Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Renewable Energy Systems

3rd Edition
February 8, 2024
Henrik Lund
English
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Renewable Energy Systems: A Smart Energy Systems Approach to the Choice and Modeling of Fully Decarbonized Societies Third Edition includes updates from globally recognized renewable energy researcher and professor, Henrik Lund, who sets forth a comprehensive methodology for comparing different energy systems’ abilities to integrate fluctuating and intermittent renewable energy sources to achieve a fully decarbonized society. The book presents an energy system analysis methodology, providing the results of more than 15 comprehensive studies, examining the large-scale integration of renewable energy and presenting concrete design examples derived from a dozen renewable energy systems around the globe.The book also undertakes the socio-political realities governing the implementation of renewable energy systems by introducing a theoretical framework approach aimed at understanding how major technological changes, such as renewable energy, can be implemented at both the national and international levels. This is a valuable resource for researchers, scientists, engineers, project managers, policymakers, consultants, and graduate students with an interest in planning, modelling, and implementation of renewable energy systems.

Internet of Things: Architectures for Enhanced Living Environments

1st Edition
Volume 133
February 7, 2024
Goncalo Marques
English
Hardback
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Internet of Things: Architectures for Enhanced Living Environments, Volume 133 presents interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Living Environments: A Study on User Perspective, Human behavioral anomaly pattern mining within an IoT environment: an exploratory study, Indoor Activity Localization Technologies for Assisted Living: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions, Smart Indoor Air Quality Monitoring for Enhanced Living Environments and Ambient Assisted Living, Usability evaluation for the IoT use in Enhanced Living Environments, Roadmap to the elderly enhanced living and care environments: applications and challenges on the Internet of Things domain, and much more.

Modeling and Analysis of Longitudinal Data

1st Edition
Volume 50
February 7, 2024
Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao + 2 more
English
Hardback
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Longitudinal Data Analysis, Volume 50 in the Handbook of Statistics series covers how data consists of a series of repeated observations of the same subjects over an extended time frame and is thus useful for measuring change. Such studies and the data arise in a variety of fields, such as health sciences, genomic studies, experimental physics, sociology, sports and student enrollment in universities. For example, in health studies, intra-subject correlation of responses must be accounted for, covariates vary with time, and bias can arise if patients drop out of the study.

Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

1st Edition
Volume 142
February 7, 2024
Eric F.V. Scriven + 1 more
English
Hardback
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Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Volume 142, the latest release in this definitive series, combines descriptive synthetic chemistry and mechanistic insight to yield an understanding of how chemistry drives the preparation and useful properties of heterocyclic compounds. Chapters in this new release include Recent advances in the Synthesis of Benzo[b]furans, Recent Advances in the Synthesis of 6-Membered Heterocycles via Domino and Multicomponent Reactions (from 2017-2022), Multi-component synthesis of isatin based bioactive heterocycles, Recent advances in the chemistry of pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines, The Literature of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Part XXI, 2021, and much more.Additional sections present the latest Advances in applications of dihydropyridines in organic chemistry and Strategies for the annulation of five-membered sulfur-nitrogen rings to benzene and heterocycles.

Handbook of Solvents, Volume 1

4th Edition
February 7, 2024
George Wypych
English
Hardback
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Handbook of Solvents, Fourth Edition, Volume One provides a comprehensive survey of the science of solvents and their properties, covering all aspects of solvent behavior relevant to chemical and related industries, including agricultural and technical processes, inorganic synthesis, materials chemistry, and more. Divided into two volumes that cover high-level information on the physical chemical properties of the most relevant solvent systems, sections focus on a specific aspect of solvent properties that determine selection, such as the effect on properties of solutes and solutions, properties of different groups of solvents, and the summary of their applications’ effect on health and the environment.With insights from specialists in a broad array of different areas and written with an interdisciplinary audience in mind, this thoroughly revised edition provides readers with a complete overview of all the organic solvents available for industrial applications today.

Progresses in Ammonia: Science, Technology and Membranes

1st Edition
February 6, 2024
Angelo Basile + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Progresses in Ammonia: Science, Technology, and Membranes: Production and Separation covers the production and separation of ammonia. Ammonia is considered a very important inorganic basic. It plays an essential role in the manufacture of fertilizer, as well as in the production of plastics, fibers, explosives, and intermediates for dyes and pharmaceuticals. Beginning with the discussion of composite membrane–based systems, this book explores ammonia synthesis, ammonia separation through membrane distillation, ammonia recovery from wastewater and salty liquids, and ammonia emission control. Model-based analysis has also been used extensively in this book through various case studies. Therefore this book is a valuable resource for postgraduate students, researchers, energy producers, and R&D managers.

Bioplastics for Sustainability

1st Edition
February 2, 2024
Ajay Kumar Mishra + 1 more
English
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Bioplastics for Sustainability: Manufacture, Technologies, and Environment offers an innovative approach to bioplastics, integrating state-of-the-art materials and technologies with detailed analysis of lifecycle, recycling, circularity, and environmental impact of bioplastics, and enabling circular utilization and successful scale-up of bioplastics. The book begins by introducing the fundamentals of bioplastics – including biodegradable, compostable, and oxodegradable materials – and discusses the various factors involved in encouraging commercial uptake of these materials. The second part of the book highlights cutting-edge approaches to the production of bioplastics, covering novel sources such as microalgae and organic waste, and solutions for industrial scale manufacturing.Other sections cover the environmental impact of bioplastics and routes to environmentally-friendly usage, and more. This is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students across polymer science, sustainable materials, plastics engineering, materials science, chemistry, environmental science, and engineering. In an industrial setting, this book supports engineers, scientists, and R&D professionals with an interest in sustainable manufacture and application of bioplastics, across a range of products, parts, and industries.

Actuaries' Survival Guide

3rd Edition
February 2, 2024
Ping Wang + 1 more
English
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Actuaries' Survival Guide: Navigating the Exams as Applications of Data Science, Third Edition explains what actuaries are, what they do, and where they do it. The book describes exciting combinations of ideas, techniques, and skills involved in their day-to-day work. This edition has been updated to reflect the rise of social networking and the internet, the progress toward a global knowledge-based economy, and the global expansion of the actuarial field that has occurred since the prior edition.

Engineering Simulation and its Applications

1st Edition
February 1, 2024
Xin-She Yang
English
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Engineering Simulation and its Applications: Algorithms and Numerical Methods covers the essential quantitative methods needed for engineering simulations, introducing optimization techniques that can be used in the design of systems to minimize cost and maximize efficiency. This book serves as a reference and textbook for courses such as engineering simulation, design optimization, mathematical modeling, numerical methods, data analysis, and engineering management. Diverse coverage of the various subject areas within the field puts the essential topics into a single book for easy access for graduates and senior undergraduates. It also serves as a reference book for lecturers and industrial practitioners.

Multi-Dimensional Imaging with Synthetic Aperture Radar

1st Edition
January 31, 2024
Gianfranco Fornaro + 4 more
English
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Multi-Dimensional Imaging with Synthetic Aperture Radar: Theory and Applications provides a complete description of principles, models and data processing methods, giving an introduction to the theory that underlies recent applications such as topographic mapping and natural risk situational awareness – seismic-tectonics, active volcano, landslides and subsidence monitoring - security, urban, wide area and infrastructure control. Imaging radars, specifically Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), generally mounted onboard satellites or airplanes, are able to provide systematic high-resolution imaging of the Earth's surface. Recent advances in the field has seen applications to natural risk monitoring and security and has driven the development of many operational systems.

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