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  • Thermally Coupled Distillation Columns

    Sustainable and Bio-applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez + 2 more
    • English
    Thermally Coupled Distillation Columns: Sustainable and Bio-applications offers a comprehensive examination of thermal couplings' role in enhancing energy efficiency and sustainability in distillation processes. The book provides a detailed theoretical overview, covering foundations, energy problems in distillation, and practical implementations, providing insights into optimizing distillation columns. It also explores the motivation, physical implications, and operational benefits of thermal couplings alongside diverse case studies that demonstrate their efficacy across industries. Additionally, the book discusses innovations such as artificial intelligence applications and Industry 4.0 strategies for process optimization.It concludes with an exploration of challenges, opportunities, and future directions in improving complex divided wall column arrangements. This book will serve as an excellent resource for professionals in chemical engineering, environmental science, and sustainability, offering actionable strategies to drive efficiency and sustainability in distillation processes, contributing to broader sustainability objectives in the industrial sector.
  • Advances in Clinical Radiology, 2025

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7-1
    • Frank H. Miller
    • English
    Advances in Clinical Radiology reviews the year’s most important findings and updates within the field in order to provide radiologists with the current clinical information they need to improve patient outcomes. A distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. Frank H. Miller, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites preeminent specialists to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews in radiology inform and enhance clinical practice by bringing concepts to a clinical level and exploring their everyday impact on patient care.
  • Cellular and Molecular Immunology

    • 11th Edition
    • Abul K. Abbas + 3 more
    • English
    **Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Immunology**Well-wri... readable, and superbly illustrated, Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Eleventh Edition, continues the tradition of excellence established through multiple editions of this bestselling text. Offering an unparalleled introduction to this complex field, it retains a practical, clinical focus while updating and revising all content to ensure clarity and comprehension, bringing readers fully up to date with new and emerging information in this challenging area. It's an ideal resource for medical, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as a trusted reference for physicians and scientists.
  • Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology Series: Photodynamic Therapy

    • 3rd Edition
    • Macrene Alexiades
    • English
    Succinctly written and lavishly illustrated, Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology: Photodynamic Therapy, 3rd Edition, presents up-to-the-minute, practical guidance on the photodynamic therapy (PDT) techniques that are shaping today's practice. It focuses on procedural how-to's and offers step-by-step advice on proper techniques, pitfalls, and tricks of the trade―so you can refine and hone your skills and expand your surgical repertoire. In one concise, accessible volume, you’ll find the information you need to get the best results when performing PDT for cutaneous infections and other skin disorders, skin cancers and precancerous lesions, and skin rejuvenation, especially in aging and sun-damaged skin.
  • Optimization Planning and Operation of Electric Vehicle Charging Facilities

    A Perspective From China
    • 1st Edition
    • Hengjie Li + 4 more
    • English
    Optimization Planning and Operation of Electric Vehicle Charging Facilities: A Perspective from China provides an in-depth understanding of core theories and advanced technologies in the field. Summarizing the latest research, the book introduces achievements in optimizing the planning and operation of electric vehicle charging facilities. It is dedicated to the scientific planning and efficient operation of charging stations, supporting the sustainable growth of the electric vehicle industry. The book also delves into frontier issues such as the interaction between electric vehicles and the power grid, and participation modes in the electricity market.It highlights the application of existing technologies and includes findings from major projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, and the State Grid Corporation of China.
  • Resilient, Sustainable and Smart Ballasted Railway Track

    • 1st Edition
    • Yunlong Guo + 1 more
    • English
    Resilient, Sustainable and Smart Ballasted Railway Track explores the optimization of railway ballast tracks to achieve resilience, sustainability, and intelligence in railway infrastructure. It summarizes and examines new technologies and developments that address unresolved rapid defects in track components, such as rail damage, track stability, ballast flight, and ballast fouling. This book discusses the application of innovative materials derived from waste and recycled railway components, including derived aggregates, recycled ballast, Neoballast, and polyurethane (often referred to as ballast glue). This book examines state-of-the-art structural health monitoring techniques, such as smart sleepers, interferometric synthetic aperture radar, ground-penetrating radar, and inspection robots.
  • Physics-Aware Machine Learning for Integrated Energy Systems Management

    • 1st Edition
    • Mohammadreza Daneshvar + 3 more
    • English
    Physics-Aware Machine Learning for Integrated Energy Systems Management, a new release in the Advances in Intelligent Energy Systems series, guides the reader through this state-of-the-art approach to computational methods, from data input and training to application opportunities in integrated energy systems. The book begins by establishing the principles, design, and needs of integrated energy systems in the modern sustainable grid before moving into assessing aspects such as sustainability, energy storage, and physical-economic models. Detailed, step-by-step procedures for utilizing a variety of physics-aware machine learning models are provided, including reinforcement learning, feature learning, and neural networks.Supporting students, researchers, and industry engineers to make renewable-integrated grids a reality, this book is a holistic introduction to an exciting new approach in energy systems management.
  • Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

    Concepts, Methods, and Challenges
    • 1st Edition
    • Fangming Jiang + 3 more
    • English
    Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Concept, Methods, and Challenges provides a concise guide to the modeling of PEM fuel cells. The book offers detailed methodologies, codes, and algorithms on every aspect of PEM fuel cells, from cold start to degradation. Chapters cover the development, basic principles, and components of PEM fuel cells, discuss the transport phenomena and mathematical formulation of macro-scale PEM fuel cell models, single cell and stack-level models, and model validation, and explain multi-phase transport modeling in PEM fuel cells, including different multiphase models like flow in gas flow channels, porous electrodes, and multi-phase model validation.The book also addresses multiphase mixture formulation, finite-volume, direct numerical simulation, Lattice Boltzmann, and pore network models, along with a section on modeling the cold start process of PEM fuel cells, including the non-isothermal transient cold start model, reduced-dimensional transient model, and the impact of different parameters on the cold start performance. Final sections cover the degradation and lifetime modeling of PEM fuel cells, including stress-induced degradation mechanisms, physics-based and data-driven modeling methods, and coupled performance-degradat... models. Finally, recent progress on multi-scale and multi-dimensional modeling of PEM fuel cells, including micro and nano-scale modeling and multi-scale coupled models, is covered.
  • Photovoltaic Module Cooling Techniques

    Types, Applications, Assessment Methods, and Current and Future Challenges
    • 1st Edition
    • Sakhr M. Sultan + 1 more
    • English
    Photovoltaic Module Cooling Techniques: Types, Applications, Assessment Methods, and Current and Future Challenges offers an up-to-date, central resource covering the latest photovoltaic module cooling techniques and their application, performance assessment methods, and the current and future challenges. The book begins by introducing photovoltaic technology before reviewing existing types and applications of PV cooling techniques and their effects on performance. This book is of interest to all those working on photovoltaics performance, efficiency, and development, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, manufacturers, designers, and policymakers.Subsequ... chapters examine, in detail, various methods and approaches, including temperature dependent PV efficiency and power difference factors, PV cooling techniques, production cost effectiveness, the use of power ratio for evaluating performance of PV coolers when different PV reference power values are used, lifespan effectiveness factor and critical mass flow rate for evaluating performance of cooling techniques, and the definition and use of energy per weight, volume and area factors for assessing performance. This book is of interest to all those working on photovoltaics performance, efficiency, and development, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, manufacturers, designers, and policymakers.
  • Buck's 2026 ICD-10-PCS

    • 1st Edition
    • Elsevier
    • English
    Choose the book designed by coders for coders! Buck's 2026 ICD-10-PCS includes all the ICD-10-PCS codes you need to ensure the most accurate billing and reimbursement for inpatient medical procedures. As coders need extensive knowledge to code with ICD-10-PCS — and to choose from the thousands of possible codes — this edition provides colorful anatomy plates (including Netter’s Anatomy illustrations) and tables organized to simplify the process of choosing and building procedure codes. It comes with durable spiral binding, and includes a companion website with the latest coding updates.