Books
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Steel--Structural, Reinforcing, Pressure Vessel, Railway
This volume features specifications that fix the requirements for various types of structural steel, such as high-strength, low-alloy, rolled steel floor plates, and carbon-silicon steel plates. Some standards focus on plates and forgings used in boilers and pressure vessels, while others deal with steel for concrete reinforcement and prestressed concrete. This volume also includes specifications ...
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Steel--Bars, Forgings, Bearing, Chain, Tool
Specifications and test methods examine the properties of various steel bars intended for specific or general applications. Standards focus on carbon and alloy steel axles, wrought carbon steel wheels, steel tires, and carbon and alloy steel forgings for railway use.Volume 01.05 also provides standards for steel forgings and billets in assorted applications, such as pressure vessels, rotors, and ...
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Petroleum Products, Lubricants, and Fossil Fuels
This section includes Volumes 05.01 through 05.06:Volume 05.01 Petroleum Products and Lubricants (I): D 56-D 3348 Volume 05.02 Petroleum Products and Lubricants (II): D 3427--D 5763 Volume 05.03 Petroleum Products and Lubricants (III): D 5769--D 6729 Volume 05.04 Petroleum Products and Lubricants (IV): D ...
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Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Materials Properties and Performance
Fuel cells are an important enabling technology for the hydrogen economy and have the potential to revolutionize the way we power our world. However, many challenges must be overcome before fuel cell systems become a competitive alternative for consumers. Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Materials, Properties, and Performance examines the issues and recent progress on key materials for proton ...
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Geothermal Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment
Focusing on geothermal energy systems, this unique work in the recently developed CRC series, Energy and the Environment looks at the background, theory, power generation, applications, strengths and weaknesses, and practical techniques for implementing geothermal energy projects. Like the rest of the series, it stresses the links between acquisition and consumption and the environment. The ...
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Biomass to Renewable Energy Processes
This text introduces fundamental principles and practical applications of biomass-to-renewable energy processes. The biological processes discussed include anaerobic digestion of waste materials for biogas and hydrogen production, bioethanol and biobutanol production from starch and cellulose, and biodiesel production from plant oils. The thermal processes addressed include gasification and ...
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Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics
As a result of resurgent interest in renewable energy systems, the application of nanotechnology to photovoltaics has seen major advances in recent years. This book describes such efforts with an emphasis on practical demonstrations and discussions of the associated technical challenges. Each chapter offers a brief review of the nanostructure class considered, key applications beyond ...
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Next Generation Hydrogen Production
Given the pricing volatility of petroleum-based fuels, geopolitical instability influencing their supply and public awareness of their effect on the environment, investors are increasingly supporting clean energy sources. Hydrogen's minimal impact on the environment makes it an excellent potential source for mobile, distributed and even centralised power. Hydrogen production technology is a key ...
By Smithers
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Developments in Hydrogen Storage
Due to the huge costs associated with creating a wholly new hydrogen distribution system, the hydrogen industry is focusing its efforts on the costeffective storage of hydrogen. Various technical solutions are being researched and developed in order that hydrogen can be made available both at a large and small scale. This study will address those technologies being developed for storing hydrogen ...
By Smithers
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Solar Cell Technology and Applications
Solar cell technology will not realize its full potential until mass scale photovoltaic conversion for domestic, commercial, and industrial applications become economically feasible. This volume brings active researchers and potential manufacturers and investors up to date on the newest advances in the field, covering the latest in materials including low-cost high-efficiency elements and the ...
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Safer Complex Industrial Environments: A Human Factors Approach
Safety management must be proactive as well as reactive and in complex industrial systems preparedness requires a sophisticated understanding of human factors as they relate to the functional characteristics of socio-technology systems. With a particular focus on nuclear power plants in Japan, this book provides a state-of-the-art account on how to make industrial systems safer. It examines views ...
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Gaseous Fuels; Coal and Coke
Under the heading of gaseous fuels, this volume provides tables and practices for sampling and calculating thermophysical properties. In addition, several tests define methods for analyzing the properties of gaseous fuels. Other tests and practices evaluate properties of coal and coke. ...
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Gaseous Fuels; Coal and Coke
Under the heading of gaseous fuels, this volume provides tables and practices for sampling and calculating thermophysical properties. In addition, several tests define methods for analyzing the properties of gaseous fuels. Other tests and practices evaluate properties of coal and coke. ...
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Nuclear Energy (II), Solar, and Geothermal Energy
These two volumes feature over 300 nuclear-related standards.Volume 12.02 covers: Nuclear Technology and Applicationsstandards cover behavior and use of nuclear structural materials, dosimetry for radiation processing, food irradiation processing and packaging, nuclear radiation metrology, and decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and components. Solar ...
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Nuclear Energy (II), Solar, and Geothermal Energy
These two volumes feature over 300 nuclear-related standards.Volume 12.02 covers: Nuclear Technology and Applicationsstandards cover behavior and use of nuclear structural materials, dosimetry for radiation processing, food irradiation processing and packaging, nuclear radiation metrology, and decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and components. Solar ...
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Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment
Drawing on the authors’ extensive research and project implementation around the globe, Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment covers solar energy resources, thermal and photovoltaic systems, and the economics involved in using solar energy. It provides background theory on solar energy as well as useful technical information for implementing solar energy applications. The book ...
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Nuclear Energy (I)
These two volumes feature over 300 nuclear-related standards.Volume 12.01 focuses on materials for nuclear reactor applications and covers: Fuel and Fertile Materialsproperty requirements for fuel and other related subjects. Nuclear Grade Materialsstandard procedures for chemical, mass spectrometric, spectrochemical, nuclear, and radiochemical analysis of these ...
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Nuclear Energy (I)
These two volumes feature over 300 nuclear-related standards.Volume 12.01 focuses on materials for nuclear reactor applications and covers: Fuel and Fertile Materialsproperty requirements for fuel and other related subjects. Nuclear Grade Materialsstandard procedures for chemical, mass spectrometric, spectrochemical, nuclear, and radiochemical analysis of these ...
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Green Skies Thinking: Promoting The Development And Commercialisation Of Sustainable Bio-Jet Fuels
Our report recommends the wide-scale deployment of sustainable bio-jet fuels which would result in emission reductions worth £37.41 billion in the UK between 2020 and 2050, as well as making a significant contribution to meeting the UK’s 2050 emission reduction target. We also set out how the UK can become a world leader in this important suite of technologies. Green Skies Thinking recommends ...
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Knowledge Is Power: Securing Transparency In Britain`s Liberalised Energy Market
To help alleviate the crisis of confidence in Britain’s liberalised energy market, Knowledge is power sets out a number of options to improve transparency for consumers and the market. As we enter an age of increasingly expensive energy, better consumer information is essential if we are to secure public support to meet the challenges of security of supply and decarbonisation. Whilst better ...
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