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Energy Efficient Homes For Dummies (Home & Garden)

For Dummies, 2008

Hands-on, practical solutions to save money by making smart energy changes

One of the best and most affordable strategies people can employ to combat global warming is to improve the energy and water efficiency of their homes. Energy Efficient Homes For Dummies provides homeowners with advice, tips, and projects to reduce costs,...

Arsenic Pollution Control in Nonferrous Metallurgy

Springer, 2019

The control of arsenic pollution has attracted worldwide attention, as it is one of the top 20 hazardous substances, and greatly threatens the human health, ecological balance, and industrial development. Arsenic pollution results from natural enrichment and anthropological activities, especially...

Chemical Weapons Destruction and Explosive Waste: Unexploded Ordinance Remediations

William Andrew Publishing, 1997

"The book examines each program, offers various solutions and case studies for each disposal problem, and provides additional sources of information for each program for further reading or consultation."- The Hazardous Waste Consultant.

This book discusses the current and potential treatment technologies involved in...

The Science of Clays: Applications in Industry, Engineering, and Environment

Springer, 2013

This book is an attempt to provide a comprehensive and coherent description of three widely separated aspects of clays: the science of clays; the industrial uses of clays; and the role of clays in the environment. Most of the existing literature lacks such an integrated study and this work endeavours to fill that gap.

An exhaustive...

Understanding Environmental Pollution: A Primer

Cambridge University Press, 2004

Understanding Environmental Pollution has been updated and almost completely revised. The book summarizes the basics of pollution, working to use language understandable to those with limited science background, while remaining useful to those with more. The impacts of pollution on environmental health receive greater attention in this edition, and...

Energy Supply and Renewable Resources

Facts on File, 2007

One has only to read a newspaper or magazine to realize the importance of energy at this early juncture of the 21st century. It will surely become more critical as world demand for oil continues to increase and its supply peaks and begins to fall.

Industrialized nations have become addicted to an ever-increasing...

The Motor Car: Past, Present and Future (Mechanical Engineering Series)

Springer, 2014

This book is an introduction to automotive engineering, to give freshmen ideas about this technology. The text is subdivided in parts that cover all facets of the automobile, including legal and economic aspects related to industry and products, product configuration and fabrication processes, historic evolution and future developments.

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Global Warming: The Complete Briefing

Cambridge University Press, 2009

John Houghton's market-leading textbook is now in full color and includes the latest IPCC findings, making it the definitive guide to climate change. Written for students across a wide range of disciplines, its simple, logical flow of ideas gives an invaluable grounding in the science and impacts of climate change and highlights the need for action...

Computational Fluid Mechanics

World Scientific Publishing, 2001

This volume presents recent advances in computational fluid dynamics. The topics range from fundamentals and computational techniques to a wide variety of applications in astronomy, applied mathematics and meteorology. They describe recent calculations in direct numerical simulation of turbulence, applications of turbulence modelling of...

Aerosol Pollution Impact on Precipitation: A Scientific Review

Springer, 2008

Life on Earth is critically dependent upon the continuous cycling of water between oceans, continents and the atmosphere. Precipitation (including rain, snow, and hail) is the primary mechanism for transporting water from the atmosphere back to the Earth’s surface. It is also the key physical process that links aspects of climate,...

Application of Nanotechnology in Water Research

John Wiley & Sons, 2014

Details the water research applications of nanotechnology in various areas including environmental science, remediation, membranes, nanomaterials, and water treatment

At the nano size, materials often take on unique and sometimes unexpected properties that result in them being ‘tuned’ to build faster, lighter,...

Advanced Air and Noise Pollution Control: Volume 2

Humana Press, 2004

Leading pollution control educators and practicing professionals describe how various combinations of different cutting-edge process systems can be arranged to solve air, noise, and thermal pollution problems. Each chapter discusses in detail a variety of process combinations, along with technical and economic evaluations, and presents...

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