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Industrial Decarbonization and the Energy Transition

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Suresh Sundaramurthy + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 9 3 0 - 6
Industrial Decarbonization and the Energy Transition: Innovative Solutions for a Carbon-Free, Sustainable, and Clean Environment provides detailed information on a range of cutting-edge solutions, supporting decarbonization, clean energy production, and energy transition. Sectors covered include chemical and photochemical, cement and concrete, class, pulp and paper, steel and iron-making, fertilizer, clay, methanol, refineries, sugar, and thermal power plants. Technology, regulations, climate impact, and finance are considered for each sector, and throughout the book, emphasis is placed on the industry perspective and expertise, with thorough techno-economic analysis and in-depth discussion of other key considerations such as scale-up, cost reductions, waste, and future possibilities.This book is of interest to engineers, R&D, and other professionals involved in energy transition and decarbonization of industrial processes and plants across a range of industrial sectors, as well as academic researchers, scientists, and advanced students in energy transition, renewable energy, engineering, decarbonization, and sustainability.</p>

Perovskite Photovoltaics

  • 2nd Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Aparna Thankappan + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 9 8 3 - 2
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 9 8 2 - 5
Perovskite Photovoltaics: Basic to Advanced Concepts and Implementation, Second Edition brings together the latest advances in perovskite photovoltaics, associated challenges and opportunities, and how to achieve further developments. This edition presents new topics and novel areas, including defect engineering, interface engineering, additive engineering, anti-solvents, single crystal perovskite solar cells, inorganic perovskites, optoelectronic characterization, and mathematical modeling of perovskite solar cells. In addition, the book contains a detailed analysis of the implementation and economic viability of perovskite solar cells, highlighting what photovoltaic devices need to be generated by low cost, non-toxic, earth abundant materials using environmentally-scalable processes.This book is a valuable resource for all those with an interest in perovskite solar cells, photovoltaics, and more broadly solar energy and renewable energy, including researchers, scientists, graduate students, engineers, R&D professionals, and other industry personnel.

Introduction to Digital Human Modeling

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Yujiang Xiang + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Introduction to Digital Human Modeling bridges the gap in current literature by providing a comprehensive book on digital human modeling for beginners and researchers. The contents include step-by-step procedures to build a digital human model, fundamental human kinematics and dynamics, advanced topics like motion prediction and injury prevention, and industrial applications. The target audience is undergraduate and graduate students in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, and kinesiology. The book covers theories and experiment-based validation, including human anatomy, degrees of freedom, skeletal and musculoskeletal modeling, equations of motion, reach envelopes, lifting prediction, and injury analysis. The book teaches readers how to build simulation-based human models, set up equations of motion, analyze human biomechanics, and use simulations and experiments to study worker injuries. The book provides an introduction to fundamentals and advanced digital human modeling methods and optimization techniques to improve performance and prevent injuries in manual material handling and address lifting and gait biomechanics and ergonomics.

Sono-Hybrid Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Slimane Merouani + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 0 8 8 - 3
Sono-Hybrid Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment presents the latest technological advances research in sono-hybrid advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), including an array of cutting-edge water treatments with depth analysis of mechanisms, viable applications, and the advantages and disadvantages of each processes. The book expands on, and illustrates, the principles and consequences of ultrasonic irradiation in liquids, which is an essential component in understanding the degradation mechanisms in sono-hybrid AOPs. This will be a valuable and effective reference for students, researchers, academics, and professionals working in water and wastewater treatment.

Flame Retardant Selection for Polymers

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Henri Vahabi + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 2 4 6 - 7
Flame Retardant Selection for Polymers provides readers with step-by-step guidance on how to select and apply flame retardants for polymers. Written by experts in the field of flame retardancy worldwide, this book seeks to consider the types of polymers and their applications in different sectors, providing in-depth information about the beneficial aspects of choosing each sort of flame retardant and supporting readers in selection of the best flame retardant additives. Regional and global features of flame retardant development and legislations as well as future perspective from circularity viewpoint are also covered.This book is a practical guide and valuable resource to researchers and industrial professionals interested in fundamental principles of flame retardant selection for polymers, as well as the basic needs for processing and commercialization of flame retardant polymers.

The Carbon Footprint of our Primary Energy Sources

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Mukul Sharma
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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The Carbon Footprint of our Primary Energy Sources supplies readers with a comprehensive, accessible analysis of the carbon footprints of a range of primary energy sources including crude oil, natural gas, coal, solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, hydroelectric energy, nuclear energy and biofuels, and their carbon footprints, employing a full lifecycle assessment (LCA) of each primary energy source. This text, along with its accompanying interactive calculator, furnishes both the foundation and a tool for estimating carbon footprints for a range of energy systems. The work culminates in a cost-benefit analysis of these primary energy sources.With the significant uptick of global investment in alternative energies and the global focus on reducing emissions, this text delivers an important foundational overview/understanding of these systems, and an opportunity for teachers and readers to apply learnings to their own energy consumption choices.

Membranes for Structures

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Josep Ignasi de Llorens
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 4 0 5 - 8
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 4 0 6 - 5
A growing use of membranes for construction purposes has recently been encouraged by their environmentally friendly characteristics. To offer a timely and extensive, research-grounded compendium on structures made with fabrics and foils, the most relevant facets of the state of the art are covered in two sister titles.Membranes for Structures: Applications is steeped in fascinating, functional examples: in fact, a selection of detailed case studies is presented in Part Five, and the particular case of spoked wheel structural systems is the subject of Part Six; façades are discussed in Part Seven and the latest application developments in different countries across the globe in Part Eight; part Nine, which concludes the book, is dedicated to replacement re-valorization projects.The well-amalgamated contributions, authored by international experts, produce a comprehensive reference to keep students and researchers, as well as industry professionals and various other stakeholders abreast with the latest advancements.

Membranes for Structures

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Josep Ignasi de Llorens
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 4 0 7 - 2
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 4 0 8 - 9
A growing use of membranes for construction purposes has recently been encouraged by their environmentally friendly characteristics. To offer a timely and extensive, research-grounded compendium on structures made with fabrics and foils, the most relevant facets of the state of the art are covered in two sister titles.Membranes for Structures: Fundamentals begins with a brief historical review of membrane structures’ development. Part One follows, discussing design fundamentals in the light of recent experiences and modern technological tools. Part Two updates knowledge of products and materials, with a special focus on multilayering, the incorporation of photovoltaic cells, and ETFE. Part Three deals with other considerations related to design and installation, such as acoustic performance, post-failure stability, wind loads, life cycle analysis and monitoring, pre-stressing. A look into the future is proposed in Part Four, where some interesting, present-day studies on sustainable building systems engineering solutions are included.The well-amalgamated contributions, authored by international experts, produce a comprehensive reference to keep students and researchers, as well as industry professionals and various other stakeholders abreast with the latest advancements.

Advanced Electrochemical Materials and Devices for Clean Energy and Environment

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Zeba Khanam + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Advanced Electrochemical Materials and Devices for Clean Energy and Environment presents recent advancements, revolutionary breakthroughs, and unraveled challenges in the development of electrochemical materials and devices for energy and environmental applications. The book discusses the latest trends in synthesis, processing, fabrication, characterization, and properties of materials. In addition, it highlights novel sustainable materials such as natural polysaccharides, biochar, plant-waste, animal-waste, other waste materials as promising substitutes for use in next-generation electrochemical devices.The book also demonstrates crossroads research where the electrochemical removal of pollutants can be coupled with the electrical energy production, such as in biological fuel cells; desalination batteries/supercapacitors; and other integrated devices. This is a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, scientists, and professionals from a variety of sectors, including electrochemists, chemical engineers, environmental scientists, materials scientists, and energy researchers across academia and industry.

Sustainable Composites for Automotive Engineering

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Vijay Raghunathan + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Sustainable Composites for Automotive Engineering presents recent trends in this important research field. Emphasis is placed on the development, characterization, and application of lightweight composites in various automobile components. The types of materials covered include polymer composites, metal matrix and ceramic matrix composites. The book takes a 360-degree approach and covers all aspects of the product development cycle including materials selection, as well as design and development processes, testing, characterization, modelling and simulation, and applications. The book will be a valuable reference resource for academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers, industrial R&D, automotive engineers, and manufacturers working in the design and development of composite materials for applications in automotive components.

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