Power Resources category: 2047 books
Big Dams of the New Deal Era
A Confluence of Engineering and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’...
Natural Gas Hydrates
A Guide for Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
The petroleum industry spends millions of dollars every year to combat the formation of hydrates-the solid, crystalline compounds that form from water and small molecules-that cause problems by plugging transmission lines and damaging equipment. They are a problem in the production, transmission and...
by Bing Chen, Michael Phiri
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This work aims to deepen our understanding of the role played by technical guidelines and tools for the design, construction and operation of healthcare facilities, ultimately establishing the impact of the physical environment on staff and patient outcomes. Using case studies largely drawn from the...
Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design
Selected Proceedings from the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS)
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This book focuses on the impacts of the built environment, and how to predict and measure the benefits and consequences of changes taking place to address sustainability in the development and building industries. It draws together the best treatments of these subjects from the Leeds Sustainability...
Computational Geotechnics
Storage of Energy Carriers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
In this book, effective computational methods to facilitate those pivotal simulations using open-source software are introduced and discussed with a special focus on the coupled thermo-mechanical behavior of the rock salt. A cohesive coverage of applying geotechnical modeling to the subsurface storage...
3rd International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy Related Materials (ENEFM2015)
Proceedings, Oludeniz, Turkey, 19–23 October 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The 3rd International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy Related Materials (ENEFM2015) was held from 19–23 October 2015. This congress focused on the latest developments of sustainable energy technologies, materials for sustainable energy applications and environmental and economic perspectives...
Perennial Grasses for Bioenergy and Bioproducts
Production, Uses, Sustainability and Markets for Giant Reed, Miscanthus, Switchgrass, Reed Canary Grass and Bamboo
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Perennial Grasses for Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Production, Uses, Sustainability and Markets for Giant Reed, Miscanthus, Switchgrass, Reed Canary Grass and Bamboo brings together a team of international authors to explore the current utilization, sustainability and future perspectives of perennial...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the main nuclear characterization techniques used to study hydrogen absorption and desorption in materials. The various techniques (neutron scattering, nuclear magnetic resonance, ion-beams, positron annihilation spectroscopy) are explained in detail,...
International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy Related Materials (ENEFM2013)
Proceedings, Antalya, Turkey, 9-12 October 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy Related Materials (ENEFM2013) was held on 9-12 October, 2013.
This three-day congress focused on the latest developments of sustainable energy technologies, materials for sustainable energy applications and environmental & economic...
by Kaplan S. Basniev, Nikolay M. Dmitriev, Misha Gorfunkle
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
The mechanics of fluid flow is a fundamental engineering discipline explaining both natural phenomena and human-induced processes, and a thorough understanding of it is central to the operations of the oil and gas industry. This book, written by some of the world’s best-known and respected petroleum...
Polanski & Perception
The Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman Polanski
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Polanski and Perception, the psychology of seeing and the cinema of Roman Polanski, is about the Roman Polanski’s interest in the nature of perception and how this is manifested in his films. Firstly, this book discusses Roman Polanski’s, his career, his early shorts and his features, the Knife...
Fuel Saving Wheels
A Consumer Guide On The Most Fuel Efficient Vehicles To Help You Get The Wheels With The Best Gas Mileage For More Gas Savings
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The cost of gas is frightening to a lot of drivers nowadays that they’re out to get the best device, the best method, the best whatever, that will guarantee better fuel economy.
So, it makes a lot of sense to make an investment on a fuel saving vehicle, right? Getting the best deal...
The Architecture of the Screen
Essays in Cinematographic Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary - the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan, and the new idea of movement - gave not only artists but also architects a completely new way to think about and describe the visual. The Architecture...
Frontiers of Screen History
Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945–2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Frontiers of Screen History provides an insightful exploration into the depiction and imagination of European borders in cinema after World War II. The editors and authors bring forward the geopolitical issues at the basis both the films of world-wide distribution, known to many, and others, shot within confining conditions or inhighly local places, remain unknown within prevailing canons.