Environmental science, engineering and technology

Environmental pollution is a universal problem which threatens the continued existence of mankind, rendering it one of the primary concerns of society.

All too often, senior reservoir managers have found that their junior staff lack an adequate understanding of reservoir management techniques and best practices needed to optimize the development of oil and gas fields.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the recent developments in the recycling of plastic waste material.

This report reviews documents on acute exposure guideline levels (AEGLs) for nerve agents GA (tabun), GB (sarin), GD (soman), GD, and VX, sulfur mustard, diborane, and methyl isocyanate.

Engineering systems and products are an important element of the world economy and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain systems and products around the globe.

Preoperative imaging is increasingly being adopted for preoperative planning in plastic and reconstructive surgery.

We are living in the era of "e;Big Data"e; and the computing power required to deal with "e;Big Data"e; both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key areas of research and development.

This book provides audiences the research ideas and research achievements of authors who attended CEESD 2022.

In the past few decades, freight transport on roads has grown considerably because of the quick and flexible movement of goods.

Cellulose-Based Graft Copolymers: Structure and Chemistry discusses the synthesis, characterization, and properties of multifunctional cellulose-based graft copolymers.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Visionary Action towards Liveable Urban Environments (VALUE 2020).

This book provides solutions for securing important data stored in something as nebulous sounding as a cloud.

This edited book examines some of the current inquiry related to the study of emotions in educational contexts.

Biology is a very popular subject among the students.

Ports are a vital part of the global economy, connecting the world through maritime transport networks, promoting international trade, and supporting global economic growth.

This reference book provides advanced knowledge about lignocellulosic biomass production and its application in biomass hydrolysis.

Private landowners or Federal Agencies responsible for cleaning up radiological environments are faced with the challenge of clearly defining the nature and extent of radiological contamination, implementing remedial alternatives, then statistically verifying that cleanup objectives have been met.

Education for Social Justice is a statement of the role of education in promoting social justice.

This book provides a theoretical and technical basis for advanced research on visual data compression and communication.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Global Trends in Engineering and Technology (EGTET 2020), held in Guwahati, India.

A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty years—whether sudden and cataclysmic world-changing events or gradually unfolding trends.

With large amounts of revenue at stake, process industries are focusing more on turnaround management as they strive to lengthen the interval between turnarounds.

Time Lapse Approach to Monitoring Oil, Gas, and CO2 Storage by Seismic Methods delivers a new technology to geoscientists, well logging experts, and reservoir engineers, giving them a new basis on which to influence decisions on oil and gas reservoir management.

Membrane technology has received great popularity in many industrial sectors and significantly enhanced our abilities to restructure production processes, protect the environment and public health, and provide competitive strategies for separation and purification.

Bacterial biopolymers are a competitive new area of research with potential applications in agriculture, petroleum exploration, and use as biodegradable plastics.

When you edit a book, the editors should ask themselves, why are we - ing this and whom are we doing this for?

This book showcases the state of the art in the field of sensors and microsystems, revealing the impressive potential of novel methodologies and technologies.

Real risk management is predicated on the eventuality of human erraticism and therefore necessitates the design of resilient systems, such as control measures, policies, procedures, processes, rules, checklists, and protocols, to protect organizations against unpredictability.

Learn how to draw fashion images that communicate design ideas and details.

Monitoring the environment is absolutely essential if we are to identify hazards to human health, to assess environmental cleanup efforts, and to prevent further degradation of the ecosystem.

Using a clear, organized, and accessible building block approach to managing inventory, this volume offers complete coverage of the basic concepts, calculations, and techniques of inventory.

This encyclopaedia is unique in the sense that it presents contemporary ecology and environment in a chronological order for the first timer Not only it helps trace the process of evolution of regulatory framework for the global and national environmental legislations, it helps the readers to evaluate the development of national environmental consciousness vis-a vis the international one.

Water is the elixir of life and is crucial for sustainable development.

This third edition of the book has been completely re-written, providing a wider scope and enhanced coverage.

This interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development.

Sustainable Water Engineering introduces the latest thinking from academic, stakeholder and practitioner perspectives who address challenges around flooding, water quality issues, water supply, environmental quality and the future for sustainable water engineering.

In some coalbeds, naturally occurring water pressure holds methanethe main component of natural gasfixed to coal surfaces and within the coal.

The objective of this book is to present the up-to-date research developments and novel methodologies on state estimation and fault diagnosis (FD) techniques for a class of complex systems subject to closed-loop control, nonlinearities, and stochastic phenomena.

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world.

This book examines the way that lead enters the biosphere and the subsequent environmental impact.

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 82, the latest release in a series that has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963, updates on many topics that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology and biological oceanography.

In the competitive business arena companies must continually strive to create new and better products faster, more efficiently, and more cost effectively than their competitors to gain and keep the competitive advantage.

This revised second edition provides an introductory guide through the maze of interdisciplinary themes that comprise 'biodiversity.

This book reviews the work in the field of nanoadsorbents derived from natural polymers, with a special emphasis on materials finding application in water remediation.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 169, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field.

With this third edition of Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach, we enter the new era of GRASS6, the first release that includes substantial new code developed by the International GRASS Development Team.

Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country.

Genetically Engineered Organisms in Bioremediation provides comprehensive coverage of biotechnological applications of genetically engineered microorganisms for the bioremediation of polluted environments.

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.