization, and telomerization reactions. Finally, process reactor design, industrial applications, economic assessment, and environmental challenges are discussed in-depth, making this volume of particular interest to academic researchers and industrialists.

Ionic Liquid in Process Intensification

  • 1st Edition
  • October 18, 2024
  • Suojiang Zhang
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Ionic Liquids in Process Intensification focuses on ionic liquids to carry out process intensification research. The book uses computational simulation methods of ionic liquids, as well as the structural design, prediction and structure regulation to describe the process of ionic liquids intensify reaction, separation, photochemistry and materials synthesis related to chemical processes. It analyzes and discusses the latest research results and typical application cases and provides new research ideas and methods for the correlation of different scales from molecular to chemical engineering.Users will find a comprehensive resource that combines computational chemistry, physical chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, and many other basic and applied disciplines.

Homogeneous Oxidation Reactions

  • 1st Edition
  • September 27, 2024
  • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 3 more
  • English
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Homogeneous Oxidation Reactions, a volume in the Advances Homogeneous in Catalysis series, covers oxidation and hydrogenation reactions in detail. Split into two sections, the first is devoted to various homogeneous oxidation processes, such as oxidation of olefins, phenols, and aromatic acids. The second presents homogeneous hydrogenation reactions and related processes, including hydrogenation of alkenes, esters, and olefins. Relevant reactor design, industrial case studies, economic analysis and environmental issues of both oxidation and hydrogenation homogeneous reactions are considered. This book will be of particular interest and benefit to catalysts users, manufacturers, and creators.

Homogeneous Hydrogenation and Metathesis Reactions

  • 1st Edition
  • September 27, 2024
  • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 3 more
  • English
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Homogeneous Hydrogenation and Metathesis Reactions, a volume in the Advances in Homogeneous Catalysis series, covers hydrogenation and metathesis reactions in two separate sections. The first section is devoted to homogeneous hydrogenation reactions and related processes, including hydrogenation of alkenes, esters, olefins, etc. In the second section, the metathesis reactions of olefins, alkenes, and alkynes are presented. In addition, the industrial application of homogeneous metathesis reactions is investigated.

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