Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Anaerobic Digestion for Bioenergy

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Amro Hassanein
English
Paperback
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Anaerobic Digestion for Bioenergy: Emerging Technologies and Strategies for Bioenergy and Bioproduct Innovation examines the current state of bioenergy production technology. The book highlights its potential, challenges, and future directions while considering environmental, economic, and policy developments. It focuses on recent advancements in anaerobic digestion technologies within wastewater treatment and agriculture and explores the rapidly evolving field of bioenergy production from organic waste. The book bridges the gap between academia, research, and real-world industrial applications. Additionally, the book provides a foundational introduction to anaerobic digestion and the characterization and preprocessing of wastewater and agriculture waste feedstock.Sections cover various technological aspects, including treatment technologies and strategies, dark fermentation, volatile fatty acids, bioplastics production, nutrient recovery, and grid integration. Sustainability issues such as lifecycle assessments, techno-economic analysis, policy issues, and safety standards are also thoroughly addressed. The book concludes with insights on artificial intelligence and future trends in anaerobic digestion.

Fuelling the Future

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Deepanraj Balakrishnan + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Fuelling the Future: Intelligent Approaches for Harnessing Hydrogen Energy explores the transformative potential of hydrogen as a clean, renewable energy source. The opening chapter delves into the global need to shift towards sustainable energy solutions, emphasizing hydrogen’s role in reducing carbon emissions and supporting the transition to a greener economy. It introduces machine learning as a cutting-edge tool for solving complex challenges associated with hydrogen production and utilization, offering a glimpse into a smarter, data-driven approach to energy management. It also navigates key issues such as scalability, cost-efficiency, and environmental impacts, ensuring a holistic understanding of hydrogen’s future in energy systems.Beyond optimization, the book addresses practical applications of hydrogen energy in transportation, industry, and storage.

Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB)

2nd Edition
September 1, 2025
Shady Attia
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB): Concepts, Frameworks, and Roadmap for Project Analysis and Implementation, Second Edition is a vital resource for researchers and professionals in civil engineering and architecture. This updated version includes examples from the New Buildings Institute’s Getting to Zero Buildings Database and revised sections shaped by ongoing collaboration with industry experts and researchers.This book is a detailed guide to planning, designing, and implementing high-performance buildings, providing practical methodologies to meet global decarbonization targets, including the EU’s 2050 and China’s 2060 zero carbon goals. It addresses critical challenges related to the energy transition, focusing on electrification, decarbonization calculations, lifecycle assessment, and advanced technologies like data analytics and digital twins to optimize a building's performance. With real-world case studies from diverse climates and building types, this second edition highlights lessons learned and actionable strategies to overcome implementation barriers and drive meaningful change in the built environment.

Membrane and Coating-Based Built Environmental Control Technologies

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Li-Zhi Zhang + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Membrane and Coating-Based Built Environmental Control Technologies addresses the urgent need for energy-saving and low-carbon solutions in the HVAC industry. With air conditioning accounting for a significant portion of energy consumption, this book explores technologies such as total heat recovery, air dehumidification, PM2.5 purification, and anti-frosting and anti-dewing. The utilization of membranes and coatings in these technologies has shown promising results in efficiency and indoor environment control. It provides a comprehensive overview of these advancements, including principles, material fabrications, performance analysis methods, and design guidelines.The book fills the gap in the market by offering an up-to-date reference that covers traditional and novel applications of membranes and coatings. It includes applications in areas like total heat recovery, air humidification and dehumidification, PM2.5 filtration, anti-frosting, and self-cleaning. It also provides mathematical models and numerical schemes to address heat and mass transfer challenges. Overall, it serves as a valuable resource for professionals, researchers, and students in the field of built environmental control technologies.

Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceutical Wastewater Part A

1st Edition
Volume 65
September 1, 2025
Mihir Kumar Purkait + 2 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceutical Wastewater, Volume 65 in the Advances in Chemical Engineering series, highlights new advances in the field, with this volume presenting insightful chapters on topics such as An Overview of Global Occurrences, Physicochemical Properties, and Ecotoxic Effects of Pharmaceuticals, Performances of Conventional Treatment Techniques for the Treatment of Pharmaceutical Contaminated Water: Challenges and Opportunities, Advancements in Photocatalysis: Basics, Classifications, and Controlling Parameters, Advancements in Photocatalyst Synthesis, Physicochemical Characterizations of the Photocatalysts, and much more.Additional chapters cover Enhanced Photocatalytic Degradations of Various Pharmaceuticals: Analysis and Degradation Mechanisms, Kinetic Modeling and Rate of Reactions for the Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceuticals, Integration of the Photocatalytic System with Other Advanced Treatment Techniques, Economic Aspects of Photocatalytic Pharmaceutical Degradation, and Case Studies on Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceuticals in Different Countries.

The Alkaloids

1st Edition
Volume 94
September 1, 2025
Hans-Joachim Knolker
English
Hardback
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The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology, Volume 94, the newest release in a series that has covered the topic for more than 60 years, discusses key aspects of alkaloid chemistry, biology and pharmacology. Sections in this release include chapters on topics such as guanidine alkaloids from marine sponges, the chemistry and biology of imidazole, oxazole, and thiazole alkaloids, quinoline and quinazoline alkaloids, pyrazole and indazole alkaloids, and Stemona alkaloids, offering valuable insights into their structures, biosynthesis, and biological activities.

Main Group Chemistry

1st Edition
Volume 85
September 1, 2025
Ralph Puchta + 1 more
English
Hardback
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Main Group Chemistry, Volume 85 in the Advances in Inorganic Chemistry series, highlights advances in the field, with this new volume presenting chapters written by an international board of authors.

Wind Energy Systems

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Chun Wei + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Wind Energy Systems: Control, Optimization, and Market Strategies, the latest volume in the Elsevier Wind Energy Engineering series, presents in-depth coverage of the technical aspects of controlling and optimizing wind energy resources, including advanced control strategies to enhance anti-disturbance and stable operation. The book begins by introducing wind energy resources in power systems and provides an overview of control, optimization methods, and market strategies. This is followed by individual chapters that detail advanced methods and approaches, moving from traditional centralized electricity grids characterized by source-grid-load systems to systems that integrate storage of energy, thus source-grid-load-sto... electricity grids.Users will find cutting-edge knowledge supported by case studies, practical applications, and code. This latest volume will be of interest to those involved in the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of wind energy systems, including researchers, students, faculty, engineers, industry practitioners, and R&D professionals.

Metal Organic Frameworks for Energy and Environmental Applications

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Hongyi Gao + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Metal Organic Frameworks for Energy and Environmental Applications presents a comprehensive overview on the application of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) to energy and environmental areas. MOFs are a promising class of materials due to their tunable structures, high surface area, and versatile functionalities, and are capturing the attention of the global scientific community due to their intersection with environmental concerns. Chapters summarize recent research on MOFS and synthesis strategies for catalysis, including photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and thermal catalysis, and how MOFs offer enhanced performance, selectivity, and efficiency.Additiona... the vital role MOFs play in energy storage, environmental purification, including degradation of harmful agents, and resource utilization is explored. The book also presents new research on machine learning and data mining, including how researchers can leverage datasets and algorithms to discover new, high-performance MOFs. Metal Organic Frameworks for Energy and Environmental Applications will be a valuable reference for those studying and working in the field of MOFs as they apply to energy, environmental technologies, catalysis, and materials science.

Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy

1st Edition
Volume 115
September 1, 2025
William S. Price
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.Magnetic resonance now has a history exceeding 70 years. Not only has the range of applications of magnetic resonance-based techniques grown exponentially but so too has the literature. Consequently, a distillation and synthesis of the literature is in itself an extremely important research tool, providing an efficient means to take newcomers to the research frontiers and keeping experienced researchers aware of contemporary practice. Since 1968 Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy been at the vanguard of reviewing the magnetic resonance literature. Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy covers magnetic resonance in all its forms, including theory, experiment, applications, and interconnections with other techniques. It also provides the opportunity to make coherent aspects of magnetic resonance that were scattered and opaque. Historical articles including obituaries are also welcomed.Potential authors are encouraged to consult with the Serial Editor.William S. PriceWestern Sydney University, NSW, Australiaw.price@wes...

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