Environmental science, engineering and technology

Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations contains lectures and papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2020), held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, April 11-15, 2021.

This new volume explores important recent approaches and advanced techniques for the effective management and treatment of wastewater.

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is referred to as an efficient and inevitable convergence of the Internet of Things, intelligent transportation systems, edge / fog and cloud computing, and big data, all of which could be intelligently harvested for the cooperative vehicular safety and non-safety applications as well as cooperative mobility management.

This second edition of Precast Concrete Structures introduces the conceptual design ideas for the prefabrication of concrete structures and presents a number of worked examples that translate designs from BS 8110 to Eurocode EC2, before going into the detail of the design, manufacture, and construction of precast concrete multi-storey buildings.

The text provides sustainable energy solutions using smart technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and the Internet of Things.

This book presents a variety of policy adoption methods, irrigation scheduling, and design procedures in micro irrigation engineering for horticultural crops.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering Practices (ICSCEP 2019).

Digital platforms hold significant economic value, enriching various industry sectors.

Environmental and Pollution Science, Second Edition, provides the latest information on the environmental influence of a significant number of subjects, and discusses their impact on a new generation of students.

This volume, Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Volume 5: Research Methodologies in Modern Chemistry and Applied Science, is designed to fulfill the requirements of scientists and engineers who wish to be able to carry out experimental research in chemistry and applied science using modern methods.

Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain, Second Edition, is a fully updated, practical guide on how to identify and respond to environmental challenges across the supply chain.

Nanoscience technology is playing a vital role in multidisciplinary research due to its unique characteristics at nanoscale as compared to bulk materials.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of recent trends of green science and technology.

Focusing primarily on understanding the steady-state hydraulics that form the basis of hydraulic design and computer modelling applied in water distribution, Introduction to Urban Water Distribution elaborates the general principles and practices of water distribution in a straightforward way.

Pressure Transient Analysis: Pressure Derivative provides focuses on applications of pressure and derivative data for interpretation of pressure transient tests, offering alternatives to costly commercial software.

With most services and products now being offered through digital communications, new challenges have emerged for information security specialists.

As mining operations increase in scale and mines go progressively deeper, the geotechnical input into mine design is of importance.

Water has always been a crucial catalyst for human development.

Praise for the Second Edition:"e;This is the book that the dewatering sector really needs - it is reliably based on sound theory and profound understanding of the physical processes, yet is presented in a very accessible and user-friendly manner.

Volume 3: Managing the Ecosystem focuses on those ecosystems in which human intervention has been or continues to be predominant, specifically within cities and rural areas.

Traditionally the process of design has concentrated on the construction phase itself, with the primary objective being to optimise efficiency and minimise costs during development and construction.

WINNER: 2020 International Solid Waste Association Publication Award Among other factors, rapid global population growth, our development model and patterns of production and consumption have increased waste generation worldwide to unsustainable rates.

Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages.

Containing 129 papers in geological and hydrogeological properties of karst regions, rock properties, testing methods and site characterization, design methods and analyses, monitoring and back analysis, excavation and support, environmental aspects of geotechnical engineering in karst regions and case histories, this volume is of interest to professionals, engineers, and academics involved in rock mechanics and rock engineering.

Data-driven analytics is enjoying unprecedented popularity among oil and gas professionals.

Energy, Entropy, and the Flow of Nature presents the essential principles of energetics (thermodynamics) in a straight-forward, easy to understand, and logically-consistent manner.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

Solid geometry is defined as the study of the geometry of three-dimensional solid figures in Euclidean space.

The potential value of artificial neural networks (ANN) as a predictor of malignancy has begun to receive increased recognition.

How do you prevent a critical care nurse from accidentally delivering a morphine overdose to an ill patient?

Natural Organic Matter in Water: Characterization, Treatment Methods, and Climate Change Impact, Second Edition focuses on advanced filtration and treatment options, as well as processes for reducing disinfection by-products, making it an essential resource on the latest breakthroughs in the characterization, treatment and removal of natural organic matter (NOM) from drinking water.

This book presents a concise introduction to the latest advances in robust cooperative control design for multi-agent systems with input delay and external disturbances, especially from a prediction and observation perspective.

Hybrid and Combined Processes for Air Pollution Control: Methodologies, Mechanisms and Effect of Key Parameters provides an exhaustive inventory of hybrid and combined processes in the field of air treatment.

This might be the first book that deals mostly with the 3D technology computer-aided design (TCAD) simulations of major state-of-the-art stress- and strain-engineered advanced semiconductor devices: MOSFETs, BJTs, HBTs, nonclassical MOS devices, finFETs, silicon-germanium hetero-FETs, solar cells, power devices, and memory devices.

This book will serve as a ready reckoner of contemporary information regarding municipal solid waste landfill biomining, treatment of landfill leachate and heavy metals in a single platform.

The Multiphase Flow Handbook, Second Edition is a thoroughly updated and reorganized revision of the late Clayton Crowe's work, and provides a detailed look at the basic concepts and the wide range of applications in this important area of thermal/fluids engineering.

Avoid Costly Mistakes for Specialists and Non-Specialists AlikeBad acoustics in buildings is a nuisance that is not dealt with easily.

Marine environment is the largest habitat covering approximately 70% of the total earth surface.

The simulation of technological and environmental flows is very important for many industrial developments.

This book presents a range of current views on the use of economic measures to control greenhouse gas emissions.

This book presents concepts, methods and applications of inorganic nanomaterials for energy applications such as fuel cells and batteries, for environmental applications such as water purification, and for medicinal applications such as cancer treatments.

Ronja Victoria Scholz assesses the performance of cellulose-based Cottonid for implementation as sustainable construction material.

The book discusses the latest trends such as 4D printing, wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), direct energy deposition, and topological optimization in additive manufacturing (AM), and its compliance with the ASTM/ISO standards.

Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self.

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Three quarters of our current electricity usage and transport methods are derived from fossil fuels and yet within two centuries these resources will dry up.

This book describes patterns of language and culture in human-computer interaction (HCI).

Beneficial properties of graphitic carbon nitride (gCN) have been discovered in recent years during the promotion of its visible-light-driven photocatalytic activity for water splitting.