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    • Digital Twin for Smart Manufacturing

      • 1st Edition
      • August 24, 2023
      • Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Twin for Smart Manufacturing: Emerging Approaches and Applications provides detailed descriptions on how to integrate and optimize novel digital technologies for smart manufacturing. The book discusses digital twins, which combine the industrial internet of things, artificial intelligence, machine learning and software analytics with spatial network graphs to create living digital simulation models that update and change as their physical counterparts change. In addition, they provide an effective way to integrate technologies like cyber-physical systems into a smart manufacturing system, potentially optimizing the entire business process and operating procedure of the manufacturing firm. Drawing on the latest research, the book addresses the topics and technologies key to successful implementation of a smart manufacturing system, including augmented and virtual reality, big data and energy management. Broader subjects such as additive manufacturing and robotics are also covered in this context, covering every aspect of production.

    • Renewable Diesel

      • 1st Edition
      • September 19, 2023
      • Dipesh Kumar + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Renewable Diesel: Value Chain, Sustainability, and Challenges presents a holistic reference on the production of renewable diesel, from fundamentals to state-of-the-art. In addition to an in-depth assessment of biomass conversation processes and available technologies, the book considers engineering and mathematical aspects such as design, economics and sustainability. Production processes, fuel properties and fuel quality standards are all addressed in detail alongside state-of-the-art information on conversion routes, catalysts, combustion characteristics, emission profile, techno-economic and lifecycle appraisal, and integration of renewable diesel production into existing refineries. A chapter on biodiesel and hydroprocessed vegetable oil offers a comparative analysis with conventional biodiesel pro’s and con’s. Finally, readers are provided with an overview of techno-economic, environmental, logistical and strategic hurdles and opportunities in the commercialization and marketability of renewable diesel. This book provides readers with a unique and comprehensive reference on the production of renewable diesel that will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals involved in bioenergy, renewable energy, biotechnology, chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental science and sustainability sciences.

    • Resource Recovery in Municipal Waste Waters

      • 1st Edition
      • July 20, 2023
      • Mika Sillanpää + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Resource Recovery in Municipal Waste Waters provides various municipal wastewater remediation methods and techniques to recover materials from such wastewaters. Sections cover the basic principles of resource recovery, along with the recovery of methane, phosphorous, electricity and metals. The volume covers comprehensive cutting-edge techniques for resource recovery and municipal wastewater treatment and reports on new findings in these areas. It also introduces polluted waters as new and sustainable sources rather than seeing wastewaters as a source of hazardous organic and inorganic matters. The main advantages and disadvantages of both wastewater/polluted water treatment and recovery are also discussed. This three-volume set stresses the importance of contaminated waters remediation, including surface waters, municipal or industrial wastewaters, treating these waters as a new source of nutrients, minerals and energy.

    • Up and Running with AutoCAD® 2024

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2023
      • Elliot J. Gindis + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Up and Running with AutoCAD® 2024: 2D and 3D Drawing, Design and Modeling presents a combination of step-by-step instructions, examples and insightful explanations. The book emphasizes core concepts and practical application of AutoCAD in engineering, architecture and design. Equally useful in instructor-led classroom training, self-study or as a professional reference, the book is written by a long-time AutoCAD professor and instructor with the user in mind.

    • Handbook of Plasticizers

      • 4th Edition
      • February 8, 2023
      • George Wypych
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Handbook of Plasticizers, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive review of the current literature as well as cutting-edge details on plasticizers obtained from renewable resources. The book specifies the typical properties of plasticizers belonging to one of thirty-one groups, including expected properties in a given group. The mechanisms of plasticizers, plasticization production steps, and their material behavior in plasticized systems are outlined, along with theoretical background to help readers understand practical observations and methods of material improvement. Other chapters cover the effects on the physical and mechanical properties of plasticized materials, their use in polymers, processing defects formation, and more. This is an essential professional reference, providing R&D scientists, production chemists, and engineers the information they need to avoid certain plasticizers in applications where they may cause health or material durability problems. In addition, the book shows readers how and where to use plasticizers more effectively.

    • Fundamentals of Data Science

      • 1st Edition
      • November 17, 2023
      • Jugal K. Kalita + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Fundamentals of Data Science: Theory and Practice presents basic and advanced concepts in data science along with real-life applications. The book provides students, researchers and professionals at different levels a good understanding of the concepts of data science, machine learning, data mining and analytics. Users will find the authors’ research experiences and achievements in data science applications, along with in-depth discussions on topics that are essential for data science projects, including pre-processing, that is carried out before applying predictive and descriptive data analysis tasks and proximity measures for numeric, categorical and mixed-type data. The book's authors include a systematic presentation of many predictive and descriptive learning algorithms, including recent developments that have successfully handled large datasets with high accuracy. In addition, a number of descriptive learning tasks are included.

    • Mathematical Methods in Data Science

      • 1st Edition
      • January 6, 2023
      • Jingli Ren + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Mathematical Methods in Data Science covers a broad range of mathematical tools used in data science, including calculus, linear algebra, optimization, network analysis, probability and differential equations. Based on the authors’ recently published and previously unpublished results, this book introduces a new approach based on network analysis to integrate big data into the framework of ordinary and partial differential equations for dataanalysis and prediction. With data science being used in virtually every aspect of our society, the book includes examples and problems arising in data science and the clear explanation of advanced mathematical concepts, especially data-driven differential equations, making it accessible to researchers and graduate students in mathematics and data science.

    • Lakes of Africa

      • 1st Edition
      • February 15, 2023
      • Mostafa El-Sheekh + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Lakes of Africa: Microbial Diversity and Sustainability examines microbial ecosystems in African lakes, including the history and formation of African lakes. The book describes how environmental stressors—including seasonal variations, climate change, and anthropogenic activities—affect microbial ecosystem dynamics in African lakes and the microbial responses to these stressors. The book explores and evaluates extremophiles in African lakes, including industrial biotechnology applications. The book highlights challenges facing microbial ecology in African lakes, as well as the design of models for solving these problems and predicting the future of lake microbial ecosystem sustainability.

    • Groundwater Ecology and Evolution

      • 2nd Edition
      • March 11, 2023
      • Florian Malard + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Groundwater Ecology and Evolution, Second Edition is designed to meet a multitude of audience needs. The state of the art in the discipline is provided by the articulation of six sections. The first three sections successively carry the reader into the basic attributes of groundwater ecosystems (section 1), the drivers and patterns of biodiversity (section 2), and the roles of organisms in groundwater ecosystems (section 3). The next two sections are devoted to evolutionary processes driving the acquisition of subterranean biological traits (section 4) and the way these traits are differently expressed among groundwater organisms (section 5). Finally, section 6 shows how knowledge acquired among multiple research fields (sections 1 to 5) is used to manage groundwater biodiversity and ecosystem services in the face of future groundwater resource use scenarios. Emphasis on the coherence and prospects of the whole book is given in the introduction and conclusion.

    • Advances in Heat Transfer

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 56
      • September 13, 2023
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Heat Transfer, Volume 56, presents the latest in a serial that highlights new advances in the field, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

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