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The Chemical Engineering collection offers content that combines research with foundational knowledge, practical information, methods and case studies, in a variety of areas, including biochemical engineering, catalysis, filtration & separation, colloids & surface chemistry, electrochemical engineering, energy & transport processes, materials chemistry, metallurgy, process engineering, safety & reliability, sustainable & environmental, to help chemical engineers address the challenges we face today, including climate change, global warming, health and nutrition, and alternative energy.

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Towards Nanofluids for Large-Scale Industrial Applications

  • 1st Edition
  • May 3, 2024
  • Bharat A. Bhanvase + 3 more
  • English
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Nanofluids for Large-Scale Industrial Applications examines the challenges and current progress towards large-scale industrial application of nanofluids, summarizing and bringing together varied current research strands and providing potential solutions pertaining to the scientific, economic, and social barriers that currently exist.Opening with an introduction to nanofluid synthesis, types, and properties, this book traverses the potential large-scale applications and commercialisation of nanofluids in industrial heating/cooling, solar energy systems, refrigeration systems, automotive systems, and various chemical processes and manufacturing systems.This book provides knowledge of a vast area of applications of nanofluids in industries. Thus, it also has potential to encourage and trigger the minds of researchers to discover more about nanofluids, investigate the gaps, overcome the challenges, and provide future directions for newer applications and develop nanofluids further. The book is written chiefly for graduate/postdoc level students and researchers/academics teaching or studying in chemical and thermal engineering and who are focused on heat transfer enhancement, thermal energy, nanofluids, and nano-enhanced energy systems such as solar thermal systems.

Elastomer-Based Composites and Nanocomposites

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2024
  • Hamid Essabir + 2 more
  • English
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Elastomer-Based Composite and Nanocomposites: Fundamentals, Recycling and Applications provides an updated review of the main innovations in this important research field. The book's chapters are written by well-known scholars and leading industrial experts from around the globe. Key aspects covered include properties and applications of reinforcement agents, filler morphology, synthesis, functionalization, processing and characterization of the resulting composites and their structural, mechanical, thermal, and rheological properties. The book will be an essential reference resource for academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers, and chemists working in the development of polymer materials and elastomer-based composites.

Processing of Biomass Waste

  • 1st Edition
  • April 25, 2024
  • Angana Sarkar + 1 more
  • English
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Processing of Biomass Waste: Technological Upgradation and Advancement focuses on the exploitation of various waste management technologies and their associated process (microbial/chemical/physical) as tools to simultaneously generate value during treatment processes, including degradation/detoxification/stabilization toxic and hazardous contaminants. The book explores wastes as a veritable resource for wealth creation, with particular focus on resources recoverable from diverse wastes using special intervention of biotechnological tools. Other sections highlight recent technologies of waste bioprocessing in biorefinery approaches and enlighten on different approaches. The book encompasses advanced and updated information as well as future directions for young researchers and scientists who are working in the field of waste management, with a focus on sustainable value generation.

Blue Energy Extraction Using Salinity Gradients

  • 1st Edition
  • April 19, 2024
  • Mihir Kumar Purkait + 3 more
  • English
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Blue Energy Extraction Using Salinity Gradients: A Critical Evaluation of Case Studies presents a collection of case studies on real-world power plants from around the world that involve sustainable energy extraction via salinity gradients. Using real-world examples, the book explains and demonstrates the fundamentals, technologies, processes, and application of salinity gradient energy extraction methods, while also offering practical solutions. The book provides an overview of the fundamentals and technologies of salinity gradient energy, with each chapter analyzing a real-world salinity gradient power plant from a different region of the world. Examples from developed and developing economies on three continents are covered.For each case study, key aspects of performance are evaluated, and benefits and operational challenges are discussed. Validated mathematical models are also included to improve readers understanding of how to control operating parameters.

Smart Textiles from Natural Resources

  • 1st Edition
  • April 18, 2024
  • Md. Ibrahim H. Mondal
  • English
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Smart Textiles from Natural Resources is an interdisciplinary guide for best practices and emerging challenges in the use of natural textiles in smart applications. The movement towards smart textiles has attracted researchers from many fields creating multidisciplinary research frontiers with nanoscience, smart materials and structures, microelectronics, and wireless communication. This groundbreaking book provides technical advice and foundational support to researchers from all of these backgrounds. Each chapter in is written, reviewed, and edited to cover the principles of manufacture, process techniques and mechanisms, and state-of-the-art construction specifications, properties, test methods, and standards of major product areas and applications.

Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications. Volume 7: Natural Gas Products and Uses

  • 1st Edition
  • April 17, 2024
  • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 2 more
  • English
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Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications is a comprehensive eight-volume set of books that discusses in detail the theoretical basics and practical methods of various aspects of natural gas from exploration and extraction, to synthesizing, processing and purifying, producing valuable chemicals and energy. The volumes introduce transportation and storage challenges as well as hydrates formation, extraction, and prevention. Volume 7 titled Natural Gas Products and Uses comprehensively discusses natural gas conversion and applications for producing high-value chemicals and energy which are accompanied with related economic analysis. The book covers various methods for producing valuable materials such as synthesis and fuel gases, alkanes, aromatics, sulphurs, etc. and introduces power and electricity generation as well as heat production from natural gas and their applications on future energy systems.

Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications. Volume 6: Natural Gas Transportation and Storage

  • 1st Edition
  • April 4, 2024
  • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 2 more
  • English
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Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications is a comprehensive eight-volume set of books that discusses in detail the theoretical basics and practical methods of various aspects of natural gas from exploration and extraction, to synthesizing, processing and purifying, producing valuable chemicals and energy. The volumes introduce transportation and storage challenges as well as hydrates formation, extraction, and prevention. Volume 6 titled Natural Gas Transportation and Storage is separated into three sections. The first section discusses different natural gas transportation technologies (such as LNG, CNG, ANG, etc.). The second section introduces related apparatus for natural gas transportation and storage, including leak detection techniques, compressors, pumps, and cold energy recovery system. The last section explains challenges of natural gas transmission including inhibition of pipeline corrosion and wax deposition, pipeline cleaning challenges, accompanied with Modelling and simulation of multiphase high-pressure natural gas release from pipelines.

Medical Additive Manufacturing

  • 1st Edition
  • April 3, 2024
  • Shadpour Mallakpour + 1 more
  • English
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Medical Additive Manufacturing: Concepts and Fundamentals provides an overview of the latest research in the field of additively manufactured medical materials. It starts with a broad overview of the current state of medical additive manufacturing and then dives into cutting-edge topics such as medical imaging technologies for additive manufacturing and computer-aided design principles for anatomic modeling. The chapters discuss the state of additive manufacturing in an array of medical fields such as radiology, tissue engineering, nuclear medicine, orthopedics, surgery, cardiology, neurology, optometry, obstetrics, and veterinary medicine. This book concludes with chapters discussing regulatory considerations for additive manufacturing in hospitals and what the future holds for the field.

Structural Health Monitoring/Management (SHM) in Aerospace Structures

  • 1st Edition
  • April 3, 2024
  • Fuh-Gwo Yuan
  • English
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Structural Health Monitoring/Management (SHM) in Aerospace Structures provides readers with the spectacular progress that has taken place over the last twenty years with respect to the area of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Management. The SHM field encompasses transdisciplinary areas, including smart materials, sensors and actuators, damage diagnosis and prognosis, signal and image processing algorithms, wireless intelligent sensing, data fusion, and energy harvesting. This book focuses on how SHM techniques can be applied to aircraft, mechanical and civil engineering structures with particular emphasis on composite materials. This will be a valuable reference resource for R&D managers, materials scientists, and engineers working in the aerospace sector, for researchers and system designers working in industry, and for academia and government research agencies developing new systems for the SHM of aerospace, mechanical, and civil engineering structures.

Calorimetric Methods for the Characterization of Porous Materials

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2024
  • Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján + 3 more
  • English
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Calorimetric Methods for the Characterization of Porous Materials presents calorimetric methods used in the characterization of porous materials using chemical thermodynamics. Among these materials, catalysts, supports and adsorbents (such as Activated Carbon, Metal-Organic-Frameworks, SBA-15, Zeolites, Graphene, Graphite, Carbon Foams) are presented. In addition, the use of calorimetry in the study of catalytic reactions in different phases is explored—applicable to air and wastewater treatment, clean and renewable energies, green chemistry, as well as energy production and storage (Carbon dioxide, methane and hydrogen at high pressure). Chapters summarize basic concepts of thermodynamics and kinetics alongside experimental techniques such as thermal analysis and calorimetry. In addition, information is given about different calorimetric methods that can be used in studies aimed at characterizing the physicochemical properties of adsorbents, supports and solid catalysts, as well as the processes related to the adsorption-desorption phenomena of the reactants and/or products of catalytic reactions.

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