Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Digital Platforms for Sustainable Business

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Muhammad Imran Qureshi + 3 more
English

Digital Platforms for Sustainable Business: Driving Energy Efficiency through Digital Transformation explores the immense potential of digital platforms in fostering energy efficiency and sustainability within business operations. The book addresses the critical issue of energy inefficiency and its detrimental impact on the environment. By leveraging digital platforms, businesses can optimize their energy consumption, thereby reducing their environmental footprint. The book provides valuable insights into various digital tools and platforms, such as real-time monitoring systems, machine learning algorithms, and blockchain-based solutions, that can significantly enhance energy efficiency.Further sections examine the challenges and opportunities that come with adopting these platforms, including concerns related to data privacy, cybersecurity, and organizational change management. The book also aligns with several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably SDG7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), SDG12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and SDG13 (Climate Action). It is an indispensable resource for energy researchers, professionals, policymakers, and academics studying sustainability and digital transformation.

Error Control, Adaptive Discretizations, and Applications, Part 4

1st Edition
Volume 61
November 1, 2025
Franz Chouly + 3 more
English
eBook
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Error Control, Adaptive Discretizations, and Applications, Volume 60, Part four highlights new advances, with this volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Chapters in this release cover Higher order discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for the contact problems, Anisotropic Recovery-Based Error Estimators and Mesh Adaptation Tailored for Real-Life Engineering Innovation, Adaptive mesh refinement on Cartesian meshes applied to the mixed finite element discretization of the multigroup neutron diffusion equations, A posteriori error analysis for Finite Element approximation of some groundwater models Part I: Linear models, A posteriori error estimates for low frequency electromagnetic computations, and more.Other sections delve into A posteriori error control for stochastic Galerkin FEM with high-dimensional random parametric PDEs and Recovery techniques for finite element methods.

Optimizing Markets for Energy Stability

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Muhammad Shahbaz + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Optimizing Markets for Energy Stability collates the latest cutting-edge econometric technologies for energy markets built to support global energy transition. This book takes an integrated, international approach, dedicating chapters to flexible frameworks for both policy and market design across a range of countries. Utilization of the accelerating technological developments across renewable energy sources, distributed resource penetration, energy storage, and peer-to-peer platforms is broken down clearly. Market strategies for supporting global energy stability are provided and placed in context, from demand response and risk mitigation to techno-economic modelling and optimization. Featuring a range of contributors with a truly global geographical perspective, Optimizing Markets for Energy Stability is an indispensable modern reference for any academic, student, or researcher investigating the energy markets of the future.

Remote Sensing at Night

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Qingling Zhang
English

Remote Sensing at Night: Technologies, Applications, and Perspectives covers the critical role of remote sensing in understanding Earth's nighttime environment, offering a holistic approach through a wide range of case studies, making the subject accessible to readers with diverse scientific backgrounds. It showcases recent advances in nighttime remote sensing by harnessing the capabilities of the latest Earth observation satellites for nightlight, thermal infrared, and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technologies. The book details the advances of remote sensing technologies in nightscape monitoring for a range of practical and research applications, Earth observation datasets, and challenges. Remote Sensing at Night: Technologies, Applications, and Perspectives equips readers with multidisciplinary knowledge and practical solutions for nighttime monitoring, providing up-to-date global case studies and methodologies for researchers, graduate students, scientists, and academics in remote sensing, geospatial research, and environmental science.

Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Ignazio Roppolo
English

Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing provides a complete overview of these cutting-edge 3D-printing techniques, the materials they’re capable of producing, and how best those techniques and materials can be applied. The first section of the book covers the fundamentals, with chapters discussing the core principles of vat photopolymerization, related technological requirements, the characteristics of digital light processing (DLP) and stereolithography (SL) compared to other light-induced methods, as well as the chemistry and materials used in the processes, including how to formulate a resin. Section two covers applications, such as design for structural applications, as well as DLP and SL use in dentistry, soft robotics, sensors, biomedicine, microfluidics, catalysis and chemical engineering, and more. The book concludes with a section discussing current trends and future directions for the technology, with chapters analyzing sustainable materials including efforts to substitute synthetic materials with bio-based ones, vitrimers, controlled polymers, and 4D printing and DLP and SL in hybrid AM.

Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Analytical Chemistry

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Suresh Kumar Kailasa + 2 more
English

Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Analytical Chemistry: A Practical Approach provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental, theoretical aspects and advanced applications of fluorescence spectroscopy in analytical chemistry. The book provides basic knowledge and recent advances, enabling new users to effectively apply techniques. Readers will gain significant insights into recent developments of organic and inorganic fluorophores and their potential applications in fluorescence spectroscopy for quantitative analysis of various molecules. Sections explore the challenges and potential applications, with an emphasis on understanding the theory, detection mechanisms, and new fluorophores for molecular recognition.The book is a valuable resource, practical guide, and roadmap to fluorescence spectroscopy for all chemists, analytical scientists, academics, and researchers investigating organic and inorganic fluorophore-based sensor technology for molecular and ionic species sensing. It is also an important reference for researchers, bioanalytical chemists, and technologists working on fluorescence spectroscopy.

Enhancing the Control of Systems and Devices

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Sheetla Prasad + 2 more
English

Enhancing the Control of Systems and Devices: Improving Performance, Reliability and Adaptability in Dynamic Environments provides an in-depth exploration of the application of sophisticated control design strategies to enhance the control of systems and devices in terms of performance, reliability, and adaptability in dynamic environments. A sophisticated control design strategy refers to the use of advanced and intricate control techniques to achieve specific objectives in complex systems.

Graphene Hydrogels

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Tejraj M. Aminabhavi + 3 more
English

Graphene Hydrogels: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications provides the latest information on synthesis approaches, mechanisms of action, and major application developments in graphene-based hydrogels. In addition, the book also presents directions for future research, particularly with regard to achieving sustainability. Graphene, with its unique features, blends well with various organic and inorganic molecules, and is utilized in various fields such as electronics, sensors, environment, agriculture, and biomedicine. This book covers recent progress in the field, along with associated challenges and future perspectives.Contemporary applications of graphene hydrogels are discussed in extensive detail, making this book of particular interest to researchers and industrialists working in nanotechnology, polymer science, and materials science.

Composites and Biocomposites for Heavy Metal Adsorption

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Abdullahi Haruna Birniwa + 4 more
English

Composites and Biocomposites for Heavy Metal Adsorption delves into the latest advancements in this crucial area of research. With a focus on integrating materials like composites and bio-composites, the book demonstrates how these combinations can achieve superior heavy metal removal compared to single materials. This efficiency stems from their enhanced ability to eliminate hazardous intermediate metabolites present in heavy metals. Additionally, the book examines the application, mechanisms, and performance evaluation of various composites and bio-composites used in heavy metal removal. It also explores the techno-economic and lifecycle assessments of these materials, making it a valuable resource for scientists, engineers, and students alike.

Advanced Thermal Engineering

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Omid Mahian + 3 more
English

Advanced Thermal Engineering: Efficiency Enhancement, Emission Reduction, and Renewable Energy Integration provides a comprehensive overview of advanced thermal engineering and its applications in energy systems, with an added focus on environmental sustainability. This book provides information on technologies which can be used to design and analyze thermal systems. It discusses relevant technical, economics, and environmental advantages and disadvantages of making this transition as technology evolves. It covers a wide range of topics, including thermal energy systems, heat transfer enhancement, renewable energy integration, emission reduction, waste heat recovery, nanotechnology, machine learning, environmental sustainability, case studies, and future trends.This book progresses from an introduction to thermal engineering and its applications in energy systems, covers heat transfer enhancement techniques for advanced thermal systems, addresses the integration of renewable energy sources with thermal systems, emission reduction technologies for thermal systems, waste heat recovery and energy storage systems, nanotechnology for advanced thermal engineering, machine learning in advanced thermal systems, environmental sustainability in advanced thermal engineering, as well as case studies, practical applications and future trends.Overall, Advanced Thermal Engineering: Efficiency Enhancement, Emission Reduction, and Renewable Energy Integration provides a comprehensive, in-depth treatment of thermal engineering topics, with a particular focus on efficiency enhancement, emission reduction, renewable energy integration, and emerging technologies. This book's interdisciplinary approach makes it relevant for researchers, engineers, policy makers, and students from a wide range of fields seeking a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of advanced thermal engineering principles and practices meshed with environmental and economic considerations relevant to global citizens.

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