Power Resources category: 2047 books
by Kyosung Choo, Serguei Dessiatoun, Edvin Cetegen
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In Next Generation Microchannel Heat Exchangers, the authors’ focus on the new generation highly efficient heat exchangers and presentation of novel data and technical expertise not available in the open literature. Next generation micro channels offer record high heat transfer coefficients with...
National Transport Models
Recent Developments and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
National and European transport models become increasingly important. The broadening of national transport policy from strategic infrastructure investments to infrastructure management strengthens the need for advanced and more policy sensitive tools of analysis. The increase of interregional and...
Streamline Numerical Well Test Interpretation
Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
The conventional and modern well test interpretation methods are an important tool in the petroleum engineer’s toolkit. Used in the exploration and discovery phase of a field, they are performed to determine the quality of a well or to permit estimation of producing rates at different producing...
Temporary Stages II
Critically Oriented Drama Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Theatre teachers are forced to adapt constantly. Whether responding to advancing technologies, cuts to (or the growth of) their programme or ever-changing governmental mandates, they struggle to serve both their students and their craft. Using a theatre arts programme at one Midwestern high school,...
Staging Ageing
Theatre, Performance, and the Narrative of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
How can plays and performances, past and present, inform our understanding of ageing? Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theatre, on popular culture and on paratheatrical practices, Staging Ageing investigates theatrical engagement with ageing from the Greek...
Building Energy Modeling with OpenStudio
A Practical Guide for Students and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This textbook teaches the fundamentals of building energy modeling and analysis using open source example applications built with the US DOE’s OpenStudio modeling platform and EnergyPlus simulation engine. Designed by researchers at US National Laboratories to support a new generation of high performance...
Decarbonising Cities
Mainstreaming Low Carbon Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
This book sets out some positive directions to move forward including government policy and regulatory options, an innovative GRID (Greening, Regenerative, Improvement Districts) scheme that can assist with funding and management, and the first steps towards an innovative carbon credit scheme for...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This publication shows the historical energy trends and the latest energy structures of 48 regional members, both the developed and developing members, of the Asian Development Bank. It contains energy demand and supply analysis, country energy profiles, and energy balance tables of each member country in the Asia and Pacific region.
Sustainable Freight Transport
Theory, Models, and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This book presents the latest technologies and operational methods available to support sustainable freight transport practices. It highlights market requirements, cutting edge applications, and case studies from innovators in the logistics services industry. The goal is to help bridge the gap between...
Handbook of Energy
Chronologies, Top Ten Lists, and Word Clouds
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Handbook of Energy, Volume II: Chronologies, Top Ten Lists, and Word Clouds draws together a comprehensive account of the energy field from the prestigious and award-winning authors of the Encyclopedia of Energy (2004), The Dictionary of Energy, Expanded Edition (2009), and the Handbook of Energy,...
by Morgan Henrie, Philip Carpenter, R. Edward Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Pipeline Leak Detection Handbook is a concise, detailed, and inclusive leak detection best practices text and reference book. It begins with the basics of leak detection technologies that include leak detection systems, and information on pipeline leaks, their causes, and subsequent consequences.
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Moving Objects Management
Models, Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Applications, 2nd Edition focuses on moving object management, from the location management perspective to determining how constantly changing locations affect the traditional database and data mining technology. The book specifically describes the topics of moving objects modeling and location tracking,...
by Dmitry Yu Murzin
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Biomass has received considerable attention as a sustainable feedstock that can replace diminishing fossil fuels for the production of energy and chemicals. At the present moment in the oil refining, petrochemical and chemical industry, after fractionation of crude oil, various fractions are upgraded...
High-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for the 21st Century
Fundamentals, Design and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
High-temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Second Edition, explores the growing interest in fuel cells as a sustainable source of energy. The text brings the topic of green energy front and center, illustrating the need for new books that provide comprehensive and practical information on specific types...