Energy technology and engineering Books

The reference text covers several security and privacy aspects and concerns with respect to wireless robotics. It will be an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and professional in the fields of electrical engineering,...

This book delivers a comprehensive treatment of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) time-mode circuits and systems. Featuring contributions from leading experts, the text begins by presenting a critical comparison of voltage-mode,...

This book provides an overview of distributed control and distributed optimization theory with specific details on industrial applications to smart grid systems. It discusses the fundamental analysis and design schemes for developing actual working smart...

This book categorizes the wide area of data-driven model-free controllers, reveals the exact benefits of such controllers, gives the in-depth theory and mathematical proofs behind them, and finally discusses their applications. Each chapter includes a...

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction ; E.Quinet & R.Vickerman - A Disaggregate Box-Cox Logit Choice Model of Intercity Passenger Travel in Germany; M.Gaudry, B.Mandel & W.Rothengatter - Measuring the Contribution of Road Infrastructure to...

Notes on the Contributors - Editor's Preface - A German Centenary in 1986, a French in 1995 or the Real Beginnings about 1905; T.Barker - The Beginnings of the Automobile in Germany; O.Nibel - The Motor Vehicle and the Revolution in Road Transport: The...

Two complete new chapters have been introduced. The first one, Chapter 16, amplifies the many rich interactions between Geographie Information Systems (GIS) and the Navstar CPS. The words and pietures in this new chapter foeus...

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss. In other words, nothing like the catastrophe at the...

Optical network design and modelling is an essential issue for planning and operating networks for the next century. The main issues in optical networking are being widely investigated not only for WDM networks but also for...

Mobile systems - primarily cellular telephony - have been the fastest moving telecommunications development to date with a world-wide customer base that in the ten or so years to April 1996 reached 100 million and continues...

The usage of data communications and computer networks are ever in­ creasing. It is one of the few technological areas which brings benefits to most of the countries and the peoples of the world. Without it many industries...

The focus of this book is on the application of AI methods in the field of protection of different types and topologies of transmission and distribution lines explaining the latest pattern-recognition- based methods applied to detection, classification,...

This book aims to provide practical guidance on all aspects of flow assurance to offer readers a ready reference on how to ensure uninterrupted transport of processed fluids throughout the flow infrastructure.

This book presents the methodology that will enable an engineer, experienced or not, to alleviate pipeline integrity problems during operation. It explains the principal considerations and establishes a common approach in tackling technical challenges...

This textbook introduces the theoretical background of piezoelectrics, electromechanial phenomenology, loss mechanisms, practical materials, device designs, drive and characterization techniques, typical applications, and looks forward to the future...

The Fundamentals of Microgrids: Development and Implementation provides an in-depth examination of microgrid energy sources, applications, technologies, and policies.

This book focuses on implementation of a possible Hybrid Image Examination technique for medical images describing various image thresholding and segmentation methods along with essential details, such as test image preparation, implementation of a...

This book intends to be a detailed text on the topic of integrated circuits for power management covering both theoretical foundations and practical details, leading to successful design practices in research and industry, via coverage of power...

Internet of Things with 8051 and ESP8266 provides a platform to get started with the Internet of Things (IoT) with 8051. This book describes programming basics and how devices interface within designed systems. It presents a unique combination of 8051...

There is growing interest world wide in nuclear-free zones. Originally published in 1987, this book explores the question of what constitutes a nuclear-free zone and charts the progress of the movement to establish them. The book shows how definitions of...

This book discusses about different facets of interoperability issues among the IoT devices and their solutions, the scalability issues and solutions for plug-n-play of new devices with the existing IoT system. It also discusses the possible usage of...

This book creates a new research field as it bridges the technical skills gap between microfluidic systems and molecular biology protocols but viewed from the perspective of an electronic/systems engineer.

Multi-level Inverters (MLIs) are widely used for conversion of DC to AC power. This book provides various low-switching frequency (LSF) modulation schemes (conventional and improved), which can be implemented on MLIs. The LSF modulation schemes are...

This book presents novel hybrid encryption algorithms that possess many different characteristics. In particular, "Hybrid Encryption Algorithms over Wireless Communication Channels", examines encrypted image and video data for the purpose of secure...

This up-to-date reference discusses important concepts of vehicular communication in intelligent transportation systems. Augmented Intelligence Toward Smart Vehicular Applications begins by discussing key objectives of intelligent transport systems and...

Power distribution and quality remain the key challenges facing the power industry. Comprising chapters carefully selected from the best-selling Electric Power Distribution Handbook, Electric Power Distribution Equipment and Systems provides an...

Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date collection of DD techniques. Experts with more than forty years of combined experience in both industrial and academic settings demonstrate how...

This book presents a very introductory coverage of the topic of fuzzy logic, including a few basic principles from an interdisciplinary perspective. It includes concept of evolving a fuzzy set and fuzzy set operations, fuzzification rule base design and...

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We take motors and generators for granted because they are so successful and reliable. Thank magnetic fields. Magnetic fields have completely changed and improved our way of life, compared to just 200 years ago. We have electric motors...

The Metallurgy Of The Non Ferrous Metals is a book written by William Gowland in 1914. It is a comprehensive guide to the various non-ferrous metals and their properties, including copper, zinc, lead, tin, and aluminum. The book covers the history and...

Whatever the field of human activity-domestic or scientific, work or leisure-it is likely that some knowledge of the behaviour of electrical circuits is required to keep the processes moving, the wheels turning. In many cases,...

An elective course in the final-year BEng progamme in electronic engin­ eering in the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong was generated in response to the growing need of local industry for graduate engineers capable of designing...

Electrical-engineering and electronic-engineering students have frequently to resolve and simplify quite complex circuits in order to understand them or to obtain numerical results and a sound knowledge of basic circuit theory...

The book on The General Theory of Electrical Machines, by B. Adkins, which was published in 1957, has been well received, as a manual containing the theories on which practical methods of calculating machine performance can be...

This introduction to random variables and signals provides engineering students with the analytical and computational tools for processing random signals using linear systems. It presents the underlying theory as well as...

This book deals with the physics and chemistry of all kinds of energy resources - coal, gas, oil, hydropower, and nuclear. After a brief introduction to the concepts of force, work, and energy, the book discusses energy...

The theoretical basis and the relevant experimental knowledge underlying our present understanding of the electrical and optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures. Although such structures have been known since the...

This book was written as a first treatment of statistical com­ munication theory and communication systems at a senior­ graduate level. The only formal prerequisite is a knowledge of ele­ mentary calculus; however, some...

This superb explication of a complex subject presents the current state of the art of the mathematical theory of symmetric functionals on random matrices. It emphasizes its connection with the statistical non-parametric...

During the past two decades, many communication techniques have been developed to achieve various goals such as higher data rate, more robust link quality,andmoreusercapacityinmorerigorouschannelconditions.Themost well known...

The Integrated Circuit (IC) industry has gone without a standardized verification approach for decades. This book defines a uniform, standardizable methodology for verifying the logical behavior of an integrated circuit, whether an I/O controller, a...

This book details timing analysis and optimization techniques for circuits with level-sensitive memory elements. It contains a linear programming formulation applicable to the timing analysis of large scale circuits and includes a delay insertion...

This book tackles challenges for the design of analog integrated circuits that operate from ultra-low power supply voltages (down to 0.5V). Coverage demonstrates the signal processing circuit and circuit biasing approaches...