Solid-State Shear Pulverization is an innovative process that produces polymeric powders with unique physical properties not found in the output of conventional size-reduction methods. This technology has profound implications for both the creation of new polymer blends and recycling of plastic and rubber waste. Illustrated with 60 photographs, micrographs, diagrams and other figures this book takes an extended look at this new and multifaceted polymer processing technology. It illustrates different processed materials, as well as the machinery and mixed waste used. More than 60 tables provide useful data in convenient form.
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Polymers & Plastics
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Completely revised and updated, Multimedia Environmental Models: The Fugacity Approach, Second Edition continues to provide simple techniques for calculating how chemicals behave in the environment, where they accumulate, how long they persist, and how this leads to human exposure. It describes and illustrates the framework and procedures for calculating the behavior of chemicals in the multimedia environment of air, water, soil, and sediments, and the diverse biota that reside in these media. This second edition includes a how-to modeling section and an illustrative problems and solutions section. In addition, the models are Web based.
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Chemical Engineering
Environmental Modelling
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Covering theoretical methods and computational techniques in biomolecular research, this book focuses on approaches for the treatment of macromolecules, including proteins, nucleic acids, and bilayer membranes. It uses concepts in free energy calculations, conformational analysis, reaction rates, and transition pathways to calculate and interpret biomolecular properties gleaned from computer-generated membrane simulations. It also demonstrates comparative protein structure modeling, outlines computer-aided drug design, discusses Bayesian statistics in molecular and structural biology, and examines the RISM-SCF/MCSCF approach to chemical processes in solution.
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Chemistry
Biochemistry
Systems Biology
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Business Process Orientation: Gaining the E-Business Competitive Advantage provides the "whys" and the "hows" for building the "horizontal" organization -- an essential component of the "e" in e-commerce. It explains a powerful, well-researched strategy for improving business performance and leveraging the e-commerce revolution. It shows readers how to weave business processes into hard-to-imitate strategic capabilities that distinguish their organizations from the competition. It crisply defines, in measurable terms, the horizontal BPO organization, and presents practical examples showing how to use BPO as a tool to improve organizational and supply chain performance.
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Business Information Systems
Management of IT
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
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An exploration of the relationship between river behaviour and environmental change. The research involves a wide range of disciplines including geomorphology, geophysics, archaeology, palaeoecology, engineering and planning.
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Water Management and Sustainability
Hydraulic Engineering
Hydrology
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The revision the Handbook of Chemical Property Estimation Methods ("Lyman's Handbook"), now titled the Handbook of Property Estimation Methods for Chemicals: Environmental and Health Sciences, was one of the most eagerly anticipated developments in scientific publishing. It includes both a foreword and a chapter by Dr. Lyman. As a reference tool, the new rendition is indispensable. Written for convenient and frequent use, it integrates recent developments while retaining the elements that made the first version a classic. It also includes recent developments in chemical property estimation methods and focuses on the properties most critical to environmental fate assessment.
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Environmental Sciences
Environmental Health
Chemical Engineering
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