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…
Establishing Photocatalytic Kinetic Rate Equations: Basic Principles and Parameters -- Novel Photocatalytic Reactors for Water and Air Treatment -- Photocatalysts, Radiation Sources and Auxiliary Equipment for Photocatalysis -- The Irradiation Field in Photocatalytic Reactors -- Kinetic Modeling of the Photocatalytic Reaction Network: The Parallel-Series Approximation -- The Energy Efficiency F…
Preliminary Material -- Identification in Closed Loop for Better Control Design -- Dealing with Controller Singularities in Closed-loop Identification -- Model and Controller Validation for Robust Control in a Prediction-error Framework -- Control-oriented Model Reduction and Controller Reduction -- Some Final Words.Many process control books focus on control design techniques, taking the const…
Fluid Mechanics I -- Fluid Mechanics II -- Exercises in Fluid Mechanics -- Gasdynamics -- Exercises in Gasdynamics -- Aerodynamics Laboratory.Despite dramatic advances in numerical and experimental methods of fluid mechanics, the fundamentals are still the starting point for solving flow problems. This textbook introduces the major branches of fluid mechanics of incompressible and compressible …
The Hermite-Biehler Theorem and its Generalization -- PI Stabilization of Delay-Free Linear Time-Invariant Systems -- PID Stabilization of Delay-Free Linear Time-Invariant Systems -- Preliminary Results for Analyzing Systems with Time Delay -- Stabilization of Time-Delay Systems using a Constant Gain Feedback Controller -- PI Stabilization of First-Order Systems with Time Delay -- PID Stabiliza…
Effect of density and carbonates on thermal properties of virgin soil -- Enviro-economic evalaution of dumpsite rehabilitation solutions in developing countries -- Geosynthetics, an emerging engineered technology in soil stabilization in the third world nations for sustainable development -- Geoenvironmental impact of bauxite residue stabilized with fly ash and gypsum to mitigate the leaching p…
Application of clay based ion exchanger materials for treatment of harmful water pollutants -- Application of ion exchange chromatography in environmental analysis -- Applications of composite ion exchangers for the treatment of natural dyes -- Applications of composite ion exchangers for the treatment of synthetic dyes -- Composite cation exchanger for the treatment of heavy metals -- Green ap…