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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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    • Blue Energy Extraction Using Salinity Gradients

      • 1st Edition
      • April 19, 2024
      • Mihir Kumar Purkait + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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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
      • Paperback
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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
      • Paperback
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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
      • Paperback
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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
      • Paperback
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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
      • Paperback
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      Structural Health Monitoring/Managemen... (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
      • Paperback
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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-Framew... 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-desorptio... phenomena of the reactants and/or products of catalytic reactions.

    • Polymer Composites Derived from Animal Sources

      • 1st Edition
      • March 31, 2024
      • S. M. Sapuan + 2 more
      • English
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      Polymer Composites Derived from Animal Sources presents a systematic review of recent developments in this important research field. The book provides a thorough introduction to the various types of animal-based material resources currently available and discusses their morphology, extraction process, sustainability, formation, properties, and applications. Emphasis is placed on applications of polymer composites derived from wool, silk, chicken, bovine, marine life, and animal waste. Different types of processing techniques are discussed in detail as well as chemical modification, interfacial adhesion, and the structure-property relationship.The book will be a valuable reference resource for academic and industrial researchers, and materials scientists and engineers working on the research and development of natural-based composites derived from animal sources.

    • Nanotechnology for Hydrogen Production and Storage

      • 1st Edition
      • March 27, 2024
      • Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Nanotechnology for Hydrogen Production and Storage: Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces presents an evaluation of the various nano-based systems for hydrogen generation and storage. With a focus on challenges and recent developments, the book analyzes nanomaterials with the potential to boost hydrogen production and improve storage. It assesses the potential improvements to industrially important hydrogen production technologies by way of better surface-interface control through nanostructures of strategical composites of metal oxides, metal chalcogenides, plasmonic metals, conducting polymers, carbonaceous materials, and bio-interfaces with different types of algae and bacteria.In addition, the efficiency of various photochemical water splitting processes to generate renewable hydrogen energy are reviewed, with a focus on natural water splitting via photosynthesis, and the use of various metallic and non-metallic nanomaterials in anthropogenic/artifi... water splitting processes is analyzed. Finally, the potential of nanomaterials in enhancing hydrogen generation in dark- and photo-fermentative organisms is explored, along with various nano-based systems for hydrogen generation and associated significant challenges and advances in biohydrogen research and development.

    • Advances in Environmental Electrochemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • March 21, 2024
      • Dipak Ashok Jadhav + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advances in Environmental Electrochemistry provides a solid foundation in the basics of environmental electrochemistry, including redox reactions for contaminant removal, bio-electrochemical systems, electrochemical reactor design and the various electrochemistry-bas... techniques for practical wastewater degradation, environmental remediation and bioenergy recovery from waste. Advanced technologies acting as key indicators for addressing the various aspects of environmental electrochemistry are covered as well as comparisons to conventional methods and potential ways forward to their application in bioremediation technology. This book will be of interest to chemical engineers, environmental engineers, and all those interested in environmental biotechnology, bio-electrochemical systems, electrochemical sensors, advanced oxidation processes, biological wastewater treatment, and waste to energy recovery.

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