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Petroleum Production Engineering, 2nd Edition
Author Xuehao Tan , Xinghui Liu , Boyun Guo
Petroleum Production Engineering, Second Edition, updates both the new and veteran engineer on how to employ day-to-day production fundamentals to solve real-world challenges with modern technology. Enhanced to include equations and references with today’s more com....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field Chemicals and Fluids
Author Johannes Fink
Oilfield chemical demand has risen 4.3% annually through 2011. Gains are driven by a rise in rig counts, more use of well stimulation and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods, and more deepwater drilling and production. Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field C....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Persuasion & Influence For Dummies®
Author Elizabeth Kuhnke
Many people want to gain trust or support in business and throughout life, but the true skill is doing so in a charming fashion! Whether you're convincing the boss about your much-deserved promotion or a busy restaurateur to offer a better table, the power of persu....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Author Frano Barbir
Demand for fuel cell technology is growing rapidly. Fuel cells are being commercialized to provide power to buildings like hospitals and schools, to replace batteries in portable electronic devices, and as replacements for internal combustion engines in vehicles. PE....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Author Abu Ala , Uri Savir
Uri Savir has an ambitious, indispensable goal: to bring peacemaking into the 21st century. “Little in today's world,” writes Savir, “is more progressive than modern warfare. Yet little is more archaic than peacemaking.” We remain trapped in a centuries-old mi....
Release Date 2008/09 -
Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World’s Water Problems
Author Samyuktha Varma , Colin Chartres
From cities to biofuels, competition for water is accelerating. Climate change threatens to intensify the onset and severity of the water crisis in several regions of the developing world: this is already happening throughout much of Asia, the Mediterranean, southwe....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author Ian Hickman
Oscilloscopes are essential tools for checking circuit operation and diagnosing faults, and an enormous range of models are available. But which is the right one for a particular application? Which features are essential and which not so important? Ian Hickman has ....
Release Date 2000/11 -
Author Rudolf F. Graf
This series of circuits provides designers with a quick source for oscillator circuits. Why waste time paging through huge encyclopedias when you can choose the topic you need and select any of the specialized circuits sorted by application? This book in the ....
Release Date 1996/12 -
Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews
Author Axel Stähler , Anna-Dorothea Ludewig , Ulrike Brunotte
Originating in the collaboration of the international Research Network “Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism” (RENGOO), this collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation ....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Organizational Psychology of Mergers and Acquisitions
Author Camelia Oancea , Caroline Kamau
Organizational Psychology of Mergers and Acquisitions provides a comprehensive perspective that helps you understand, empathise and protect the wellbeing of employees who experience mergers and acquisitions. This book gives a state-of-the-art review that crosses different subjects within psychology ....
Release Date 2020/06 -
Author Qiquan Qiao
Current energy consumption mainly depends on fossil fuels that are limited and can cause environmental issues such as greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. These factors have stimulated the search for alternate, clean, and renewable energy sources. Solar cell....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Optofluidics, Sensors and Actuators in Microstructured Optical Fibers
Author Stefano Selleri , Stavros Pissadakis
Combining the positive characteristics of microfluidics and optics, microstructured optical fibres (MOFs) have revolutionized the field of optoelectronics. Tailored guiding, diffractive structures and photonic band-gap effects are used to produce fibres with highly ....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Opto-mechanical Fiber Optic Sensors
Author Hamid Alemohammad
Opto-mechanical Fiber Optic Sensors: Research, Technology, and Applications in Mechanical Sensing offers comprehensive coverage of the theoretical aspects of fiber optic sensors (FOS), along with current and emerging applications in the mechanical, petroleum, biome....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Optimization for Engineering Problems
Author J. Paulo Davim , Kaushik Kumar
Optimization is central to any problem involving decision-making in engineering. Optimization theory and methods deal with selecting the best option regarding the given objective function or performance index. New algorithmic and theoretical techniques have been de....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Optical Materials and Applications
Author Moriaki Wakaki
The definition of optical material has expanded in recent years, largely because of IT advances that have led to rapid growth in optoelectronics applications. Helping to explain this evolution, Optical Materials and Applications presents contributions from leading e....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy
Author David J. Brady
An essential reference for optical sensor system designThis is the first text to present an integrated view of the optical and mathematical analysis tools necessary to understand computational optical system design. It presents the foundations of computational optic....
Release Date 2009/04 -
Operation and Control of Renewable Energy Systems
Author Mukhtar Ahmad
A comprehensive reference to renewable energy technologies with a focus on power generation and integration into power systems This book addresses the generation of energy (primarily electrical) through various renewable sources. It discusses solar and wind power—t....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Author Govind V. Kaigala , Emmanuel Delamarche
Summarizing the latest trends and the current state of this research field, this up-to-date book discusses in detail techniques to perform localized alterations on surfaces with great flexibility, including microfluidic probes, multifunctional nanopipet....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Oil Spill Science and Technology, 2nd Edition
Author Mervin Fingas
Oil Spill Science and Technology, Second Edition, delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properties and behaviors, to remote sensing through the management side of contingency planning and communicating oil spill ....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author Li Ran , Chong Ng
Offshore Wind Farms: Technologies, Design and Operation provides the latest information on offshore wind energy, one of Europe’s most promising and quickly maturing industries, and a potentially huge untapped renewable energy source which could contribute signific....
Release Date 2016/03 -
OFDM for Optical Communications
Author Ivan Djordjevic , William Shieh
The first book on optical OFDM by the leading pioneers in the fieldThe only book to cover error correction codes for optical OFDMGives applications of OFDM to free-space communications, optical access networks, and metro and log haul transports show optical OFDM can....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Author Robin Kavanagh , Maryanne Baudo
Rest Easy with Test Easy!You're excited about your decision to pursue a career in nursing. And regardless of what type of nurse you plan to become--RN, LPN or LVN, CNS, nurse practitioner, or other specialization--you know that to get into the nursing program of y....
Release Date 2019/03 -
Numerical Simulation, An Art of Prediction, Volume 2
Author Jean-François Sigrist
Numerical simulation is a technique of major importance in various technical and scientific fields. Whilst engineering curricula now include training courses dedicated to it, numerical simulation is still not well-known in some economic sectors, and even less so among the....
Release Date 2020/02 -
Numerical Simulation, An Art of Prediction 1
Author Jean-François Sigrist
Numerical simulation is a technique of major importance in various technical and scientific fields. Used to understand diverse physical phenomena or to design everyday objects, it plays a major role in innovation in the industrial sector. Whilst engineering curricul....
Release Date 2020/04 -
Numerical Methods with VBA Programming
Author Hiestand
Numerical Methods with VBA Programming provides a unique and unified treatment of numerical methods and VBA computer programming, topics that naturally support one another within the study of engineering and science. This engaging text incorporates real-world scenar....
Release Date 2010/10 -
Author Das Siva Ramakrishna
A text book designed exclusively for undergraduate students, Numerical Analysis presents the theoretical and numerical derivations amply supported by rich pedagogy for practice. With exhaustive theory to reinforce practical computations, the book delves into the co....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Numerical Analysis in Electromagnetics: The TLM Method
Author Pierre Saguet
The aim of this book is to give a broad overview of the TLM (Transmission Line Matrix) method, which is one of the "time-domain numerical methods". These methods are reputed for their significant reliance on computer resources. However, they have the advantage of be....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Nuclear Power Plant Safety and Mechanical Integrity
Author Ramiz Gilada , George Antaki
One of the most critical requirements for safe and reliable nuclear power plant operations is the availability of competent maintenance personnel. However, just as the nuclear power industry is experiencing a renaissance, it is also experiencing an exodus of s....
Release Date 2014/11