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Electrical Energy Conversion and Transport: An Interactive Computer-Based Approach

by George G. Karady & Keith E. Holbert

Provides relevant material for engineering students and practicing engineers who want to learn the basics of electrical power transmission, generation, and usage

This Second Edition of Electrical Energy Conversion...

Reservoir Exploration and Appraisal

by Luiz Amado

Finding a new oil and gas discovery and evaluating its volume is a difficult and challenging task, and yet there is very little published on the topic. Luiz Amado delivers a one-of-a-kind introductory guide...

Heavy and Extra-heavy Oil Upgrading Technologies

by James G Speight

Unconventional reservoirs of oil and gas represent a huge additional global source of fossil fuels. However, there is much still to be done to improve techniques for their processing to make recovery and refining...

Enhanced Oil Recovery Field Case Studies

by James Sheng

Enhanced Oil Recovery Field Case Studies bridges the gap between theory and practice in a range of real-world EOR settings. Areas covered include steam and polymer flooding, use of foam, in situ combustion,...

Industrial Gas Flaring Practices

by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff

This volume tackles for the first time in decades the world's gas flaring practices, a difficult, hot-button issue of our time, whose consequences are only just beginning to be understood. The book examines...

Advanced Water Injection for Low Permeability Reservoirs: Theory and Practice

by Ran Xinquan

Concise and readable, Water Injection For Low Permeability Reservoirs provides operators with the proper workflow systems and engineering techniques for designing, planning and implementing  water injection...

Powering Biomedical Devices

by Edwar Romero

From exoskeletons to neural implants, biomedical devices are no less than life-changing. Compact and constant power sources are necessary to keep these devices running efficiently. Edwar Romero's Powering Biomedical...

Model-Based Engineering for Complex Electronic Systems: Techniques, Methods and Applications

by Peter Wilson & H. Alan Mantooth

• Complete guide to methods, techniques and technologies of model-based engineering design for developing robust electronic systems
• Gives a toolbox of methods and models to choose from for the task at hand supported...

Digital Signal and Image Processing Using MATLAB

by G?rard Blanchet & Maurice Charbit

This title provides the most important theoretical aspects of Image and Signal Processing (ISP) for both deterministic and random signals. The theory is supported by exercises and computer simulations relating...

Power Over Ethernet Interoperability Guide

by Sanjaya Maniktala

Complete coverage of transmitting electrical power and data over Ethernet cables

Power Over Ethernet Interoperability Guide explains how to safely transmit DC power over an existing data network cabling structure...

Heavy Oil Production Processes

by James G Speight

As conventional-oil resources are depleted worldwide, vast heavy oil reserves available in various parts of the world become increasingly important as a secure future energy source. Brief but readable, Heavy...

Design of Electrical Services for Buildings

by Barrie Rigby

Electrical services are a vital component in any building, so it is necessary for construction professionals to understand the basic principle of services design. Design of Electrical Services for Buildings...

Power Electronic Converters: PWM Strategies and Current Control Techniques

by Eric Monmasson

A voltage converter changes the voltage of an electrical power source and is usually combined with other components to create a power supply. This title is devoted to the control of static converters, which...

Automotive Electricity: Electric Drive

by Joseph Beretta

Since the beginning of the century, electrical goods have invaded our everyday lives. Now, electric power is coming to be seen as a solution to the pollution caused by cars. While this transition has remained...

Solar Energy at Urban Scale

by Benoit Beckers

Increasing urbanization throughout the world, the depletion of fossil fuels and concerns about global warming have transformed the city into a physical problem of prime importance. This book proposes a multi-disciplinary...

Electric Power Systems

by Michel Crappe

The creation of a European liberalized electricity internal market and EU commitments for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (Kyoto Protocol) and for the use of renewable energy generation technologies...

Power Electronics Semiconductor Devices

by Robert Perret

This book relates the recent developments in several key electrical engineering R&D labs, concentrating on power electronics switches and their use. The first sections deal with key power electronics technologies,...

Protection of Electrical Networks

by Christophe Prévé

This book, designed for engineers, technicians, designers and operators working with electrical networks, contains theoretical and practical information on the design and set-up of protection systems.

Protection...

Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Measurement

by Dominique Placko

This title presents the general principles of instrumentation processes. It explains the theoretical analysis of physical phenomena used by standard sensors and transducers to transform a physical value into...

Materials for High-Temperature Fuel Cells

by San Ping Jiang, Yushan Yan & Max Lu

There are a large number of books available on fuel cells; however, the majority are on specific types of fuel cells such as solid oxide fuel cells, proton exchange membrane fuel cells, or on specific technical...