Sunday 24 June 2012

Introduction to Engineering Experimentation

Introduction to Engineering Experimentation
English | ISBN: 0131742760 | edition 2009 | PDF | 480 pages | 7,3 mb

An up-to-date, practical introduction to engineering experimentation. Introduction to Engineering Experimentation, 3E introduces many topics that engineers need to master in order to plan, design, and document a successful experiment or measurement system. The text offers a practical approach with current examples and thorough discussions of key topics, including those often ignored or merely touched upon by other texts, such as modern computerized data acquisition systems, electrical output measuring devices, and in-depth coverage of experimental uncertainty analysis.



Stationary Fuel Cells: An Overview

Kerry-Ann Adamson, "Stationary Fuel Cells: An Overview"
English | 2007-09-17 | ISBN: 0080451187 | 146 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Fuel cells are, according to some, the answer to the future problems of energy resources. Rather than solve those problems alone, they will doubtless form part of a growing group of alternative energy sources such as wind, tidal, photovoltaic and nuclear which will reduce our dependence on oil. Stationary fuel cells are the kind used mainly for home, office and large-scale power plants.

If you need a current overview of stationary fuel cells, their status and applications, market developments, market players, economics and future potential, this is where to look. This is NOT an engineering textbook: it is designed to provide potential adopters of fuel cells with the information needed to make sensible decisions. As such it is unique.


Friday 22 June 2012

Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World, 5th Edition

Ron Larson, "Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World, 5th Edition" 
2012 | ISBN-10: 0321693620 | PDF | 786 pages | 15,8 MB


Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World, Fifth Edition, offers our most accessible approach to statistics—with more than 750 graphical displays that illustrate data, readers are able to visualize key statistical concepts immediately. Adhering to the philosophy that students learn best by doing, this book relies heavily on examples–25% of the examples and exercises are new for this edition. Larson and Farber continue to demonstrate that statistics is all around us and that it’s easy to understand.

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Wednesday 20 June 2012

Distillation Design

Distillation Design by Henry Z. Kister
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (February 1, 1992) | ISBN: 0070349096 | Pages: 710 | PDF | 14.55 MB

This text provides thorough coverage of design principles for distillation processes. It contains an up-to-date presentation of process and equipment design procedures, highlights limitations of some design methods, and offers guidance on how to overcome them.




Fundamentals of Engineering Economics

Chan S. Park, "Fundamentals of Engineering Economics" 
ISBN: 0130307912 | edition 2003 | PDF | 552 pages | 44 mb


New from the author of the best-selling Contemporary Engineering Economics book, Fundamentals of Engineering Economics offers concise, but in-depth coverage of all fundamental topics of Engineering Economics. A four-part organization outlines an understanding of money and its management, how to evaluate business and engineering assets, .the development of project cash flows, and special topics in engineering economics.


Green Separation Processes: Fundamentals and Applications

Green Separation Processes: Fundamentals and Applications by Carlos A. M. Afonso 
Publisher: Wiley-VCH; 1 edition (September 5, 2005) | ISBN: 3527309853 | Pages: 383 | PDF | 4.24 MB

This timely book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of all important aspects of this modern technology with the focus on the "green aspect". The expert authors present everything from reactions without solvents to nanostructures for separation methods, from combinatorial chemistry on solid phase to dendrimers. The result is a ready reference packed full of valuable facts on the latest developments in the field - high-quality information otherwise widely spread throughout articles and reviews.


Engineering Fluid Mechanics

"Engineering Fluid Mechanics" by T. Al-Shemmeri 
BoBoCoAe, TAS & Ventus Publishing ApS | 2012 | ISBN: 8740301144 9788740301144 | 140 pages | PDF | 5 MB


The book tackles the many laws and principles in a very clear and easy way describing the pertinent parameters that control the particular situation. The book is complimented by many worked examples, tutorial problems to help students get further practice in problem solving, a typical examination paper, and finally presents a case study of a typical hydropower plant. 

Fluid Mechanics is an essential subject in the study of the behaviour of fluids equally when at rest and when in motion whether a house hold application such as the mains water supply, the natural gas supply or industrial such as the design of the body of an automotive car, airplane, train or the provision of electricity from a hydropower plant. 


Non-Newtonian Flow: Fundamentals and Engineering Applications

Non-Newtonian Flow: Fundamentals and Engineering Applications by R. P. Chhabra 
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (October 13, 1999) | ISBN: 0750637706 | Pages: 436 | PDF | 3.02 MB

Non-Newtonian materials are encountered in virtually all of the chemical and process industries and a full understanding of their nature and flow characteristics is an essential requirement for engineers and scientists involved in their formulation and handling. This book will bridge the gap between much of the highly theoretical and mathematically complex work of the rheologist and the practical needs of those who have to design and operate plants in which these materials are handled and processed. At the same time, numerous references are included for the benefit of those who need to delve more deeply into the subject.

The starting point for any work on non-newtonian fluids is their characterisation over the range of conditions to which they are likely to be subjected during manufacture or utilisation, and this topic is treated early on in the book in a chapter commissioned from an expert in the field of rheological measurements. Coverage of topics is extensive and this book offers a unique and rich selection of material including the flow of single phase and multiphase mixtures in pipes, in packed and fluidised bed systems, heat and mass transfer in boundary layers and in simple duct flows, and mixing etc.



Monday 18 June 2012

Electric Motors and Control Systems

Frank Petruzella, "Electric Motors and Control Systems" Career Education 
| English | ISBN: 0073521825 | 2011 | 296 pages | PDF | 59 MB

This book has been written for a course of study that will introduce the reader to a broad range of motor types and control systems. It provides an overview of electric motor operation, selection, installation, control and maintenance. Every effort has been made in this first edition text to present the most up-to-date information which reflects the current needs of the industry. The broad based approach taken makes this text viable for a variety of motors and control systems courses. Content is suitable for colleges, technical institutions, vocational/technical schools as well as apprenticeship and journeymen training. Electrical apprentices and journeymen will find this book to be invaluable due to Electrical Code references applicable to the installation of new control systems and motors, as well as information on maintenance and troubleshooting techniques. Personnel involved in the motor maintenance and repair will find this book to be a useful reference text. The text is comprehensive! It includes coverage of how motors operate in conjunction with their associated control circuitry. Both older and newer motor technologies are examined. Topics covered range from motor types and controls to installing and maintaining conventional controllers, electronic motor drives and programmable logic controllers.


How It Works Magazine - Issue 35, 2012 (HQ PDF)

How It Works Magazine - Issue 35, 2012 
English | 100 pages | HQ PDF | 84.00 Mb

How It Works, the magazine that explains everything you never knew you wanted to know about the world we live in. Loaded with fully illustrated guides and expert knowledge, and with sections dedicated to science, technology, transportation, space, history and the environment, no subject is too big or small for How It Works to explain.

Elementary Linear Algebra, 2nd Edition

Elementary Linear Algebra, 2nd Edition
2007 | ISBN-10: 0131871412 | PDF | 656 pages | 130 MB

Ideal as a reference or quick review of the fundamentals of linear algebra, this book offers a matrix-oriented approach--with more emphasis on Euclidean n-space, problem solving, and applications, and less emphasis on abstract vector spaces. It features a variety of applications, boxed statements of important results, and a large number of numbered and unnumbered examples. Matrices, Vectors, and Systems of Linear Equations. Matrices and Linear Transformations. Determinants. Subspaces and Their Properties. Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors, and Diagonalization. Orthogonality. Vector Spaces. Complex Numbers. A professional reference for computer scientists, statisticians, and some engineers.


Essential Physics - Key Laws and Uses Summarized

Essential Physics - Key Laws and Uses Summarized
1992 | ISBN-10: 0746007043, 0746007035 | PDF | 64 pages | 31,2 MB

-- Pocket-sized companions present the key facts of science
-- Concise study guides for exams with clear diagrams, charts and illustrations


Friday 15 June 2012

Metaphysics

"Metaphysics" ed. by Mark Pestana
InTeO | 2012 | ISBN: 9535106463 9789535106463 | 158 pages | PDF | 6 MB

The papers in this volume provide us with a good sample of contemporary metaphysical inquiries. This collection will give readers a sense of the type of metaphysical investigations that are now being carried out by thinkers in the Western nations.

Contents 
Preface
Introductory Chapter
1 The Metaphysical Character of Philosophy
2 Appearance and Reality in Parmenides
3 The Nature of Metaphysics and Science: The Problem of the One and the Many in Thomas Aquinas
4 Metaphysics Between Reductionism and a Non-Reductionist Ontology
5 Whiteheadian Structured Societies as Open-Ended Systems and Open-Ended Systems as Whiteheadian Structured Societies
6 The Meaning of Education in the Age of Technology

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Wednesday 13 June 2012

Engineering Thermodynamics

"Engineering Thermodynamics" by Tarik Al-Shemmeri
BoBoCoAe, TAS & Ventus Publishing ApS | 2010 | ISBN: 8776816704 9788776816704 | 107 pages | PDF | 6 MB

This book is set out with the aim to present this subject from an angle of demonstration of how these laws are used in practical situation. This book is well stocked with worked examples to demonstrate the various practical applications in real life, of the laws of thermodynamics. There are also a good section of unsolved tutorial problems at theend of the book.

This book is designed for the virtual reader in mind, it is concise and easy to read, yet it presents all the basic laws of thermodynamics in a simplistic and straightforward manner.
The book deals with all four laws, the zeroth law and its application to temperature measurements.


Control System Synthesis: A Factorization Approach

Control System Synthesis: A Factorization Approach By Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
2011 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 1608456617 | PDF | 1.4 MB

This book introduces the so-called "stable factorization approach" to the synthesis of feedback controllers for linear control systems. The key to this approach is to view the multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) plant for which one wishes to design a controller as a matrix over the fraction field F associated with a commutative ring with identity, denoted by R, which also has no divisors of zero. In this setting, the set of single-input, single-output (SISO) stable control systems is precisely the ring R, while the set of stable MIMO control systems is the set of matrices whose elements all belong to R. The set of unstable, meaning not necessarily stable, control systems is then taken to be the field of fractions F associated with R in the SISO case, and the set of matrices with elements in F in the MIMO case. The central notion introduced in the book is that, in most situations of practical interest, every matrix P whose elements belong to F can be "factored" as a "ratio" of two matrices N,D whose elements belong to R, in such a way that N,D are coprime. In the familiar case where the ring R corresponds to the set of bounded-input, bounded-output (BIBO)-stable rational transfer functions, coprimeness is equivalent to two functions not having any common zeros in the closed right half-plane including infinity. However, the notion of coprimeness extends readily to discrete-time systems, distributed-parameter systems in both the continuous- as well as discrete-time domains, and to multi-dimensional systems. Thus the stable factorization approach enables one to capture all these situations within a common framework.
The key result in the stable factorization approach is the parametrization of all controllers that stabilize a given plant. It is shown that the set of all stabilizing controllers can be parametrized by a single parameter R, whose elements all belong to R. Moreover, every transfer matrix in the closed-loop system is an affine function of the design parameter R. Thus problems of reliable stabilization, disturbance rejection, robust stabilization etc. can all be formulated in terms of choosing an appropriate R. 





Monday 11 June 2012

Integrated Principles of Zoology

Integrated Principles of Zoology By Cleveland P. Hickman
2007 | 910 Pages | ISBN: 0072970049 | PDF | 82 MB

Integrated Principles of Zoology is a college text designed for an introductory course in zoology. This fourteenth edition, as with previous editions, describes the diversity of animal life and the fascinating adaptations that enable animals to inhabit so many ecological niches.
We retain in this revision the basic organization of the thirteenth edition and its distinctive features, especially emphasis on the principles of evolution and zoological science. Also retained are several pedagogical features that have made previous editions easily accessible to students: opening chapter dialogues drawn from the chapter’s theme; chapter summaries and review questions to aid student comprehension and study; concise and visually appealing illustrations; in-text derivations of generic names; chapter notes and essays that enhance the text by offering interesting sidelights to the narrative; literature citations; and an extensive glossary providing pronunciation, derivation, and definition of terms used in the text.


General Chemistry: The Essentials Concepts, 5th edition

General Chemistry: The Essentials Concepts, 5th edition By Raymond Chang
2008 | 836 Pages | ISBN: 0073048518 | PDF | 42 MB

In this fifth edition of General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts, I have continued the tradition of presenting only the material that is essential to a one-year general chemistry course. As with previous editions, I have included all the core topics that are necessary for a solid foundation in general chemistry without sacrificing depth, clarity, or rigor. 
General Chemistry covers these topics in the same depth and at the same level as 1100-page texts. Therefore, this book is not a condensed version of a big text. I have written it so that an instructor can cover 95 percent of the content, instead of the two-thirds or three-quarters that in my experience is typical of the big books. My hope is that this concise-but-thorough approach will appeal to efficiency-minded instructors and will please value conscious students. The responses I have received from users over the years convince me that there is a strong need for such a text.


Friday 8 June 2012

IEEE Guide for Maintenance, Operation & Safety of Industrial & Commercial Power Systems by IEEE

IEEE Guide for Maintenance, Operation & Safety of Industrial & Commercial Power Systems by IEEE 
Publisher: IEEE (January 1999) | ISBN: 0738114235 | Pages: 141 | PDF | 1.07 MB

Guidelines for the numerous personnel who are responsible for safely operating and maintaining industrial and commercial electric power facilities are provided. This guide provides plant engineers with a reference source for the fundamentals of safe and reliable maintenance and operation of industrial and commercial electric power distribution systems.




Advanced algebra

Anthony W. Knapp - Advanced algebra
English | 2007-11-26 | ISBN: 0817645225 | PDF | 730 pages | 4.93 MB

Basic Algebra and Advanced Algebra systematically develop concepts and tools in algebra that are vital to every mathematician, whether pure or applied, aspiring or established. Together, the two books give the reader a global view of algebra and its role in mathematics as a whole.
Key topics and features of Advanced Algebra:

*Topics build upon the linear algebra, group theory, factorization of ideals, structure of fields, Galois theory, and elementary theory of modules as developed in Basic Algebra
*Chapters treat various topics in commutative and noncommutative algebra, providing introductions to the theory of associative algebras, homological algebra, algebraic number theory, and algebraic geometry
*Sections in two chapters relate the theory to the subject of Gröbner bases, the foundation for handling systems of polynomial equations in computer applications
*Text emphasizes connections between algebra and other branches of mathematics, particularly topology and complex analysis
*Book carries on two prominent themes recurring in Basic Algebra: the analogy between integers and polynomials in one variable over a field, and the relationship between number theory and geometry
*Many examples and hundreds of problems are included, along with hints or complete solutions for most of the problems
*The exposition proceeds from the particular to the general, often providing examples well before a theory that incorporates them; it includes blocks of problems that illuminate aspects of the text and introduce additional topics
Advanced Algebra presents its subject matter in a forward-looking way that takes into account the historical development of the subject. It is suitable as a text for the more advanced parts of a two-semester first-year graduate sequence in algebra. It requires of the reader only a familiarity with the topics developed in Basic Algebra.



IDC Technologies: Industrial Automation

IDC Technologies: Industrial Automation
BoBoCoAe, IDC Engineers & Ventus Publishing ApS | 2012 | ISBN: 740300048 9788740300048 | 205 pages | PDF | 13 MB

This book delivers a critical blend of knowledge and skills, covering technology in control and instrumentation, industry analysis and forecasts, leadership and management - everything that is relevant to a modern control and instrumentation engineer. Good management, financial and business skills are also provided in these chapters. These highly practical materials provide you with solid skills in this often neglected area for control and instrumentation engineers.

Industrial Automation is a discipline that includes knowledge and expertise from various branches of engineering including electrical, electronics, chemical, mechanical, communications and more recently computer and software engineering. Automation & Control by its very nature demands a cross fertilization of these faculties.
Industrial Automation Engineers have always drawn new technologies and implemented original or enhanced versions to meet their requirements. As the range of technology diversifies the demand on the innovative ability of these Engineers has increased.


Innovative Lean Development

Timothy Schipper, "Innovative Lean Development: How to Create, Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1420092987 | PDF | 200 pages | 2.7 MB

Innovation is the engine that drives much of what is called success in business and industry. Incorporating the fundamental principles of lean manufacturing and the rules and behaviors of structured innovation into the development process, innovative lean development unleashes the creativity of everyone involved in developing new products, services, or processes; speeds the process; and leads to higher quality.

Written by two experts who have successfully made the road by walking it for more than 20 years, Innovative Lean Development: How to Create, Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles focuses on six key areas necessary for dramatic development.


Smart Textiles for Medicine and Healthcare


L. van Langenhove, "Smart Textiles for Medicine and Healthcare: Materials, Systems and Applications"
English | 2007-02-28 | ISBN: 1845690273 | 329 pages | PDF | 8.9 mb

Smart or intelligent textiles are a relatively novel area of research within the textile industry with enormous potential within the healthcare industry. This book provides a unique insight into recent developments in how smart textiles are being used in the medical field. The first part of the book assesses trends in smart medical textiles. Chapters cover topics such as wound care materials, drug-based release systems and electronic sensors for health care. The second part of the book discusses the role of smart textile in monitoring the health of particular groups such as pregnant women, children, the elderly and those with particular physical disabilities. With its distinguished editor and team of international contributors, this book provides a unique and essential reference to those concerned with intelligent textiles in healthcare.




Solvent Extraction and Liquid Membranes

Manuel Aguilar, Jose Luis Cortina, "Solvent Extraction and Liquid Membranes: Fundamentals and Applications in New Materials (ION EXCHANGE AND SOLVENT EXTRACTION)"
English | 2008-04-07 | ISBN: 0824740157 | 364 pages | PDF | 8.3 mb

The applications of solvent extraction (SX) and liquid membranes (LM) span chemistry, metallurgy, hydrometallurgy, chemical/mineral processing, and waste treatment—making it difficult to find a single resource that encompasses fundamentals as well as advanced applications. Solvent Extraction and Liquid Membranes: Fundamentals and Applications in New Materials draws together a diverse group of internationally recognized experts to highlight key scientific and technological aspects of solvent extraction that are critical to future work in the field.

The first chapters identify relevant thermodynamics, kinetics, and interfacial behavior principles and introduce methods for calculating extraction equilibria and kinetic parameters. The next chapters focus on engineering and technological aspects of various industrial processes and plant applications, including optimization and modeling tools and calculations. The final chapters examine new materials for metal extraction and separations, covering preparation and application processes for organic and inorganic sorbents, solid polymeric extractants, and solvent impregnated resins.

Solvent Extraction and Liquid Membranes offers a comprehensive review of the most important principles, calculations, and procedures involved in this widely applicable separation technique. The book’s pedagogical approach will benefit students and researchers in the field as well as working scientists and engineers who wish to apply solvent extraction to their own applications.


Activated Carbon for Water and Wastewater Treatment

Ferhan Cecen, Özgür Aktas - Activated Carbon for Water and Wastewater Treatment
Published: 2011-11-01 | ISBN: 3527324712 | PDF | 406 pages | 3.78 MB

This monograph provides comprehensive coverage of technologies which integrate adsorption and biological processes in water and wastewater treatment. The authors provide both an introduction to the topic as well as a detailed discussion of theoretical and practical considerations.
After a review of the basics involved in the chemistry, biology and technology of integrated adsorption and biological removal, they discuss the setup of pilot- and full-scale treatment facilities, covering powdered as well as granular activated carbon. They elucidate the factors that influence the successful operation of integrated systems. Their discussion on integrated systems expands from the effects of environmental to the removal of various pollutants, to regeneration of activated carbon, and to the analysis of such systems in mathematical terms. The authors conclude with a look at future needs for research and develoment.
A truly valuable resource for environmental engineers, environmental and water chemists, as well as professionals working in water and wastewater treatment.


Food Biochemistry and Food Processing

Food Biochemistry and Food Processing, 2nd edition By Benjamin K. Simpson
2012 | 912 Pages | ISBN: 081380874X | PDF | 12 MB

The biochemistry of food is the foundation on which the research and development advances in food biotechnology are built.
In Food Biochemistry and Food Processing, second edition, the editors have brought together more than fifty acclaimed academicians and industry professionals from around the world to create this fully revised and updated edition. This book is an indispensable reference and text on food biochemistry and the ever increasing developments in the biotechnology of food processing.
Beginning with sections on the essential principles of food biochemistry, enzymology, and food processing, the book then takes the reader on commodity-by-commodity discussions of biochemistry of raw materials and product processing. Chapters in this second edition have been revised to include safety considerations and the chemical changes induced by processing in the biomolecules of the selected foodstuffs. This edition also includes a new section on health and functional foods, as well as ten new chapters including those on thermally and minimally processed foods, separation technology in food processing, and food allergens.
Food Biochemistry and Food Processing, second edition fully develops and explains the biochemical aspects of food processing, and brings together timely and relevant topics in food science and technology in one package. This book is an invaluable reference tool for professional food scientists, researchers and technologists in the food industry, as well as faculty and students in food science, food technology and food engineering programs.



A First Course on Aerodynamics

"A First Course on Aerodynamics" by Arnab Roy
BoBoCoAe, AR & Ventus Publishing ApS | 2012 | ISBN: 8776819262 9788776819262 | 96 pages | PDF | 12 MB

This book helps the reader to get a first glimpse of the subject without getting into too many details. Figures have been used to explain concepts wherever possible. 

Lengthy derivations have been avoided because reference books could be used for that purpose. Main equations to remember have been provided straight away with relevant explanation.


International Fuel Gas Code

International Fuel Gas Code. Softcover Version by International Code Council
Publisher: ICC (distributed by Cengage Learning); 1 edition (March 2, 2009) | ISBN: 1580017355 | Pages: 166 | PDF | 7.52 MB

International Code Council's publishing partnership with Delmar has made available to all involved in building design, construction, code analysis and application the highest quality technical code support publications by expert authors and educators. The Delmar and Code Council co-publishing and distribution partnership extends the reach of our joint efforts into hands of those who need the best information on time.


Thursday 7 June 2012

Sheet Metal Forming Processes

Dorel Banabic, "Sheet Metal Forming Processes: Constitutive Modelling and Numerical Simulation"
English | 2010-06-30 | ISBN: 3540881123 | 318 pages | PDF | 5.9 mb

The book gives a synthetic presentation of the research performed in the field of sheet metal forming simulation during more than twenty years by the members of three teams: the Research Centre on Sheet Metal Forming – CERTETA (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania); AUTOFORM software-house company from Zürich, Switzerland and VOLVO automotive company from Sweden. The first chapter reminds some fundamental topics of the theory of plasticity. A more extended chapter is devoted to the presentation of the phenomenological yield criteria, emphasizing the formulations proposed by the CERTETA team (BBC models). The sheet metal formability is discussed in a separate chapter. After presenting the methods used for the formability assessment, the discussion focuses on the forming limit curves. In this context, the authors emphasize their contributions to the mathematical modeling of forming limit curves. The aspects related to the implementation of the constitutive models in finite-element codes are discussed in the last chapter of the book. The performances of the models are proved by the numerical simulation of various sheet metal forming processes: hydroforming, deep-drawing and forming of the complex parts. The book is useful for the students, doctoral fellows, researchers and engineers who are mainly interested in the mechanical modeling and numerical simulation of sheet metal forming processes. Modeling and numerical simulation of sheet metal forming processes.



Industrial Refrigeration Handbook

Wilbert F. Stoecker, "Industrial Refrigeration Handbook" 
English | ISBN: 007061623X | 1998 | 782 pages | PDF | 21,4 MB

Drawing from the best of the widely dispersed literature in the field and the authorÕs vast professional knowledge and experience, here is todayÕs most exhaustive, one-stop coverage of the fundamentals, design, installation, and operation of industrial refrigeration systems. Detailing the industry changes caused by the conversion from CFCs to non-ozone-depleting refrigerants and by the development of microprocessors and new secondary coolants, Industrial Refrigeration Handbook also examines multistage systems; compressors, evaporators, and condensers; piping, vessels, valves and refrigerant controls; liquid recirculation; refrigeration load calculations; refrigeration and freezing of food; and safety procedures. Offering a rare compilation of thermodynamic data on the most-used industrial refrigerants, the Handbook is a mother lode of vital information and guidance for every practitioner in the field.


Enhanced Oil Recovery

Vladimir Alvarado, Eduardo Manrique - Enhanced Oil Recovery: Field Planning and Development Strategies
Published: 2010-06-16 | ISBN: 1856178552 | PDF | 208 pages | 4.29 MB

Enhanced-Oil Recovery (EOR) evaluations focused on asset acquisition or rejuvenation involve a combination of complex decisions, using different data sources. EOR projects have been traditionally associated with high CAPEX and OPEX, as well as high financial risk, which tend to limit the number of EOR projects launched. In this book, the authors propose workflows for EOR evaluations that account for different volumes and quality of information. This flexible workflow has been successfully applied to oil property evaluations and EOR feasibility studies in many oil reservoirs. The methodology associated with the workflow relies on traditional (look-up tables, XY correlations, etc.) and more advanced (data mining for analog reservoir search and geology indicators) screening methods, emphasizing identification of analogues to support decision making. The screening phase is combined with analytical or simplified numerical simulations to estimate full-field performance by using reservoir data-driven segmentation procedures. 

Sunday 3 June 2012

Hybrid Laser Arc Welding

Hybrid Laser Arc Welding
Language: English | Publisher: Woodhead Publishing | ISBN: 1845693701 | 2009 | PDF | 336 pages | 38.5 MB

Hybrid laser-arc welding (HLAW) is a combination of laser welding with arc welding that overcomes many of the shortfalls of both processes. This important book gives a comprehensive account of hybrid laser-arc welding technology and applications. The first part of the book reviews the characteristics of the process, including the properties of joints produced by hybrid laser-arc welding and ways of assessing weld quality. Part 2 discusses applications of the process to such metals as magnesium alloys, aluminium and steel as well as the use of hybrid laser-arc welding in such sectors as ship building and the automotive industry. With its distinguished editor and international team of contributors, Hybrid laser-arc welding, is a valuable source of reference for all those using this important welding technology.


Risks of Hazardous Wastes

Paul E. Rosenfeld and Lydia Feng, "Risks of Hazardous Wastes"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1437778429 | 472 pages | PDF | 4,3 MB

Hazardous waste in the environment is one of the most difficult challenges facing our society. The purpose of this book is to provide a background of the many aspects of hazardous waste, from its sources to its consequences, focusing on the risks posed to human health and the environment. It explains the legislation and regulations surrounding hazardous waste -- however, the scope of the book is much broader, discussing agents that are released into the environment that might not be classified as Hazardous Waste under the regulatory system, but nonetheless pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. 

It provides a background of some of the major generators of hazardous wastes, explains the pathways by which humans and wildlife are exposed, and includes discussion of the adverse health effects linked to these pollutants. It provides numerous case studies of hazardous waste mismanagement that have led to disastrous consequences. And highlights the deficiencies in science and regulation that have allowed the public to be subjected to a myriad of potentially hazardous agents. Finally, it provides a discussion of measures that will necessarily need to be taken to control society's hazardous waste problem. This book was designed to appeal to a wide range of audiences, including students, professionals, and general readers interested in the topic.



Saturday 2 June 2012

Welding Handbook, Volume 1: Welding Technology

Welding Handbook, Volume 1: Welding Technology By Leonard P. Connor
1987 | 638 Pages | ISBN: 0871712814 | PDF | 54 MB

Describes welding techniques, discusses safety equipment and precautions and much more.






Mechanics of Offshore Pipelines: Volume 1 Buckling and Collapse

Stelios Kyriakides, Edmundo Corona, "Mechanics of Offshore Pipelines: Volume 1 Buckling and Collapse"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0080467326 | 448 pages | PDF | 10,3 MB

Offshore oil and gas production was conducted throughout the entire 20th century, but the industry's modern importance and vibrancy did not start until the early 1970s, when the North Sea became a major producer. Since then, the expansion of the offshore oil industry has been continuous and rapid.

Pipelines, and more generally long tubular structures, are major oil and gas industry tools used in exploration, drilling, production, and transmission. Installing and operating tubular structures in deep waters places unique demands on them. Technical challenges within the field have spawned significant research and development efforts in a broad range of areas.

Volume I addresses problems of buckling and collapse of long inelastic cylinders under various loads encountered in the offshore arena. Several of the solutions are also directly applicable to land pipelines. The approach of Mechanics of Offshore Pipelines is problem oriented. The background of each problem and scenario are first outlined and each discussion finishes with design recommendations.

* New and classical problems addressed - investigated through a combination of experiments and analysis
* Each chapter deals with a specific mechanical problem that is analyzed independently
* The fundamental nature of the problems makes them also applicable to other fields, including tubular components in nuclear reactors and power plants, aerospace structures, automotive and civil engineering structures, naval vehicles and structures