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    • Marine Operations for Offshore Wind Turbines

      • 1st Edition
      • June 1, 2026
      • Zhiyu Jiang + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Published as an Open Access book freely available for download on Science Direct, Marine Operations for Offshore Wind Turbines, Volume 1: Fundamentals and Application is a practical reference that links fundamentals to methods to application in this unique, important, and highly interdisciplinary area, helping readers to ensure operational safety, reduced installation costs, and improved wind farm efficiency and reliability. The first part of the book introduces the fundamentals of offshore wind energy systems and marine operations, along with analysis methods and numerical modelling and simulation tools. The second section focuses on in-depth case studies based on the authors’ own research and incorporating real-world practical experience in key areas, guiding the reader through lifting operations for turbine components, environmental loads, motion control, structural modelling, and safety assessment for installations, modelling, analysis and control of full assembly installation, and design and optimization for floating installations. Finally, the critical phases of transportation and final mooring hook-up are introduced, and a concluding chapter provides an overview of recent trends and emerging topics, such as robotic technologies, artificial intelligence, and advanced decommissioning solutions, offering routes for future research and development. A volume in the Elsevier Wind Energy Engineering Series, this is an essential resource for all those looking learn the fundamentals, to improve their understanding, and to gain insights into installation concepts, analysis methods, modelling approaches, key tools, and problems and challenges, including researchers, students, engineers, R&D, policy makers and industry professionals.

    • Aquatic Resource Biorefineries

      • 1st Edition
      • June 1, 2026
      • Meisam Tabatabaei + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Aquatic Resource Biorefineries: Harnessing Aquatic Resources for Sustainable Production represents a groundbreaking exploration of how aquatic resources can be harnessed for sustainable production. This comprehensive volume bridges the gap between theoretical frameworks and practical applications, encouraging collaboration between academia and industry. With topics spanning from waste utilization to environmental impact assessments, the book tackles pressing issues such as efficient extraction methods, biohydrogen production, and market potential for products like chitosan and bioplastics. As this work delves into innovative strategies and offers actionable solutions, it is an essential resource for researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders aiming to advance the field of aquatic biorefinery.In addition to addressing optimal resource utilization, the book emphasizes improving fermentation process efficiency, scaling sustainable practices, and assessing environmental impacts. It explores cutting-edge developments, such as extracting chitin and chitosan, producing biohydrogen and bioplastics, and estimating market growth for aquatic-derived products like carotenoids. By blending research insights with industry advancements, this text serves as a vital guide for creating eco-friendly biorefinery platforms and fostering sustainable decision-making. With its focus on bridging theory and practice, Aquatic Resource Biorefineries remains an indispensable tool for understanding and innovating within this rapidly evolving domain.

    • Digital Transformation and Equitable Global Health

      • 1st Edition
      • May 15, 2026
      • Arletty Pinel + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Transformation and Equitable Global Health: A Future-Ready Perspective presents a collective body of knowledge and global experiences that demonstrate current status and future trends in the use of exponential technologies and their potential for poverty reduction, improving health outcomes, strengthening health systems, and transforming traditional development aid structures. The book uses a translational innovation perspective to guide the reader—regardless of their area of expertise—on the rationale behind the co-creation of human-centered, affordable, and sustainable digital solutions.It addresses the interest of professionals from multiple areas (e.g., technology, health, social development, global financing), and it is a valuable resource for professionals, social scientists, practitioners, researchers, instructors, and undergraduate and graduate students interested in understanding the challenges and complexities of global public health and the applied uses of health technologies for equitable access to primary health care and universal health coverage.

    • Digital Transformation in Retail Supply Chain Management for Logistics 5.0

      • 1st Edition
      • May 4, 2026
      • Adnan Ahmed Sheikh + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Transformation in Retail Supply Chain Management for Logistics 5.0 explains how these technologies are reshaping retail supply chain management. The book elucidates on the digital tools and strategies organizations can employ to optimize their retail supply chain management, minimize costs, enhance customer satisfaction, and achieve sustainability objectives through industry 5.0-enabled technologies. It innovatively blends the details of recent advancements across retail supply chains and supply chain-related digital transformations. Its cutting-edge perspective makes it an invaluable asset for industry professionals, policymakers, business owners, managers, researchers, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students in retail, logistics supply chain management, digital business, and innovation.The book explores the nuances of the Supply Network 5.0, discussing the synergy between humans and machines, especially in the context of robotic process automation systems and artificial intelligence tools in the “new normal” of retail supply chain management. In addition, it specifically addresses textile products, FMCG, online products, construction, food and beverages, the shoe industry, SMEs, and other manufacturing sectors. Other sections delves into the often-overlooked environmental sustainability ramifications of the Fifth Industrial Revolution.

    • Analytical and Chemometric Tools

      • 1st Edition
      • May 1, 2026
      • Alessandra Biancolillo
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Analytical and Chemometric Tools: An up-to-date Tutorial with Practical Applications to Food Security and Safety provides a one-stop tutorial in understanding the tools required for applying chemometrics to food and forensic chemistry. With a generous compilation of practical examples, the book covers a theoretical discussion of chemometric methods, summarizes up-too-date targeted and untargeted analytical methods in the field of forensic science, and presents real-life case studies applied to methods of chemometrics for food and forensic chemistry. This book is a valuable resource for chemists, forensic scientists, food scientists, students, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.

    • Humanizing Artificial Touch

      • 1st Edition
      • May 1, 2026
      • John-John Cabibihan
      • English
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      Humanizing Artificial Touch: Skin, Sensing, and Structures contains recent advances in artificial skin modelling and robotic tactile sensing technologies, integrating these in the structure of an artificial hand mimicking its important features. This book will give special treatment to the relationship between the artificial skin material and embedded tactile sensors, describing how artificial skin and embedded sensors can be designed and constructed using 3D printing technologies with case examples on how these were created for amputees achieve a more a natural and rich human-robot tactile interaction.This book is oriented towards students, researchers, and clinical practitioners who are working in the design and construction of artificial hands for prosthetics and social robotics.

    • Elementary Kinetic Modelling in Catalytic Reaction Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • May 1, 2026
      • Joris W. Thybaut + 5 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Elementary Kinetic Modelling in Catalytic Reaction Engineering is a practical focused text that brings together the relevant basics for reaction engineering and shows their applications to a wide variety of examples, whilst looking at the intrinsic kinetics data acquisition, reaction mechanism elucidation, elementary step-based modelling and model-based design and optimization involved.The book aims at spanning the entire process from acquisition of the relevant data in dedicated experimental set-ups, over the proper treatment of the data and the corresponding interpretation up to the quantification of the gained understanding in a model. The latter aspect allows the reader to challenge the interpretation made of the data and design subsequent experiments or improve the interpretation/model formulation. The coverage is not just limited to the generic (theoretical) principles but will also carefully consider and explain their application to a variety of real-life applications including gas- and liquid-phase reactions, heterogeneously catalyzed reactions involving adsorption either in the Henry regime or at full saturation of the catalyst or combined homogeneous-heteroge... reactions.Elementary Kinetic Modelling in Catalytic Reaction Engineering is written primarily for graduate students and postdoc researchers in chemical engineering or applied industrial chemistry studying chemical reaction engineering and catalysis, as well as physical chemists studying kinetics.

    • Flexible DC Traction Power Supply System in Urban Rail Transit

      • 1st Edition
      • May 1, 2026
      • Chao Lu + 3 more
      • English
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      Flexible DC Traction Power Supply Systems in Urban Rail Transit: Design, Operation and Control is an essential guide on the cutting-edge of the field that clarifies the current standard for power converters, traction control, and energy systems for rail transport before introducing basic concepts, configurations, and opportunities for flexible DC traction power supply systems. Other sections provide a detailed guide to operating principles and core functions in comparison to traditional diode rectifier-based traction power supply systems. This is a critical resource for energy and electrical engineers, researchers, and students developing the sustainable infrastructure of the future.Key techniques are analyzed with attentive reference to rail application context and appropriate case studies. The book closes with two full chapters of novel case studies from China that support practical application and further development by readers. Working from foundational principles to real-world applications.

    • New Technology for Solar Photovoltaic/Thermal Comprehensive Utilization Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • May 1, 2026
      • Yanping Yuan + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      New Technology for Solar Photovoltaic/Thermal Comprehensive Utilization Systems: Applications for Cold Regions provides step-by-step coverage of innovative areas of solar/photovoltaic/t... (PV/T) hot water and heating systems, covering principles, structure, modeling, experimental testing, operating characteristics and optimization, and economic evaluation. The book begins by discussing the concepts, classification, advantages, and application methods of current solar hot water/heating systems, phase change storage, and connection methods. Several novel systems are investigated and analyzed, with applications in extreme cold and subtropical regions, including tank-type systems, dual-condenser heat pipe systems, heat pipe PV/T-Trombe wall systems, PV/T road heat pump systems, and PV/T-PCM-PEM electrolyzer hydrogen/heating systems.Finally, other new types of PV/T systems and building design considerations for special climate regions, and perspectives and future directions, are considered. This is a valuable resource for researchers, scientists, advanced students, engineers, R&D professionals, and other industrial personnel with an interest in solar photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) technologies, solar energy, built environment, and renewable energy.

    • Biomechanics of Orofacial Organs and Structures

      • 1st Edition
      • May 1, 2026
      • Mohammad Ali Nazari + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Biomechanics of Orofacial Organs and Structures provides fundamental knowledge in functional anatomy and innervation of the orofacial region, in mechanical characteristics of orofacial soft tissues, in the biomechanical modeling of the orofacial organs, and in their use in the context of clinical applications. The book covers the design of biomechanical models that take into account the anatomy, muscle organization, innervation, and specific mechanical properties of muscles and soft tissue. It also discusses how these functions work under normal conditions, and how they degrade after surgery in the context of aging, or in the context of neuropathy altering the efferent or afferent nervous system in the orofacial region.The book is organized into three parts:General knowledge about orofacial organs and structuresBiomechani... modelsClinical applicationsA new volume in the Biomechanics of Living Organs series, this book features the latest research developments in the truly multidisciplinary scientific domain that tackles the understanding and modeling of basic orofacial functions, which are essential for the quality of life of humans.

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