Energy technology and engineering

Ron DiPippo, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is a world-regarded geothermal expert.

Fuel cells are, according to some, the answer to the future problems of energy resources.

This book provides a comprehensive practical treatment of the modelling of electrical power systems, and the theory and practice of fault analysis of power systems covering detailed and advanced theories as well as modern industry practices.

This book includes a survey of all RFID fundamentals and practices in the first part of the book while the second part focuses on UHF passive technology.

This book will explain how to verify SoC (Systems on Chip) logic designs using "e;formal and "e;semiformal verification techniques.

Maintaining appropriate power systems and equipment expertise is necessary for a utility to support the reliability, availability, and quality of service goals demanded by energy consumers now and into the future.

This book on hydrocarbon exploration and production is the first volume in the series Developments in Petroleum Science.

The great strides made over the past decade in the complexity and network functionality of embedded systems have significantly enhanced their attractiveness for use in critical applications such as medical devices and military communications.

Fabless (no fabrication) IC (integrated circuit) techniques are growing rapidly and promise to become the standard method of IC manufacturing in the near future, this book will provide readers with what will soon be required knowledge of the subject.

A majority of people now have a digital mobile device whether it be a cell phone, laptop, or blackberry.

Hydrogen may someday fuel our cars and power and heat our homes and businesses and revolutionize the way we use energy.

This book provides an introduction to understanding combustion, the burning of a substance that produces heat and often light, in microgravity environments-i.

Small-scale gas turbines, known as Microturbines, represent an exciting new development in gas turbine technology.

The book provides the most up-to-date information on testing and development of hydroprocessing catalysts with the aim to improve performance of the conventional and modified catalysts as well as to develop novel catalytic formulations.

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In order to reduce the cost of running blast furnaces (BFs), injected pulverized coal is used rather than coke to fire BFs.

This book on well test analysis, and the use of advanced interpretation models is volume 3 in the series Handbook of Petroleum Exploration and Production.

The communications industry is at the onset of new expansion of WDM technology necessary to meet the new demand for bandwidth.

Wave energy, together with other renewable energy resources is expected to provide a small but significant proportion of future energy requirements without adding to pollution and global warming.

You get information needed to evaluate a reservoir, determine the particular requirements of the job, and design a storage facility that will operate at its full potential.

Biocatalysis in Oil Refining focuses on petroleum refining bioprocesses, establishing a connection between science and technology.

The United States accounts for 25% of the Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

The Thermoeconomics of Energy Conversions presents the developed methodologies that reveal the cost effectiveness of energy-resource-saving ideas design.

No fishing job is a welcome operation, but this new edition of a classic reference helps you do the job efficiently and economically.

Petroleum engineering now has its own true classic handbook that reflects the profession's status as a mature major engineering discipline.

Magnetic storms may cause damage to satellites, radiation hazard to astronauts, disruption of radio communications, and interruption of ground electric power lines.

A large number of solar cell and solar cell systems are described in this volume.

The book introduces procedures for simulating migration and entrapment of oil in three dimensions in sequences of sandstones and shales.

Today, China is in a critical period of development facing a series of challenges such as optimizing the economic structure, rationalizing the use of resources, protecting the ecological environment, eradicating poverty, and fostering coordinated development of the whole society.

For the practitioner, this volume is a valuable tool for predicting reservoir flow in the most efficient and profitable manner possible, using quantitative methods rather than anecdotal and outdated methods.

Semiconductors made from amorphous silicon have recently become important for their commercial applications in optical and electronic devices including FAX machines, solar cells, and liquid crystal displays.

Stems, of various sizes and shapes, are involved in most of the organic processes and interactions of plants, ranging from support, transport, and storage to development and protection.

Libya has the largest petroleum reserves of any country in Africa and since production began in 1961 over 20 billion barrels of oil have been produced.

The applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to petroleum exploration and production have become more and more important in recent years.

Decommissioning nuclear facilities is a relatively new field, which has developed rapidly in the last ten years.

Muddy coasts are land-sea transitional environments commonly found along low-energy shorelines which either receive large annual supplies of muddy sediments, or where unconsolidated muddy deposits are being eroded by wave action.

Based on the successful first edition, this book gives a general theoretical introduction to electrochemical power cells (excluding fuel cells) followed by a comprehensive treatment of the principle battery types - covering chemistry, fabrication characteristics and applications.

Arc welding is one of the key processes in industrial manufacturing, with welders using two types of processes - gas metal arc welding (GMAW) and gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW).

This book examines the underlying mechanics of creating a fracture from vertical or deviated wellbores and the propagation of a hydraulic fracture in the reservoir.

Integrated Flow Modeling presents the formulation, development and application of an integrated flow simulator (IFLO).

Learning by experience is both a part of the daily life and the exploration life.

The past decade has witnessed dramatic growth in the diversity and complexity of device applications where vacuum is required to support either high voltages or high electric fields.

Handbook of Giant Magnetostrictive Materials contains the knowledge that a mechanical or an electrical engineer needs when considering the use of magnetostrictive materials in a construction project.

This reference provides engineers with values for thermal conductivity as a function of temperature for the major organic compounds.

Most geoscientists are aware of recent IT developments, but cannot spend time on obscure technicalities.

During the last century, nuclear power has been established as a reliable source of energy in the major industrialised countries.

As electricity generators and process industries are increasingly seeking less expensive fuels for the generation of electricity and process heat, there is an ever-increasing industry-led emphasise on exploring the possibility of utilising opportunity fuels.

This book deals with exergy and its applications to various energy systems and applications as a potential tool for design, analysis and optimization, and its role in minimizing and/or eliminating environmental impacts and providing sustainable development.

This is a guide for the system designers and installers faced with the day-to-day issues of achieving EMC, and will be found valuable across a wide range of roles and sectors, including process control, manufacturing, medical, IT and building management.

Control system power and grounding is possibly the single most important element to ensure a control system doesn't experience unidentified "e;gremlins"e; throughout its life.