Based on author Ion Boldea''s 40 years of experience and the latest research, Linear Electric Machines, Drives, and Maglevs Handbook provides a practical and comprehensive resource on the steady improvement in this field. The book presents in-depth reviews of basic concepts and detailed explorations of complex subjects, including classifications and practical topologies, with sample results based on an up-to-date survey of the field. Packed with case studies, this state-of-the-art handbook covers topics such as modeling, steady state, and transients as well as control, design, and testing of linear machines and drives. It includes discussion of types and applications-from small compressors for refrigerators to MAGLEV transportation-of linear electric machines. Additional topics include low and high speed linear induction or synchronous motors, with and without PMs, with progressive or oscillatory linear motion, from topologies through modeling, design, dynamics, and control. With a breadth and depth of coverage not found in currently available references, this book includes formulas and methods that make it an authoritative and comprehensive resource for use in R&D and testing of innovative solutions to new industrial challenges in linear electric motion/energy automatic control.
Project management for oil and gas projects comes with a unique set of challenges that include the management of science, technology, and engineering aspects. Underlining the specific issues involved in projects in this field, Project Management for the Oil and Gas Industry: A World System Approach presents step-by-step application of project management techniques. Using the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) framework from the Project Management Institute (PMI) as the platform, the book provides an integrated approach that covers the concepts, tools, and techniques for managing oil and gas projects.The authors discuss specialized tools such as plan, do, check, act (PDCA); define, measure, analyze, improve, control (DMAIC); suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers (SIPOC); design, evaluate, justify, integrate (DEJI); quality function deployment (QFD); affinity diagrams; flowcharts; Pareto charts; and histograms. They also discuss the major activities in oil and gas risk assessment, such as feasibility studies, design, transportation, utility, survey works, construction, permanent structure works, mechanical and electrical installations, and maintenance.Strongly advocating a world systems approach to managing oil and gas projects and programs, the book covers quantitative and qualitative techniques. It addresses technical and managerial aspects of projects and illustrates the concepts with case examples of applications of project management tools and techniques to real-life project scenarios that can serve as lessons learned for best practices. An in-depth examination of project management for oil and gas projects, the book is a handbook for professionals in the field, a guidebook for technical consultants, and a resource for students.
Designed for researchers and graduate students working on systems with a small parameter, this book helps readers get up to date on the knowledge required to start research in this area. It provides a systematic study on the boundedness and stability of weakly connected nonlinear systems, covering theory and applications previously unavailable in book form. The text contains many essential results needed for carrying out research on nonlinear systems of weakly connected equations, including recently developed approaches based on the direct Lyapunov method and the comparison technique.
This step-by-step guide emphasizes applying control fundamentals to practical industry systems such as the ALSTOM gasifier system in power stations and underwater robotic vehicles in the marine industry. It also shows how powerful software such as MATLAB® and Simulink® can aid in control systems design. The text begins with the basic principles of applied control engineering and then covers the dynamic modeling, control structure design, controller design, implementation, and testing of control systems. It prepares you to deal more confidently with practical control problems in industry.
Designed as a tutorial, this book explains how to write programs in the X86 language, the C programming language, and the X86 assembly language modules embedded in a C program. It presents the general computer architecture of the X86 microprocessor, individual addressing modes, stack operations, procedures, arrays, macros, and input/output operations. The book also details the most commonly used X86 assembly language instructions. A wealth of program design examples¿including the complete assembly language code and actual outputs¿help you grasp the concepts more easily.
Drawing on the author¿s 30 years of experience at General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and 15 years of teaching, this text covers the entire scope of electrical power and power electronic systems in one volume. Throughout, its focus is on topics that are directly relevant in the daily work of power engineers. The first part looks at how electrical power is generated, distributed, and utilized. The second part delves into power electronics switches, converters, motor drives, quality-of-power issues, and power converter cooling.
A comprehensive introduction to meshless methods, this book gives complete mathematical formulations for the most important and classical methods, as well as several recently developed by the authors. It also offers a rigorous mathematical treatment of their numerical properties¿including consistency, convergence, stability, and adaptivity¿to help you choose the method that is best for your needs. The book contains several examples of engineering applications, including the nonlinear fluid-structure analysis of near-bed submarine pipelines and the two-dimensional multiphysics simulation of pH-sensitive hydrogels.
This book presents a systematic approach to understanding and applying the principles of hydrology and hydroclimatology, examining the interactions among different components of the water cycle. It takes a fresh look at the fundamentals and challenges in hydrologic and hydroclimatic systems as well as climate change. The author describes the application of nontraditional data sets and new investigation techniques to water-related problems. He also examines long lead forecasting and simulation, time series analysis, and risk and uncertainty in hydrologic design.
Renewable energy systems require a large number of converters and inverters. A concise, useful reference for engineering students and professionals, this book describes advanced DC/AC inverters and their applications in wind turbine and solar panel energy systems. It introduces more than 100 topologies of advanced PWM and multilevel inverters originally developed by the authors, including more than 50 new circuits. The authors also explain how to find the best switching angles to obtain the lowest total harmonic distortion (THD) for multilevel inverters.
Examining methods in data filtering, trend shift detection, and fault isolation, this book provides a variety of new research tools for use in the condition monitoring of jet engines. Each method is demonstrated through numerical simulations that can be easily done using worksheets such as Excel® or through MATLAB®. The signal processing algorithms presented will be useful to engineers, scientists, and researchers working on fault diagnosis of gas turbine engines. The algorithms can also be used for condition and health monitoring problems in general.
Triggered by communication network operators experiencing energy cost as a significant factor in profit calculations, researchers have started to investigate approaches for power consumption reduction. Standards bodies are already developing standards for energy-efficient protocols. However, research in green communications is still at an early stage and the space of potential solutions is far from being explored. This book provides a comprehensive discussion of academic research and relevant applications in green communications. It aims to increase understanding of application issues and further the development of strategies and techniques.
In the last decade, wireless or wired sensor networks have attracted much attention. However, most designs target general sensor network issues including protocol stack (routing, MAC, etc.) and security issues. This book focuses on the close integration of sensing, networking, and smart signal processing via machine learning. Based on their world-class research, the authors present the fundamentals of intelligent sensor networks. They cover sensing and sampling, distributed signal processing, and intelligent signal learning. In addition, they present cutting-edge research results from leading experts.
In the past two decades, the field of nanoporous materials has undergone accelerated developments. As these materials possess high specific surface areas, well-defined pore sizes, and functional sites, they show a great diversity of applications such as molecular adsorption/storage and separation, sensing, catalysis, energy storage/conversion, drug delivery, and more. This book surveys the key developments in the synthesis of nanoporous materials in a broad range from soft porous materials¿such as porous organic and metal-organic frameworks¿to hard porous materials, such as porous metals and metal oxides, and the important advances in their applications to date.
The first edition of this volume, entitled Food and Nutrients in Disease Management was praised for its practical, easy-to-use clinical applications presented by highly credentialed experts. This second edition reviews several new disorders as well as emerging themes uncovered by new research, including the body¿s increased demand for certain nutrients when faced with toxic exposures, food safety issues in patients with allergies and pre-existing medical conditions, and the effects of variables such as ultraviolet light, radiation, jetlag, and shift-work on nutritional needs. The book¿s chapters each conclude with a summary of clinical recommendations for the specific condition discussed.
Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its future in a more sustainable way. It offers valuable insights to help promote ecological balance between nature and the built environment in the American Southwest¿and in other ecologically fragile regions around the world.
Based on the tenets of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), the updated edition of this popular reference blends new design elements with the latest best-practice security measures. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and line drawings, the text emphasizes consideration of security aspects throughout the design process, including how to take stock of open spaces, avoid blind corners, and use landscaping to create secure spaces. The author updates these classic principles to include the latest design capabilities given new security and building construction technologies. This edition includes new chapters on security and sustainability.
This reference provides in-depth fundamentals, recent technical achievements, challenges, and emerging trends in mobile and wireless video communications. It presents a collection of tutorials, surveys, and original contributions, providing the research community and industry with a reference for further development of research and applications in mobile and wireless video communication systems. The book addresses future directions, including Quality-of-Experience in wireless video communications, video communications over future networks, distributed multimedia networking, and green multimedia networking.
This comprehensive volume demonstrates how the unique physicochemical properties of nanoparticles lead to novel strategies for cancer treatment and detection. After an introduction to the first principles of radiation physics and radiation biology, the book discusses fabrication of nanoparticles, safety of nanoparticles, and the quantification of nanoparticle accumulation within tissues. Successive chapters highlight the computational and experimental techniques that underlie the use of nanoparticles for imaging and treating tumors. The book concludes with regulatory issues related to human use and a summary of envisioned clinical translation.
Recent years have seen the introduction and rapid development of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial electrical stimulation (tES). This book reviews these recent advances made in the understanding of brain stimulation techniques. The text presents the wide range of possible brain stimulation applications in combination with neuroimaging and discusses what new information can be gained from using this technique on the dynamics of brain functions, hierarchical organization, and effective connectivity. With this timely resource, the authors aim to make a substantial impact on many areas of clinical and basic neuroscience.
An overview of electrochemical supercapacitators (ES), this book summarizes the fundamental sciences involved in ES operation and the technological developments in materials science and engineering for materials fabrication.
An examination of pollution caused by crude oils and petroleum products derived from them, this book covers how oil spills are measured and detected, the properties of the oil, and oil¿s long-term fate in the environment. Reflecting the rapid progress in cleanup technology since the previous edition, it covers the latest techniques as well as recent spills, including the Gulf of Mexico. Written for the general public as well as those directly involved with spill cleanup, this edition provides broad, up-to-date knowledge of the cleanup and control of oil spills.
This book presents state-of-the-art developments of orthopedic biomechanics across tissues in the musculoskeletal system at all size scales and with direct relevance to engineering and clinical applications. Discussing the relationship between mechanical loading, function, and biological performance, it first reviews basic structure-function relationships for most major orthopaedic tissue types followed by the most relevant structures of the body. It then addresses multiscale modeling and biologic considerations. It concludes with a look at applications of biomechanics, focusing on recent advances in theory, technology, and applied engineering approaches.
A huge amount of innovation surrounds PCR as a molecular technique, as researchers continually think of new ways to tweak, adapt, and re-formulate concepts and applications. This volume provides a critical reference point for anyone wishing to use this technology. Topics include the purification and handling of PCR templates, the effect of the manufacture and purification of the oligonucleotide on PCR behavior, optimum buffer composition, probe options, and the design and optimization of qPCR assays. The book also explores the development and refinement of instrumentation and effective controls to protect against uncertainties due to reaction variability.
This self-contained book gives a detailed treatment of optimal control theory that enables readers to formulate and solve optimal control problems. With a strong emphasis on problem solving, it provides all the necessary mathematical analyses and derivations of important results, including multiplier theorems and Pontryagin¿s principle. The text presents various examples and basic concepts of optimal control and describes important numerical methods and computational algorithms for solving a wide range of optimal control problems, including periodic processes.
With an abundance of practical features and new information, this expanded and completely reorganized third edition helps readers address corrosion problems and create the most corrosion-resistant systems possible. Reflecting the many changes in the field since the publication of the second edition, the book includes new chapters on corrosion by biological sources as well as corrosion of architectural materials. This edition also contains more questions and examples, additional material on thermal and environmental barrier coatings, an expanded chapter on composites, and new literature sources.
The Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals is a series that provides fundamental and advanced material with a clinical approach to clinicians and students. A special effort was made to include information needed for the certification exams in ophthalmic and optometric assisting, as well as for surgical assistants, opticians, plus low vision, and contact lens examiners. This book contains basic guidelines and typical scenarios that the ophthalmic surgical assistant needs to know. The text begins with the operative patient, including preoperative testing and consents, and travels through the operating room experience. Topics include gowning and gloving, preparing trays and tables, and sterilization techniques. Detailed descriptions of common operative procedures such as plastics, cataract, corneal, and retinal procedures are also included. Operative notes are written on a minute-by-minute basis so the reader can become familiar with the instruments and other implements, and the order in which they are used. This text will help prepare the ophthalmic assistant for any setting, whether it be hospital or office based. A Brandon/Hill Selection!
Focusing on the field of metal ion toxicity in Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR), this title covers the basic and essential applications of QSAR methods in metal ions. It provides an introduction to studying the biological activity and toxicity of metal ions as they impact health and the environment.
Describes group sequential stopping rules designed to reduce average study length and control Type I and Type II error probabilities. This book presents one-sided and two-sided tests, introduces several families of group sequential tests, and explains how to choose the most appropriate test and interim analysis schedule.
Invited contributions from well-established scholars and emerging stars in law and politics provide instructors and students with a compact, essential reader of timely essays on the key issues facing international law today.
A probing examination of how the Islamic tradition has been exploited for political ends by regimes and institutions seeking to legitimize policies inimical to human rights.
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