This book covers recent advances and contributions to the area of digital signal processing. It starts with a revisit and a rewriting of the sampli...

Over the past five years, the Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences has engaged thousands of scientists around the world to study ...

Previous research on the effects of wind energy facilities on surrounding home values has been limited by small samples of relevant home-sale data ...

The U.S. pulp and paper industry consumes over $7 billion worth of purchased fuels and electricity per year. Energy efficiency improvement is an im...

Coal has long been the major fossil fuel used to produce electricity. However, coal-fired electric power plants are one of the largest sources of a...

The Hanford Site, in south-eastern Washington State, is a former nuclear defence production facility. A groundwater plume containing uranium, origi...

Book & CD-ROM. The U.S. industrial sector accounts for the largest share of energy consumption in the country, and energy efficiency improveme...

This book presents the latest research findings in modern technological developments based on synthetic chemicals that are highly toxic to the huma...

Today's buildings consume more energy than any other sector of the U.S. economy, including transportation and industry. The Energy Information Admi...

An insulator, also called a dielectric, is a material that resists the flow of electric current. An insulating material has atoms with tightly bond...

This book presents current research in the study of photofunctional hybrid materials having potential applications for current issues relating to e...

Many countries, reflecting very different geographies, markets, and power systems, are successfully managing high levels of variable renewable ener...

This book presents an assessment by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the outlook for international energy markets through 2035. ...

Currently, 437 civilian nuclear power reactors are operating in 29 countries, and 56 more are under construction. After the Chernobyl accident, rep...

This book reviews research on electrostatic measurements, including topics such as the design and practical features of 'field mill' electrostatics...

This book provides an insight to the wide range of electricity generating technologies available today or under development. Also, provides an over...

All available sources of data for the specific isochoric heat capacity of technically important fluids and fluid mixtures have been collected and e...

The Department of Energy is the only domestic supplier for many of the over 300 different isotopes it sells that are critical to medical, commercia...

Among the oil-bearing tree species, Jatropha curcas is currently becoming an interesting crop for the production of biodiesel due to some of its in...

Recommendations for the establishment of unified principles for the efficiency estimation of renewable energy sources (RES) technologies and long-t...

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline has received considerable attention recently. If constructed, the pipeline would transport crude oil (eg: synthet...

TransCanada (a Canadian company) applied to the U.S. Department of State for a permit to cross the U.S.-Canada International border with the Keysto...

Large Power Transformers have long been a concern for the U.S. Electricity Sector, because the failure of a single unit can cause service interrupt...

This book presents new and significant research on electric power. The world is becoming increasingly electrified. For the foreseeable future, coal...

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs), a type of solid-state lighting (SSL), offers the electric lighting market a new and revolutionary light source that s...

This book presents topical research in the field of light-emitting diodes and the systems, uses and efficiency of optoelectronics. Topics discussed...

This book describes a high-level, technology-neutral framework for assessing potential benefits from and economic market potential for energy stora...

Liquid fuels are those combustible or energy-generating molecules that can be harnessed to create mechanical energy. Most liquid fuels, in widespre...

Lithium ion batteries, a class of chemical power sources that use an electrochemical process of lithium ion intercalation into or de-intercalation ...

The book first discusses the variety of sleep disorders in Huntington's Disease, as well as how sleep quality can be associated with other importan...

This book proposes the reversible logic Multiplexer and also demarcates between reversible and irreversible logic Multiplexers. For power reduction...

The manufacturing of bricks is an energy-intensive industry that contributes significantly to carbon dioxide emissions, with more than fifty chemic...

After several decades of decline and disfavour, nuclear power is attracting renewed interest. New permit applications for 30 reactors have been fil...

Until relatively recently, natural gas-rich shale formations throughout the United States were not considered to have significant resource value be...

Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are two proposed investment vehicles that have the potential to lower ...

Maximum Power Point Tracking: Background, Implementation and Classification presents state-of-art of existing conventional maximum power point tech...