Introduction -- Thermodynamics, Fundamentals -- Thermodynamics, Power Cycles -- Thermodynamics, Mixtures -- Fluid Mechanics, Single-Phase Flow Fundamentals -- Fluid Mechanics, Flow of Incompressible Viscous Fluid -- Fluid Mechanics, Flow of Compressible Viscous Fluid -- Heat Transfer, Conduction -- Heat Transfer, Forced Convection -- Heat Transfer, Free Convection -- Heat Transfer, Thermal Radi…
Dielectric Properties of Water and Moist Substances -- Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Water and Aqueous Solutions -- Water in Polymers and Biopolymers Studied by Dielectric Techniques -- Thermal and Geometrical Effects on Bulk Permittivity of Porous Mixtures Containing Bound Water -- Model Systems for Materials with High Dielectric Losses in Aquametry -- Moisture Measurement in Multi-La…
Adaptive Control Systems -- Process Modelling and Identification for Use in Self-tuning Controllers -- Self-tuning PID Controllers -- Algebraic Methods for Self-tuning Controller Design -- Self-tuning Linear Quadratic Controllers -- Computer-aided Design for Self-tuning Controllers -- Application of Self-tuning Controllers.Adaptive control theory has developed significantly over the past few ye…
Basic Concepts -- Volumetry / Manometry -- Gravimetry -- Volumetric — Gravimetric Measurements -- Oscillometry -- Impedance Spectroscopy -- Adsorption Isotherms.This book is intended to present for the first time experimental methods to measure equilibria states of pure and mixed gases being adsorbed on the surface of solid materials. It has been written for engineers and scientists from indu…
K. Schügerl: Extraction of Primary and Secondary Metabolites -- A. Aivasidis, V.I. Diamantis: Biochemical Reaction Engineering and Process Development in Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment -- A. Knoll, B. Maier, H. Tscherrig, J. Büchs.: On the Oxygen Mass Transfer, Carbon Dioxide Inhibition, Heat Removal and Energetic and Cost Efficiency of High Pressure Fermentations -- J. Hubbuch, J. Thömmes, …
Lectures -- Natural Gas: Fuel or Feedstock? -- Molecular Chemistry of Alkane Activation -- Economics of Alkane Conversion -- Theoretical Basis of the Activation of Light Alkanes -- Surface Organometallic Chemistry of Tantalum: Application to the Metathesis of Alkanes Catalyzed by a Tantalum Hydride Supported on Silica -- The Challenges in Converting Remote Natural Gas to Valuable Products -- Al…
Catalyst Characterization -- Acquisition and Evaluation of Reaction Rate Data -- Adsorption and Desorption Process -- Kinetic Data Analysis and Evaluation of Model Parameters for Uniform (Ideal) Surfaces -- Modeling Reactions on Uniform (Ideal) Surfaces -- Modeling Reaction on Nonuniform (Nonideal) Surfaces -- Kinetics of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions.This textbook contains all the information nee…
Technological Basis of Bulk-Silicon-Microtechnique -- Orientation Dependent Etching of Silicon -- General Overview of the Shape- and Functional Elements and the Procedure of their Design -- Simple Shape Elements -- Elements for Mechanical Applications -- Elements for Fluidic Applications -- Elements for Optical Applications.This methodic manual presents a survey of the form-related and function…
Emergent Computation: Bioinformatics -- A Review of Chemistry -- A Review of Aspects of Automata Theory -- The Beginning Numbers -- Regular Languages: DNA and RNA -- Context-Free Languages: DNA and RNA -- Context-Sensitive Languages: DNA, RNA, Proteins -- Turing Machines and Sub-Turing Machines -- Splicing Systems, H Systems -- tRNA Structure -- Semigroups and Bioinformatics -- Automata Theory …
Molecules for Gene Therapy -- Recent Progress in Non-viral Gene Delivery -- Physical Chemistry of DNA-Carrier Complexes -- Liposomes -- Polymeric Gene Carriers -- Development of a Supramolecular Nanocarrier for Gene Delivery Based on Cationic Block Copolymers -- Chitosan -- Dendrimers as DNA Carriers -- Use of Synthetic Peptides for Non-viral Gene Delivery -- An Oligonucleotide Carrier Based on…