As a result of resurgent interest in renewable energy systems, the application of nanotechnology to photovoltaics has seen major advances in recent years. This book describes such efforts with an emphasis on practical demonstrations and discussions of the associated technical challenges. Each chapter offers a brief review of the nanostructure class considered, key applications beyond photovoltaics, and synthetic methods. The text also addresses the advantages and disadvantages of each nanostructure approach. Chapters dealing with physics and the properties of nanostructures provide sufficient background to understand the basic principles underlying current and future strategies.
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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Renewable & Sustainable Energy
Energy
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Describing the challenges and opportunities of communication in a project environment, this detailed guide highlights the range of tools available to the project manager and instructs on their effective use and application. Written from a practical standpoint, this book provides the tools and best practices needed for successful communication management. It deals primarily with written communication, including plans, reports, guidelines, procedures, messages, and presentations. Using easy to understand language, this book highlights the various project communication tools available for use including email and PowerPoint ® .
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Management of IT
Business & Management
Engineering Project Management
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This work highlights the various changes that asphaltenes undergo during catalytic hydroprocessing. After defining and characterizing asphaltene structure, the book examines the composition of petroleum and the processes and catalysts for upgrading heavy oils. It then details the characterization of asphaltenes after hydroprocessing and the effect of reaction conditions on their structures. The authors also analyze the deactivation and characterization of spent hydroprocessing catalysts. They cover sediment formation during hydroprocessing and the role of asphaltenes on this process. The final chapters describe the hydrocracking, kinetics, and fractionation of asphaltenes.
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Fuels
Industrial Chemistry
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Based on the quantification and analysis of more than 3000 facial images, this seminal work lays the foundation for future forensic facial comparison, computer applications development, and research in face shape variation and analysis. Using experimental and real case data, it demonstrates the influence of illumination, image resolution, perspective, and pose angle on landmark visibility. Two DVDs are included which contain the raw 3D landmark datasets for 3000 faces, additional datasets used in 2D analysis, and computer programs and spreadsheets used in analysis and in the development of prototypic applications software.
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Image Processing
Forensic Science - Law
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Recognizing electrocatalysis as an interfacial approach to a dynamic interdisciplinary science, this volume focuses on important developments in the field that are the most relevant to new technologies. The book gives readers a clear view of the problems inside electrocatalytic reactions, presenting both the limitations of electrocatalysis in the laboratory along with its possibilities in industry. Topics discussed include the current uses of electrocatalysis and future perspectives; the quantum nature of the electron transfer; Müller-Calandra, Srinivasan-Gileadi, and instantaneous nucleation-growth overlap models; and the production, storage, use, and delivery of hydrogen in industrial electrochemistry.
• Surfactant Science
Physical Chemistry
Catalysis
Industrial Chemistry
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Written at a level suitable for senior students of marine engineering and entry-level marine engineers, this book covers main propulsion machineries, auxiliaries, and all ship-board systems and equipments that come under the purview of a marine engineer. The chapters progress from working principles to construction and design features to operation and maintenance. A separate chapter covers inherent hazards in a running engine and the built-in safety features and fail-safe devices to combat it. Copious line drawings and composite diagrams demonstrate the concepts and intricacies of design. An added feature is the section on watch-keeping, since that is truly a test of skill and competence of a sailing engineer.
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Transportation Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
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While tremendous progress has been made in remediating sites that have been contaminated by chlorinated solvents, stabilizers that were added to chlorinated solvents in order to improve their performance have been overlooked. This book is the first to focus on the little-known contaminant 1,4-Dioxane. Written by the top authority in the field, it presents an indispensable reference for forensic investigation of source apportionment at solvent release sites and focuses on areas of interest including: why solvent stabilizers are used; how they become concentrated in vapor degreasing wastes; and how sites contaminated with solvent stabilizers can be identified, investigated, and remediated.
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Industrial Chemistry
Ground Water
Water Quality & Pollution
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Designed to be useful even after students have completed their formal optical mineralogy course, Optical Mineralogy covers advances in instrumentation and includes illustrations of minerals as seen through petrologival microscopes. The initial chapters familiarize readers with essential concepts in optics and optical mineralogy and questions at the end of each chapter provide insight into issues students will find in the field. With tables that make important information easily accessible, the book highlights the importance of optical mineralogy in the eliciting of information about the interior of crystals.
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Environmental Geology
Optoelectronics
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This volume is part of a continuing series designed to provide authoritative reviews on recent developments and applications of well-established techniques in the field of electroanalytical chemistry. It covers electroanalytical techniques being currently used in diverse areas such as electro-organic synthesis, fuel cell studies, and radical ion formation. These techniques are also employed to solve problems dealing with kinetics and mechanisms of electrode reactions, the effects of electrode surface phenomena, adsorption, and the electrical double layer of electrode reactions. It provides academic and industry researchers with essential background and a starting point for undertaking related projects.
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Physical Chemistry
Industrial Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
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Major revisions of traditional professional codes of ethics are required to reflect emerging environmental concerns and the corresponding standards of care and professional practice. Drawing on the author's experience as a design professional and business ethics studies, this book is a unique exposition of the underlying ethical reasoning involved in the challenges confronted by contemporary design professionals. It considers the implications of sustainability from traditional ethical points of view and provides a balanced analysis of how a sustainable standard of care might be composed.
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Economics & Policy
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Ecology - Environment Studies
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