Analysis of Naturally Occurring Food Toxins of Plant Origin
This book provides in-depth information and comprehensive discussion over different analytical techniques utilized for qualitative and quantitative application purposes of natural toxins of plant origin in food.
Biodegradable Composites for Packaging Applications
"Biodegradable Composites for Packaging Applications" describes design, processing, and manufacturing of advanced biodegradable composites in packaging industry applications. It covers fundamentals of biodegradable polymers followed by introduction to biodegradable materials for food packaging industry, processing, and pertinent applications.
Cosserat Plate Theory
This book presents the foundation and validation of the Cosserat Plate Theory, numerical experiments of deformation and vibration, and the unique properties of the Cosserat plates. It incorporates comparison with three-dimensional Cosserat elastodynamics.
Electrochemical Processes and Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete
This looks at the process of steel corrosion in reinforced concrete, with its loss of durability and cost implications. Given the structure and chemistry of the steel and concrete, the process is more complex than is widely recognized. The latest research on the corrosion process and the electrochemical processes is critiqued.
Edible Food Packaging with Natural Hydrocolloids and Active Agents
The book provides readers with state-of-the-art developments in antimicrobial, antioxidant and bioactive packaging based on natural hydrocolloids and active agents.
Volatile Compounds Formation in Specialty Beverages
Divided in two sections, this book answers such key-questions as like how different classes of volatile compounds affect the specialty beverage sensory profile; furthermore, the section on distilled beverages brings supplies information on the contribution of maturation to the beverage volatile profile.
Nanotechnology Interventions in Food Packaging and Shelf Life
This book shows how nanotechnology has the potential to transform food packaging materials in the future and presents new innovations in nanotechnology, packaging, preservation and processing of food and food products.
Advanced Materials and Technologies for Wastewater Treatment
This book discusses advanced materials and technologies used in wastewater treatment. It includes the treatment of waste generated by municipal, agro-industry, and other industries including chemical, biomedical, pharmaceutical, textile, and other sectors.
Risk Management Applications Used to Sustain Quality in Projects
This practical guide covers the steps necessary to sustain quality in a project from start to finish. The book shows how to identify risks at different processes, phases, and stages and offers directions on how to mitigate and reduce risks using analysis, evaluation, and monitoring.Risk Management Applications Used to Sustain Quality in Projects: A Practical Guide focuses on applying risk management principles to manage quality in all project management processes, stages, and phases. The book discusses the potential risks that may occur at the different phases of the project life cycle, their effects on projects, and how to prevent them. It explores all the process elements and activities of risk management and provides steps on how to make the project more qualitative, competitive, and economical. Risk management processes are discussed at each project management processes and project lifecycle phase/stage to help the reader understand how various risks can occur and how to mitigate and reduce them.The main audience for this book is project management professionals, quality managers, systems engineers, construction managers, and risk management professionals as well as industrial engineers, academics, and students.
Economic Analysis of Oil and Gas Engineering Operations
This book focuses on economic treatment of petroleum engineering operations and serves as a helpful resource for making practical and profitable decisions in oil and gas field development.
Advanced Materials for Wastewater Treatment and Desalination
Advanced Materials for Wastewater Treatment and Desalination: Fundamentals to Applications offers a comprehensive overview of current progress in the development of advanced materials used in wastewater treatment and desalination. The book is divided into 2 major sections, covering with both fundamentals and applications.
Starch and Starchy Food Products
The book reviews of existing research on various aspects of starch, including physicochemical, nutritional and functional properties, as well as on various applications in addition to foods. Particular emphasis is on the various physical and chemical modifications, which are aimed at improving the properties and applicability of starch.
High Performance Tensegrity-Inspired Metamaterials and Structures
Novel metamaterials with extraordinary properties, smart materials and structures, and adaptive systems with adjustable behaviour or which use high performance or 'extremal' materials offer new engineering solutions. These can be applied to bigger structural systems, such as cellular tensegrity lattices with extremal mechanical properties.
Networked Nonlinear Stochastic Time-Varying Systems
This book copes with the filter design, fault estimation and reliable control problems for different classes of nonlinear stochastic time-varying systems with network-enhanced complexities (e.g. state-multiplicative noises, stochastic nonlinearities, stochastic inner couplings, channel fadings, measurement quantizations etc).
Hybrid Energy Systems
This book demonstrates how hybrid energy and processes can decarbonize energy industry needs for power and heating and cooling. It describes the role of hybrid energy and processes in nine major industry sectors and discusses how hybrid energy can offer sustainable solutions in each.
Agricultural and Kitchen Waste
Apart from being termed as a pollution source, agriculture and kitchen waste is also a rich source of carbohydrates, minerals, antioxidants and vitamins, and can be utilized to develop value-added products and for energy production, which is the main theme of this book. It also focuses on the minimization of this waste via different routes like conversion into bio-fertilizers, organic acids, other industrial products, and efficient energy production. It comprises different topics and concepts related to waste utilization contributed by recognized researchers and experts.Features: Covers all the technical aspects of utilization of agricultural and kitchen waste. Discusses the quality characteristics of value-added products. Provides overview of different options for processing of organic wastes. Includes production of acids and enzymes from agriculture/kitchen wastes. Reviews effects of kitchen/agricultural waste on environment and its role in pollution control. This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in chemical and environmental engineering.
Error-Tolerant Biochemical Sample Preparation with Microfluidic Lab-on-Chip
Microfluidic biochips have gained prominence due to their versatile applications to biochemistry and health-care domains such as point-of-care clinical diagnosis of tropical and cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, toxicity analysis, and for the mitigation of the global HIV crisis, among others. Microfluidic Lab-on-Chips (LoCs) offer a convenient platform for emulating various fluidic operations in an automated fashion. However, because of the inherent uncertainty of fluidic operations, the outcome of biochemical experiments performed on-chip can be erroneous even if the chip is tested a priori and deemed to be defect-free. This book focuses on the issues encountered in reliable sample preparation with digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs), particularly in an error-prone environment. It presents state-of-the-art error management techniques and underlying algorithmic challenges along with their comparative discussions. Describes a comprehensive framework for designing a robust and error-tolerant biomedical system which will help in migrating from cumbersome medical laboratory tasks to small-sized LOC-based systems Presents a comparative study on current error-tolerant strategies for robust sample preparation using DMFBs and reports on efficient algorithms for error-tolerant sample dilution using these devices Illustrates how algorithmic engineering, cyber-physical tools, and software techniques are helpful in implementing fault tolerance Covers the challenges associated with design automation for biochemical sample preparation Teaches how to implement biochemical protocols using software-controlled microfluidic biochips Interdisciplinary in its coverage, this reference is written for practitioners and researchers in biochemical, biomedical, electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering, especially those involved in LOC or bio-MEMS design.
Phytochemicals in Soybeans
This book describes in detail the chemical characteristics of health-promoting components of soybeans and soybean products, their impacts on human health, and emerging technologies about soybean processing and new products.
Biotribology
This book disseminates ideas and research trends in biotribology and presents pioneering recent advances impacting the field, focusing on the role of mathematics, chemistry, physics, materials, and mechanical engineering.
Grains
This book is the first to describe physical and thermal properties of bulk grains; water status, hysteresis, isotherm of grain bulks during desorption (drying) and sorption (wetting, soaking); principles of aeration, drying, and wetting. It covers the origin, development, and application of mathematical models in grain storage and drying.
Spice Bioactive Compounds
Nature offers us spices, which are a significant part of healthy and nutritious foods. The presence of abundant bioactive compounds in these spices makes them interesting from a scientific and health perspective. Extracts obtained from spice materials possess many health benefits and are rich sources of antioxidants, which suppress reactive oxygen species.Spice Bioactive Compounds: Properties, Applications, and Health Benefits collects such information together in one book, presenting all necessary features related to spices and their properties. Exploring the most recent research related to the extraction, isolation, encapsulation, identification, and characterization of bioactive compounds present in spices, this book also covers the health element of spices and its utilization as a treatment for various disorders.Key Features: Discusses about 14 different spices and their salient features Presents the novel technologies used in the extraction, isolation, and identification of bioactive compounds from spices Explores the utilization of spices for culinary use in food Industries such as the food and pharmaceutical industries have great interest in the use of bioactive compounds for the production of drugs and functional foods. Written by experts in their field, this book will be useful to anyone in either industry, as well as those who have an interest in the use of such bioactive compounds for the production of drugs and functional foods.
Design and Development of Smart Surgical Assistant Technologies
Are Amazon Alexa and Google Home limited to our bedrooms, or can they be used in hospitals? Do you envision a future where physicians work hand-in-hand with voice AI to revolutionize healthcare delivery? AI is the future of physician-machine interaction and this Focus book provides invaluable insight on its next frontier.
Near-infrared Speckle Contrast Diffuse Correlation Tomography for Noncontact Imaging of Tissue Blood Flow Distribution
Imaging of tissue blood flow (BF) distributions provides vital information for the diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of various vascular diseases. The innovative near-infrared speckle contrast diffuse correlation tomography (scDCT) technique produces full 3D BF distributions. Many advanced features are provided over competing technologies including high sampling density, fast data acquisition, noninvasiveness, noncontact, affordability, portability, and translatability across varied subject sizes. The basic principle, instrumentation, and data analysis algorithms are presented in detail. The extensive applications are summarized such as imaging of cerebral BF (CBF) in mice, rat, and piglet animals with skull penetration into deep brain. Clinical human testing results are described by recovery of BF distributions on preterm infants (CBF) through incubator wall, and on sensitive burn tissues and mastectomy skin flaps without direct device-tissue interactions. Supporting activities outlined include integrated capability for acquiring surface curvature information, rapid 2D blood flow mapping, and optimizations via tissue-like phantoms and computer simulations. These applications and activities both highlight and guide the reader as to the expected abilities and limitations of scDCT for adapting into their own preclinical/clinical research, use in constrained environments (i.e., neonatal intensive care unit bedside), and use on vulnerable subjects and measurement sites.
Non-Thermal Processing Technologies for the Fruit and Vegetable Industry
This book introduces the various non-thermal food processing techniques especially employed for fruits and vegetables processing industries; it deals with the effect of several non-thermal processing techniques on quality aspects of processed fruits and vegetable products and keeping quality and consumer acceptability.
Artificial Intelligence for Solar Photovoltaic Systems
This book provides a clear explanation of the application of artificial intelligence to solve the challenges in solar photovoltaic technology. It introduces the readers about new AI-based approaches and technologies helpful in managing and operating solar photovoltaic systems effectively.
Biomaterials and Materials for Medicine
Biomaterials and Materials for Medicine offers an application-oriented summary of innovations in this rapidly evolving field, offering a view of various directions in biomaterials and medical materials and their advanced uses.
Wild Mushrooms
This book informs readers about different unexplored wild mushrooms, their methods of cultivation, nutritional values, pharmaceutical values, and possible utilization for human wellbeing.
Internet of Things and Fog Computing-Enabled Solutions for Real-Life Challenges
This book comprehensively covers smart technologies and their applications that will help during emergency situations in a single volume. It is an ideal text for graduate students, and academic researchers working in diverse engineering fields of electrical, biomedical, electronics and communication, and computer.
Bioelectronics
This book provides extensive information on the fundamental concepts of bioelectronics, materials for the developments of bioelectronics such as implantable electronics, self-powered devices, bioelectronic sensors, flexible bioelectronics, and an overview of the trends and gathering of the latest bioelectronic progress.
Flexible and Wearable Sensors
With rapid technological developments and lifestyle advancements, electronic sensors are being seamlessly integrated into many devices. This comprehensive handbook explores current, state-of-the-art developments in flexible and wearable sensor technology and its future challenge.
Mycotoxins in Food and Feed
Mycotoxin contamination in food and feed causes acute and chronic mycotoxicosis and others health issues. This book presents all the major mycotoxins, sources of production, chemistry and biosynthesis, occurrence in food, effect on agriculture, effect on health, detection technique, masked mycotoxins, and management and control strategies.
Nanotechnology Platforms for Antiviral Challenges
This book discusses the utilization of nano-based formulations for control of viral agents. Antiviral potential of green synthesized silver, chitosan nanoparticles encapsulating curcumin, photoinduced antiviral carbon nanohorns, and role of carbon-based materials like fullerenes &carbon nanotubes in repression of viral antigens are explained.
FRP Composite Structures
The focus of this textbook is to develop simplified mathematical models representing the behavior of beams and plates under static loads, after introducing generalized Hooke's Law for materials with different properties, i.e., anisotropic, orthotropic, transversely isotropic, and isotropic properties.
Human-Machine Interaction and IoT Applications for a Smarter World
The text discusses covers topics on cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things (IoT) in Human-Machine Interaction, using a blend of theoretical knowledge with practical approach. It will be a useful text for graduate students, and academic researchers in areas including electrical, and electronics and communications engineering.
Renewable Energy Integration to the Grid
This comprehensive book discusses uncertainty modeling of renewable energy resources and its steady state analysis. It also discusses challenges related to renewable energy integration to the grid, techniques to mitigate these challenges, and protection of power system with large renewable power integration.
Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Medical Data Analytics and Healthcare Applications
The book incorporates the many facets of computational intelligence, such as machine learning and deep learning, to provide groundbreaking developments in healthcare applications. It discusses theory, analytical methods, numerical simulation, scientific techniques, analytical outcomes, and computational structuring.
Spatial Grasp as a Model for Space-based Control and Management Systems
This book offers a high-level holistic system philosophy, model, and technology that can effectively organize distributed space-based systems starting with their planning, creation, and growth. The book contains practical examples of technology-based solutions.
Nanoemulsions in Food Technology
This book contains in-depth information on a technology overview, physical and nanostructural characterization, as well as applicability of the nanoemulsion technique in food sciences. It is a concise body of information that is beneficial to researchers, industries, and students alike.
Cognitive Radio
This book gathers together the latest research works focusing on the issues, challenges and solutions in the field of Cognitive Radio Networks, with various techniques. The chapters in this book will give solutions to the problems facing Industry 4.0 and will be an essential resource for the scholars in all areas of the field.
Drying in the Dairy Industry
With more than 12M tons of dairy powders produced each year globally the drying sector accounts to a large extent for the processing of milk and whey. This book is a synthetic and complete reference work for researchers in academia and industry exploring innovations in drying in the dairy industry.
Ceramic and Specialty Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices
Ceramic and Specialty Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices investigates recent progress and challenges in a wide range of ceramic solid and quasi-solid electrolytes and specialty electrolytes for energy storage devices.
Shelf Life and Food Safety
This book presents discussions on a range of topics including food spoilage and safe preservation, packaging, and sensory aspects. It presents traditional and innovative technologies for enhancing food safety and/or increasing shelf-life, and methods for the assessment and prediction of food safety and shelf-life.
Persistent Organic Pollutants
This book highlights the complex area of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and deals with the fundamentals of the chemicals, their sources, and impacts on human health. With its comprehensive approach, this book is an indispensable source of knowledge for those studying and working to mitigate the effect of POPs in the environment.
Elasto-Plastic Damage Behaviour of Concrete Elements
This presents practical experiment results on concrete structure performance, with numerical analyses and case studies, and applies elasto-plastic theory to damage mechanics and the modelling of cracks in concrete. It shows mathematical models of mechanical phenomena to eplain the nonlinear behaviour of concrete structures.
Green Tribology
Green tribology includes focus on innovative surfaces, lubricants, and materials to reduce friction and wear for environmental conservation and sustainability. This book creates a platform for sharing knowledge emerging in the field of green tribology and focuses on advances and developments in technologies and applications.
Algal Biofuel
Algal Biofuel: Sustainable Solution primarily focuses on the different aspects of bioenergy production using algal biomass as microalgae are considered the optimum feedstock for bioenergy production.
Machine Learning in Signal Processing
Machine Learning in Signal Processing: Applications, Challenges and Road Ahead offers a comprehensive approach towards research orientation for familiarising 'signal processing (SP)' concepts to machine learning (ML).
Non-Thermal Processing Technologies for the Grain Industry
With thermal processing significantly affecting food quality, diminishing nutrients, and altering texture of the products, food companies are looking to non-thermal processes to deliver a higher quality more wholesome food products to the market. This book covers such non-thermal processing techniques employed in grain processing industries.
