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Proceedings of the 1st Annual Gas Processing Symposium
10-12 January, 2009 - Qatar
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
As the cleanest source of fossil energy with the most advantageous CO2 footprint, natural gas continues to increase its share in the global energy market. This book provides state-of-the-art contributions in the area of gas processing. Special emphasis is given to Liquified Natural Gas (LNG); the...
Food Toxicants Analysis
Techniques, Strategies and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2007
Food Toxicants Analysis covers different aspects from the field of analytical food toxicology including emerging analytical techniques and applications to detect food allergens, genetically modified organisms, and novel ingredients (including those of functional foods). Focus will be on natural toxins...
Perspectives for Agronomy
Adopting Ecological Principles and Managing Resource Use
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1997
During the 4th ESA-Congress, held in the Netherlands, 7-11 July 1996, a new perspective for agronomy emerged. Various contributions demonstrate the need for a new role of agronomy and its tools. In recent decades, agriculture has evolved from an activity with mainly productivity aims, into an issue...
by M.L. Occelli, P. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2001
Catalyst production for the transformation of crudes into gasoline and other fuel products is a billion dollar/year business and fluid cracking catalysts (FCCs) represent almost half of the refinery catalyst market. During the cracking reactions, the FCC surface is contaminated by metals (Ni, V, Fe,...
High Pressure Process Technology: fundamentals and applications
fundamentals and applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2001
Clear evidence of increasing demands in the processing industry prompted the editors and authors to publish a new book about High Pressure Process Technology: Fundamentals and Applications.
This book presents the latest knowledge regarding the high pressure processing aspects combined with...
by Ghasem Najafpour
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2006
Extensive application of bioprocesses has generated an expansion in biotechnological knowledge, generated by the application of biochemical engineering to biotechnology. Microorganisms produce alcohols and acetone that are used in industrial processes. The knowledge related to industrial microbiology...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Oxidative stress is the result of an imbalance in pro-oxidant/antioxidant homeostasis that leads to the generation of toxic reactive oxygen species. Brain cells are continuously exposed to reactive oxygen species generated by oxidative metabolism, and in certain pathological conditions defense mechanisms...
Solid/Liquid Separation
Scale-up of Industrial Equipment
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
This book identifies test procedures used within sectors of the solid/liquid separation equipment industry, providing practical explanations for test data and their uses when faced with a new application to assess. With a strong practical emphasis, this book is ideal for use as a reference text for...
by Ian D. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
Bioanalytical Separations is volume 4 of the multi-volume series, Handbook of Analytical Separations, providing reviews of analytical separation methods and techniques used for the determination of analytes across a whole range of applications. The theme for this volume is bioanalysis, in this case specifically...
Estuarine Ecohydrology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Estuarine Ecohydrology, Second Edition, provides an ecohydrology viewpoint of an estuary as an ecosystem by focusing on its principal components, the river, the estuarine waters, the sediment, the nutrients, the wetlands, the oceanic influence, and the aquatic food web, as well as models of the health...
Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 10-14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
This volume of Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis contains the Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts, held on the campus of the "Universit catholique de Louvain" (UCL) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, on September 10-14,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 1998
The original properties of mesoporous molecular sieves are so unique that the design of most existing catalysts could be reconsidered. It might indeed be of interest to introduce MMS either as a support or as the active phase, merely on the basis of their high surface areas, narrow pore size distribution...
Electrocorrosion and Protection of Metals
General Approach with Particular Consideration to Electrochemical Plants
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Electrocorrosion, the corrosion of metallic constructions by external currents, is the most significant factor in conductive aggressive environments. Corrosion of underground and underwater metal constructions by stray currents has been comprehensively studied in the past decades and is considered...
by Andrei A. Zagorodni
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2006
Ion Exchange Materials: Properties and Applications fills a "two-dimensional" gap in books currently available on the subject. Firstly, there is a lack of modern comprehensive publications on the chemistry of ion exchange materials and on the relationships between their properties and practical...