Название: Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing, 2nd Edition
Автор: Samantha Lavender, Andrew Lavender
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 321
Размер: 98,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The number of Earth observation satellites launched in recent years is growing exponentially, along with the datasets they gather from free-to-access and commercial providers. The second edition of Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing is updated with new explanations and practical examples using the Copernicus satellite data and new versions of the open-source software.

Название: Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science: Methods for Producing Smart Packaging
Автор: Dr. Inamuddin, Tariq Altalhi, Jorddy Neves Cruz
Издательство: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323956440
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 398
Размер: 17,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science: Methods for Producing Smart Packaging covers the latest advances in the development and production of smart packaging. The book addresses issues related to the production of smart packaging, including marketing and environmental impacts of these new products.

Название: Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilization
Автор: Dr. Inamuddin, Tariq Altalhi
Издательство: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323994296
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 617
Размер: 36,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilization explores advanced technologies based on CO2 utilization. The book provides an overview on the conversion and utilization of CO2, extraction techniques, heterogeneous catalysis, green solvent, industrial approaches, and commodity products through energy-intensive processes.

Название: Structural Optimization Using Shuffled Shepherd Meta-Heuristic Algorithm: Extensions and Applications
Автор: Ali Kaveh, Ataollah Zaerreza
Издательство: Springer
Серия: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
Год: 2023
Страниц: 288
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 12.2 MB

This book presents the so-called Shuffled Shepherd Optimization Algorithm (SSOA), a recently developed meta-heuristic algorithm by authors. There is always limitations on the resources to be used in the construction. Some of the resources used in the buildings are also detrimental to the environment. For example, the cement utilized in making concrete emits carbon dioxide, which contributes to the global warming. Hence, the engineers should employ resources efficiently and avoid the waste. In the traditional optimal design methods, the number of trials and errors used by the designer is limited, so there is no guarantee that the optimal design can be found for structures. Hence, the deigning method should be changed, and the computational algorithms should be employed in the optimum design problems. The four primary categories of metaheuristic algorithms are evolution-based, physics-based, swarm-based, and human-based, depending on their inspiration. Evolutionary algorithms are inspired by the characteristics of the biological evolution, including crossover, mutation, and selection. Inspiration of swarm intelligence algorithms is based on the social behavior of creatures living in a group, which might be a swarm, herd, or flock. The human-based algorithms consist of optimizers that simulate certain human behaviors. As the fourth class of metaheuristic algorithms, physics-based algorithms are motivated by physical rules.

Название: An Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics for the Nanosciences
Автор: Arthur McGurn
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 355
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

The book provides an accessible introduction to the principles of condensed matter physics with a focus on the nanosciences and device technologies. The basics of electronic, phononic, photonic, superconducting, optics, quantum optics, and magnetic properties are explored, and nanoscience and device materials are incorporated throughout the chapters. Many examples of the fundamental principles of condensed matter physics are taken directly from nanoscience and device applications. This is an introductory text on topics of condensed matter physics with a focus towards device development in the nanosciences. Consequently, a wide variety of subjects are included in electronics, optics, and acoustics, and to a certain extent, the topics chosen are essential in developing a theoretical background for working on nanoscience devices.

Название: Advanced Functional Metal-Organic Frameworks: Fundamentals and Applications
Автор: Jay Singh, Nidhi Goel, Ranjana Verma, Ravindra Pratap Singh
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 335
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 28.95 MB

Due to the structural flexibility, large surface area, tailorable pore size and functional tenability, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can lead to materials with unique properties. This book covers the fundamental aspects of MOFs, their synthesis and modification, including their potential applications in different domains. The major focus is on applications including chemical, biosensors, catalysis, drug delivery, supercapacitors, energy storage, magnetics and their future perspectives. Due to the structural flexibility, large surface area, tailorable pore size and functional tenability, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have become a fascinating class of materials and are continuing to inspire both scientists and engineers. MOFs are the combination of organic and inorganic structure elements that can lead to materials with unique properties, and the choice of initial building units makes it possible to vary some parameters, such as the pore size, density as well as the specific surface area, which opens up new ways to produce materials with tailored physicochemical properties. This ability to fine-tune MOF properties is evident in various areas, both academic and industrial, with potential practical applications including gas storage and separation, heterogeneous catalysis, chemical sensing, biomedical applications, fabrication of membranes or thin films and many more. Hence, these materials play a key role in life every day and their effect on the future of humanity’s technology. Therefore, exciting developments, new advancements and foundations, direction for further exploring MOFs for their applications and critical analysis of the research are necessary to provide the field’s current status.

Название: Fused Deposition Modeling of Composite Materials (Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering)
Автор: Antonella Sola, Adrian Trinchi
Издательство: Elsevier / Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 0323988237
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 466
Размер: 23,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Fused Deposition Modeling of Composite Materials is dedicated to the field of 3D-printing of composite materials using a popular technique called Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), the world’s most popular 3D printing method. But this method is currently limited to printing basic polymers and only a handful of primitive composite materials.

Название: Polarization Dynamics of Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers: Science, Technology, and Applications
Автор: Sergey V. Sergeyev, Chengbo Mou
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 237
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 36.1 MB

This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest research on the science, technology, and applications of mode-locked fiber lasers generating pulse trains with the evolving state of polarization at time scales ranging from a few pulse widths to 10,000 laser cavity round-trip times. It supports readers with a timely source of information on the current novel scientific concepts, and cost-effective schematics, in addition to an overview of the feasible applications. The book aims to demonstrate for the nonlinear science community a newly emerging field of nonlinear science, and so stimulates the development of new theoretical approaches and opens new horizons for the photonics community by pushing boundaries of the existing laser systems towards new applications. The new classes of optical sources and photonic devices explored in this book will be relevant with applications to other fields, including medicine, bio-photonics, metrology, and environmental safety.

Название: Thin-Films for Machining Difficult-to-Cut Materials: Challenges, Applications, and Future Prospects
Автор: Ch Sateesh Kumar, Filipe Daniel Fernandes
Издательство: CRC Press
Серия: Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing
Год: 2023
Страниц: 119
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 20.9 MB

This book presents a balanced blend of fundamental research such as principles and characteristics of machining of difficult-to-cut materials and coating techniques and in-depth practical information on coatings techniques and classifications, the effect of coating parameters on machining responses, and finite element analysis of the machining performance of coated tools. In addition to the benefits of the thin-film deposition on the cutting tools, the limitations of the coating deposition techniques and the coating properties are also discussed. This book aims at bridging the gap between thin-film characterizations and the application of thin-films for machining difficult-to-cut materials. The book initially introduces the metal cutting operations, chip formation mechanism, cutting tool materials, and different difficult-to-cut materials so as to familiarize the reader with the terminology regarding the metal cutting operation in the subsequent sections. Furthermore, the book speaks about various machining challenges and difficulties taking into account the machining of materials like nickel-based superalloys and hardened steels which are considered difficult to cut.

Название: n-Type Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics: Technology, applications and economics
Автор: Delfina Munoz, Radovan Kopecek
Издательство: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Год: 2023
Страниц: 370
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 26.0 MB

Most solar cells currently in commercial use are p-type solar cells, due to their historically lower cost and ease of manufacture compared to n-type solar cells. However, due to improved manufacturing technology and falling cost in general, the cost difference between the two types has shrunk, making n-type solar cells an attractive option for future commercial high-efficiency solar cells. n-type solar cells are less prone to light-induced degradation, and are also less affected by iron impurities. This makes n-type solar cells more efficient compared to their p-type counterparts, with efficiencies of up to 25% being feasible in production. Challenges in the manufacturing process and regarding degradation still remain to be solved, in order to realise n-type solar cells' full potential. The challenges, solutions and opportunities afforded by n-type solar cells are explored in this volume.