Adsorption – Dryers for Divided Solids

Industrial Equipment for Chemical Engineering Set

This book is part of the Industrial Equipment for Chemical Engineering Set. Throughout these concise and easy-to-use books, the author uses his vast practical experience and precise knowledge of global research to present an in-depth study of a variety of aspects within the field of chemical engineering.
In this volume, the author provides thermodynamic calculations with examples of gaseous mixt...

Liquid–Liquid and Solid–Liquid Extractors

Industrial Equipment for Chemical Engineering Set

This book is part of the Industrial Equipment for Chemical Engineering Set. Throughout these concise and easy-to-use books, the author uses his vast practical experience and precise knowledge of global research to present an in-depth study of a variety of aspects within the field of chemical engineering.
This volume focuses on the processes of extraction and partitioning, presenting the theory a...

Solid–Solid, Fluid–Solid and Fluid–Fluid Mixers

Industrial Equipment for Chemical Engineering Set

This book is part of the Industrial Equipment for Chemical Engineering Set. Throughout these concise and easy-to-use books, the author uses his vast practical experience and precise knowledge of global research to present an in-depth study of a variety of aspects within the field of chemical engineering.
This volume is both theoretical and practical. Focusing on emulsions of one liquid into anot...

Optical Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

Techniques and Methods

The considerable progress in instrumentation and in the development of methods for the processing and analysis of data places remote sensing at the center of various international programs for the surveillance and tracking of climatic and anthropogenic changes and effects on the environment.
This volume presents optical imaging and LiDAR systems: their instrumentation, physics of measurement, pr...

Land Surface Remote Sensing in Urban and Coastal Areas

Remote Sensing Observations of Continental Surfaces Set

For a long time, the dynamics of urban and coastal areas have been the focus of administrators and decision makers in charge of public policy in order to better take into account anthropogenic pressure and the impact of climate change.
This volume presents applications of remote sensing in urban environments and coastal zones, including the use of remote sensing in city planning (urban expansion...

Logistics Engineering and Health

This book presents the research that resulted from a fruitful collaboration between many CNRS research laboratories, health establishments and industrialists. This research contributes to the study and the development of logistical systems, in particular health-oriented logistical systems, in order to manage and optimize physical, informational and financial flows.
The authors examine optimizati...

Biostatistics and Computer-based Analysis of Health Data using Stata

Biostatistics and Health Science Set

This volume of the Biostatistics and Health Sciences Set focuses on statistics applied to clinical research. The use Stata for data management and statistical modeling is illustrated using various examples. Many aspects of data processing and statistical analysis of cross-sectional and experimental medical data are covered, including regression models commonly found in medical statistics. This pr...

Mobile and Wireless Networks

Advanced Network Set – Volume 2

This book presents the state of the art in the field of mobile and wireless networks, and anticipates the arrival of new standards and architectures. It focuses on wireless networks, starting with small personal area networks and progressing onto the very large cells of wireless regional area networks, via local area networks dominated by WiFi technology, and finally metropolitan networks.
After ...

Chemical Ecology

The book features comparative perspectives on the field of chemical ecology, present and future, offered by scientists from a wide variety of disciplines. The scientists contributing to this book –biologists, ecologists, biochemists, chemists, biostatisticians – are interested in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems and work on life forms ranging from micro-organisms to mammals, including...

Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation Systems

To enable the sustainable development of complex modern transportation systems, the storage of electrical energy is crucial. This is particularly true given the rapid developments made for electric transportation services in smart cities, and the demand for interaction between different transport systems. This book presents tools to design such an energy management system, following a generic ap...