Books in Physical sciences and engineering

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Water Management and Circular Economy

• 1st Edition
• August 7, 2023
• Miltiadis G. Zamparas + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-95280-4

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• eBook 978-0-323-95281-1

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Approx.380 pages

Sustainability of Methylic and Ethylic Biodiesel Production Routes

• 1st Edition
• August 6, 2023
• Stefano Ferrari Interlenghi + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-21942-9

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• eBook 978-0-443-21941-2

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Sustainability of Methylic and Ethylic Biodiesel Production Routes: Social and Environmental Impacts via Multi-criteria and Principal Component Analyses using Brazilian Case Studies presents an innovative, quantitative methodology for the assessment of the social and environmental sustainability of methylic and ethylic production routes. Sections explain the key steps in assessing the social and environmental impacts of biofuel production chains, including an overview of biodiesel properties and its production chains, common metrics for environmental, social and economic impacts, explain sustainability indicator variabilities and detect similarities among different classes of sustainability indicators, and cover techno-economic considerations. Finally, several appendices provide readers with MATLAB codes for solving Principal Component Analysis and Multi-Criterial Sustainability Analysis problems in the context of biodiesel chains or in the context of agronomy and agronomics. This book is an invaluable reference for anyone working on biofuels and bioenergy, including scientific, technical, management, social, environmental and policy professionals.

Manganese Mining Microorganisms

• 1st Edition
• August 5, 2023
• Alok Prasad Das + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-822147-1

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• eBook 978-0-12-823264-4

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Manganese Mining Microorganisms covers the latest amalgamation of the diversity of Mn biomining microorganisms, their biosolubilization mechanisms, and their role in natural manganese biogeochemical cycling. The book demonstrates the role of microorganisms as applied to manganese recovery from ores using bacteria. This new book provides an in-depth view of the latest trends in green mining, along with mechanistic views of biomining and bio recovery processes for both academic (undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral students and lecturers/researchers) and industrial readers.

Climate Change in the Himalayas

• 1st Edition
• August 5, 2023
• Amit Kumar + 3 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-19415-3

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• eBook 978-0-443-19416-0

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Climate Change in the Himalayas: Vulnerability and Resilience of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems explores and assesses issues affecting species survival in the rich forests of the Himalayan region. This book characterizes current biodiversity statuses, related ecosystem services, and provides new evidence and solutions for climate change effects on Himalayan animals and plants. Written by regional and international experts on climate change, ecosystems and the Himalayas, this book analyzes current species threats, loss of habitats, and carbon effects. It identifies critical areas requiring special attention and provides workable solutions for protection and ecosystem services. As many plant and animal species continue to be classified as extinct due to climate change, urbanization, and failing ecosystems, analyses and techniques in this book offer resolutions for sustaining current risks and curbing future risks. These can also be applied to other biodiverse, at-risk regions of the world.

Nanochemistry

• 1st Edition
• August 4, 2023
• Anna Klinkova + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-21447-9

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• eBook 978-0-443-21448-6

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Nanochemistry: Chemistry of Nanoparticle Formation and Interactions provides an overview of the chemistry aspects of nanoparticle science, including nanoparticle synthesis, chemical properties, stability, applications and self-assembly behavior. The critical concepts discussed in this book represent the necessary toolbox for enabling the rational design of nanoparticle-based materials for target applications. After an introduction to standard analytical techniques used for nanoparticle characterization, four separate chapters cover inorganic, organic, polymer nanoparticles, and carbon nanostructures to highlight the synthetic protocols, structural intricacies, and chemical properties specific to each of these material classes. Finally, physicochemical phenomena governing self-assembly behavior of nanoparticles are also discussed in detail separately. This book is intended for senior undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students and research scientists in nanoscience and nanotechnology, material science, chemistry, physics, biomedical sciences and relevant engineering fields that want to develop a deeper understanding of the governing chemical principles on the nanoscale.

Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

• 1st Edition
• Volume 141
• August 3, 2023
• Eric F.V. Scriven + 1 more
• English
• Hardback 978-0-443-19318-7

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• eBook 978-0-443-19319-4

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Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Volume 141, latest release in this definitive series, combines descriptive synthetic chemistry and mechanistic insight to yield an understanding of how chemistry drives the preparation and useful properties of heterocyclic compounds. Chapters in this new release include Recent Advances in the Synthesis of 5-Membered Heterocycles via Domino and Multicomponent Reactions (from 2017-2022), Recent Advances in Application of the Stetter Reaction in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Recent Developments in the Hantzsch Synthesis of Dihydropyridines, Recent Developments in the Chemistry of 1H- and 4H-1,2,4-Triazoles, and much more.

Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering

• 1st Edition
• August 1, 2023
• Michael F. Ashby + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-08-102399-0

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering: A Design-Led Approach is ideal for a first course in materials for mechanical, civil, biomedical, aerospace and other engineering disciplines. The authors’ systematic method includes first analyzing and selecting properties to match materials to design through the use of real-world case studies and then examining the science behind the material properties to better engage students whose jobs will be centered on design or applied industrial research. As with Ashby’s other leading texts, the book emphasizes visual communication through material property charts and numerous schematics better illustrate the origins of properties, their manipulation and fundamental limits.

Solid-State NMR and Organic Geochemistry

• 1st Edition
• August 1, 2023
• Jingdong Mao
• English

Solid-State NMR and Organic Geochemistry explains solid-state NMR from the point-of-view of organic geochemists interested in applying solid-state NMR in research. Sections describe basic concepts of solid-state NMR adapted for non-NMR specialists as well as an overview of organic geochemistry for NMR specialists. The essentials for acquiring reliable spectra of complex organic matter are also discussed, along with an introduction to the systematic and advanced solid-state NMR techniques and approaches to characterizing complex organic mixtures developed in Dr. Mao’s laboratory. Other sections cover practical aspects of performing solid-state NMR experiments of complex organic matter and applications of solid-state NMR in organic geochemistry.Applications cover geochemically important functional groups and biopolymers, followed by organic matter from soils, water, sediments, and aerosols, peat, coal, kerogen, and oil shale. Finally, the book covers isotopic enrichment and labelling and solid-state NMR and their applications in organic geochemistry.

Vibration and Acoustics of Composite Structures

• 1st Edition
• August 1, 2023
• Guang Meng + 1 more
• English

Vibration and Acoustics of Composite Structures: Theory and Applications presents recent advances on the vibration and acoustics of elastic composite structures. The book guides readers through structural modeling and fluid-structure interactions of elastic structures made from fiber-reinforced, sandwich and functionally graded materials. To achieve this goal, the book presents a series of generalized higher-order shear deformable theories for composite straight/curved beams, plates and shells, which is not available in any other book. The book also provides originally proposed frequency and time-domain methods for structural-acoustic analyses of composite structures immersed in light and heavy acoustic fluid.Many numerical examples are given to aid in physical insights and to provide benchmark computations of vibration and sound radiation of composite structures. This book is a useful source of information for scientists who need to develop skills in theoretical and/or numerical modeling in dynamics and acoustics of elastic structures.

Rapakivi Granites and Related Rocks

• 1st Edition
• August 1, 2023
• Ilmari J Haapala + 2 more
• English

Rapakivi Granites and Related Rocks tells the story of Rapakivi granites, a group of granitic rocks characterized by specific texture (presence of plagioclase-mantled ovoidal to subhedral alkali feldspar megacrysts, two generations of quartz and feldspars) and A-type geochemical composition. The book includes research and abundant geochemical and isotopic data combined with an understanding of geotectonic processes that allow more detailed tectonic and petrological modeling of rapakivi granite magmatism and associated ore mineralization. Well-known examples are found as anorogenic or post-orogenic batholith- to stock-sized intrusive complexes in the Precambrian cratons of Ukraine, Fennoscandia, South Greenland, Canada, United States, Brazil, Venezuela and Siberia. The current knowledge of the rapakivi granites is largely based on the achievements of three International Geological Correlation Programme projects: IGCP–315 (Rapakivi Granites and Related Rocks) in in 1991–1996, IGCP–426 (Granite Systems and Proterozoic Lithospheric Processes) in 1998–2002, and IGCP–510 (A-type Granites and Related Rocks Through Time) in 2005–2009. After these projects, the research has continued actively utilizing enhanced geochemical methods, in situ geochemistry in particular.