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This text provides a concise introduction to non-equilibrium thermodynamics of open, complex systems using a first-principles approach. In the first chapters, the principles of thermodynamics of complex systems are discussed. The subsequent chapters apply the principles to the dynamics of chemical reactions and complex fluids, growth and development of biological organisms, and the dynamics of social structures and institutes. The final chapter discusses the principles of science as an artificial system.The book is a valuable reference text for researchers interested in thermodynamics and complex systems, and useful supplementary reading for graduate courses on advanced thermodynamics, thermodynamics of non-equilibrium systems and thermodynamics of complex/open systems.

Thermodynamics. --- Thermodynamic equilibrium. --- Computational complexity. --- Thermodynamics & heat. --- SCIENCE / Mechanics / Thermodynamics.

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Thermo-ecology: Exergy as a Measure of Sustainability integrates thermo-ecology and exergy replacement cost as a new and original tool called thermo-ecology cost, or TEC. This tool allows for a more inclusive measurement of the impacts of using renewable and non-renewable resources by including the thermodynamics law in decision-making and presenting applications of this tool across industries and lifecycle assessments. It includes ways to investigate these effects more effectively by combining these critical aspects. This combination has emerged as a valuable decision-support tool for policymakers and the industry as they seek to evaluate the impacts of a product or process.

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"Nuclear Reactor Dynamics and Control presents the latest knowledge and research in reactor dynamics, control and instrumentation; increasingly important factors in ensuring the safe and economic operation of nuclear power plants. This book provides next-generation engineers with one single resource containing all relevant information, including the operational features and dynamic characterises of key reactors such as large light-water reactors and CANDU heavy-water reactors, extended onto small modular reactors, sodium fast reactors, molten-salt reactors, gas-cooled reactors, and others. It covers the dynamic modelling, response characteristic, plant control strategies and other basic instrumentation factors, while also rounding off the discussion by considering neutron kinetics, thermal-hydraulics and control principles"--

Nuclear reactors. --- Nuclear reactors --- Thermodynamics. --- Control. --- Models. --- Reactor thermodynamics --- Thermodynamics --- Atomic piles --- Chain reaction piles --- Reactors (Nuclear physics) --- Neutron transport theory --- Nuclear energy --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear physics --- Nuclear propulsion

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Zu berücksichtigende Vorgaben aus Normen und Gesetzen bilden ein komplexes System mit vielschichtigen Wechselwirkungen. Mit Fokus auf Druckgeräte (Behälter und Rohrleitungen) und Maschinen, die in Europa in Verkehr gebracht werden sollen (CE-Kennzeichen!), bietet dieses Fachbuch eine Einführung in die Welt der Normen und Gesetze. Neben Philosophie und Struktur der Verbindlichkeiten vermittelt es notwendiges Fachwissen für die Konstruktion und Planung von Produkten. Es verdeutlicht die Verantwortung von Konstrukteuren und Planern und solchen, die es werden wollen. Das Buch hilft Ihnen bei der Analyse der Vorgaben und der Beschaffung der Informationen. Der Inhalt Rechtliche Grundlagen Normung Rechtliche Motive zur Verwendung von Normen Hinweise für die Erstellung der Analyse Basiswissen Normen Basiswissen zur europäischen Richtlinie 2014/68/EU (DGRL) Basiswissen zur europäischen Richtlinie 2006/42/EG (MRL) Basiswissen CE-Kennzeichnung komplexer Anlagen Die Zielgruppen Ingenieure in Konstruktion, Planung und Durchführung, Projekt- und Engineering-Manager Studierende und Berufseinsteiger Der Autor Dipl.-Ing. Werner Fellner kann auf Projektmanagement und Konstruktionsleitung in Automobilindustrie und Prototypenbau sowie fast 20 Jahre in der Normung für den internationalen Anlagenbau zurückgreifen. Sein Arbeitsschwerpunkt liegt neben der Erstellung und Beschaffung von Normen in der Unterstützung von Projekten im Chemieanlagenbau in Europa.

Project management. --- Mechanical engineering. --- Engineering design. --- Thermodynamics. --- Heat engineering. --- Heat transfer. --- Mass transfer. --- Industrial engineering. --- Production engineering. --- Project Management. --- Mechanical Engineering. --- Engineering Design. --- Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer. --- Industrial and Production Engineering.

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This essential provides an overview of the changes in our climate, their causes and their consequences. Today, humanity's energy needs are largely met in ways that are harmful to the climate. The alternative to this, solar energy, would satisfy our needs thousands of times over. But this option is far too little used for mainly economic reasons. This essential discusses the energy converters that can be used to make solar energy available. Some other modern energy sources, such as nuclear power, are either inadequate, still utopian, or otherwise environmentally harmful. An outlook shows that our energy problem could easily be solved with economic reason by global use of solar energy. The climate could be stabilized in time This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Unser Klima und das Energieproblem by Klaus Stierstadt, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The content The climate - The energy demand - The sun - Solar energy converters -Non-solar energy sources The target groups Students of natural science, teachers of natural science subjects, people interested in climate and environment The author Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.. Klaus Stierstadt is professor emeritus of physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and author of several physics textbooks. He was a member of the board of the German Physical Society as well as vice president of the University of Munich and is honorary senator of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His fields of work are radioactivity of the atmosphere, magnetism, phase transitions, neutron scattering and magnetohydrodynamics.

Thermodynamics --- Physics --- Relation between energy and economics --- Applied physical engineering --- thermodynamica --- toegepaste wetenschappen --- hernieuwbare energie --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- fysica --- Solar energy..