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Elsevier’s Energy and Power Collection offers the latest innovations in the energy transition with a focus on content that supports and advances the reduction of CO2 emissions. The collection includes content on solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, biofuels and bioenergy, hydrogen and fuel cells, and addresses topics such as energy storage, efficiency, management, economics, and policy, among others.

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    • The Science of Victorian Brown Coal

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • R.A. Durie
      • English
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      The Science of Victorian Brown Coal provides extensive information on Victorian brown coal, which is a major fossil fuel resource by any standard and constitutes about 97% of Victoria's recoverable energy reserves. Energy from brown coal has been the mainstay of the Victorian economy, providing low-cost electricity to the state grid, briquettes as a fuel for industry and town gas prior to the discovery of natural gas. Because of the unique properties of the coal, it has been necessary to develop an in-depth scientific knowledge of the coal and its behavior, as well as innovative technologies for its effective utilization. The economic benefit brown coal has provided to Victoria is demonstrated throughout the chapters. This book aims to provide the springboard for further research and lead to a new era in the development of value-added products and the more efficient utilization of this major resource. This text is a useful reference for students or individuals conducting research on fossil fuel energy, specifically on brown coals.

    • Heating in Toroidal Plasmas 1978

      • 1st Edition
      • October 2, 2013
      • T. Consoli
      • English
      • eBook
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      Heating in Toroidal Plasmas 1978, Volume 1 contains the proceedings of the 2nd Joint Grenoble-Varenna International Symposium held in Grenoble, France, on July 3-7, 1978. The symposium provided a forum for reviewing the status of heating of toroidal plasmas as a means of creating a practically inexhaustible source of energy with maximum safety and economy. Topics covered range from nuclear beam injection to heating at ion cyclotron- and lower frequencies, as well as lower hybrid resonance heating and electron cyclotron heating. Comprised of 52 chapters, this volume first looks at the implications of Theoretical scaling laws, followed by a detailed account on the use of duality and complex vectorial space for the orthonormal decomposition of the electromagnetic field in anisotropic media. The reader is then introduced to the topology of Tokamak orbits; behavior of fast ions in a large Tokamak plasma during nuclear beam injection heating; and heating of a toroidal plasma by skin current. Subsequent chapters focus on parametric instabilities in weakly-inhomogeneous hot plasmas; wave trajectory and electron cyclotron heating in toroidal plasmas; considerations on the design of a 50-GHz gyrotron; and nonlinear dissipation of a finite bandwidth radiation in a plasma near electron cyclotron harmonic resonances. This monograph will be of interest to practitioners and research workers engaged in plasma physics.

    • Components and Sub-Assemblies

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • C.G. Wedgwood
      • English
      • eBook
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      Please note this is a Short Discount publication.Access both contact and company information on all 4950 European manufacturers, distributors and agents for 550 electronics components and sub–assembly product classifications throughout West and East Europe in one comprehensive Volume.Applications:... Sourcing of specific product types through local distributors or manufacturers• Location of new regional channels of distribution or identification of new European business partners• Competitor tracking• Sales lead generationEntries include:• Key names executives• Full address, telephone and fax details• Size indications including number of employees• Products• Manufacturers represented and agency status

    • The European Electronics Industry Towards 1992 - A Profile of Market Leaders

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • Andrew E Fletcher
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Please note this is a Short Discount publication.The first major report to cover market leader activity in the run–up to 1992.As the electronics industry worldwide anticipates the potential opportunities of the 1991 European Market, new mergers and take–over bids are widespread. Managers preparing for the business openings in 1992 can benefit from the essential strategic planning data revealed in this Report.This exciting Profile gives you unrivalled reliable and accurate information which has been extensively researched by the Elsevier Research Unit, providing in–depth research coupled with direct interviews with leading figures competing with business in 1992 and beyond.

    • The Institute of Energy's Second International Conference on COMBUSTION & EMISSIONS CONTROL

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • The Institute of Energy
      • English
      • eBook
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      The Institute of Energy's Second International Conference on Combustion & Emissions Control presents the proceedings of The Institute of Energy Conference held in London, UK, on December 4-5 1995. The book, divided into seven parts, covers papers on combustion and emission control, energy from waste and biofuels, mathematical modeling for industries, and the plant performance of combustors. The text describes industrial burners and furnaces, advanced power generation, and internal combustion engines as well. The concept of on-board fuel reforming; the conventional and novel methods for particulates; and turbo-compounding schemes and engines are also considered. Combustion and gas engineers will find the book invaluable.

    • The Strength, Fracture and Workability of Coal

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • Ivor Evans + 1 more
      • English
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      The Strength, Fracture and Workability of Coal deals with the strength of coal and the way in which various aspects of strength enter into the processes of mechanical winning. This book aims to provide rationalization of the design of coal winning machines for use in British mines and an increase of efficiency in existing machines. This book is composed of 14 chapters, and begins with a description of a stratified structure comprising a number of components of coal. This topic is followed by detailed measurements on a bituminous and an anthracite coal using static and dynamic techniques. The subsequent chapters are devoted to the definition and determination of coal's mechanical properties, such as compressive, tensile, and routine strength, particle size distribution, breakage, friction, and wedge penetration. The concluding chapters cover the mechanics of certain possible modes of interaction of coal and tool. These chapters also examine the theoretical aspects of the cutting and ploughing of coal. This book will prove useful to coal mining engineers, designers, and researchers.

    • Operational Amplifier Circuits

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • J C C Nelson
      • English
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      This book, a revised and updated version of the author's Basic Operational Amplifiers (Butterworths 1986), enables the non-specialist to make effective use of readily available integrated circuit operational amplifiers for a range of applications, including instrumentation, signal generation and processing.It is assumed the reader has a background in the basic techniques of circuit analysis, particularly the use of j notation for reactive circuits, with a corresponding level of mathematical ability. The underlying theory is explained with sufficient but not excessive, detail. A range of computer programs provides assistance with the required calculations. The widespread availability of operational amplifiers in the form of low-cost integrated circuits means that today a modular approach to analog circuit design is possible. In many cases, a single operational amplifier in conjunction with a small number of passive components may be all that is required for a particular function.

    • Elements of Energy Conversion

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • Charles R. Russell
      • English
      • eBook
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      Elements of Energy Conversion brings together scattered information on the subject of energy conversion and presents it in terms of the fundamental thermodynamics that apply to energy conversion by any process. Emphasis is given to the development of the theory of heat engines because these are and will remain most important power sources. Descriptive material is then presented to provide elementary information on all important energy conversion devices. The book contains 10 chapters and opens with a discussion of forms of energy, energy sources and storage, and energy conversion. This is followed by separate chapters on thermal properties and relations, heat engines, chemical energy, electrochemical processes, and solar energy. Subsequent chapters deal with thermoelectricity, thermionic generators, radioisotope power sources, and energy storage.

    • The Problems of Sulphur

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • Sam Stuart
      • English
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      The Problems of Sulphur discusses all aspects of the problems associated with sulfur in coal. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 addresses the forms of sulfur in coal and evaluates processes directed at the chemical removal of sulphur. Part 2 expands on this to look at alternative means of removing sulfur both physically and biologically, sulfur removal during the combustion of coal and flue gas desulfurization processes. Part 3 looks at the role of sulphates in the atmosphere from the points of view of their formation, transport and deposition and of their effects on health, materials and the atmosphere. The book will be of value to engineers, environmentalists, and chemists.

    • Energy Resources and Conservation Related to Built Environment

      • 1st Edition
      • October 2, 2013
      • Oktay Ural
      • English
      • eBook
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      Energy Resources and Conservation Related to Built Environment is a collection of papers that discusses energy resources, energy conservation schemes, better structure design or construction, and alternative energy resources. Some papers discuss energy conscious design methodologies for townhouses, use of composite components in structural framing, and also energy and physical planning of houses. One paper explains the process and techniques of the water/energy manual developed as part of the Water/Energy Conservation Project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Building site selection, window design, energy auditing, boiler efficiency, and power factor correcting capacitors help in preserving energy; at the same time, these also provide thermal comfort. Alternative energy sources include small scale tidal energy generation, airtight woodstoves, wind energy, methane recovery, and hybrid energy systems. Other papers discuss case studies in energy and design, such as the utilization of the Hittman methodology in Boulder, Colorado; the student-performed energy audits done in Minneapolis and Minnesota; and the energy performance of New Zealand's built environment. The collection is beneficial to environmentalists, civil or structural engineers, architects as well as researchers whose works are related with energy conservation and production.

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