John Wiley Sons

Air dispersion models are used by many industries for the design of effective control strategies to reduce emissions of harmful air pollutants. Providing the underlying science for formulating air dispersion models, this innovate text introduces the fundamentals, discusses implementation issues of air dispersion models, and provides a detailed...

This fully-updated fifth edition includes real-life examples of current events such as the Japanese tsunami, the Gulf oil disaster, and Hurricane Irene, along with lessons learned from these events. The coverage also includes new chapters on public health campaigns, and on the use and effectiveness of social media such as blogging, video, and image...

A substantially updated Second Edition offering comprehensive coverage of civil avionics systems Civil Avionics Systems , Second Edition , is an updated in-depth study and explanation of avionics as applied to civil aircraft. Avionics covers analogue and digital electronics, sensors, signalling, and computers that transmit to and control the...

A new edition of a successful book, this volume provides engineers in diverse disciplines with a thorough, up-to-date introduction to renewable and efficient energy systems. Offering significant updates to such topics as geothermal power, wave and tidal power, and ocean thermal energy, the Second Edition expands coverage of electric power grids,...

Vacuum systems are in wide spread use in the petrochemical plants, petroleum refineries and power generation plants. The existing texts on this subject are theoretical in nature and only deal with how the equipment functions when in good mechanical conditions, from the viewpoint of the equipment vendor. In this much-anticipated volume, one of the...

Cutting edge high temperature materials include high temperature superconductors and solid oxide fuel cells and have applications in key areas such as energy, transportation and space technologies. This bookintroduces the concepts that underpin research into these critical materials including thermodynamics, kinetics and various physical, chemical...