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  • Water Scarcity Management

    Towards the Application of Artificial Intelligence and Earth Observation Data
    • 1st Edition
    • November 27, 2025
    • Omid Rahmati + 2 more
    • English
    Drought and the condition of water scarcity lead to several socio-economic, social and environmental impacts. Whatever the approaches of drought management, policymakers and planners require novel methods to analyze data and model drought processes and its connection with water scarcity. In recent years, artificial intelligence-based and earth observation approaches have been progressively developed and applied in domain of water-related disasters. The target of this book is to present new advances and achievements in the fields of drought monitoring, analyzing, and modeling using artificial intelligence algorithms (e.g., machine learning, deep learning, etc.), statistical indices, and a diverse range of satellite remote sensing and geo-spatial data sets. Water Scarcity Management: Towards the Application of Artificial Intelligence and Earth Observation Data will help students gain knowledge on drought prediction using new free-access earth observation data and machine learning models. It will also guide scientists, researchers, and urban planners with the monitoring of water resources and key elements of hydrological cycle.

  • Geospatial Information and Services for Climate Resilient Disaster Management

    • 1st Edition
    • November 27, 2025
    • Deepak Kumar + 1 more
    • English
    Geospatial Information and Services for Climate Resilient Disaster Management explores how cutting-edge technology can shape our response to climate-related disasters. Leading experts uncover the indispensable role that geospatial information and services can play in disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. The book opens with an overview of climate resilient disaster management and the application of geospatial technology. The chapters next undertake a thorough examination of early warning systems, risk assessment, vulnerability mapping, resource allocation, and disaster response. Following from those vital tools and applications, the editors then evaluate climate adaptation planning and community engagement in the light of geospatial technology.The book wraps up with real-world case studies and success stories along with a discussion of current challenges and future trends. Readers concerned with the rising connections between natural disaster and climate change will be inspired by this inside view of the latest innovations in geospatial information and services.

  • Advances in Technical Nonwovens

    • 2nd Edition
    • November 27, 2025
    • George Kellie
    • English
    Advances in Technical Nonwovens, Second Edition provides an up-to-date accounting of the nonwoven industry's journey in a time of significant transformation. The book delves into the latest advancements in technology and showcases a wide array of innovative applications that have emerged in recent years. In summary, it offers an enriched and detailed exploration of nonwovens, introducing new chapters that cover Sustainable Developments, Nonwovens in Sports Apparel and Footwear, and Medical and Hygiene Nonwoven developments. With its extensive updates and comprehensive content, this edition is a must-have resource for anyone seeking to deepen their knowledge of the evolving world of nonwovens.Nonwovens, a versatile class of materials, have experienced continuous growth for over five decades, evolving from being predominantly used in hygiene products such as baby diapers, to becoming indispensable and technologically intricate components across various industries. Despite their modest nature, nonwovens play a crucial role in our daily lives.

  • Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 88
    • November 27, 2025
    • English
    Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 88 in this series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

  • The Total Safety Factor Method for Tunnel Support Structure Design

    • 1st Edition
    • November 27, 2025
    • Mingqing Xiao
    • English
    The Total Safety Factor Method for Tunnel Support Structure Design systematically discusses the entire process of mining tunnel design, including: analysis of surrounding rock self-stability; identification of local support and system support; calculation of rock pressure design value; load structure model and total safety factor calculation method of multi-layer support structure; deformation calculation method of support structure; integrated design method of support strength-deformation... and the dynamic adjustment method based on on-site deformation monitoring. It also presents the inspection and verification tests of total safety factor method and specific engineering application cases. The theoretical system of total safety factor method described in this book has broken through the design bottleneck of tunnel support structures that have long relied on engineering analogy methods. The The Total Safety Factor Method provides the basic theoretical guidance for the quantitative design, dynamic adjustment and intelligent construction of mining tunnel support structures. The book is based on the many years of experience of the team led by the author of this book: Xiao Mingqing. Professor Ming's team has been involved in the design of nearly 20% of the high-speed railway tunnels and 50% of large-diameter underwater shield tunnels in China, with a total design mileage of 4,000km.

  • Advances in Image Processing, Reliability, and Artificial Intelligence

    Data Centred-Techniques and Applications in Edge Computing
    • 1st Edition
    • November 27, 2025
    • Mario J. Divan + 4 more
    • English
    Advances in Image Processing, Reliability, and Artificial Intelligence: Data Centred-Techniques and Applications in Edge Computing provides a clear outlook of the mechanisms, risks, challenges, and opportunities in system reliability for image processing and AI applications running on edge devices. It provides Best Known Configuration (BKC) and Methods (BKM) while discussing trends and future works based on current research. The content serves as a reference for practitioners and provides a state-of-the-art for researchers in the area. It provides foundations to analyse and replicate different applications through use cases. It tackles concerns for how reliability aspects (i.e., fault tolerance, availability, maturity, and recoverability) are addressed for applications running in an environment that is not fully controlled and exposed to environmental variations.

  • Flow Assurance in Pipelines

    A Reference Guide
    • 1st Edition
    • November 27, 2025
    • Saeid Mokhatab + 3 more
    • English
    Flow assurance is critical for effective design and operation of hydrocarbon production and transmission systems. The aim is to ensure safe and economical flow of hydrocarbon fluids from the source to the markets. As future development of hydrocarbon resources moves into more challenging environments, the importance of flow assurance is becoming more asserted.Written by an internationally recognized team of experts, Flow Assurance in Pipelines: A Reference Guide is a unique, well-researched, and comprehensive work in the flow assurance discipline that addresses the stages of a flow assurance study and identifies how they relate to the pipeline system design and operation. This book is a fundamental resource for flow assurance engineers, pipeline engineers, operators, and production chemists, providing a detailed explanation of basic flow assurance issues that can arise in the pipeline systems and discusses practical methods to solve those issues, safely and cost effectively.

  • Water-Stable Metal-Organic Frameworks (WSMOFs)

    • 1st Edition
    • November 25, 2025
    • Lei Guo + 3 more
    • English
    Water-Stable Metal-Organic Frameworks (WSMOFs) presents water-stable metal-organic frameworks for mitigating environmental pollutants, i.e. sensing and degradation/removal applications to protect the ecological system, both environmental and aquatic life, from various types of toxic pollutants released from industries. The pressing challenge of extracting common pollutants, including heavy metal ions, anions, oil, and radionuclides from water sources is a critical issue due to the widespread problem of environmental contamination. Various approaches have been explored for this purpose, such as sorbents, chemical precipitation, and traditional membrane separation. However, these methods often suffer from inadequate selectivity and low pollutant uptake.Developing water-stable MOFs is the key to advancing effective water purification techniques, but the primary challenge lies in crafting MOF structures that can maintain their stability when exposed to water.

  • Process Plant Design for Chemical Engineers

    Guide to Practical Aspects of Engineering Decision Making
    • 1st Edition
    • November 25, 2025
    • Peter Mullinger
    • English
    Process Plant Design for Chemical Engineers: Guide to Practical Aspects of Engineering Decision Making serves as a practical guide for making appropriate, evidence-based decisions in process design. The book provides descriptions and analysis of many examples of real applications from different industries as examples of good and bad decisions, particularly how the information was used. Lessons learned from each example are considered and described to help engineers understand the risks associated with process design decisions and effective management. This resource will be valuable for both chemical engineering students and engineers in industry with it guidance on evidence-based decisions to ensure successful outcomes. It will also be incredibly helpful to engineers faced with the task of scaling up a new process based on lab-scale research, especially those tasked with plant design and designing commercial scale processes. Students and engineers in a range of process industries such as chemical processing, minerals processing, food and wine, energy engineering, and similar related engineering fields will also find the content useful.

  • Fracture of Structural Steel Elements

    High-Temperature Creep and Hydrogen Influence
    • 1st Edition
    • November 25, 2025
    • Maciej Dutkiewicz + 4 more
    • English
    Fracture of Steel in Energy Machine Parts: High-Temperature Creep and Hydrogen Influence presents advanced mathematical modeling approaches for evaluating the effects of high-temperature creep, hydrogen diffusion, damage accumulation, and creep development in steam pipelines, steam turbine discs, heat exchanger tubes, and steam boiler drums. The book discusses the strength and durability of metallic materials and structural elements at the stage of volumetric damage, then at local damage, and, finally, at the end of their residual life. It introduces models and algorithms for simulating these complex processes (high-temperature creep, hydrogen diffusion, damage accumulation, and creep development) that evolve at different rates in different areas of a structure. The various types of cracks are addressed, including through-thickness cracks, internal cracks, surface cracks, and elliptical cracks.

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