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Machine Learning for Sustainable Energy Solutions
Comprehensive insights into integrating modern engineering techniques with machine learning and renewable energy to create a more sustainable world Through an interdisciplinary approach, Machine Learning for Sustainable Energy Solutions provides comprehensive insights into integrating modern engineering techniques such as machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), nanotechnology, digital twins, and the Internet of Things (IoT) with renewable energy. Each chapter is based on modern research and enhanced by experimental or simulated data. The book offers a thorough review of several energy storage techniques, helping readers fully grasp the larger background in which chemical, thermal, electrical, mechanical, and machine learning technologies may be used to evaluate, categorize, and maximize different storage systems. The book also reviews the confluence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning for real-time digestive parameter control and monitoring, along with the cooperative importance of mathematical modeling and artificial intelligence in maximizing reactor performance, gas output, and operational stability. Machine Learning for Sustainable Energy Solutions includes information on: * Bio-based energy generation from biomass gasification and biohydrogen * Usage of hybrid approaches, support vector machines, and neural networks to anticipate and maximize bioenergy production from challenging organic feedstocks * Hydrogen-powered dual-fuel engines, covering response surface methodology (RSM) for multi-attribute optimization * Scalable, experimentally confirmed ML-based solutions for long-standing problems like sedimentation, pumping losses, and stability of nanofluids * The growing and important use of nanotechnology in energy systems, particularly in engine emissions management, energy storage, and heat transfer improvements Machine Learning for Sustainable Energy Solutions is an essential reference for professionals, researchers, educators, and students working in the fields of energy, environmental science, and machine learning. The book also helps decision-makers in various fields by providing them the required knowledge to make informed choices on sustainable practices and policies. [304 Pages, Hardcover]
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Custom-Designed Crop Breeding, 2 Volume Set
Discover strategies to develop crop plants with specific traits needed to meet the specific challenges. Climate change poses an existential threat to global food supplies, with even modest increases in global temperature potentially spelling disaster for crop productivity. Plant breeders have applied traditional methods and developed new crop varieties to maintain productivity under specific conditions, but there is an urgent need to go much further. We must harness the broadest possible range of genomic data and crop breeding practices to create the next generation of resilient food crops. Custom-Designed Crop Breeding highlights the use of omics-based knowledge, precision genetics, and molecular techniques to breed new climate-resistant crops. Beginning with an overview of both present and future scenarios in which functional genomics is applied to crops, it moves through crop breeding techniques, design of crops for stress tolerance, and more. The result is an essential tool in the fight for a sustainable food supply. Custom-Designed Crop Breeding: Volume 1 -- Advanced Technologies offers a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge advancements driving modern crop improvement. This volume highlights innovative methodologies in genomics, climate-resilient breeding strategies, and the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in precision agriculture. Spanning diverse topics, including genomic tools, high-throughput phenotyping, bioinformatics integration, and next-gen AI-driven predictions, this book serves as an essential resource for researchers, breeders, and professionals seeking to revolutionize agricultural practices for sustainability and productivity. Custom-Designed Crop Breeding: Volume 2 -- Improved Traits delves into innovative strategies for engineering crops with enhanced traits to address global agricultural challenges. This volume is structured around three critical themes: abiotic stress tolerance, biotic stress resistance, and improved nutritional and pharmaceutical quality. Edited by leading experts, it offers a thorough exploration of advanced techniques like haplotype-based breeding, genomic selection, and root system optimization, along with the development of designer crops for resilience, sustainability, and functional applications. Custom-Designed Crop Breeding readers will also find: * Designer crop solutions for abiotic and biotic stresses, including drought, salinity, insects, and fungal diseases. * Highlights on the development of crops tailored for functional foods, herbal, and aromatic applications. * Presents the latest methodologies, such as haplotype-based breeding, genomic selection, and root architecture optimization for improved yield and resilience. Custom-Designed Crop Breeding is ideal for professionals and researchers interested in genetic improvements of crop plants based on innovative breeding technologies. [896 Pages, Hardcover]
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PFAS in the Environment
Methods and solutions to protect the environment against PFAS, in line with new regulations by US and EU authorities PFAS in the Environment comprehensively summarizes the chemical and ecotoxicological properties of different types of per- and polyfluorinated alkanes (PFAS) as well as current and emerging detection methods, known and suspected health risks, and removal technologies from water and soil. This book considers the recently enacted and much stricter regulations set by the US EPA and its European counterpart on the production and use of PFAS. A special focus is placed on how water treatment plants may be upgraded to reduce PFAS content in drinking water. In PFAS in the Environment, readers will find information on: * Occurrence, distribution, fate/transport, and behavior of PFAS * Climate change threats posed by PFAS * Case studies detailing cutting-edge research and remediation of PFAS * Global regulations of PFAS * Strategies to phase out PFAS from industrial and consumer products and ultimately achieve a PFAS-free environment PFAS in the Environment serves as an excellent up-to-date resource on the subject for environmental scientists and professionals as well as government agencies and researchers in environmental and human toxicology. [528 Pages, Hardcover]
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Ecotoxicology
A hands-on approach to understanding the impact of local and global stresses on ecosystems Ecotoxicology: A Case-based Approach follows a "learning by doing" approach, building a deeper understanding of this multi-faceted discipline through the guided analysis of five carefully selected case studies that between them address both local and global anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem structure and function. The book is divided into three sections. Section I covers the definition, history and methodology of ecotoxicology. Section II comprises five case studies, each detailing a selected anthropogenic stress, showing how the ecotoxicological approach has been used to explain its environmental impact and by doing so has provided mitigation and restoration strategies. The final section highlights future directions of ecotoxicology. To aid in reader learning, each chapter includes a test bank and reading list for further study. Written by a highly experienced instructor with more than 30 years of studying and teaching the subject, Ecotoxicology includes case studies on: * Acid rain in the past and in the present * Finfish and shellfish aquaculture * The extraction of bitumen from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada * The release of toxic metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium, and the dumping of chemical wastes and other contaminants of concern in the Great Lakes area Ecotoxicology: A Case-based Approach is an essential guide for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students in ecology and environmental sciences, as well as professionals and policy makers concerned with the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. [320 Pages, Hardcover]
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Earth Capital
This book is a major new history of capitalism that takes account of the material and ecological underpinnings of productive activity as well as the social, political and institutional dimensions of economic life. It retraces the history of capitalism over a long time period, giving particular attention to the role of food, agriculture, energy and natural resources, and with an eye to the future, mindful of the need to find solutions to an ecological crisis that threatens to overwhelm us all. Alessandro Stanziani shows that the development of capitalism since the twelfth century has been based on two primary forms of exploitation: of labour, often coerced, and of what he calls 'Earth capital', by which he means both the planet as a whole and its land and natural resources as factors of production. While these two forms of exploitation have gone hand-in-hand, the emphasis has shifted over time: forced labour gradually declined in importance from 1870 to the present, the exploitation of land, fossil fuels and natural resources grew at an unprecedented rate from 1870 to precedented rate, the destructive consequences of which are becoming increasingly apparent today. Looking to the future, Stanziani argues that, in order to deal with the immense challenges we now face, we must be prepared radically to rethink our economic and political systems. He proposes a new social contract that would make democracy, social equality and the environment the three pillars of the world of tomorrow. [300 Pages, Hardcover]
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