Energy category: 1670 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Conversion of biomass into chemicals and biofuels is an active research and development area as trends move to replace traditional fossil fuels with renewable resources. By integrating processing methods with ultrasound and microwave irradiation into biorefineries, the time-scale of many operations...
Cleaner Combustion
Developing Detailed Chemical Kinetic Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
This overview compiles the on-going research in Europe to enlarge and deepen the understanding of the reaction mechanisms and pathways associated with the combustion of an increased range of fuels. Focus is given to the formation of a large number of hazardous minor pollutants and the inability of...
Biomass and Green Chemistry
Building a Renewable Pathway
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book investigates the main vegetable biomass types, their chemical characteristics and their potential to replace oil as raw material for the chemical industry, according to the principles of green chemistry. Authors from different scientific and technical backgrounds, from industry and academia,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book deals with the application of techniques and methods of chemical analysis for the study of biomass and its conversion processes, aiming to fill the current gap in the book literature on the subject.
The use of various techniques and analytical methods is presented and discussed in...
Supply and Costs in the U.S. Petroleum Industry (Routledge Revivals)
Two Econometric Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Any discussion of the various facets of petroleum policy in the United States rests to a greater or less extent on the issue of sensitivity of petroleum exploration, and hence of new petroleum discoveries to economic incentives. Indeed, a principle argument in favour of having a special petroleum...
Facing Up to Global Warming
What is Going on and How You Can Make a Difference?
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In this volume, Professor N.F. Gray offers a comprehensive primer on climate change, sustainability, and how the two concepts are related. This book consists of fifteen chapters, each treating a specific aspect of the current global crisis, including scientific background as well as an up to date...
Quantum Mechanics
A Shorter Course of Theoretical Physics
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Quantum Mechanics deals with various aspects of quantum mechanics and covers topics ranging from the uncertainty principle and the principle of superposition to conservation laws, Schrödinger's equation, and perturbation theory. Spin, radiation, and the identity of particles are also discussed, along...
by Chunbao Xu, Fatemeh Ferdosian
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This book presents an overview of various types of lignin and their unique structures and properties, as well as utilizations of crude or modified technical lignin for high-value bioproducts such as lignin-based PF resins/adhesives, epoxy resins, PF foams, PU foams, rubber reinforcement and carbon...
Vedere, guardare
Dal microcosmo alle stelle, viaggio attraverso la luce
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Un sottile pennello di luce unisce ogni stella al nostro occhio. Un ponte fisico, fatto di fotoni, attraverso cui transitano tutte le informazioni che giungono a noi dall’universo. Percorrerlo significa sfiorare la trama che tiene insieme, attraverso lo spazio e il tempo, ogni fibra dell’esistente,...
Nuclear Decommissioning
Planning, Execution and International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Once a nuclear installation has reached the end of its safe and economical operational lifetime, the need for its decommissioning arises. Different strategies can be employed for nuclear decommissioning, based on the evaluation of particular hazards and their attendant risks, as well as on the analysis...
The Consciousness of the Atom
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
The seven lectures presented here were delivered in New York for the purpose of presenting the testimony of science as to the relation of matter and of consciousness; to enable the hearers to observe the identical manifestation of these relations and of certain basic laws in successively higher states...
Abstraction and the Standard Model
Abstraction
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
We study the Standard Model in light of the Zero-Postulation of the Theory of Abstraction. Yukawa Coupling, chiral superfields, the SUSY model, Interacting Boson Models (IBMs), Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, Interacting Boson-Fermion Model (IBFM), etc., are some of the concepts that we study in this paper....
by Jan Weiland
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Stability and Transport in Magnetic Confinement Systems provides an advanced introduction to the fields of stability and transport in tokamaks. It serves as a reference for researchers with its highly-detailed theoretical background, and contains new results in the areas of analytical nonlinear theory...
Reduced Modelling of Planar Fuel Cells
Spatial Smoothing and Asymptotic Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
This book focuses on novel reduced cell and stack models for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and planar solid oxide fuel cells (P-SOFCs) that serve to reduce the computational cost by two orders of magnitude or more with desired numerical accuracy, while capturing both the average properties...