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Principles and Applications of Aquatic Chemistry
The definitive text for water chemistry professionals and students worldwide. Principles and Applications of Aquatic Chemistry provides a solid foundation for understanding the chemistry of lakes, oceans, rivers, estuaries, and other natural waters. Acclaimed for its user-friendly pedagogy, this classic textbook explains aquatic chemistry through the powerful application of the "tableau system," which provides a systematic way to organize complex chemical equilibrium problems. Now in its second edition, this title contains an entirely new introductory chapter and new coverage of ocean acidification, advances in dissolution kinetics, bioavailability of trace metals, redox kinetics, and updated thermodynamic data. The use of computer programs to calculate chemical equilibrium in natural waters is illustrated. Throughout this edition, revised and streamlined material is supported by new real-world examples and full-color illustrations. Accessible to those with diverse backgrounds in the sciences and engineering, this essential textbook * Covers the fundamentals of aquatic science, including chemical thermodynamics, acid-base, precipitation-dissolution, coordination, reduction-oxidation and adsorption reactions * Explains the use of equilibrium calculations, essential tools for understanding the chemical composition of aquatic systems and the fate of inorganic pollutants * Provides quantitative treatments of the kinetics of chemical reactions in natural waters * Features new and updated content that reflects advances in understanding the chemistry of natural waters * Includes new end-of-chapter questions of various levels of difficulty and a solutions manual This comprehensive guide remains the perfect textbook for advanced students in chemistry, environmental science and engineering, marine science, geochemistry, oceanography, geology, fisheries, forestry, and environmental policy and management. It is also a valuable reference text for industry professionals, academic researchers, policymakers, and college and university instructors in relevant fields. [400 Pages, Hardcover]
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Customized Technologies for Sustainable Management of Industrial Wastewater
[640 Pages, Hardcover]
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Resilient Community Microgrids
Discover how to empower your community with sustainable energy solutions with Resilient Community Microgrids, a comprehensive guide that explores the integration of innovative technologies and distributed energy resources to enhance local energy independence and resilience. Resilient Community Microgrids emphasizes opportunities to incorporate distributed energy resources and communication networks to build a cyber-physical community microgrid system by modelling photovoltaics, energy storage units, micro-turbines, and wind energy. The microgrid proves itself as a sustainable archetype to improve the resilience and reliability of power distribution networks. High-distributed energy resources penetrate communities, unlocking the potential to build the resilience of microgrids. Neighborhoods, villages, towns, and cities can meet their local energy needs by utilizing community microgrids. Community microgrids are being considered as a possibility even in locations where a bigger grid already exists, primarily as a means of boosting local energy independence and resilience. The fundamentals of community microgrids are covered in this book, along with an outline of how to join one and the factors contributing to their rising popularity. Novel technologies arrive with the potential to integrate with the physical microgrid to realize the next generation in cyber-physical microgrid systems, which can be used as a prototype to demonstrate and promote the development of next-generation microgrids. Resilient Community Microgrids will clarify the ways to enhance a cyber-physical system's resilience that significantly contributes to realizing innovative and sustainable development in the energy sector. [608 Pages, Hardcover]
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Mining
Mining has a poor public image. It is often associated with environmental degradation, human rights violations and the unacceptable excesses of capitalism. But might it also be the key to ensuring a more sustainable future? Leading industry expert Timothy Biggs argues that modern life is simply unthinkable without mining on a huge scale. From the mobile phone in your pocket to the building you're standing in, the minerals and metals extracted by the mining industry make modern life possible. This fact will become more significant in the context of the environmental challenges we face. Tackling climate change will require technologies ranging from electric cars to solar panels, all of which require immense - and increasing - amounts of copper, iron ore, lithium and other metals. This makes it vital that states and societies respond constructively to the practical needs of the mining industry, and that mining companies address the very real problems associated with their operations. Anyone who wants to understand the stark realities of how our economies will have to change in the context of contemporary environmental problems cannot afford to miss this brilliantly clear account from someone who understands this most vital - and misunderstood - of industries from the inside. [224 Pages, Softcover]
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Mining
Mining has a poor public image. It is often associated with environmental degradation, human rights violations and the unacceptable excesses of capitalism. But might it also be the key to ensuring a more sustainable future? Leading industry expert Timothy Biggs argues that modern life is simply unthinkable without mining on a huge scale. From the mobile phone in your pocket to the building you're standing in, the minerals and metals extracted by the mining industry make modern life possible. This fact will become more significant in the context of the environmental challenges we face. Tackling climate change will require technologies ranging from electric cars to solar panels, all of which require immense - and increasing - amounts of copper, iron ore, lithium and other metals. This makes it vital that states and societies respond constructively to the practical needs of the mining industry, and that mining companies address the very real problems associated with their operations. Anyone who wants to understand the stark realities of how our economies will have to change in the context of contemporary environmental problems cannot afford to miss this brilliantly clear account from someone who understands this most vital - and misunderstood - of industries from the inside. [192 Pages, Hardcover]
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