Featuring the contributions of industrial and academic experts, this volume discusses the fundamental and practical aspects of industrial water treatment. After an overview of water chemistry and the characteristics of mineral scales, the book addresses the formation and control of different scales in various systems. It covers membrane-based separation processes, reverse osmosis systems, and scale control in thermal distillation processes. It also discusses corrosion control and the interactions of polyelectrolytes with suspended matter. Lastly, the book examines bacteria in water supplies, analytical techniques for identifying mineral scales and deposits, polymer use, and the monitoring of parameters and chemicals used to treat industrial water systems.
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Water Supply & Treatment
Physical Chemistry
Industrial Chemistry
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While current methods used in ecological risk assessments for pesticides are largely deterministic, quantifiable results garnered using probabilistic methods are attracting growing interest from industries and governments. This book identifies which methods are most appropriate for pesticide assessment and explores their appropriateness as a common suite for general use. The authors discuss classical and Bayesian approaches, various types of Monte Carlo analysis, first order error analysis, probability bounds analysis, interval analysis, and fuzzy mathematics. They then examine how these methods can be used in assessments for other environmental contaminants.
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Agriculture
Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Natural Hazards & Risk
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Drawn from case examples spanning the last 60 years, this book examines incidents of targeted violence, including contract killings, assassinations, and planned kidnappings. Complete with 35 case studies, the text explores numerous attack methodologies employed around the world and regionally. The author, a former SWAT and JTTF team member, analyzes the modus operandi of individual assailants and groups to highlight the commonalities between targeted victims and why certain groups tend to target specific types of individuals. The book concludes with a chapter on victimology.
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Security Services
Forensic Science - Law
Terrorism
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This volume provides a basic introduction to toxicology within a framework of chemical risk to ecosystems and to human health and forms the basis of a new approach to teaching toxicology from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective. It presents concepts from chemistry, ecology, physiology, and other disciplines as needed within the context of toxicology. These include as chemical equilibrium, energy, and nutrient flows through ecosystems. It also introduces concepts specific to toxicology, such as risk as a composite of toxicity and exposure, and provides case studies of risk management to illustrate the ways in which laboratory results are used to manage chemical risk to human health and the environment.
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Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Natural Hazards & Risk
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Considered to be among the very best in the field, this masterwork from renowned experts J. N. Reddy and David Gartling is the latest version of a book that has long been relied upon by practicing engineers, researchers, and graduate students. Noted for its powerful methodology and clear explanations of the subject, this third edition contains considerably more workable exercises and examples associated with problems in heat conduction, incompressible viscous flow, and convection heat transfer. It also uses applied examples to show realistic examples of FEM in thermal and fluid design analysis.
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Mechanics
Fluid Mechanics
Thermodynamics
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The interdisciplinary field of biomedical engineering requires its practitioners to know and master not only engineering skills, but also a diversity of material in the biological sciences. This text helps biomedical engineering students and professionals strengthen their skills in the network of applied mathematics that ties together these diverse disciplines. Based on the author's 30 years of experience in teaching as well as his personal research on neurosensory systems, this book, now in its second edition, provides a ready source of information on the specialized mathematical techniques most useful in describing and analyzing biomedical signals.
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Biomedical Engineering
Digital Signal Processing
Systems & Controls
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This book concentrates on the modern methods and technology used in the analysis and design of new steel superstructures for modern railway bridges. While the focus is on replacement superstructures, many of the principles and methods outlined will also be useful in the maintenance and rehabilitation of existing steel railway bridges. The author provides introductory and general information and then examines topics including load development, structural analysis, and the detailed design of modern steel railway bridge superstructures. A practical reference for experienced bridge engineers and researchers, this book is also a learning tool for students and engineers new to the field.
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Transportation Engineering
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Focusing on pollutant reduction, abatement, and control, this book provides the necessary tools and methodologies to solve urban stormwater problems. The authors present theories and fundamental concepts of wet weather pollution as a basis for solving engineering problems in practice. The book contains mathematical formulations for modeling the prediction of pollutant transport into both surface waters and soil systems. The entire urban wastewater system—including the drainage catchment and networks, treatment systems and local receiving waters—are examined in this context. The authors also address key points in the analysis, design, and management of urban drainage systems.
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Water Quality & Pollution
Storm Water
Surface Water
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With significant applications in drug delivery and formulation science, colloids offer the same advantages of typical materials used for release but can be tailored to specific bulk material properties such as release profiles. Colloidal systems have the potential to increase the shelf life and improve efficacy of a drug, thus reducing the required dosage concentrations and the frequency of administration. Featuring contributions from an international panel of scientists and researchers, this book presents the most recent findings on the application of colloidal properties in drug delivery systems, contributing to the understanding and improved design of novel and advanced drug delivery applications.
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Drug Design & Development
Physical Chemistry
Biomaterials - Materials Science
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This book presents the constructive and operational aspects of equipment used in combustion and gasification of solid fuels such as coal, biomass, solid residues, etc. This equipment includes boilers and gasifiers, which are used to transform coal or other solid fuels into gases that can be burned in turbines, in which moving generators are able to produce electrical power. The author details basic aspects of solid and gas combustion phenomena, which are essential to improvements and optimized design in existing boilers and gasifiers. He also introduces the methods to formulate a mathematical basis for this equipment, demonstrating possible routes from models to workable computer simulation problems.
• Dekker Mechanical Engineering
Energy
Combustion Engineering
Thermodynamics
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