Technology & Engineering - General

The growing demand for new forms of energy has led to a significant increase in the use of biomass as a primary source of energy. Although in many situations, the use of biomass is clearly well studied, in other cases, it is a new...

Irving Langmuir coined the name "plasma" to describe an ionized gas back in 1927. Just over 90 years later, plasma technology is becoming increasingly important in our daily life. For example, in the medical field and dentistry, plasma is used as a method of...

The last few decades have seen considerable progress in the development of high-performance metals and alloys that have microstructures and plastic behaviors with a high level of complexity. Ultrafine-grain materials, metallic glasses, gradient microstructures, etc., have clearly been gaining the attention of researchers and...

Different types of pressures, such as nutrients, micropollutants, microbes, nanoparticles, microplastics, or antibiotic-resistant genes, endanger the quality of water bodies. Evidence-based pollution control needs to be built on the three basic elements of water governance: Monitoring, modeling, and management. Monitoring sets the empirical basis...

Despite the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenge of realizing sustainability across the triple bottom line of social, environmental, and economic development remains an urgent priority. If anything, it is now imperative that we work towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development...

Various types of metallic and composite structures are used in modern engineering practice. For aerospace, car industry, and civil engineering applications, the most important are thin-walled structures made of dierent types of metallic alloys, brous composites, laminates, and multifunctional materials with a more complicated...

This book focuses on the analysis, design and implementation of future smart grid systems. This book contains eleven chapters, which were originally published after rigorous peer-review as a Special Issue in the International Journal of Energies (Basel). The chapters cover a range of work...

In this book, 15 papers, covering some of the latest advances in pretreatment and bioconversion of crop residues, are presented. Research results dealing with wheat straw, corn stover, sweet sorghum bagasse, hazelnut shells, oil palm empty fruit bunch, olive tree pruning biomass, and other...

As the world enters the third decade of the 21st century, a shift in global energy demand and use is anticipated. The transportation industry is one of the largest energy users, with major environmental consequences. Additionally, with the most ambitious electric vehicle predictions, the...

This Special Issue concerns the development of a theory for energy conversion on the nanoscale, namely, nanothermodynamics. The theory has been applied to porous media, small surfaces, clusters or fluids under confinement. The number of unsolved issues in these contexts is numerous and the...

This book includes an editorial and 12 research papers on micromixers collected from the Special Issue published in Micromachines. The topics of the papers are focused on the design of micromixers, their fabrication, and their analysis. Some of them proposed novel micromixer designs. Most...

Biofuels have recently attracted a lot of attention, mainly as alternative fuels for applications in energy generation and transportation. The utilization of biofuels in such controlled combustion processes has the great advantage of not depleting the limited resources of fossil fuels while leading to...

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which uses numerical analysis to predict and model complex flow behaviors and transport processes, has become a mainstream tool in engineering process research and development. Complex chemical processes often involve coupling between dynamics at vastly different length and time scales,...

Due to their distinctive properties, ionic liquids have attracted the great and unflagging interest of researchers for over 30 years. This interest has been focused mainly on their use as a green alternative to volatile organic solvents. However, they often act not only as...

Some terms, such as eco-friendly, circular economy and green technologies, have remained in our vocabulary, because the truth is that mankind is altering the planet to put its own subsistence at risk. Besides, for rationalization in the consumption of raw materials and energy, the...

Material loss due to wear and corrosion and high resistance to motion generate high costs. Therefore, minimizing friction and wear is a problem of great importance. This book is focused on the tribological behavior of functional surfaces. It contains information regarding the improvement of...

Clean water is one of the most important natural resources on earth. Wastewater, which is spent water, is also a valuable natural resource. However, wastewater may contain many contaminants and cannot be released back into the environment until the contaminants are removed. Untreated wastewater...

This volume collects the papers published on the Special Issue "Kinematics and Robot Design I, KaRD2018" (https: //www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/KARD), which is the first issue of the KaRD Special Issue series, hosted by the open access journal "MDPI Robotics". The KaRD series aims at creating an...

Biosensors and systems in the form of wearables and "nearables" (i.e., everyday sensorized objects with transmitting capabilities such as smartphones) are rapidly evolving for use in healthcare. Unlike conventional approaches, these technologies can enable seamless or on-demand physiological monitoring, anytime and anywhere. Such monitoring...

The demand for aluminum alloys is increasing because of their lightness, high specific strength and other attractive properties, which can exploited in improved products for a greener environment. This book gives a correlation between the processing, microstructure and properties of several aluminium alloys. Some...

This 2028 Special Issue presents recent developments and achievements in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science coming from the Italian community with international collaborations and ranging from theoretical contributions to experimental and practical applications. It contains selected contributions that were accepted for presentation...

In recent years, the requirements for technical components have steadily been increasing. This development is intensified by the desire for products with a lower weight, smaller size, and extended functionality, but also with a higher resistance against specific stresses. Mono-material components, which are produced...

Optics and photonics are among the key technologies of the 21st century, and offer potential for novel applications in areas such as sensing and spectroscopy, analytics, monitoring, biomedical imaging/diagnostics, and optical communication technology. The high degree of control over light fields, together with the...

This book draws together a small selection of full-length papers based on presentations given at the 27th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition held in Lisbon, Portugal in 2019. The topics covered, which reflect the breadth of the program of the EUBCE conference itself, include...

In recent years, the scientific community's interest towards efficient energy conversion systems has significantly increased. One of the reasons is certainly related to the change in the temperature of the planet, which appears to have increased by 0.76 C with respect to pre-industrial levels,...

This book covers the latest development of bioprocess technology including theoretical, numerical, and experimental approaches in biotechnology as well as green technology that bridge conventional practices and Industry 4.0. Bioprocessing is one of the key factors in several emerging industries of biofuels, used in...

The Special Issue presents almost 40 papers on recent research in modeling of pyrometallurgical systems, including physical models, first-principles models, detailed CFD and DEM models as well as statistical models or models based on machine learning. The models cover the whole production chain from...

The advances in the technology and methodology for human movement capture and analysis over the last decade have been remarkable. Besides acknowledged approaches for kinematic, dynamic, and electromyographic (EMG) analysis carried out in the laboratory, more recently developed devices, such as wearables, inertial measurement...

In this Special Issue, we have several papers related to fuel-cell-based cogeneration systems; the management and control of fuel cell systems; the analysis, simulation, and operation of different types of fuel cells; modelling and online experimental validation; and the environment assessment of cathode materials...

Management of water resources in large rivers basins typically differs in important ways from management in smaller basins. While in smaller basins the focus of water resources management may be on project implementation, irrigation and drainage management, water use efficiency and flood operations; in...

Plant-soil interactions play an important role in the functioning of ecosystems. This book presents recent research advances on the effects of soil factors on plant communities and the role of ecological complementarity and species diversity in soil properties and ecosystem services. It addresses cultivated,...

Covering 40% of the European agricultural area, grasslands are vitally important both for agriculture and society. These grasslands serve multiple functions, including the local provision of fodder for animal husbandry (and hence high-quality food provision for people), biodiversity conservation, carbon storage and the provision...

Cet ouvrage rassemble les travaux menés principalement en Europe pour comprendre le fonctionnement des politiques de protection et de gestion du paysage dans des cas concrets et diversifiés. Il aborde successivement les enjeux de l'action paysagère, les relations entre paysage et espace public dans...

This technical handbook is intended for the personnel of companies or organisations involved in the management of dikes designed to provide protection against flooding caused by a rise in river levels. Written for engineers and technicians, its aim is to increase understanding of: -...

Designing for National and International Product Safety requirements is simple and costs nothing IF it is done early enough.Performing these tests after the design is completed will create high costs and delay product launch BECAUSE 99% of new product designs FAIL basic product safety...

Identity Politics and Its Impact on the Spread of Digital Marketing (A Framework to Manage Country Level Political Risk in Ethiopia) is a research work made for the partial fulfillment of a PhD degree in Project Management at LIGS University, which is located at...

With 15 inventions in my name, I started to think in terms of commonality in them. Then it occurred to me that perhaps DUALITY is at play. Three of them I examined and found evidence of it. Others I have left for readers to...

The modern and Old days in which computing favour and which we can use binary to calculate and operate our modern apparatusAuthor: Sharp ShooterISBN-10: 1979182493ISBN-13: 9781979182492Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2015Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.26d

[PROF KRISHNA HAS AUTHORED ANOTHER BOOK: "INTRODUCTION TO ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT", ALSO THRU CREATESPACE, BROWSE FOR 1539436284] This collection of six papers presented by the author at three conferences covers topics pertaining to investigation of accidents and failures of engineering structures and artifacts, broadly...

Edmund C. Berkeley (1909 - 1988) was a mathematician, insurance actuary, inventor, publisher, and a founder of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). His book Giant Brains or Machines That Think (1949) was the first explanation of computers for a general readership. His journal...

In this book, you will discover: How technology has evolved over time How the role and impact of technology has changed over the years How today's technology is making our world increasingly nonlinear How generative Al will drive nonlinearity at full throttle How our...

"Scientist of the Islamic Era" is a book series encompassing eight volumes. The present book is volume 1 titled "Natural Scientists" that covers mathematics, astronomy, cryptoanalysis, chemistry, cartography, physics, and engineering based on these disciplines.In this first edition, 68 natural scientists are included. Most...

In this book, you will discover: How technology has evolved over time How the role and impact of technology has changed over the years How today's technology is making our world increasingly nonlinear How generative Al will drive nonlinearity at full throttle How our...

Some salient features of the book are: - Many illustrations and examples have been provided to make the reading interesting and engaging.- Maximum methods of synthesis and reactions for every compound have been discussed.- The Compounds in every category have been discussed in detail...

Become a problem solver, by discovering the secrets of engineers, how they think, and the tools they use. Go inside the mind of an engineer to see how real and complex problems are solved and how they develop into the world's problem solvers.The book...

Brings together a series of short, highly illustrated introductions to many of the main technologies and processes in the field of village and community level water and sanitation, ranging from household water storage to public standposts.Author: John PickfordISBN-10: 1853390690ISBN-13: 9781853390692Publisher: Intermediate Technology PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is the world's original 'fintech'. Its invention in 1967 changed our world. And it's doing it still. Yet, despite over half the world's population relying on the cash they dispense, they remain unnoticed and under-appreciated. We pass them nearly...

A simple, concise explanation of design, with many examples from engineering and non-engineering fields. Starting with the fundamental concepts, you'll be able to apply design principles after the first chapter. Later chapters add more detail and context, in simple terms and with examples from...

"The Next Frontier: The Future of Science and Technology" is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution, challenges, and potential of science and technology. The book, supervised by Dr Hichem Karoui, delves into the vast realm of science and technology, tracing its transformation over time...

Understanding Heavy Metals: Provide an overview of heavy metals, including their chemical properties, sources of environmental contamination (e.g., industrial activities, mining, agriculture), and common heavy metals of concern such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic.Health and Environmental Effects: Discuss the health impacts of heavy...