Electrical engineering

This book presents tools for valuing and controlling corporate innovation.

This book focuses on the assessment of different coal gasification technologies for the utilization of Russian coals with analyses of economically feasible process chains for preparation of marketable products from high-ash coals.

This book highlights technology trends and challenges that trace the evolution of antenna design, starting from 3rd generation phones and moving towards the latest release of LTE-A.

This book addresses selected topics in electrical engineering, electronics and mechatronics that have posed serious challenges for both the scientific and engineering communities in recent years.

Research and application of impedance network converters are very popular in recent years, but it still lacks of understanding of and guidelines of impedance networks application, therefore, there is quiet a large potential market about impedance networks converters.

This book shares the learnings and perspectives of two pioneer women who waded the many challenges posed by multiculturalism and gender in one of the corporate environments more rigid and traditional in the business world: the energy sector in the Middle East.

This book addresses the concept and applications of Finite Time Thermodynamics to various thermal energy conversion systems including heat engines, heat pumps, and refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.

This book discusses the design and implementation of energy harvesting systems targeting wearable devices.

This unique book describes how the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) can be used to solve various power system operation and planning optimization problems.

This book provides the short history, current state, main problems and historical perspective for the development of electrical power engineering.

This book provides a detailed review of millimeter-wave power amplifiers, discussing design issues and performance limitations commonly encountered in light of the latest research.

The main body of this book is devoted to statistical physics, whereas much less emphasis is given to thermodynamics.

This edited collection critically engages with an important but rarely-asked question: what is energy for?

This thesis represents the first systematic description of the two-phase flow problem.

This book introduces the reader to the optical switching technology for its application to data centers.

This book provides a methodology for developing an optimum investment strategy in the heating and combined heat and power (CHP) industry.

This monograph addresses the spectrum-scarcity problem by providing a comprehensive overview of spectrum resource management in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs).

This book explores the nexus of Sustainability and Information Communication Technologies that are rapidly changing the way we live, learn, and do business.

This book explores the recent developments, perspectives on future research, and pertinent data from academia, industry, and government research laboratory to discuss fundamental mechanisms as well as processing and applications of advanced metallic and ceramic thin film and coating materials for energy and environmental applications.

This book analyzes the thermal characteristics of power electronic devices (PEDs) with a focus on those used in wind and solar energy systems.

Solid biofuels, in different trading forms, constitute an integral component of the energy mix of almost all developed and developing countries.

This comprehensive volume offers readers a progressive and highly detailed introduction to the complex behavior of neutrons in general, and in the context of nuclear power generation.

This book reviews the applications, technologies, standards, and other issues related to Smart Cities.

This book focuses on modelling and simulation, control and optimization, signal processing, and forecasting in selected nonlinear dynamical systems, presenting both literature reviews and novel concepts.

This book focuses on the role of systems and control.

This unique book provides a multidisciplinary review of current, climate-change research projects at universities around the globe, offering perspectives from all of the natural and social sciences.

This book addresses eco-design, a major tool for reducing the environmental impacts of products, services and systems in the context of sustainable development.

This book evaluates the potential of the combined use of district heating networks and cogeneration in the European Union (EU).

This book describes nanomaterials used and existing in the environment, food industry and packaging, health care products and cosmetics, housekeeping, nanomaterials for cleaning purposes, architectural building products, medicine, clothing and textile, smart electronics and sensors.

Demonstrating the potential of building strong brands in the energy sector, this book explores the challenges of shifting the perception of energy from a commodity business into a consumer brand.

In this book, effective computational methods to facilitate those pivotal simulations using open-source software are introduced and discussed with a special focus on the coupled thermo-mechanical behavior of the rock salt.

This book presents breakthroughs in the design of Wireless Energy Harvesting (WEH) networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 5.

This book proposes the formulation of an efficient methodology that estimates energy system uncertainty and predicts Remaining Useful Life (RUL) accurately with significantly reduced RUL prediction uncertainty.

This book outlines the challenges that increasing amounts of renewable and distributed energy represent when integrated into established electricity grid infrastructures, offering a range of potential solutions that will support engineers, grid operators, system planners, utilities, and policymakers alike in their efforts to realize the vision of moving toward greener, more secure energy portfolios.

This book analyzes the relationship between large-scale industrial activity and the carbon footprint, and provides a theoretical framework and tools to calculate the carbon footprint of industrial activities at every stage of their life cycles, including urban-planning master plans, recycling activities, project and building stages as well as managing and manufacturing.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the computerized core monitoring techniques currently employed at pressurized water reactor (PWR) and boiling water reactor (BWR) nuclear power plants.

This SpringerBrief offers a comprehensive review and in-depth discussion of the current research on resource management.

This book discusses the theory, general principles, and energy source conditions allowing for the emergence of life in planetary systems.

This book showcases the strengths of Linear Programming models for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), such as the Smart Grids.

This book provides new clues for understanding electrostatic charging in solids and liquids, resulting from the surge of research in this active area of science that is taking place since the 1990's but is still largely unknown to most researchers, lecturers and engineers.

This collection highlights materials research and innovations for a wide breadth of energy systems and technologies.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of energy sectors in emerging African and Latin American nations, providing a one-stop source of information and analysis of energy sectors that differ radically from those of developed countries.

As a flexible, cost-effective energy alternative to large scale nuclear power reactors, this book examines the potential future use of small modular reactors for the generation of electricity in different regions.

This book is for all those who are looking for a non-conventional mathematical model of electrical network systems.

The book reports on advanced theories and methods in two related engineering fields: electrical and electronic engineering, and communications engineering and computing.

There is widespread interest in the way that smart energy control systems, such as assessment and monitoring techniques for low carbon, nearly-zero energy and net positive buildings can contribute to a Sustainable future, for current and future generations.

This book focuses on the theory and application of power switching components in power networks.

This book features extensive coverage of all Distributed Energy Generation technologies, highlighting the technical, environmental and economic aspects of distributed resource integration, such as line loss reduction, protection, control, storage, power electronics, reliability improvement, and voltage profile optimization.

This book is about how electricity has profoundly changed the way we live, work, and play.