Covering each aspect of a waste management facility, from contaminant receipt, handling, and storage to stack discharge and dispersion, this reference explores the operation and evaluation of incineration and conversion (gasification) systems for hazardous and non-hazardous gaseous, liquid, biosolid, and solid wastes. Highlighting breakthroughs in air pollution control, the book discusses advances in materials handling, waste processing, refractory and materials engineering, combustion technology, and energy recovery to reduce and control toxins and pollutants in the environment. It includes an accompanying CD containing spreadsheets and computer applications for practical analysis of waste characteristics and combustion systems.
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Combustion Engineering
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Focusing on geothermal energy systems, this book examines the background, theory, power generation, applications, strengths, weaknesses, and practical techniques for implementing geothermal energy projects. The volume explains geosciences principles, drilling operations, techniques, types of well pumps, and other equipment. The authors stress the links between acquisition and consumption and the environment, provide numerous real world case studies, and delineate a number of practical implementation steps. The text includes figures, graphs, and formulas with homework problems included in each chapter.
• Energy and the Environment
Renewable & Sustainable Energy
Energy
Power Engineering
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Exploring the strong features of PSPICE and the powerful functions of MATLAB ® for electronic circuit analysis, this second edition continues to provide an introduction to PSPICE and a simple, hands-on overview of MATLAB. It also demonstrates the combined power of PSPICE and MATLAB for solving electronics problems. This edition includes updated MATLAB topics, schematic capture and text-based PSPICE netlists in several chapters, and a new chapter on PSPICE simulation using the ORCAD schematic capture program. It also contains new examples and problems, along with a revised bibliography in each chapter.
• VLSI Circuits
Physical Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Materials Science
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Along with providing an understanding of the scientific basis of air pollution, this volume helps readers better appreciate social and environmental determinants of public health and apply country-based research evidence to reduce health disparities and environmental inequalities. It also encourages future research and policy action on the health and environmental consequences of air pollution from the local to global level. With contributions from a distinguished group of international experts, the book not only covers general modeling, monitoring, and characterization techniques but also includes field studies and cases that offer valuable insight into region-specific issues.
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Environmental Health
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This book is based upon cutting-edge research conducted in the author’s lab (Cellular Bioengineering), which over the past decade has developed a number of sophisticated techniques to facilitate use of 3D cell based assays or biosensors. This book uses data from peer-reviewed publications to conclusively justify use of 3D cell cultures in cell-based biosensors (assays) for (HTS). The majority of assays performed in accelerated drug discovery processes are biochemical in nature, but there is a growing demand for live cell-based assays. Unlike biochemical ones, cellular assays are functional approximations of in vivo biological conditions and can provide more biologically relevant information.
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Biotechnology
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Considered the definitive work on sex-related homicide, this second edition details the theoretical and psychological basis for sexual homicide and offers practical investigative checklists and directions for processing and interpreting the crime scene. A comprehensive discussion of sexual deviance, it analyzes the typology of offenders to determine their signature aspects. It introduces the latest information on DNA technology, includes a new chapter on the infamous 30-year BTK investigation, offers new research developed from the Working Group of Human Asphyxia (WGHA), and provides a revised chapter on criminal personality profiling and investigative analysis. The new edition contains nearly 400 color photos.
• Practical Aspects of Criminal & Forensic Investigations
Psychological Science
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Exploring the recent achievements that have occurred since the mid-1990s, this book explains how to use modern algorithms to fit geometric contours to observed data in image processing and computer vision. The author covers all facets—geometric, statistical, and computational—of the methods. He looks at how the numerical algorithms relate to one another through underlying ideas, compares the strengths and weaknesses of each algorithm, and illustrates how to combine the algorithms to achieve the best performance. The text also identifies obscure issues that may be relevant in future research. MATLAB ® codes are available on the author’s website.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability
Algorithms & Complexity
Image Processing
Statistical Theory & Methods
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This timely three-volume set captures novel developments in the films and coatings area in relation to nanoscience and nanotechnology. For newcomers to the field, the books serve as introductions and stepping-stones to enter the field with little confusion. For experts, the books provide up-to-date information that can assist them in their research and help them contribute to the advancement of the technology. Figures, tables, and images are included in all three volumes. The first book concentrates on the mechanical properties of thin films and coatings, the second focuses on functional properties as well as related devices and applications, and the final volume examines organic thin films, devices, and coatings for clean energy applications.
• Hndbk of Nanostructured Thin Films & Coatings
Ceramics & Glasses
Materials Science
Renewable & Sustainable Energy
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Based on more than fifteen years of research and practice, this book introduces the environmental and economic sustainability assessment (EESA), a new way to make decisions that meets the challenges of the 21 st century. Incorporating elements of life-cycle analysis, risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, and comprehensive sensitivity analysis, EESA provides a fully quantitative, objective, and rational way to include all of the social, environmental, and economic issues relevant to a decision into one comprehensive analysis. The author demonstrates how to apply EESA using examples across a number of major industries.
• Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment
Ecological Economics
Natural Hazards & Risk
Ecology - Environment Studies
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Compatible with SAS version 9, SAS Enterprise Guide, and SAS Learning Edition, this resource describes statistical data mining concepts and methods and includes 13 user-friendly SAS macro applications for performing complete data mining tasks. Along with many new features in the SAS-specific macro applications, this second edition now provides access to SAS macros directly from your desktop and offers the ability to create publication quality graphics. Each chapter emphasizes step-by-step instructions for using SAS macros and interpreting the results. Compiled data mining SAS macro files are available for download on the author’s website.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series
Data Preparation & Mining
Statistics
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