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Hazardous Pollutants in Biological Treatment Systems
Fundamentals and a Guide to Experimental Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Hazardous pollutants are a growing concern in treatment engineering. In the past, biological treatment was mainly used for the removal of bulk organic matter and the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus. However, relatively recently the issue of hazardous pollutants, which are present at very low concentrations...
Performance-Based Contracts (PBC) for Improving Utilities Efficiency
Experiences and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Scientific and Technical Report No. 24 Performance-Based Contracts (PBC) for Improving Utilities Efficiency: Experiences and Perspectives is a compendium of articles written by members of the PBC taskforce. It focuses on new approaches without delegated management to private operator i.e. service...
Forest Development
Succession, Environmental Stress and Forest Management Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Forest ecosystems are characterized by a steady change in their structure of function. Natural developments are more and more radically disturbed by human impact. Air pollution leads to soil acidification, change in nutrient budget and to a decreasing vitality of the trees. Forest management can prevent...
Biofuels: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Global Warming
Next Generation Biofuels and Role of Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This timely book is a compilation of edited articles by distinguished international scientists discussing global warming, its causes as well as present and future solutions. Social and economic growth at global level is measured in terms of GDP, which requires energy inputs generally based on fossil...
by P. Bajpai, R. Kondo
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Pulp and paper production has increased globally and will continue to increase in the near future. Approximately 155 million tons of wood pulp is produced worldwide and about 260 million is projected for the year 2010. To be able to cope with increasing demand, an increase in productivity and improved...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Proceedings of the Twenty-first NATO CCMS International Technical Meeting held in Baltimore, Maryland, November 6-10, 1995
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources promotes the development and implementation of consistent methods and standards for conducting soil and land resource surveys in Australia. These surveys are primarily field operations that aim to identify, describe, map and evaluate the various kinds...
by Gennady P. Chernov
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The study of the fine structure of solar radio emissions is key to understanding plasma processes in the solar corona. It remains a reliable means for both diagnosing the corona and verifying the results of laboratory plasma experiments on wave-wave and wave-particle interactions. This monograph provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book makes good background reading for much of modern magnetospheric physics. Its origin was a Festspiel for Professor Jim Dungey, former professor in the Physics Department at Imperial College on the occasion of his 90th birthday, 30 January 2013. Remarkably, although he retired 30 years ago,...
Solar Energetic Particles
A Modern Primer on Understanding Sources, Acceleration and Propagation
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
This concise primer introduces the non-specialist reader to the physics of solar energetic particles (SEP) and systematically reviews the evidence for the two main mechanisms which lead to the so-called impulsive and gradual SEP events.
More specifically, the timing of the onsets, the longitude...
Dynamics of Magnetically Trapped Particles
Foundations of the Physics of Radiation Belts and Space Plasmas
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This book is a new edition of Roederer’s classic Dynamics of Geomagnetically Trapped Radiation, updated and considerably expanded. The main objective is to describe the dynamic properties of magnetically trapped particles in planetary radiation belts and plasmas and explain the physical processes...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
“The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets” presents the main processes participating in the atmospheric evolution of terrestrial planets. A group of experts in the different fields provide an update of our current knowledge on this topic.
Several papers in this book...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
The book contains invited lectures and selected contributions presented at the Enzo Levi and XVII Annual Meeting of the Fluid Dynamic Division of the Mexican Physical Society in 2011. It is aimed to fourth year undergraduate and graduate students, and scientists in the field of physics, engineering...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This book is the result of a working group sponsored by ISSI in Bern, which was initially created to study possible ways to calibrate a Far Ultraviolet (FUV) instrument after launch. In most cases, ultraviolet instruments are well calibrated on the ground, but unfortunately, optics and detectors in...