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Advanced Renewable Energy Conversion Technologies and Power Plant Engineering

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Md Hasanuzzaman
  • English
  • Paperback
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Advanced Renewable Energy Conversion Technologies and Power Plant Engineering provides a one-stop resource that covers advanced renewable energy conversion and power plant engineering, offering a practical applications-oriented approach. The book begins by introducing renewable energy, basic thermodynamics, energy conversion, and power plants. This is followed by in-depth chapters that cover a specific renewable energy source and their conversion and power plant integration, including bioenergy, geothermal, hydroelectric, ocean energy, solar, photovoltaics, solar thermal, and wind. Finally, energy storage technologies are considered. Throughout the book, chapters are supported by modeling, performance analysis, and case studies.It will support anyone with an interest in renewable energy, energy conversion technologies, and power plant engineering, including advanced students, researchers, faculty, scientists, engineers, R&D, industry personnel, and policymakers.

Circular Plastics Economy

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Pooja Ghosh + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Circular Plastics Economy: A Multidisciplinary Perspective provides an understanding of the complex issues surrounding plastic waste management, including environmental challenges, risks associated with microplastic contamination, and the detection of micro- and nano-plastics. The book explores conventional and emerging technological solutions for plastic waste management, such as reusing, recycling, pyrolysis, and heterogeneous catalysis while also considering alternative approaches like biochar and microbe-based degradation that foster a holistic perspective on the transition towards a circular plastics economy.With its multidisciplinary approach, this book provides an analysis of the challenges and opportunities associated with circular plastics economy, guiding the development of sustainable solutions on a global scale. By addressing these diverse perspectives, this book offers a guide for researchers and professionals interested in tackling the challenges of plastic waste to achieve a sustainable and circular approach to managing plastic waste.

Quantum Computing

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Rajkumar Buyya + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Quantum Computing: Principles and Paradigms covers a broad range of topics, providing a state-of-the-art and comprehensive reference for the rapid progress in the field of quantum computing and related technologies from major international companies (such as IBM, Google, Intel, Rigetti, Q-Control) and academic researchers. This book appeals to a broad readership, as it covers comprehensive topics in the field of quantum computing, including hardware, software, algorithms, and applications, with chapters written by both academic researchers and industry developers.This book presents readers with the fundamental concepts of quantum computing research, along with the challenges involved in developing practical devices and applications.

Method of Process Systems in Energy Systems: Emerging Energy Systems Part II

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 9
  • July 1, 2025
  • Faisal Khan + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
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Method of process systems in energy systems: Emerging energy systems part II, Volume Nine, the latest release in the Methods in Chemical Process Safety series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

Gas-Solid Adsorption Thermodynamics

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Bidyut Baran Saha + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Gas-Solid Adsorption Thermodynamics tackles the underexplored role of thermodynamics in the energetics of gas-solid physical adsorption, examining and outlining their role in different adsorption-based heat transformation energy applications. The book deals with different adsorbate/adsorbent pairs from the rigor of adsorption thermodynamics and their utilization in various applications, providing a comprehensive overview of adsorption heat transformations from the perspective of adsorption thermodynamics. Chapters introduce diverse sorption applications using various adsorbent/adsorbate combinations and their thermodynamic characterizations.Finally, users will find comprehensive information on how adsorption thermodynamics affects system performances from an energetic standpoint given that thermodynamics are strongly related to the energetics of adsorption systems. Different chapters introduce the brief background of utilizing the gas-solid adsorption phenomenon in multifarious energy applications such as thermal management, desalination, volatile organic compound removal, etc.

Quantitative Geomorphology in the Artificial intelligence Era

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Hamid Reza Pourghasemi + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Quantitative Geomorphology in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Applications of AI for Earth and Environmental Change focuses on bridging the gaps in this emerging discipline, it delves into the complex interplay between landforms and the processes that shape them, offering innovative solutions through AI and data-driven methods. The book addresses the standards, quality assessment of data, spatial and temporal analysis tools, and rigorous validation techniques in geomorphology. It uses computational intelligence as a pivotal tool alongside GIS, remote sensing, and other advanced technologies. Readers will find a holistic resource that fosters collaboration and knowledge exchange among geological fields, aiming to address geomorphological challenges, hazards, and solutions. By harnessing AI, GIS, remote sensing, machine learning, and geophysical techniques, it offers new dimensions to existing assessment methods and techniques.

Waste Derived Catalysts

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Waste Derived Catalysts: Sustainable Materials for Energy and Environment explores the significant potential of waste materials as catalyst precursors for clean energy generation and environmental remediation. The book simultaneously addresses the problems of waste management, resource depletion, and environmental pollution while promoting the transition towards a sustainable and cleaner energy future. It provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements, methodologies, and applications of waste derived catalysts in the fields of energy and environment and as such it serves as a valuable resource for researchers, scientists, engineers, policymakers, and students who are interested in exploring the potential of waste materials as catalyst precursors and their implications in sustainable energy conversion and environmental remediation. The book covers a wide range of waste streams, including agricultural and biomass waste, industrial and municipal waste, and electronic waste, shedding light on their conversion into catalysts through appropriate processing techniques. Furthermore, the book investigates various clean energy technologies, such as hydrogen production, fuel cells, carbon capture and utilization, and renewable fuel synthesis, where waste derived catalysts have shown promise.

Biomass Conversion and High-Value Utilization

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Kai Yan + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Biomass Conversion and High-Value Utilization provides the theoretical foundations, methods, and latest applications on the conversion and utilization of biomass for bioenergy, biofuels, energy storage, and high-value products. The book combines the preparation methods, physical and chemical properties measurement methods, and specific applications of products from biomass via thermal, catalytic, and biological technologies. Divided into two parts, Part I examines the efficient conversion of biomass resources, explaining key concepts, methods, and technological bottlenecks. Part II explores the versatile utilization of functional carbon materials derived from biomass, including catalysts for biodiesel production, metal-air batteries, electrochemical sensors, and wearable electronics. Finally, the book provides an extensive review of each technology; each technology-specific chapter reviews the current and future market demand of the technology, evaluates the economic feasibility of the technology, including cost effectiveness, return on investment, profit forecast, etc., discusses the unique advantages of the technology compared to existing common methods or other alternative technologies, considers the feasibility and practicability of the technology in actual industrial production, and explains the regulatory and environmental requirements and limitations of the technology. Biomass Conversion and High-Value Utilization is an invaluable resource for researchers and students involved in biomass conversion to high-value fuels and other products, and will be of interest to anyone working in bioenergy, biofuels, energy storage, catalysis, electronics and devices, and functional carbon materials.

Additive Manufacturing of Magnetic Materials

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Moataz Attallah + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Additive Manufacturing of Magnetic Materials outlines different 3D printing techniques that can be employed to create an array of different magnetic materials, along with how these materials can be effectively applied. The book discusses the additive manufacturing (AM) of soft magnets, permanent (hard) magnets, 4D magnetic shape memory alloys, magnetocaloric materials, and rare earth based magnetic alloys. Different AM techniques are covered, including laser powder bed fusion, directed laser deposition, binder jetting, cold spray, and the different influences of these techniques on the microstructure of the material produced.Common challenges are highlighted with solutions also provided, and applications covered include magnetic shielding, actuators, sensors, robotics, and magnetic heat exchangers for solid state heat pumps.

Mastering Prompt Engineering

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Anand Nayyar + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Mastering Prompt Engineering: Deep Insights for Optimizing Large Language Models (LLMs) is a comprehensive guide that takes readers on a journey through the world of Large Language Models (LLMs) and prompt engineering. Covering foundational concepts, advanced techniques, ethical considerations, and real-world case studies, this book equips both novices and experts to navigate the complex LLM landscape. It provides insights into LLM architecture, training, and prompt engineering methods, while addressing ethical concerns such as bias and privacy. Real-world case studies showcase the practical application of prompt engineering in a wide range of settings. This resource is not just for specialists but is a practical and ethically conscious guide for AI practitioners, students, scientific researchers, and anyone interested in harnessing the potential of LLMs in natural language processing and generation. Mastering Prompt Engineering serves as a gateway to a deeper understanding of LLMs and their responsible and effective utilization through its comprehensive, ethical, and practical approach.

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