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Cooling Towers and Chilled Water Systems

1st Edition
October 1, 2024
Ricardo de Freitas Fernandes Pontes
English
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Cooling Towers and Chilled Water Systems: Design, Operation, and Economic Analysis is a guide to the design and operation of cooling systems within high temperature settings. The book presents various strategies to increase the turndown of cooling towers and chilled water systems and provides a toolkit for engineers to determine the use of variable frequency drivers. A guide to equipment selection for optimal design during the detailed engineering phase is provided, ensuring the reader is able to comply with the project specification within budget. Sections discuss various systems, circuits and processes for cooling tower and chiller systems before detailing design principles.Operational and control strategies are then discussed before a thorough analysis of economic factors, making this book idea for professional engineers, graduate students and researchers working in high-temperature settings, such as power generation or chemical plants.

International Review of Movement Disorders

1st Edition
Volume 7
October 1, 2024
Marina AJ Tijssen De Koning
English
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International Review of Movement Disorders series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Piezoelectric Materials, Composites, and Devices

1st Edition
October 1, 2024
Fumio Narita + 1 more
English
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Piezoelectric Materials, Composites, and Devices: Fundamentals, Mechanics, and Applications provides insights on developing and applying optimal piezoelectric devices with high performance and durability. Overviews of the fundamentals of piezoelectricity, piezoelectric parameters, and common characterization techniques are given, as are examples of the structures and properties of piezoelectric ceramics, polymers, their composites, and lead-free piezoelectric materials. Reliable characterization of piezoelectric materials and composites by combining numerical simulations with appropriate measurements is covered as well. Basic equations and modeling approaches are also presented, making it easier to understand the stress and electric fields of piezoelectric devices.The book also covers piezoelectric energy harvesters, piezoelectric biosensors, as well as the performance of advanced piezoelectric devices. The final part of the book concentrates on reliability and durability (fracture and fatigue) of piezoelectric materials and composites.

Sustainable Materials for Food Packaging and Preservation

1st Edition
October 1, 2024
Tabli Ghosh + 2 more
English
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Sustainable Materials for Food Packaging and Preservation: Food Security and Sustainability discusses the recent trends and development of biobased sustainable materials, focusing on their fabrication and application in food packaging and food preservation. This book brings together fundamental information and the most recent advances in the characterization, processing, and modification of sustainable materials and their impact on food packaging and storage of food products for improved shelf life. Special attention is offered on smart, active, and edible packaging, and the utilization of nanoemulsion and nanoencapsulation in the food industry is also discussed.In addition, the book overviews the use of proteins, polysaccharides, microbial and chemically derived materials for food preservation.

Fundamentals of Uncertainty Quantification for Engineers

1st Edition
October 1, 2024
Yan Wang + 2 more
English
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Fundamentals of Uncertainty Quantification for Engineers: Methods and Models provides a comprehensive introduction to uncertainty quantification (UQ) accompanied by a wide variety of applied examples, implementation details, and practical exercises to reinforce the concepts outlined in the book. Sections start with a review of the history of probability theory and recent developments of UQ methods in the domains of applied mathematics and data science. Major concepts of probability axioms, conditional probability, and Bayes’ rule are discussed and examples of probability distributions in parametric data analysis, reliability, risk analysis, and materials informatics are included.Random processes, sampling methods, and surrogate modeling techniques including multivariate polynomial regression, Gaussian process regression, multi-fidelity surrogate, support-vector machine, and decision tress are also covered. Methods for model selection, calibration, and validation are introduced next, followed by chapters on sensitivity analysis, stochastic expansion methods, Markov models, and non-probabilistic methods. The book concludes with a chapter describing the methods that can be used to predict UQ in systems, such as Monte Carlo, stochastic expansion, upscaling, Langevin dynamics, and inverse problems, with example applications in multiscale modeling, simulations, and materials design.

Biochar as a Multipurpose Platform

1st Edition
October 1, 2024
Alberto Tagliaferro + 2 more
English
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Biochar as a Multipurpose Platform: With Applications in Energy, Environment, and Materials discusses all the most cutting-edge biochar applications, including environmental remediation, energy storage, composites, and catalyst production, thus providing an expert overview of recent trends in biochar research. Biochar is a solid residue that is recovered after the thermal decomposition of biomasses inert atmosphere. Biochar has been used for many decades for soil applications. Nonetheless, biochar is far more than a mere soil amendment.

Internet of Drone Things

1st Edition
October 1, 2024
Amartya Mukherjee + 2 more
English
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Internet of Drone Things: Architectures, Approaches, and Applications includes fundamental information related to IoDT architecture design and features and reviews the state-of-the-art in hardware and software platforms to deploy, connect, and control drones or swarms of drones. It also covers the latest developments in innovative drone-facilitated applications and services that can significantly improve efficiency, productivity, and sustainability of various operations in modern society and a growing number of its industries. Finally, experimental modeling and simulations are accompanied by prototyping examples, which are set to become the benchmark of next-level automation in the field.This book is, therefore, an invaluable resource for engineering students, researchers, and professionals as well as sector experts who work to develop new drone standards or to identify new drone technology use and commercialization areas on an international level.

Rehabilitation Robotics and Healthcare Devices

1st Edition
October 1, 2024
Manuel Cardona
English
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Rehabilitation Robotics and Healthcare Devices presents cutting-edge topics in rehabilitation robotics and healthcare devices, covering basic concepts and providing readers with enough information to solve various practical problems. The book proves to be an excellent source to study the different emerging paradigms in rehabilitation robotics and healthcare areas, including related technologies such as sensors, wearable devices, internet of medical things, big data, machine learning for eHealth, edible sensors, robots in medicine, and exoskeleton robots for rehabilitation.

Nano-Engineering at Functional Interfaces for Multi-disciplinary Applications

1st Edition
October 1, 2024
Sai Sathish Ramamurthy + 2 more
English
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Nano-Engineering at Functional Interfaces for Multi-disciplinary Applications: Electrochemistry, Photoplasmonics, Antimicrobials, and Anticancer Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals and latest advances of nano-engineering strategies for the design, development, and fabrication of novel nanostructures for different applications in the fields of photoplasmonics and electrochemistry, as well as antibacterial and anticancer research areas. The book begins with an introduction to the fundamentals and characteristics of nanostructured interfaces and their associated technologies, including an overview of their potential applications in different fields.The following chapters present a thorough discussion of the synthesis, processing, and characterization methods of nanomaterials with unique functionalities suitable for energy harvesting, food and textile applications, electrocatalysis, biomedical applications and more. It then concludes outlining research future directions and potential industrial applications.

Progressive Collapse Analysis of Concrete-filled Steel Tubular Structures

1st Edition
October 1, 2024
Shan Gao + 2 more
English
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Progressive Collapse Analysis of Concrete-filled Steel Tubular Structures looks at quantitative design, namely direct design and how catenary action plays a critical role in resisting progressive collapse. After the failure of a structural column due to abnormal loads, such as explosion, fire, or vehicle strikes, the loads acting on the damaged column tend to be redistributed through the beams connected to the damaged column. Catenary action would form in the beams and beam-column joints to resist vertical loads. The failure of beam-column joints would prevent the forming of catenary action, which would initiate local collapse and even the progressive collapse of structures.Even though a few studies had been conducted on the progressive collapse resistance of the RC and steel structures with brace members, the study on the effect of tensile steel brace on the collapse resistance of composite frame with CFST (Concrete-filled Steel Tubular Structures) columns has been rarely reported/examined.