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Report copyright infringementby Jaswinder Singh (Author)Geothermal air coolers have been identified as efficient, economical and environment friendly alternative to the conventional heating and cooling systems. These are attractive because the total energy output is greater than the energy used to drive it. This book therefore, provides the basic concepts, design, modeling and analysis of a geothermal air cooling system in summer climates. The design and fabrication of the ground loop heat ex...

Analysis of Faults on Three Phase Transmission Line Using MATLAB

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Report copyright infringementby Saurabh Gupta (Author), Sunny Seth (Author), Shakkel Ahmed (Author)well this book covers the faults on a three phase transmission line using simulink tool of matlab. after going through the book, you ll be able to understand the various tools used, the basic parameters and their variation.The most important thing covered in this book is the graphical representation of the Voltage and Current Waveforms during Fault cases.this will help you understand the numeric...

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Report copyright infringementby C. W. Zanariah Ngah (Author), Norita Mohamed (Author)Details regarding formulation studies of gold plating baths have always been hindered by patent. The bath constituents are always referred to as proprietary. Also colored gold plating remains much of an empirical art rather than the science and thus a large extent depends on the experience of the electroplaters. Systematic studies on formulations for gold alloy plating baths were carried out to investigate th...

Introduction to Space Debris: Challenges and Removal Techniques

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Report copyright infringementby Lakshya Vaibhav Datta (Author), Ugur Guven (Editor)Especially with advents in space technology, space debris removal has become more important then ever. There can be several methods of removal of space debris. One of the viable options available is taking proper precautions in satellites and objects being sent up in to space, such that they can use their own systems in order to return back to Earth upon completion of their missions or burn up in the Earth's at...

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Report copyright infringementby Marco Angelillo (Author)The High Voltage Direct Current Transmission systems of electricity, which use the Voltage Source Technology (HVDC-VSC), are nowadays in continuous development. Thanks to their characteristics of flexibility of use and management, they easily find field for the integration with the traditional electric grid. Therefore all these features have brought the VSC solution to be the dominant technology than the traditional Current Source System...

Fatigue assessment of composite laminates

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Report copyright infringementby Vinod Kushvaha (Author)The word fatigue has been a widely accepted term in engineering vocabulary for catastrophic failure of materials under cyclic loadings for more than a century. Cyclic loading causes damage and material property degradation in a cumulative manner. When a structure is subjected to cyclic stress (often much less than the static yield strength of the material) it fails after a number of cycles of stress application. Therefore, fatigue is the ...

Smart Algorithms and Architectures for Real Time Video Transmission

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Report copyright infringementby Yasser Ismail (Author), Magdy Bayoumi (Author)Motion Estimation (ME) plays an important role in modern video coders since it consumes approximately 60%-80% of the entire encoder's computations. FSBB-ME is the main ME algorithm that is adopted by most coding standards. Although it provides the best coding efficiency amongst various ME algorithms, its computational complexity is very high. This work proposes several alternatives to reduce this bottleneck in video...

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Report copyright infringementby Kiran Christopher (Author)The key idea of this book was to model a landing gear for the analysis of the behavior of an aircraft during ground maneuvers. The aircraft landing gear by its nature itself is a complex multi-degree-of-freedom system. Based on stability criterion a suitable landing gear was selected for RLV. In this book landing gear is modeled exclusively as two DOF and for getting the individual responses of components it is also modeled as four DOF...

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Report copyright infringementby Venkata Kalyan Chivukula (Author)Iceland as part of European Economic Area (EEA) is bound to develop renewable energy for the transportation sector. Unlike other countries, Iceland cannot develop biofuels from biomass due to its weather conditions. Carbon Recycling International (CRI) is producing Renewable Methanol (RM) from geothermal sources in Iceland via recycling CO2 through its patented technology. RM can be used as fuel in gasoline vehicles through dire...

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Report copyright infringementby Khan Mohammad Muhshin Aziz (Author)The main objective of this research is to study the laser beam welding of stainless steels. During experimentation, a 1.1kW CW Nd: YAG laser is used to weld similar and dissimilar stainless steels in overlap and fillet joint configurations respectively. Various process parameters and their interactions effects on weld geometry and its mechanical properties are examined. Effects of energy density and line energy on the weld bea...

Condition Based Maintenance of Steam Turbine in Thermal Power Plant

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Report copyright infringementby Jasminder Singh Dureja (Author)The latest technique for critical machines - Steam turbines is "Condition based Maintenance (CBMS)" in which the machine is continuously monitored for its health. Any deteriorating trend in monitored parameter of machine gives an alarm to maintenance personnel who can then plan and schedule the maintenance activity optimally, avoiding accidental hazards due to sudden breakdown, minimizing maintenance cost and downtime. This Book i...

Building an Arithmetic/Mathematic Assistant (Chatbot)

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Report copyright infringementby Oladimeji Hamzat (Author)Project Report from the year 2014 in the subject Engineering - Robotics, grade: 69%, University of Huddersfield, course: Computer Science, language: English, abstract: This project is about an arithmetic/mathematic chatbot (a chatbot is an artificial intelligence dialog system or an application that communicates with users and tries to deceive the users like it is human) that helps users with mathematical questions by answering question...

Designing and Installation of Rooftop Photovoltaic Power Plant

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Report copyright infringementby Sharma Pragya (Author)This book provides an insight help for the learners of solar PV installers and critical checks for roof-top solar photovoltaic (PV) designing and installation.This book also provides major information on basics of solar PV. This book is complete guide for roof-top Photovoltaic installation. It is an project case study on roof-top solar photovoltaic(PV) power plant in terms of designing and installation of a system. The world has seen treme...

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Report copyright infringementby MD Lutfar Rahman (Author)With the continuous development of urban construction, the elevator in today's society has a wide range of applications. Elevator in the building as a complex operation of the vertical transport has been inextricably linked with people's daily life. Nowadays, every developing and developed country are using elevator to rise-in the high stored building. In this book, I therefore wanted to give focus on using programmable logic controller...

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Choudhury Asim Kumar (Author)The book discusses the history of development of textile materials from ancient times and its beautification by coloration. For coloration a number of natural colours extracted from vegetable, animals and minerals were used in earlier days. From the beginning of 20th century those natural colours were gradually substituted by synthetic dyes. The colours are applied by dyeing or printing methods. In dyeing the colours are applied...

SPH Meshless methods for internal aerodynamic combustion engine

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Report copyright infringementby Blacodon Yohan (Author)Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a fully gridless Lagrangian method, invented in 1977 for astrophysical simulations. Due to its simplicity and robustness, this numerical method has been extended to solid mechanics for rapid dynamic phenomena and more recently to complex fluid mechanics problems such as dam breaking and wave flumes. However, the literature is quite scarce regarding SPH "academic" for flow validation and turbulent f...

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Report copyright infringementby Nawaz Malik Adil (Author)Quality evaluation of mozzarella cheese made from buffalo milk by using paneer booti (Withania coagulans). Plant extracts can be used as replica of rennet for cheese making. In the present study author has prepared the crude enzyme extract of Withania coagulans by using various buffers. The quality of mozzarella cheese made from these crude enzyme extracts can be compared with commercial one. This technology can be used commercially as ...

Non-Destructive Testing of Metallic 3D Printed Specimens

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Report copyright infringementby Wong Brian Stephen (Author), Ong Mei Yuan (Author)The need for innovation in the manufacturing industry to meet the consumer's fast changing preference has led to additive manufacturing (AM). Additive manufacturing works around the idea of material addition for product formation instead of conventional ways of subtracting material. Due to AM being an emerging technology, many procedures and processing parameters are not standardized, as it remained challenging ...

Lattices and their application in Cryptography

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Report copyright infringementby Merve Cakir (Author)Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Engineering - Computer Engineering, grade: 1,0, Hamburg University of Technology (Institut für Eingebettete Systeme), language: English, abstract: The aim of this thesis is to identify the characteristics of lattice-based cryptosystems. The use of encryption and signature schemes can be insecure considering attacks by a quantum computer and inefficient in the computation time. An alternative ...

Harmonic Analysis of Voltage Source Inverter using PWM Techniques

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Report copyright infringementby Sarat Kumar Sahoo (Author)This work illustrates use of different Pulse Width Techniques for a three phase voltage source inverter using Matlab Simulink software. These techniques help in reducing harmonic content in power supply as well as in controlling output voltage and frequency. The techniques which we have demonstrated are Multiple PWM, Sinusoidal PWM (SPWM), Trapezoidal PWM, Staircase PWM, 60 PWM and Third Harmonic PWM. Though these techniques are very ...

Design for Active Disassembly and Sustainable Product Recovery

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Report copyright infringementby Aiman Ziout (Author)This book provides comprehensive sustainability assessment that justifies incorporating active disassembly in product design. It also presents design methodology to ease the design and innovation of active joints that provide active disassembly. Reader will be guided by a framework equipped with methods and tools that facilitate the process of incorporating active disassembly in product design. At the first level of the framework, comprehens...

Flow and Mixing Optimization of an Existing Biogas Plant through CFD Simulation and Velocity Measurements Prepared

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Report copyright infringementby Obada Yaghi (Author)Bachelor Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, grade: 94%, German Jordanian University (hosted by Hamburg University of Technology), language: English, abstract: This research project enables further development and improvement of the mixing efficiency in an existing biogas plant, by utilizing CFD simulation as well as a newly developed flow sensor in addition to supportive laboratory tests. The flow ...

Solid Rocket Propulsion for Space Exploration

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Report copyright infringementby Guven Ugur (Author), Velidi Gurunadh (Author)This book is intended for aerospace engineering students as well as for professional aerospace engineers who are interested in rocket propulsion technology as well as solid fuel rocket technology. Solid rocket boosters are an important part of rocket propulsion technology and they are essential part of the Space Shuttle as well as other spacecraft. This book talks about the basics of rocket propulsion as well as the ...

DESIGN & Fabrication of Electric Hovercraft

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Report copyright infringementby Zeeshan Muhammad (Author), Eizad Amre (Author), Khan M. Jawad (Author)This book details the design and fabrication of a hovercraft through fundamental principles. The work described in this book was carried out at Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan, as part of research on non-conventional mobile platforms for remote exploration. In particular the design of the propulsion, skirt, rudder, frame, power, and control system is discussed. The design is eventually co...

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Report copyright infringementby Abed Amer Tawfeeq (Author)In last years, there has been an increasing need for high gain wide band directional antennas in some wireless applications, mobile communication systems and other applications. The backfire antenna may become one of the most competitive candidates for these applications, because of its high gain and simple structure. The backfire antenna principle is a highly effective technique for improving the pattern characteristics of an antenna....

Design, Fabrication & Testing of Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle

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Report copyright infringementby Shah Harsh (Author), Patel Vignesh (Author)This book throws light on the fundamentals of designing and construction of a simple underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle(ROV). It explains how an economical ROV can be fabricated and used for numerous applications. This book is handy for college-level students to understand and implement basic concepts of underwater vehicles. We have even included pictures, calculations and test results of an actual ROV prototype that...

Computational Techniques for Multiphase Fluid Flows

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Report copyright infringementby Bipin Kumar (Author)Computer simulation of fluid flows requires numerical solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) which involves discretization methods such as Finite Volume Method (FVM). These methods produce a large system of linear equations which are difficult to solve. Iterative (Krylov Subspace) solvers are one of the best ways to deal with such large systems. These systems need huge amount of memory as well as they are computationally expensive...

Hyperspectral Image Generation, Processing and Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby Hamed Hamid Muhammed (Author)Hyperspectral imaging is utilised in many applications, where measured data are processed, interpreted and converted into physical, chemical and/or biological properties of the target objects and/or processes being studied. In this thesis, various methods were proposed and applied to crop reflectance data (acquired by hand-held spectrometers) to detect, characterise and quantify disease severity and plant density. Furthermore, vario...

Introduction to Film Insert Injection Molding

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Report copyright infringementby Yew Wei Leong (Author), Hiroyuki Hamada (Author)Film insert injection molding (FIM) is an increasingly popular technique to impart decoration onto moldings. In this study, FIMs were produced by using amorphous and crystalline polymers that were evaluated based on their film-substrate interfacial adhesion strength. Interfacial bonding between amorphous polymers could be achieved at any temperature above the glass transition, though higher temperatures are favora...

Fabrication of Rare Earth Doped Optical Fibre Using MCVD Process

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Report copyright infringementby Anirban Dhar (Author)Over the past two decades, the demand of Rare Earth (RE) doped optical fibres has increased enormously for their applications in the field of optical amplifier, fibre laser and sensors. In this context, there is a growing need to improve the fibre performance and produce the fibres more reproducibly. The Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition (MCVD) process coupled with solution doping method is commonly employed to produce the preform and fibr...

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Raczyński (Author)Blade vibration is one of the most significant causes of high cycle fatigue failure in gas turbine engines. A correctly conducted modal analysis can accurately predict the values of natural frequency. The most commonly used tool for such purpose is software based on Finite Element Method. Compared to experimental tests it is less costly, more time efficient and can incorporate phenomena which are not possible to include in experimental me...

Vortex-Induced Motion of Nonlinear Offshore Structures

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Report copyright infringementby Brad Stappenbelt (Author)Mooring systems employed for floating offshore structures commonly produce nonlinear load- excursion characteristics. The nonlinear compliance and the consequent amplitude-dependent natural frequency, influence the vortex-induced motion of the structure. Linear stiffness modelling of catenary moored structure response has been shown to produce significant uncertainties regarding the onset and severity of flow-induced vibrations. Little ...