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  • Reservoir Formation Damage

    Fundamentals, Modeling, Assessment, and Mitigation
    • 4th Edition
    • Faruk Civan
    • English
    Reservoir Formation Damage: Fundamentals, Modeling, Assessment, and Mitigation, Fourth Edition gives engineers a structured layout to predict and improve productivity, providing strategies, recent developments and methods for more successful operations. Updated with many new chapters, including completion damage effects for fractured wells, flow assurance, and fluid damage effects, the book will help engineers better tackle today’s assets. Additional new chapters include bacterial induced formation damage, new aspects of chemically induced formation damage, and new field application designs and cost assessments for measures and strategies. Additional procedures for unconventional reservoirs get the engineer up to date. Structured to progress through your career, Reservoir Formation Damage, Fourth Edition continues to deliver a trusted source for both petroleum and reservoir engineers.

  • The Coal Handbook

    Volume 1: Towards Cleaner Coal Supply Chains
    • 2nd Edition
    • Dave Osborne
    • English
    The Coal Handbook: Towards Cleaner Coal Supply Chains, Volume One, Second Edition presents a comprehensive analysis of the latest technology and practices. The book provides authoritative insights into a variety of case studies to help readers identify the most appropriate technologies to take coal, and its associated by-products, into an essential cleaner environment that includes integrated energy systems. The book's expertise highlights the future direction of coal use towards more efficient and clean usage. Key emerging topics such as hybrid technologies, integrated power and chemical processes, and advanced CO2 abatement strategies are explored, with a focus on economic and sustainable values.In addition, the book includes two brand new chapters on the optimization of mine development and the impacts of tailings treatment. With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, the book is a comprehensive and invaluable resource for professionals in the coal mining, preparation and utilization industry, those in the power sector, including plant operators and engineers, and researchers and academics interested in this field.

  • Encyclopedia of Materials: Electronics

    • 1st Edition
    • A. S. MD. Haseeb
    • English
    Encyclopedia of Materials: Electronics, Three Volume Set provides a compilation on all aspects of electronic materials and devices, i.e., their science, engineering and technology. As electronic materials are integrated into numerous devices and widely used in almost all sectors, including information and communication technology, automation and control, robotics, manufacturing, process industries, instrumentation, energy and power systems, healthcare, and defense and security, this book is an ideal reference. This area of science will play an influential role in the future. In addition, given the rapid expansion of publications in this field, the compilation of definitive reviews of this kind is especially important and invaluable. The study of electronic materials is truly multidisciplinary, therefore the contributors to, and the audience for, this work will be from the fields of materials science, engineering, physics and chemistry. This title will provide users with a single and unique reference source for fundamental and applied research in electronic materials, incorporating elements from many different disciplines and applications. The work will be an invaluable resource for libraries in universities, research organizations, and manufacturing and technology companies.

  • Antimicrobial Nanosystems

    Fabrication and Development
    • 1st Edition
    • Kabali Vijai Anand + 2 more
    • English
    Antimicrobial Nanosystems: Fabrication and Development provides an in-depth review of nanotechnological advancements in the fields of biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries to counteract bacterial infections and related health issues. Functionalized nanomaterials and their processes are covered, along with the theory and fabrication of antimicrobial nanosystems. The potential applications of antimicrobial nanosystems are also discussed along with their challenges and commercialization. This book discusses the most frequent problems caused by resistant microorganisms and difficult-to-treat bacteria and highlights the impact of recently developed antimicrobial nanosystems. Various methodsto obtain efficient nanomaterials with antimicrobial properties are described, along with their advantages, challenges, and main applications. The design of targeting antimicrobial therapeutics, able to specifically detect pathogenic microorganisms and to act in a very specific manner, is thoroughly investigated.

  • Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 225
    • Peter W. Hawkes + 1 more
    • English
    Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Volume 226 merges two long-running serials, Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy. Chapters in this release cover Characterization of nanomaterials properties using FE-TEM, Cold field-emission electron sources: From higher brightness to ultrafast beams, Every electron counts: Towards the development of aberration optimized and aberration corrected electron sources, and more. The series features articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science, digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, electron microscopy and the computing methods used in all these domains.

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 140
    • Eric F.V. Scriven + 1 more
    • English
    Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Volume 140 is the latest release in this definitive series in the field of heterocyclic chemistry, one of great importance to organic chemists, polymer chemists, and many biological scientists. Written by established authorities in the field from around the world, this comprehensive review 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 The chemistry of citrazinic acid (2,6-dihydroxyisonic... acid), Aza-Diels-Alder Reaction in the Synthesis of Tetrahyroquinoline Structures, and more. Additional chapters delve into Recent Developments in the Synthesis of 4-, 5-, 6- and 7-Azaindoles, Fluoroheterocycle formation using fluoroalkynes and their synthetic equivalents, Advances in applications of dihydropyridines in organic chemistry, and Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Triphyrins (2.1.1).

  • A Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Drug Delivery

    • 1st Edition
    • Anil K. Philip + 3 more
    • English
    A Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Drug Delivery explores the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in drug delivery strategies. The book covers pharmaceutical AI and drug discovery challenges, Artificial Intelligence tools for drug research, AI enabled intelligent drug delivery systems and next generation novel therapeutics, broad utility of AI for designing novel micro/nanosystems for drug delivery, AI driven personalized medicine and Gene therapy, 3D Organ printing and tissue engineering, Advanced nanosystems based on AI principles (nanorobots, nanomachines), opportunities and challenges using artificial intelligence in ADME/Tox in drug development, commercialization and regulatory perspectives, ethics in AI, and more. This book will be useful to academic and industrial researchers interested in drug delivery, chemical biology, computational chemistry, medicinal chemistry and bioinformatics. The massive time and costs investments in drug research and development necessitate application of more innovative techniques and smart strategies.

  • State Space Systems With Time-Delays Analysis, Identification, and Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Ya Gu + 1 more
    • English
    State Space Systems with Time-Delays Analysis, Identification and Applications covers the modeling, identification and control of industrial applications, including system identification, parameter estimation, dynamic simulation, nonlinear control, and other emerging techniques. The book introduces basic time-delay systems, architectures and control methods. Emphasis is placed on the mathematical analysis of these systems, identifying them, and applying them to practical engineering problems such as three independent water tank systems and distillation systems. This book contains a wide range of time-delay system identification methods that can help readers master the system controllers’ design methods.

  • Power Generation Technologies

    Foundations, Design and Advances
    • 1st Edition
    • Masood Ebrahimi
    • English
    Power Generation Technologies: Foundations, Design and Advances provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest developments in renewable and non-renewable generation technologies considered at micro and large-scale, and for traditional facility scale and modern distributed power generation systems. Each chapter provides a foundation in the topic enriched with practical solved examples, end chapter exercises and technical references. Provided computer codes can be instrumentalized to investigate practical examples at a granular level. In addition to the fundamental and theoretical discussions, operational and maintenance guidelines for power equipment are provided to prepare students for work in power plants. The work provides new international standards and regulation for power generation as well as content devoted to the thermo-economics of power generation and power plants. It is supported by a solution manual for end-chapter exercises and a slide show presentation of the book for instructors and students.

  • Advances in Smart Nanomaterials and their Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Azamal Husen + 1 more
    • English
    Advances in Smart Nanomaterials and their Applications brings together the latest advances and novel methods in the preparation of smart nanomaterials for cutting-edge applications. The book covers fundamental concepts of nanomaterials, including fabrication methods, processing, application areas, specific applications of smart nanomaterials across a range of areas, such as biomedicine, pharmaceuticals, food science and packaging, sensing, cosmetics and dermatology, gas, oil, energy, wastewater and environment, textiles, agriculture, and forestry sectors. In each case, possible challenges, recent trends, and potential future developments are addressed in detail. The book also discusses various considerations for the utilization of smart nanomaterials, including environmental safety and legal requirements. The book is suitable for graduate students as a textbook and simultaneously be useful for both novices and experienced scientists or researchers, medical biologists, nanobiotechnologists... nanoengineers, agricultural scientists, and general biologists as a reference book as well as inspires some industrialists and policy makers involved in the investigation of smart nanomaterials.

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