Industrial category: 6894 books
Ceramic Membranes
New Opportunities and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This textbook gives a clear and coherent overview of ceramic membranes, from preparation methods all the way to applications and economics. The authors, who are known for their clear writing style, combine their expertise in environmental engineering and porous materials to cover a wide range of examples,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
This book provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary basic research, emerging technology, and commercial and industrial applications associated with the electrophoretic deposition of nanomaterials. This presentation of the subject includes an historical survey, the underlying theory of electrophoresis,...
Renewable Raw Materials
New Feedstocks for the Chemical Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
One of the main challenges facing the chemical industry is the transition to sustainable operations. Industries are taking initiatives to reduce resource intensities or footprints, and by adopting safer materials and processes. Such efforts need to be supported by techniques that can quantify the...
A Sustainable Bioeconomy
The Green Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
An authoritative and comprehensive volume of knowledge and green technologies wholly focused on the future of the bioeconomy. The authors present data, show opportunities, discuss R&D findings, analyze strategies, assess the wider economic impact, showcase achievements, criticize policies and...
by Susan Grabski, Robert Forrant
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Incorporated in 1847 on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was the final and most ambitious of New England�s planned textile-manufacturing cities developed by the Boston-area entrepreneurs who helped launch the American Industrial Revolution. With a dam and canal system to generate...
by David F Noble
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Focusing on the design and implementation of an important new production technology—computer-based automatic machine tools—David F. Noble challenges the idea that technology has a life of its own which proceeds along a singular path. Such as seen, technology has been both a convenient scapegoat...
by Jacqueline Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In the first half of the twentieth century, and in the years following the Second World War, Leamington and Warwick flourished as industrial centres. This book is a nostalgic return to this golden era when industry was at the very heart of urban identity and community spirit. It was an era when profits...
What is Good for General Motors?
Solving America's Industrial Conundrum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Tom Crumm thinks the American auto industry can regain the world leadership it once enjoyed in design, manufacturing and sales of world-class quality vehicles and profitability. There are nearly a million American jobs at stake and when the ideas in this book spread to component and other industries...
IAENG Transactions on Engineering Sciences
Special Issue for the International Association of Engineers Conferences 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Two large international conferences on Advances in Engineering Sciences were held in Hong Kong, March 12–14, 2014, under the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2014), and in London, UK, 2–4 July, 2014, under the World Congress on Engineering 2014 (WCE 2014)...
Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2
Proceedings of ICoRD 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This book showcases cutting-edge research papers from the 6th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD 2017) – the largest in India in this area – written by eminent researchers from across the world on design process, technologies, methods and tools, and their impact on innovation,...
by Steve Heather, Cheryl R. Shrock
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This is the right book for users if* *they liked the author’s “Beginning AutoCAD” workbook, or they’re looking for a clear, no nonsense, easy-to-follow text, or they want to learn more about AutoCAD such as Xref, Attributes, and 3D solids. Totally updated for AutoCAD 2015 and 2015 LT, it...
Creative Design Engineering
Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Creative Design Engineering: Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Approach presents the latest information on a field that has traditionally been primarily concerned with how to make things. However, as technology has advanced, and we have no shortage of things, a new challenge for today’s engineers...
Materials Research for Manufacturing
An Industrial Perspective of Turning Materials into New Products
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This book is about applied materials research in industry. It presents various important topics and challenges and gives guidance to materials researchers who move to industry. The book focuses on the materials manufacturing issues for industrial application. It deals with developments and challenges...
Sunshine Was Never Enough
Los Angeles Workers, 1880–2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Delving beneath Southern California’s popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles’s large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century of labor history, John H. M. Laslett acknowledges...