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Analytical Heat Transfer by Je-chin Han Publisher Comments Developed from the author 's 30 years of teaching a graduate-level intermediate heat transfer course, Analytical Heat Transfer explains how to analyze and solve conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer problems. Suitable for entry-level... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $119.95 New - Hardcover
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Nuclear Roulette: The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth by Gar Smith Publisher Comments Nuclear power is not clean, cheap, or safe. With Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the nuclear industry's record of catastrophic failures now averages one major disaster every decade. After three US-designed plants exploded in Japan, many... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Electric Power Systems by Brian Weedy Publisher Comments The definitive textbook for Power Systems students, providing a grounding in essential power system theory while also focusing on practical power engineering applications. Electric Power Systems has been an essential book in power systems engineering for... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $78.50 New - Hardcover
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ACS Symposium #1090: Production and Purification of Ultraclean Transportation Fuels by Yun Hang Hu Publisher Comments As a result of the burning of fossil fuels, toxic air pollution levels are above health-based standards in many areas. The production and utilization of ultraclean fuels for transportation has been considered as the most effective approach to solve the... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $169.75 New - Hardcover
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Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation by Wei-yin Chen Publisher Comments There is a mounting consensus that human behavior is changing the global climate and its consequence could be catastrophic. Reducing the 24 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions from stationary and mobile sources is a gigantic task involving... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $1583.95 New - Hardcover
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Predictive Control of Power Converters and Electrical Drives (Wiley - IEEE) by Jose Rodriguez Perez Publisher Comments The application Model Predictive Control (MPC) controls electrical energy with the use of power converters and offers a highly flexible alternative to the use of modulators and linear controllers. This new approach takes into account the discrete and... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $124.50 New - Hardcover
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Exergy: Production, Cost and Renewability (Green Energy and Technology) by Silvio De Oliveira Junior Publisher Comments Bridging the gap between concepts derived from Second Law of Thermodynamics and their application to Engineering practice, the property exergy and the exergy balance can be a tool for analyzing and improving the performance of energy conversion processes.... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $190.25 New - Hardcover
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International Series in Operations Research & Management Science #77: Uncertainty in the Electric Power Industry: Methods and Models for Decision Support by Christoph Weber Publisher Comments Around the world, liberalization and privatization in the electricity industry have lead to increased competition among utilities. At the same time, utilities are now exposed more than ever to risk and uncertainties, which they cannot pass on to their... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $170.50 New - Trade Paper
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Comprehensive Renewable Energy by Ali Sayigh Publisher Comments Comprehensive Renewable Energy is the only multi-volume reference work of its type at a time when renewable energy sources are seen increasingly as realistic alternatives to fossil fuels. As the majority of information published for the target audience... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $2634.95 New - Hardcover
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Solar Energy Conversion: Dynamics of Interfacial Electron and Excitation Transfer by Piotr Piotrowiak Publisher Comments The importance of developing new, clean and renewable sources of energy will continue to grow in the foreseeable future and so will the need for the education of researchers in this field of science. The interest and challenges of the field continue to... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $253.95 New - Hardcover
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Organic, Inorganic and Hybrid Solar Cells: Principles and Practice by Ching-fuh Lin Publisher Comments Many books discuss inorganic semiconductor solar cells and some books for organic solar cells, but very few books deal with the composite solar cells that use both organic materials and inorganic semiconductors. The authors view organic and inorganic... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $99.95 New - Hardcover
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Greener Energy Systems: Energy Production Technologies with Minimum Environmental Impact by Eric Jeffs Publisher Comments The last three years have seen acceleration in the development of cleaner energy systems. This book defines clean energy and presents applications for high efficiency with rapid start-up and loading, minimum emissions, and simpler technology with less... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $114.95 New - Hardcover
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Reservoir Exploration and Appraisal by Luiz Amado Publisher Comments The exploration and appraisal of new reserves is the key for long term survival for a petroleum and natural gas companies. If done correctly, it will result in a windfall for the company but if done incorrectly or haphazardly, it will result in financial... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $103.75 New - Hardcover
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Atomic Information Technology: Safety and Economy of Nuclear Power Plants (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering) by Taeho Woo Publisher Comments Atomic Information Technology revaluates current conceptions of the information technology aspects of the nuclear industry. Economic and safety research in the nuclear energy sector are explored, considering statistical methods which incorporate Monte... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $140.25 New - Hardcover
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Interaction of Radiation with Matter by Hooshang Nikjoo Publisher Comments Interaction of Radiation with Matter focuses on the physics of the interactions of ionizing radiation in living matter and the Monte Carlo simulation of radiation tracks. Clearly progressing from an elementary level to the state of the art, the text... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $148.50 New - Hardcover
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Alternative Energy Demystified, 2nd Edition (Demystified) by Stan Gibilisco Publisher Comments Power up your knowledge with this step-by-step look at alternative energy Alternative Energy Demystified offers updated information on energy sources from the first edition, and brand-new chapters devoted to new technologies like compact fluorescent... (read more) Available January 2013 Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Improving Energy Efficiency in Industrial Energy Systems: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Barriers, Energy Audits, Energy Management, Policies, an (Green Energy and Technology) by Patrik Thollander Publisher Comments Industrial energy efficiency is one of the most important means of reducing the threat of increased global warming. Research however states that despite the existence of numerous technical energy efficiency measures, its deployment is hindered by the... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $140.25 New - Hardcover
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Implementing Renewable Energy: A Rules of Thumb Approach for Scientists, Engineers, and Policy Makers by W. Hoffmann Publisher Comments The world is at the crossroads of either quickly changing the energy picture towards implementing efficient renewable energy sources or postponing this process by another generation. Based on the author's more than 30 years industrial experience... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $33.25 New - Hardcover
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Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know (What Everyone Needs to Know) by Jose Goldemberg Publisher Comments Without a doubt, the topic of energy--from coal, oil, and nuclear to geothermal, solar and wind--is one of the most pressing across the globe. It is of paramount importance to policy makers, economists, environmentalists, and industry as they consider... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Heat Exchanger Equipment Field Manual: Common Operating Problems and Practical Solutions by Maurice Stewart Publisher Comments From upstream to downstream, Heat Exchangers are utilized in every stage of the petroleum value stream. An integral piece of equipment, heat exchangers are among the most confusing and problematic pieces of equipment in the petroleum processing... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $103.75 New - Trade Paper
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