Energy technology and engineering Books

Metaheuristics are widely used to solve important practical combinatorial optimization problems. Many new multicast applications emerging from the Internet-such as TV over the Internet, radio over the Internet, and multipoint video streaming-require...

There are several families of DC/DC converters constituting hundreds of different topologies. Sorting through the various properties and characteristics is obviously a daunting task. Culled from the pages of the groundbreaking Advanced DC/DC Converters,...

Microprogrammed State Machine Design is a digital computer architecture text that builds systematically from basic concepts to complex state-machine design

The days of troubleshooting a piece of gear armed only with a scope, voltmeter, and a general idea of how the hardware works are gone forever. As technology continues to drive equipment design forward, maintenance difficulties will continue to increase,...

The explosive demand for mobile communications is driving the development of wireless technology at an unprecedented pace. Unfortunately, this exceptional growth is also giving rise to a myriad of security issues at all levels-from subscriber to network...

Digital image sequences (including digital video) are increasingly common and important components in technical applications ranging from medical imaging and multimedia communications to autonomous vehicle navigation. The immense popularity of DVD video...

This detailed and comprehensive reference presents the latest developments in power system insulation coordination-emphasizing the achievement of optimum insulation strength at minimum cost. Comprehensively covering a myriad of insulation coordination...

Improve Failure Detection and Optimize ProtectionIn the ever-evolving field of protective relay technology, an engineer's personal preference and professional judgment are as important to power system protection as the physical relays used to detect and...

The book presents practical aspects related to the measurement of rotational power loss in soft magnetic materials. The book furthermore focuses on practical aspects of performing such measurements, the associated difficulties as well as solutions to the...

This book focuses on the application of soft computing in materials and manufacturing sectors with the objective to offer an intelligent approach to improve the manufacturing process, material selection and characterization techniques for developing...

This book examines the use of biomedical signal processing-EEG, EMG, and ECG-in analyzing and diagnosing various medical conditions, particularly diseases related to the heart and brain. In combination with machine learning tools and other optimization...

Fourier analysis is one of the most important concepts when you apply physical ideas to engineering issues. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of Fourier transform and spectral analysis in optics, image processing, and signal processing.

This book focuses on latent heat storage, which is one of the most efficient ways of storing thermal energy. Unlike the sensible heat storage method, the latent heat storage method provides much higher storage density with a smaller difference between...

Anticipating a limit to the continuous miniaturization (More-Moore), intense research efforts are being made to co-integrate various functionalities (More-than-Moore) in a single chip. Currently, strain engineering is the main technique used to enhance...

Machine learning approaches has the capability to learn and adapt to the constantly evolving demands of large Internet-of-energy (IoE) network. The focus of this book is on using the machine learning approaches to present various solutions for IoE...

Electric Vehicle Integration in a Smart Microgrid EnvironmentThe growing demand for energy in today's world, especially in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, has been met with massive exploitation of fossil fuels, resulting in an increase in...

Electronics explained in one volume, using both theoretical and practical applications. Mike Tooley provides all the information required to get to grips with the fundamentals of electronics, detailing the underpinning knowledge necessary to appreciate...

In large measure the traditional concern of communications engineers has been the conveyance of voice signals. The most prominent example is the telephone network, in which the techniques used for transmission multiplex­ ing...

This past July about sixty physicists from sixteen different countries gathered at St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands for an Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Techniques and Concepts of High Energy Physics. The...

Work on the unification of the fundamental particle interac­ tions has continued vigorously since the first Europhysics study Conference on this subject. At that time we emphasized the exis­ tence of two main approaches, one...

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in syscems which enable the conversion of solar energy into electri­ calor chemical energy. Many types of systems have been proposed and studied experimenta11y, the...

Beginning with the basic elements that differentiate space programs from other management challenges, Space Program Management explains through theory and example of real programs from around the world, the philosophical and...

The Ideal Final Result introduces the TRIZ Inventive Problem Solving Process in a way that allows readers to make immediate use of its most basic concepts. The Ideal Final Result reviews the basics of this left brained, but at the same time, very...

Stability and Transport in Magnetic Confinement Systems provides an advanced introduction to the fields of stability and transport in tokamaks. It serves as a reference for researchers with its highly-detailed theoretical background, and contains new...

Contemporary information networks are developing to meet social demands, and as a result new technologies and systems are being introduced. The fundamental problem in this process is the optimization of system dimensions and...

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new...

Introduction.- Background and Related Work.- Adaptive Low-Power Architectures for Embedded Multimedia Systems.- Adaptive Low-Power Video Coding.- Adaptive Low-Power Reconfigurable Processor Architecture.- Power Measurement of the Reconfigurable...

This book is appropriate for those specializing in speech science, hearing science, neuroscience, or computer science and engineers working on applications such as automatic speech recognition, cochlear implants, hands-free...

System-Level Design Techniques for Energy-Efficient Embedded Systems addresses the development and validation of co-synthesis techniques that allow an effective design of embedded systems with low energy dissipation. The book...

This book addresses two main problems with interconnections at the chip and package level: crosstalk and simultaneous switching noise. Its orientation is towards giving general information rather than a compilation of practical...

Preface 1: Basics of LC Oscillators1. Introduction 2. The Mathematical Oscillator 3. Additive White Noise in LC Oscillators 4. The Linear Oscillator 5. Linear Oscillator Noise Analysis 6. How Is This Book Different?2: Oscillator Purity Fundamentals 1...

This book is about time-domain modelling, stability, stabilization, control design and filtering for JTDS. It gives readers a thorough understanding of the basic mathematical analysis and fundamentals, offers a straightforward...

Oversampled Delta-Sigma Modulators: Analysis, Applications, and Novel Topologies presents theorems and their mathematical proofs for the exact analysis of the quantization noise in delta-sigma modulators. Extensive mathematical...

This volume introduces innovative power estimation and optimization methodologies to support the design of low power embedded systems based on high-performance VLIW microprocessors. A VLIW processor is a (generally) pipelined...

This overview of the security problems in modern VLSI design provides a detailed treatment of a newly developed constraint-based protection paradigm for the protection of VLSI design IPs - from FPGA design to standard-cell...

Chapter 1 Nanoelectromechanical Systems Chapter 2 NanoMEMS Physics: Quantum Wave-Particle Phenomena Chapter 3 NanoMEMS Physics: Quantum Wave Phenomena Chapter 4 NanoMEMS Applications: Circuits and Systems Chapter 5 NanoMEMS Applications: Photonics

Abstract I. List of Abbreviations and Symbols. Table of Contents. 1 Introduction. 2 General design aspects of miniaturized low-power dataloggers. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Biotelemetry systems. 2.3 Dataloggers. 2.3.1 Sensors. 2.3.2 Signal conditioning. 2.3.3...

Abstract. List of Symbols and Abbreviations. 1 Introduction. 1.1 The Growth of the Wireless Communication Market. 1.2 Evolution to CMOS RF. 1.3 CMOS, RF and ESD. 1.4 Outline of this Book. 2 Low-Noise Amplifiers in CMOS Wireless Receivers. 2.1...

Preface. Chapter 1: Introduction. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Motivations. 1.3 Outline. 1.4 References. Chapter 2: Systematic Generation of All Elementary Wide-Band Amplifiers. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 The Systematic Generation Methodology. 2.2.1 2VCCS graph...

Foreword. Contributing Authors. Contents. Symbols and Abbreviations. 1 Introduction. 1.1 Structured analysis, a key to successful design. 1.1.1 Electronics, a competitive market. 1.1.2 Analog design: A potential bottleneck. 1.1.3 Structured analog design...

Signal Processing Methods for Estimating Small-Signal Dynamic Properties from Measured Responses.- Enhancements to the Hilbert-Huang Transform for Application to Power System Oscillations.- Variants of Hilbert-Huang Transform with Applications to Power...

Power System Control: An Overview.- Real Power Compensation and Frequency Control.- Frequency Response Characteristics and Dynamic Performance.- PI-Based Frequency Control Design.- Frequency Regulation with Time Delays.- Multi-Objective Control-Based...

to oscillator jitter.- Classification of ring oscillators.- Phase-Locked Loop System Concepts.- Overview of Noise Analysis Fundamentals.- Measurement Techniques.- Analysis of jitter in ring oscillators.- Sources of jitter in ring oscillators.- Design...

Schottky Rectifiers.- Junction Barrier Controlled Schottky Rectifiers.- Trench Schottky Barrier Controlled Schottky Rectifiers.- Trench MOS Barrier Controlled Schottky Rectifiers.- P-i-N Rectifiers.- MPS Rectifiers.- SSD Rectifiers.- Synopsis.

Standard Low Power Methods.- Multi-Voltage Design.- Power Gating Overview.- Designing Power Gating.- Architectural Issues for Power Gating.- A Power Gating Example.- IP Design for Low Power.- Frequency and Voltage Scaling Design.- Examples of Voltage and...

The major problem facing new energy conversion and storage technologies remains device ef?ciency. Projects based on nanostructured materials can yield improved performance in devices involving electrochemical reactions and...

Analyzing And Driving Verification: An Executive's Guide.- The Verification Crisis.- Automated Metric-Driven Processes.- Roles in a Verification Project.- Overview of a Verification Project.- Verification Technologies.- Managing The Verification Process...

Origins of Weak Inversion (or Sub-threshold) Circuit Design.- Survey of Low-voltage Implementations.- Minimizing Energy Consumption.- EKV Model of the MOS Transistor.- Digital Logic.- Sub-threshold Memories.- Analog Circuits in Weak Inversion.- System...