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Thermal Energy Storage in Porous Media

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Xiaohu Yang + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Thermal Energy Storage in Porous Media: Design and Applications introduces the new design concepts and operation strategies for the core part of heat and mass transfer in thermal energy storage tanks. With a strong focus on design, operation and optimization, the book presents the latest advances in thermal energy storage. Opening with an introduction to latent heat thermal storage, the book then discusses porous media enhanced thermal storage classifications, methods and characterizations. Subsequent topics include energy charging/discharging system design, numerical simulation models and verification, and an analysis of various melting/solidification laws.Finishing with a detailed presentation of applications and containing case studies and real-world examples throughout, this is an essential read for graduate students, researchers and engineers interested in thermal engineering, energy systems, and renewable energy.

Natural and Synthetic Hydrogels

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Ravin Narain
  • English
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Natural and Synthetic Hydrogels: Rational Design, Synthesis and Biomedical Applications provides a comprehensive and easy to read text on hydrogels and their biomedical uses, covering both fundamental as well as applied aspects of hydrogels. Lots of recent development have been made in the field, including new applications of hydrogels, thus readers will find in this book to be a new and fresh overview of hydrogels and their applications.Hydrogels are three-dimensional network of cross-linked polymers or particles that contain a large amount of water. They have received tremendous attention for applications in biomedicines, what has led to significant progress in the design and engineering of the hydrogels to meet the needs for such applications.

Polymer Gears

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Sabu Thomas + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Polymer Gears discusses polymer gear design and their efficient mechanical properties, light weight, and low noise during operation. As plastic gears are replacing metallic gears in traditional and new applications, there is still lack of material characterization and complex relations between different geometric and operating parameters. Thus, polymer gear design remains an open challenge. This book serves as a comprehensive and professional guide on the topic, providing readers with current developments carried out in the field of plastic gears production, characterization, and applications.This will include material development, tribological properties, simulations, and processing methods.

Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Manish Kumar + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security presents a study for the mitigation of hydrological extremes through case studies. The focus is on the effect of extremes on water quality and the fate of geogenic, microbial, anthropogenic pollutants in the water cycle, and the interaction of water quality and quantity variations. The book integrates rapidly growing diverse topics, such as co-occurrence variation in water quantity and quality, water supply, sanitation, and hygiene. Stakeholders’ participation and raising awareness for sustainable management strategies for hydrological extremes and water management systems is also covered.This thorough guide serves as a pillar to postgraduate students and researchers as it’s centered on discovering remediation and natural attenuation of hydrological extremes with a special emphasis on present and future challenges.

Construction Materials and Their Properties for Fire Resistance and Insulation

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Paul O. Awoyera + 1 more
  • English
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Construction Materials and Their Properties for Fire Resistance and Insulation covers the properties of novel types of concrete and other more conventional building materials in fire scenarios. The volume also stands out as an invaluable reference resource for its relevance to varied audiences both in academia and industry, spanning materials science, civil and structural engineering, and fire safety engineering. Ensuring buildings are fire safe starts at the very beginning of planning new builds or renovations. Hence, it's essential, in fact, that the right materials are chosen not only according to their load-bearing capabilities but also their susceptibility to decay and fire resistance.

Empowering IoT with Big Data Analytics

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Mohamed Adel Serhani + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Empowering IoT with Big Data Analytics provides comprehensive coverage of major topics, tools, and techniques related to empowering IoT with big data technologies and big data analytics solutions, thus allowing for better processing, analysis, protection, distribution, and visualization of data for the benefit of IoT applications and second, a better deployment of IoT applications on the ground. This book covers big data in the IoT era, its application domains, current state-of-the-art in big data and IoT technologies, standards, platforms, and solutions. This book provides a holistic view of the big data value-chain for IoT, including storage, processing, protection, distribution, analytics, and visualization.Big data is a multi-disciplinary topic involving handling intensive, continuous, and heterogeneous data retrieved from different sources including sensors, social media, and embedded systems. The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) and its application to many domains has led to the generation of huge amounts of both structured and unstructured data often referred to as big data.

Flexible Devices Based on Metal Oxides

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Daniela Nunes + 7 more
  • English
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Flexible devices based on metal oxides: Achievements and prospects focuses on the integration of flexibility in electronic circuitry, sensing applications, energy conversion and storage, and environmental remediation. Flexibility in these applications offers great potential, especially in the areas of wearable sensors, solar cells, transistors, electronic skin, and human body monitoring. The book investigates flexible and wearable devices based on metal oxide nanostructures or thin films that are capable of bending, rolling, compression, and folding, all while maintaining their performance.Metal oxide nanomaterials display exceptional properties that include mechanical stress tolerance, high optical transparency, high carrier mobilities, wide band gap, high dielectric constant, and superconductivity, amongst others. In some cases, they are also earth abundant, environmentally benign, cost-effective, chemically stable, and compatible with low-cost wet-chemical synthesis routes. The focus of the book is on wearables manufactured using sustainable manufacturing methods and integrated into substrates that are flexible, inexpensive, recyclable, abundant, and lightweight, including polymer, textile, cellulose and cork substrates.

Oil Spill Science and Technology

  • 3rd Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Mervin Fingas
  • English
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Oil Spill Science and Technology, Third Edition delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properties and behaviors to remote sensing through the management side of contingency planning and communicating oil spill risk perceptions. This new edition compiles information on oil spills from a scientific point of view and with new case studies and examples. This book aims to serve both as an authoritative reference for individuals new to the field who need to understand the depth of science going into the fields of oil spill, recovery, assessment, and analysis, as well as those who have years of experience.Written by over 24 experts in the field, this updated edition combines technology with case studies to identify the current state of knowledge surrounding oil spills that will encourage additional areas of research that are left to uncover in this critical sector of the energy industry.

MXenes as Emerging Modalities for Environmental and Sensing Applications

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Tahir Rasheed + 1 more
  • English
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MXenes as Emerging Modalities for Environmental and Sensing Applications: Theories, Design and Approach explores how MXene-based hybrid nanostructures are used to remedy environmental pollutants. The book also explains how they assist in sensing and degradation/removal applications to protect the ecological system, both environmental and aquatic life, from various types of toxic pollutants released from industrial sectors. This book focuses on the design, fabrication, and application of MXene-based nanostructures and their integration with the biotechnological processes for monitoring and treatment of pollutants in environmental matrices and sensing applications.It aims to increase scientific and technological awareness of the urgency required to tackle life-threatening pollutants arising from various industrial and biotechnological sectors of the modern world.

RAS Drug Discovery

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Adrian Gill + 1 more
  • English
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KRAS Drug Discovery: Past, Present and Future is a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art medicinal chemistry approaches towards targeting the formerly undruggable oncogene, KRAS. It includes Seminal medicinal chemistry case histories of KRASG12C inhibitors such as Sotorosib, the first approved KRASG12C inhibitor for NSCLC, alongside the latest advances towards identification of in vivo tools and development candidates targeting KRAS G12D, KRAS G13C and other mutations. The book also provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the in vitro assay systems, in vivo pharmacology xenograft models and chemical biology tools available to characterize small molecule inhibitors of KRAS.

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