Design of Industrial Structures
This book bridges the gap between academic and professional field pertaining to design of industrial reinforced cement concrete and steel structures.
Global Blue Economy
Explains the Sustainable Blue Economy as a marine-based economy that provides social and economic benefits for current and future generations. It provides a survey of the current state of understanding, activities, and policies related to the Blue Economy as it is being pursued in different industries and countries.
Urban Mining for Waste Management and Resource Recovery
Scientific management strategies can help in exploring anthropogenic wastes (human-made materials) as potential resources through the urban mining concept and be a panacea for sustainable development.
Rheology of Fresh Cement-Based Materials
This covers fundamentals of stability, flowability and hydration; measurement equipment, procedures, and data interpretation; with applications such as self-compacting concrete, pumping, 3D printing, and smart casting. Plus fiber-reinforced concrete, cemented paste backfills and alkali activated cement. For researchers and advanced students.
Wireless Communication with Artificial Intelligence
The reference text covers emerging wireless communication technologies, such as massive MIMO, mmWave, and visible light communication. It will be an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and professionals in the fields of electrical engineering, and electronics and communication engineering.
Resilient Communities of Central Eurasia
This book argues for the need to rethink governance through the lens of 'resilience as self-governance'. This book will be of great value to students and scholars in the fields of Politics including Eurasian politics and the various aspects of Governance.
Designer Biochar Assisted Bioremediation of Industrial Effluents
This book provides useful information and applications of biochar produced from agricultural waste, for removal of contaminants from industrial effluent and reutilization of waste sludge in production of biofuel/bioenergy. It deals with the unique features, advantages and disadvantages of techniques for biochar production and analyses.
Deep Learning for Biomedical Applications
This book is a detailed reference on biomedical applications using Deep Learning. Because Deep Learning is an important actor shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence, its specific and innovative solutions for both medical and biomedical are very critical. This book starts with essentials and moves toward deeper and advanced topics.
Spray-Freeze-Drying of Foods and Bioproducts
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of SFD and its food and pharmaceutical applications. The scope of this book comprising 12 chapters has been organized under four major headings: fundamentals of process-stages, applications with case-studies, recent advancements, and the processing bottlenecks and solutions.
Snack Foods
This book provides a technical review of snack foods. Emphasis is made in flavored salty snacks commonly used as finger foods including popcorn, wheat-based snacks (crispbreads, pretzels, crackers), lime-cooked maize products (tortilla chips), potato chips, peanuts, almonds, and snacks from fruits/vegetables, milk, animal and marine sources.
Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Computational Biology
This text emphasizes the importance of artificial intelligence techniques in the field of biological computation. It also discusses fundamental principles that can be applied beyond bio-inspired computing.
Electromagnetism for Signal Processing, Spectroscopy and Contemporary Computing
The comprehensive textbook will help readers in understanding fundamentals concepts of electromagnetism and its applications. It will serve as ideal study material for senior undergraduate and graduate students in the field of electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering.
Active Packaging for Various Food Applications
This book addresses the significance of active packaging for enhancing quality and safety of various packaged foods. It also addresses bioactive materials used for packing food products, and application of nano materials in an active packaging system.
Lubricant Analysis and Condition Monitoring
Lubricant Analysis and Condition Monitoring explains the benefits of identifying, planning, implementing, and using lubricant and machine condition monitoring programmes to extend the lifetimes of both lubricants and machines, to achieve maximum productivity and profitability while reducing impacts on waste and the environment.
Encapsulation in Food Processing and Fermentation
The book Encapsulation in food processing and fermentations provides new insights into food encapsulation processes. The chapters are organized in a manner that even readers who are not familiar with encapsulation will find the information of interest.
Advanced Micro-Level Experimental Techniques for Food Drying and Processing Applications
This book details developments in advanced technology to explore micro-level structural changes during food processing. It is based on the authors' comprehensive knowledge and application of microimaging methods in thermal processing.
Tribology and Surface Engineering for Industrial Applications
Tribology is a multidisciplinary science that encompasses mechanical engineering, materials science, surface engineering, lubricants, and additives chemistry with tremendous applications. This book discusses the latest in tribology and surface engineering for industrial applications.
Pork
From widely consumed to traditional/regional pork meat products, this book covers the processing details, quality characteristics, function of ingredients, scientific advances, and health aspects of a variety of elaborated pork products. It covers such pork products as fresh meat, fermented sausages, dry-cured products, blood sausages and cooked.
Bioactive Peptides from Food
This book delves into how bioactive peptides play a major role in the development of various functional foods. Numerous bioactive peptides have been reported in recent years as naturally present or generated from food proteins of different origins like milk, eggs, soya, fish, and meat.
Marine-Based Bioactive Compounds
This book provides an account of marine-derived nutraceuticals and their potential health benefits. It presents a great many opportunities in marine nutraceuticals from the six oceanic taxa that offer the most potential to benefit human health. It is a great resource for established nutraceutical companies.
Advanced Computational Techniques for Heat and Mass Transfer in Food Processing
This book provides, in a single source, information on the use of methods based on numerical and computational analysis as applied in food science and technology. It explores the use of various numerical/computational techniques for the simulation of fluid flow, and heat and mass transfer within the food products.
Novel Food Fermentation Technologies
It provides analytical details and a comprehensive overview of innovations in food fermentation technologies. The book also explains significance of fermented food in nutrition and overview of the different starter cultures and health benefits of fermented food products. This book would be an invaluable asset for the scientists, students and teachers working in the field of biotechnology, agriculture, microbiology, agriculture engineering, food technology and community science.
Rarefied Flow Velocimetry
High-speed flows, such as supersonic and hypersonic flows, are crucial for aerospace technologies and the validation of fluid dynamics codes. This work characterizes the velocities of flows generated by an expansion chamber using three techniques: one intrusive, the Rapid Ionization Detector, and two optical, schlieren and a modified schlieren method combined with molecular iodine absorption.The Rapid Ionization Detector made it possible to study flows at pressures of 10^-6 mbar and speeds of 21 to 726 m/s. Using the characteristics method, flows with minimum temperatures of 29 K and Mach numbers of up to 12 were obtained. Schlieren velocimetry made it possible to visualize flows in voids of up to 200 mbar, with speeds of 5.2 to 66.5 m/s, temperatures of 297.6 to 300 K and a maximum Mach number of 0.2.The modified Schlieren method made it possible to visualize flows at pressures of up to 15 mbar, an order of magnitude lower than the conventional method, with speeds of 92 to 190 m/s, temperatures of 280.1 to 295.3 K and a maximum Mach number of 0.6.
Rainwater Harvesting for the 21st Century
Rainwater Harvesting for the 21st Century serves as a rigorous yet practical guide for a broad audience interested in the many opportunities that RWH systems can provide, including water security, food security, flood management, and climate change adaptation.
The Science of Water Reuse
The Science of Water Reuse explains how technology can sufficiently purify reclaimed water to potable water quality- even surpassing the cleanliness of the water available from conventional taps.
Smart and Sustainable Operations Management in the Aviation Industry
Industry 4.0 and disruptive technologies have transformed supply chains into globally connected collaborative networks. As supply chains become flexible, digital structures, the planning and operation phases of key processes become more complex. This book presents chapters on smart and sustainable supply chain management in aviation.
Remediation of Legacy Hazardous and Nuclear Industrial Sites
Remediation of Legacy Hazardous and Nuclear Industrial Sites provides an overview of the key elements involved in remediating complex waste sites using the Hanford nuclear site as a case study. Hanford is one of the most complex waste sites in the world and has examples of most, if not all, characteristics of the complex waste sites that exist globally. This book is aimed at a non-technical audience and describes the stages of remediation based on general RCRA/CERCLA processes, from establishing a strategy that includes all stakeholders to site assessment, waste treatment and disposal, and long-term monitoring.Features: Informs a non-technical audience of the important elements involved in complex waste site remediation Employs the Hanford Site as a case study throughout to explain real-world applications of remediation steps Connects the "human" element to the technical aspects through interviews with key current and retired individuals at the Hanford Site Includes discussion of stakeholders and the engagement process in remediation Demonstrates how all elements of complex waste site remediation from demolition of buildings to groundwater management are interrelated Focuses on broader technical and sociopolitical challenges for remediation of a contaminated site Aimed at a broad audience, this book offers approachable guidance to technical and non-technical readers through a series of real-world examples that cover each important step in the complex waste cleanup process.
Construction Company Management
This book will give readers a detailed understanding of the critical aspects of running a successful construction company in today's complex regulatory, economic, and social environment.
Analytical Case Studies on Municipal and Biomedical Waste Management
This book covers perspectives addressing the sustainable development goals through analytical and case studies on municipal and biomedical waste management. It consists of ten selectively curated highly technical chapters including practical case studies and examples.
Microbes and Enzymes for Water Treatment and Remediation
The book provides up-to-date insights into the potential of microbial and enzyme-based processes for wastewater treatment, addressing challenges and limitations while offering alternative methods for effluent treatment and water reclamation.
Food Waste Valorization
Food Waste Valorization: Emerging Trends, Techno-economic and Environmental Considerations covers bioactive extraction, therapeutic properties and environmental concerns related to food waste conversion to value-added products, along with advanced technological breakthroughs in the field. The book also provides concepts and theories on several facets of agro-food waste valorization and its by-products, as well as opportunities and challenges. Each chapter contains viewpoints from different fields of research such as Basic Science, Agriculture, Food Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Science, and more, with each having a unique approach to food waste valorization as it relates to their field. This is an invaluable resource for research and development professionals in post-harvest processing and renewable energy industries, as well as the academicians.
Environmental Compliance Guide for Facility Managers and Engineers
A practical guide for facility engineers and managers to understand the impact of environmental regulations when applied to operating equipment in any industry or facility. It lays out a clear road map on how to gain knowledge on most essential steps and how to use the proper tools included in the book, useful to both engineers and students.
Signals, Systems, and Signal Processing
This innovative introduction to the foundations of signals, systems, and transforms emphasises discrete-time concepts, smoothing the transition towards more advanced study in Digital Signal Processing (DSP). A digital-first approach, introducing discrete-time concepts from the beginning, equips students with a firm theoretical foundation in signals and systems, while emphasising topics fundamental to understanding DSP. Continuous-time approaches are introduced in later chapters, providing students with a well-rounded understanding that maintains a strong digital emphasis. Real-world applications, including music signals, signal denoising systems, and digital communication systems, are introduced to encourage student motivation. Early introduction of core concepts in digital filtering, DFT and FFT provide a frictionless transition through to more advanced study. Over 325 end-of-chapter problems, and over 50 computational problems using Matlab. Accompanied online by solutions and code for instructors, this rigorous textbook is ideal for undergraduate students in electrical engineering studying an introductory course in signals, systems, and signal processing.
Digital Twins in Industrial Production and Smart Manufacturing
IoT-Based Smart Waste Management for Environmental Sustainability
Summarizes smart technologies like IoT, edge computing, and AI used in different aspects of waste material management, mitigation, and recycling for a sustainable environment. A collection of practical case studies, this book provides comprehensive knowledge in smart waste management to readers in universities, research centers, and industries.
Modelling and Optimization of Wave Energy Converters
This guide to wave energy harvesting systems focuses on current analytical and numerical modelling methods for their convertor technologies. The Open Access version of this book, available at https: //www.routledge.com/ has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Microbial Community Studies in Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Focussing on microbial community structure in the field of wastewater treatment, it highlights structure analyses in relation to changes in physico-chemical parameters. It further covers physiological analyses of microbial communities, enrichment of pure cultures, and analyses and modelling of consequences of changes in community structures.
Introduction to Electrochemical Science and Engineering
The book outlines basic principles and techniques used to develop electrochemical engineering-related technologies. Covering topics from electrolyte solutions to electrochemical energy conversion systems and corrosion, this revised and expanded edition provides new educational material to teach today's most useful electrochemical concepts.
Food and Beverage Management
Industry Overview: Provide a comprehensive overview of the food and beverage industry, including its structure, trends, challenges, and opportunities, to give readers a solid understanding of the business landscape. Menu Planning and Development: Cover the principles and strategies of menu planning and development, including menu design, pricing strategies, menu engineering, and the use of market research and consumer insights to create appealing and profitable menus. Food and Beverage Operations Management: Explore the day-to-day operations of food and beverage establishments, including kitchen management, inventory control, purchasing and procurement, quality assurance, sanitation, and compliance with food safety regulations. Service Excellence: Discuss the importance of service excellence in food and beverage establishments, covering topics such as customer service standards, staff training and development, handling customer complaints, and creating memorable dining experiences. Beverage Management: Focus on the management of beverage operations, including bar management, beverage selection and procurement, beverage costing and pricing, mixology, wine service, and responsible alcohol service practices.
Advanced Materials for Biomedical Applications
The text covers recent developments in biomaterials like graphene reinforced magnesium metal matrix, magnesium alloys, and 2D nanomaterials. It will help senior undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science, ergonomics, and human factors.
Healthcare Analytics
This book addresses a compelling need for documenting what has been learned by the academic and professional healthcare communities in healthcare analytics and disaster preparedness to this point in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Distributed Adaptive Consensus Control of Uncertain Multi-Agent Systems
Multi-agent systems are special networked systems full of research interest and practical sense, which are abundant in real life, ranging from mobile robot networks, intelligent transportation management, to multiple spacecraft, surveillance and monitoring.
Trends in Biological Processes in Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Advanced Topics in Power Systems Analysis
Electric Power Systems Analysis" is one of the most challenging courses of the Electric Power Engineering major which is taught for junior students.
