Energy

This textbook explores the science and tecnologies needed for renewable energy.

A practical guide for facility engineers and managers to understand the impact of environmental regulations when applied to operating equipment in any industry or facility.

Title: The Vacuum Interrupter: Theory, Design, and ApplicationShelving guide: Electrical EngineeringDr.

Energy demand reduction is fast becoming a business activity for all companies and organisations because it can increase profits regardless of the nature of their core activity.

The book provides a comprehensive understanding of the principles for operating lithium-ion supercapacitors (LISCs), their challenges, technological trends and perspectives.

Energy demand is continuously rising, mainly due to population growth and rapid economic development.

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the optical properties of graphene.

First Published in 1986.

Engineering the physical, chemical, and energy properties of lignocellulosic biomass is important to produce high-quality consistent feedstocks with reduced variability for biofuels production.

Beginning with a review of the current need for identification of buried and surface unexplored ordnance such as mines, shells, bombs, this book then explains existing techniques for electromagnetic detection of such targets.

This book comprises selected papers from the First International Conference on Convective Flow Boiling.

This book focusses on various options of taking up ventures for starting entrepreneurship in small/large scale in the field of renewable energy technologies.

Ceramic Hydrogen Storage Materials presents the physical, chemical, physico-chemical properties of ceramics as hydrogen storage materials.

This book initiates with the story of the evolution of firearms to enable the reader to appreciate the sequence of the development of firearms.

Due to safety reasons, energetic materials are rarely studied at research facilities.

First published in 2013.

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "e;green technology.

This book examines the variety of potential laser diagnostic techniques and presents a considerable theoretical foundation elucidating physics relevant to the laser diagnostics.

Time and Space Weight and Inertia covers the relationship between time, space weight, and inertia using the principles of theory of relativity and chronogeometry.

Despite the length of time it has been around, its importance, and vast amounts of research, combustion is still far from being completely understood.

The aim of process calculations is to evaluate the performance of minerals and coal processing operations in terms of efficiency of the operation, grade of the final products and recovery of the required constituents.

Originally published in 1977, this book concentrates on the period since nationalisation in the history of the coal industry.

Smart cities emanate from a smart renewable-energy-aided power grid.

The Gaseous State provides a comprehensive discussion on the various areas of concerns in gases.

Corrosion Protection for the Oil and Gas Industry: Pipelines, Subsea Equipment, and Structures summarizes the main causes of corrosion and requirements for materials protection, selection of corrosion-resistant materials and coating materials commonly used for corrosion protection, and the limitations to their use, application, and repair.

Thermal systems are essential features of all domestic and industrial applications involving heat and fluid flow.

The importance of biofuels in greening the transport sector in the future is unquestionable, given the limited available fossil energy resources, the environmental issues associated to the utilization of fossil fuels, and the increasing attention to security of supply.

Cogeneration can now turn up to 90% of the fuel burned into usable energy - compared to just 52% of the fuel typically burned in a local power plant and in a separate existing hot water heating system.

Oil and Gas Engineering for Non-Engineers explains in non-technical terms how oil and gas exploration and production are carried out in the upstream oil and gas industry.

A comprehensive reference for engineers and researchers, this second edition focuses on gas turbine heat transfer issues and their associated cooling technologies for aircraft and land-based gas turbines.

Through different applications, electricity provides the energy required for light, heat, comfort, and mechanical work.

While hydrogen is of vital and growing importance in many industrial sectors, this volatile substance poses unique challenges, including easy leakage, low ignition energy, a wide range of combustible fuel- air mixtures, buoyancy, and its ability to embrittle metals that are required to ensure safe operation.

Incuding an overview of two of the most common uses of coal: combustion and gasification.

This book provides an analysis of the European policy approach to combined heat and power (CHP), a highly efficient technology used by all EU Member States for the needs of generating electricity and heat.

Power System SCADA and Smart Grids brings together in one concise volume the fundamentals and possible application functions of power system supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA).

This new book, Advances in Energy Materials and Environment Engineering, covers the timely issue of green applications of materials.

Green Energy is increasingly becoming an important component for all individuals and governments of the world.

This timely reference surveys manufacturing and installation methods, standards, and specifications of factory-made steel storage tanks and appurtenances for petroleum, chemicals, hydrocarbons, and other flammable or combustible liquids.

Alternative energy sources are becoming increasingly important in a world striving for energy independence, clean air, and a reprieve from global warming.

Plasma Waves discusses the basic development and equations for the many aspects of plasma waves.

Smart cities emanate from a smart renewable-energy-aided power grid.

Computer Techniques for Electromagnetics discusses the ways in which computer techniques solve practical problems in electromagnetics.

This new edition presents a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the concepts and methods in contemporary condensed matter physics, emphasizing topics that can be treated by quantum mechanical methods.

This important new book covers recent advancements, innovations, and technologies in industrial biotechnology, specifically addressing the application of various biomolecules in industrial production and in cleaning and environmental remediation sectors.

Discover a straightforward and holistic look at energy conversion and conservation processes using the exergy concept.

PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS, Third Edition, surveys the range of sustainable energy sources and the tools that engineers, scientists, managers, and policy makers use to analyze energy generation, usage, and future trends.

The Practical Handbook of Well Control teaches readers to safeguard well safety and integrity in drilling well engineering.

Quantum Theory, III: Radiation and High Energy Physics focuses on the fundamentals and applications of quantum theory.