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Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and synthesizing the results of recent research. For more than 50 years, OMBAR has been an...
Publisher
Ubiquity Press
Language
English
Description
This book has been prepared with the aim to present the application of these two state-of-the art technologies in agricultural sciences and food technology, and to explain the protocols for analyses of different plant, animal, microbiological and food samples as well as for different biotechnology procedures. Selected methods and protocols which are used in plant stress physiology, weed science, fruit breeding research, microbial ecology, plant virus...
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Publisher
Springer Open
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This book bridges the gap between playing with robots in school and studying robotics at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels to prepare for careers in industry and research. Robotic algorithms are presented formally, but using only mathematics known by high-school and first-year college students, such as calculus, matrices and probability. Concepts and algorithms are explained through detailed diagrams and calculations.
Elements of Robotics...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Fly-the-Camera Perspective: Control of a Remotely Operated Quadrotor UAV and Camera Unit
We have described the fly-the-camera approach to concurrent control of a camera positioner
and unmanned aerial vehicle in an operator friendly manner. We detailed the design of a
nonlinear controller as one possible embodiment of this philosophy. The fly-the-camera
approach considers a single robotic dynamic object which consists of an underactuated
aerial vehicle...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Predicting, Measuring and Tailoring Thermal Properties of Morphological and Structural Modified Polymeric Composite Materials
The instantaneous coefficient of linear thermal expansion in case of a multiphase polymeric
composite material is not an invariant value being very sensitive to the heterogeneities and
thermal regimes at which is subjected the measured sample. Its temperature dependence
reflects phase changing, degree of polymerization, differences...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In this chapter, four natural polyhydroxy alcohols (polyols), including xylitol, sorbitol, adonitol, and erythritol were selected as the subject of study on phase change materials for thermal energy storage application. The thermodynamic study on these polyols was performed by adiabatic calorimetry (AC), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and thermogravimetric analysis (TG). The heat capacities of these polyols were measured in the temperature...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Climate changes have already been noted all over the world. The reasons for these changes are complex and there are disagreements in the scientific community about the causes. Some scientists believe that changes are part of natural variability while others point to human activity as the cause of increasing atmospheric concentrations of green house gases (GHGs) and the key driver of climate changes. Many scientific studies come to the conclusion that...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In recent years, the production of hydrogen through dark fermentation has become increasingly popular because it is a sustainable approach to produce clean energy. Thus, an evaluation of studies reported on hydrogen production from different complex wastewaters will be of immense importance in economizing production technologies. This work presents a review of the advances in the bioreactor and bioprocess design for biohydrogen production from different...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Irrigation of agricultural land with wastewater is beneficial because it incorporates organic matter into the soil, as well as organic ions (such as nitrates, sulfates, and phosphates). However, long-term application causes negative effects such as the accumulation of heavy metals. The wastewater used in the agricultural soils, also incorporates organic refractory compounds, which affect the microbial population and fertility. This chapter aimed to...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Industrial wastewater generally contains significant amounts of toxic heavy metals that cause a problem of contamination to the environment. In this chapter, the use of polyelectrolytic waste as new coagulant-flocculating-chelating agents in the separation of Cu, Ni, Zn, Pb, Cd, Cr by a coagulation-flocculation process is discussed. The isoelectric point (ζ = 0) of the residual water was reached with a dose of 2.5 mg chitosan and observed a clarification...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Wastewater derived from food production is highly variable, depending on the specific types of food processing operations (e.g., fruit, vegetable, oils, dairy, meat, and fish). Advances in membranes technology have showed many advantages for wastewater treatment of food industry. By implementing membranes, the separated substances and clean water are often recoverable in a chemically unchanged form and are therefore easily re-used. Maximum benefits...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Coal mining sites and copper sulphide mines caused polluting acidic mine waters. Acidic mine drainage (AMD) into the natural streams and agricultural field irrigation waters causes environmental pollution with dissolved contents having heavy metals or acidic aqueous solutions of habitats and living fish in the local ponds and irrigation ponds. It is necessary to collect the polluted mine waters in the impermeable ponds and treat or neutralize the...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the residue materials considered as a potential source for biofuel production in the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED), which establishes that a minimum of 10% biofuels for transport shall be used in every Member State by 2020, thus promoting advanced biofuel from waste. A high-temperature gasification technology transforms MSW into a syngas rich in hydrogen and carbon monoxide and free of tar, char and harmful...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The predatory exploitation techniques used for the supply of protein resources have been systematically causing the decrease in seafood. The solution was sought in the form of marine farms, for the purpose of production of fish and seafood. Brazil created an incentive production of seafood in order to increase seafood production. In 1998, the state governments joined the project, encouraging the creation of marine farms without an assessment of the...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The intention with the recent chapter is to provide an illustration and to present some aspects of the evaluation on the potential possibilities of the application of clayey geological media for storage of wastes of nuclear origin. Following this short introduction in the second part an overview is given on the types and most important long life-time isotopes, and on the ongoing processes which might occur during the several thousand years of operation...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The work presented here uses agricultural wastes to prepare materials for effluent cleaning
with rice and beer production wastes, etherification of glycerol from biodiesel production, enzyme immobilisation and use in biodiesel preparation and Bioecomaterials for tissue
engineering and controlled desorption of bioactive substances.
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Torrefaction is a thermochemical process in a narrow temperature ranging from 200 to 300°C, where primarily hemicellulose fibers are depolymerized. This process is carried out under atmospheric pressure and in anaerobic conditions; heating ratio is low (...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Human development and society progress require solving many pressing issues, including sustainable energy production and environmental conservation. Thermoelectric power generation looks like promising opportunity converting huge heat from the sun and waste heat from industrial sector, housing appliances and infrastructure and automobile and other fuel combustion exhaust directly to electrical energy. Thermoelectric power generation will be of high...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Proper treatment of wastewater is important to human health and societal development, and the commonly applied wastewater treatment technologies based on aerobic treatment have a significant demand for energy. Thus, new treatment technologies with low energy consumption and possible recovery of valuable resources (e.g., energy and water) from wastewater become of strong interest. Among the newly developed concepts, microbial fuel cells (MFCs) integrated...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The present chapter shows the energetic potential of the solid organic wastes generated in Colombia and its capacity to produce biohydrogen by anaerobic fermentation; additionally is presented a research carried out at the Laboratory of Agricultural Mechanization of the National University of Colombia in Medellín between the years 2009 and 2012, which main aim was determinate the initial feasibility to generate biohydrogen from urban organics wastes...
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