Books by Keyword: Thermodynamic

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Conference on “Sustainable Energy Resources, Materials and Technologies" (ISERMAT 2015), January 8-9, 2015, Chennai, India.
The 181 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Renewable Energy, Environment and Heat Transfer;
Chapter 2: Modeling and Simulation;
Chapter 3: Materials Properties Research and Processing;
Chapter 4: Composite Materials Characterization;
Chapter 5: Engines and Alternative Fuels;
Chapter 6: Electrical Energy Systems and Devices;
Chapter 7: Measurements and Testing

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This volume summarizes the most important results of the ongoing research in the Center of Excellence on Applied Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Miskolc, Hungary. The primary goal of the research activities is the extension of the knowledge available for materials exhibiting special properties.

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The solar updraft tower (also: Solar Chimney) power technology (SUTPT) is simple, robust, sustainable, and a long lasting technology, producing electric power from solar radiation with low maintenance cost and no cooling water. A SUTPT plant will provide electric power over many decades. The feasibility of the SUTPT has been demonstrated successfully by the famous Manzanares Prototype and more recently by a number of project studies. The main goal of the special collection was to gather the current knowledge in thermodynamics, fluid-mechanics, structural engineering, as well as comparison of hybrid or alternative energy concepts. The associated discussions will facilitate exchanges of new ideas and provide a guide for future research directions in the SUTPT area.

Description: These are the proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials (CEAM 2012). The conference provided a forum for the discussion of new developments, recent progress and innovations in chemical engineering and advanced materials, and addressed all aspects of these fields. Emphasis was placed on current and future challenges in research and development for both academia and industry; especially long-term fundamental research aimed at discovering novel phenomena, processes and tools.

Description: The present 168 peer-reviewed papers are grouped into 8 chapters: Metallurgical Physical Chemistry, Ferrous Metallurgy, Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals, Metallurgical Materials and Environmental Engineering, Mineral Processing, Mining Engineering, Mining Environmental Engineering, Mine Surveying and Safety Engineering. The contents will be of great interest to anyone working in these fields.

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The study of nanomaterials is an active area of 21st-century research in physics, chemistry and materials engineering as well as biomedical engineering. Nanomaterials which are defined as substances that are in the form of spherical dot, rod, thin plate or voids of any irregular shape, but smaller than 100nm, find wide application in materials science and technology due to their very distinctive properties as compared with their bulk counterpart.

Description: This periodical edition includes peer-reviewed scientific and engineering papers on all aspects of research in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnologies and wide practical application of the achieved results.

Description: The oxidation of metals is, by definition, a reaction between a gas and a solid which usually produces a solid reaction product. At first glance, this would therefore seem to be a very simple process but, in fact, it is considerably more complex. One would like to think that the reaction product, i.e., the scale that forms on the metal, acts as a physical barrier between the reactants, and that the reaction should thus cease once the barrier is established. We know that this is unfortunately not the case, because transport of matter through the scale allows the reaction to continue. We also know that, because of density-differences between the metal and its oxide, the scale may not be sufficiently complete in coverage or may not adhere to the substrate because of cracking, spalling and detachment (wrinkling). In some extreme cases, the scale may even be a liquid which simply drips from the surface, or it may volatilize at operational temperatures. The reaction between a gas and a metal is truly very complicated.

Description: The increasing interest in the use of electrical techniques for the characterisation of material properties indicates the need for a book in which the most important issues in this area are addressed. Consequently, the aim of this volume is to provide a comprehensive description of the electrical techniques used in studies of the semiconducting properties of materials based upon ionic solids, principally metal oxides. A second aim is to present an updated review of the most important data on the defect-related properties of ionic solids, such as the transport of charge or matter, and their electrochemistry in an accessible form.