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A glimpse of the savvy that built a global corporation from scratch Hess: The Last Oil Baron profiles a titan of the oil industry, mapping the journey of the quintessential American dream. The story of Leon Hess follows an immigrant kosher butcher's son as he builds an...
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Bloomberg Press
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2015-10-30
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Bloomberg
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This book explains how lightweight materials and structures can be deployed in buildings to meet high environmental and aesthetic standards and emphasizes how the concept of lightness in building technology and design dovetails with the desire to enhance landscape. The...
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Springer
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2015-10-13
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SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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This SpringerBrief reviews currently applied and potential solutions for improving the efficiency and quality of rural electricity supply in India, a major bottleneck for agricultural development. It provides background on the current state of supply and reviews recent...
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Springer
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2015-08-29
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SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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Global energy network is an important platform to guarantee effective exploitation of global clean energy and ensure reliable energy supply for everybody.Global Energy Interconnection analyzes the current situation and challenges of global energy development, provides...
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Academic Press
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2015-08-28
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Prolonged economic downturn is forcing policy makers and professors to examine how to improve economic development. State and regional governments are therefore moving from public sector-led strategies to private sector-led strategies to enact substantial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-05
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The book focuses on low-carbon issues and China’s economy, which is analyzed from the perspective of electricity economics. It proposes the novel concept of an “economic gene” to reflect certain characteristics of the economy.The gene mapping of China’s economy has been...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-07-30
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This monograph provides a field-proven approach to analyze industrial production with a cross-company scope as well as regarding all hierarchical system levels of manufacturing enterprises. The book exemplifies this approach in the context of aluminum die casting, and...
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Springer
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2015-07-25
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Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
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Safe and Secure Transport and Storage of Radioactive Materials reviews best practice and emerging techniques in this area. The transport of radioactive materials is an essential operation in the nuclear industry, without which the generation of nuclear power would not...
Editeur :
Woodhead Publishing
Parution :
2015-07-24
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This book examines various facets of the development process such as aid, poverty, caste networks, corruption, and judicial activism. It explores the efficiency of and distributional issues related to agriculture, and the roles of macro models and financial markets,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-20
Collection :
India Studies in Business and Economics
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Dominik Eller untersucht den Einsatz von großtechnischen Elektrodenkesseln, mit denen Stromüberschüsse aus erneuerbaren Energien in Heißwasser oder Dampf für Fernwärmenetze umgewandelt werden können. Dabei werden sowohl gegenwärtige als auch zukünftige Potentiale und...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
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2015-07-13
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BestMasters
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This book investigates the functioning and ecosystems of biorefineries and assesses the potential of the industrial bioeconomy. The authors present a case study of the biorefinery at Bazancourt Pomacle, near Reims, France, as an outstanding illustration of the creation,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-12
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This monograph presents a reliable methodology for characterising the energy and eco-efficiency of unit manufacturing processes. The Specific Energy Consumption, SEC, will be identified as the key indicator for the energy efficiency of unit processes. An empirical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-13
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Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
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Compendium of Hydrogen Energy: Hydrogen Production and Purification, the first text in a four-volume series, focuses on the production of hydrogen. As many experts believe that the hydrogen economy will eventually replace the fossil fuel economy as our primary source of...
Editeur :
Woodhead Publishing
Parution :
2015-05-23
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This book provides fascinating examples of the ways renewable and sustainable energy can support economic growth, which will be illuminating for academic researchers and students, as well as those interested in green investment opportunities. The distinctive glacial,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-05-06
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SpringerBriefs in Energy
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This book details the relationships between microstructure, interface roughness, and properties of thermal barrier coatings. The author proposes a method for the reduction of the thermal conductivity of the ceramic layer in order to increase the lifetime of thermal...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-05-05
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SpringerBriefs in Materials
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This book shares the latest developments and advances in materials and processes involved in the energy generation, transmission, distribution and storage. Chapters are written by researchers in the energy and materials field.Topics include, but are not limited to,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-21
Collection :
Green Energy and Technology
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The present book maximizes reader insights into the current and future roles to be played by different types of renewable energy sources and nuclear energy for the purpose of electricity generation in the European region as a whole and in a select group of European...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-21
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Peak Load and Capacity Pricing lays out clear pricing strategies for understanding peak load and capacity pricing structures, further cementing electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-09
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The last decade has seen a far-reaching revolution in the oil industry, both in the US and globally. By some measures, America is on pace to become the world's biggest oil producer, an outcome that was inconceivable just a few years ago. But what does this shift really...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-18
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This volume brings together research on development in three major areas of contemporary global relevance: agriculture and food security, energy, and the institutions of national innovation. Covering six of the largest emerging and developing economies (EDEs) in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-03-13
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