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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Synthesis of Medicinal Agents from Plants highlights the importance of synthesizing medicinal agents from plants and outlines methods for performing it effectively. Beginning with an introduction to the significance of medicinal plants, the book goes on to provide a historical overview of drug synthesis...
Power Plants and Power Systems Control 2006
A Proceedings Volume from the IFAC Symposium on Power Plants and Power Systems Control, Kananaskis, Canada, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Control plays a very important role in all aspects of power plants and power systems. The papers included in the 2006 Proceedings are by authors from a large number of countries around the world. They encompass a wide spectrum of topics in the control of practically every aspect of power plants and power systems.
Domino Effects in the Process Industries
Modelling, Prevention and Managing
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Domino Effects in the Process Industries discusses state-of-the-art theories, conceptual models, insights and practical issues surrounding large-scale knock-on accidents—so-called domino effects—in the chemical and process industries. The book treats such extremely low-frequency phenomena from...
by J.M. McNamee
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Numerical Methods for Roots of Polynomials - Part I (along with volume 2 covers most of the traditional methods for polynomial root-finding such as Newton’s, as well as numerous variations on them invented in the last few decades. Perhaps more importantly it covers recent developments such as Vincent’s...
by J.M. McNamee, Victor Pan
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Numerical Methods for Roots of Polynomials - Part II along with Part I (9780444527295) covers most of the traditional methods for polynomial root-finding such as interpolation and methods due to Graeffe, Laguerre, and Jenkins and Traub. It includes many other methods and topics as well and has a chapter...
by Caineng Zou
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Unconventional Petroleum Geology is the first book of its kind to collectively identify, catalog, and assess the exploration and recovery potential of the Earth's unconventional hydrocarbons. Advances in hydrocarbon technology and petroleum development systems have recently made the exploration of...
Waste Materials in Construction
Putting Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1997
This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Waste Materials in Construction, held in June 1997. The papers presented give the state of the art on leaching of materials and products, demonstration projects and product development. Results of workshops on immobilisation...
by Elsevier Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004
The names Bloch and Geitner are synonymous with machinery maintenance and reliability for process plants. They save companies like Dow and Equilon millions of dollars a year by extending the life of rotating machinery in their plants. Extending the life of existing machinery is the name of the game...
Exergy
Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Exergy, Second Edition deals with exergy and its applications to various energy systems and applications as a potential tool for design, analysis and optimization, and its role in minimizing and/or eliminating environmental impacts and providing sustainable development. In this regard, several key...
by HuiNong Zhuang
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Data accumulation, analysis, and interpretation technology are critical in hydrocarbon exploration and extraction to maximize petroleum recovery and development. Dynamic Well Testing in Petroleum Exploration and Development presents modern petroleum exploration and well testing interpretation methods,...
by Renato Benintendi
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Process Safety Calculations is an essential guide for process safety engineers involved in calculating and predicting risks and consequences. The book focuses on calculation procedures based on basic chemistry, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, conservation equations, kinetics and practical models....
Chemical Projects Scale Up
How to go from Laboratory to Commercial
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Chemical Projects Scale Up: How to Go from Laboratory to Commercial covers the chemical engineering steps necessary for taking a laboratory development into the commercial world. The book includes the problems associated with scale up, equipment sizing considerations, thermal characteristics associated...
by Gregory S. Patience
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Experimental Methods and Instrumentation for Chemical Engineers is a practical guide for research engineers and students, process engineers and, consultants, and others in the chemical engineering field. This unique book thoroughly describes experimental measurements and instrumentation in the contexts...
Carbonate Reservoirs
Porosity and Diagenesis in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
The 2nd Edition of Carbonate Reservoirs aims to educate graduate students and industry professionals on the complexities of porosity evolution in carbonate reservoirs. In the intervening 12 years since the first edition, there have been numerous studies of value published that need to be recognized...