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Sensors are all around us. They are in phones, cars, planes,
trains, robots, mils, lathes, packaging lines, chemical plants,
power plants, etc. Modern technology could not exist without
sensors. The sensors measure what we need to know and the control
system then performs the desired actions. When an engineer builds
any machine he or she needs to have basic understanding about
sensors. Correct sensors need to be selected for the design right
from the start. The designer needs to think about the ranges,
required accuracy, sensor cost, wiring, correct installation and
placement etc. Without the basic knowledge of sensors fundamental
no machine can be built successfully today. The objective of this
book is to provide the basic knowledge to electrical and mechanical
engineers, engineering students and hobbyist from the field of
sensors to help them with the selection of "proper" sensors for
their designs. No background knowledge in electrical engineering is
required, all the necessary basics are provided. The book explains
how a sensor works, in what ranges it can be used, with what
accuracy etc. It also provides examples of industrial application
for selected sensors. The book covers all the major variables in
mechanical engineering such as temperature, force, torque,
pressure, humidity, position, speed, acceleration etc. The approach
is always as follows: - Explain how the sensor works, what is the
principle - Explain in what ranges and with what accuracy it can
work - Describe its properties with charts, eventually equations -
Give examples of such sensors including application examples
Sensors are all around us. They are in phones, cars, planes,
trains, robots, mils, lathes, packaging lines, chemical plants,
power plants, etc. Modern technology could not exist without
sensors. The sensors measure what we need to know and the control
system then performs the desired actions. When an engineer builds
any machine he or she needs to have basic understanding about
sensors. Correct sensors need to be selected for the design right
from the start. The designer needs to think about the ranges,
required accuracy, sensor cost, wiring, correct installation and
placement etc. Without the basic knowledge of sensors fundamental
no machine can be built successfully today. The objective of this
book is to provide the basic knowledge to electrical and mechanical
engineers, engineering students and hobbyist from the field of
sensors to help them with the selection of "proper" sensors for
their designs. No background knowledge in electrical engineering is
required, all the necessary basics are provided. The book explains
how a sensor works, in what ranges it can be used, with what
accuracy etc. It also provides examples of industrial application
for selected sensors. The book covers all the major variables in
mechanical engineering such as temperature, force, torque,
pressure, humidity, position, speed, acceleration etc. The approach
is always as follows: - Explain how the sensor works, what is the
principle - Explain in what ranges and with what accuracy it can
work - Describe its properties with charts, eventually equations -
Give examples of such sensors including application examples
Acid rain is still with us. Although it is a problem that people
have worked diligently to solve, there are still many problem areas
throughout the world. In reality the focus of acid rain research
has shifted, and this book adds new vision to the topic. It
contains papers, selected from Acid Rain 2005, the 7th
International Conference on Acid Deposition, that take a broad
perspective of the issues, emphasizing a number of themes: - the
emission, concentration and deposition of pollutants - nitrogen and
trace elements in ecosystems and their effects on forests, water
and soil - studies of material damage and recovery - critical
loads.
This Special Issue of Water, Air and Soil Pollution offers original
contributions from BIOGEOMON, an international symposium on
ecosystem behavior and the evaluation of integrated monitoring of
small catchments, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September
1993. The meeting attracted nearly 200 scientists from 27 countries
on five continents. BIOGEOMON was a loose continuation of another
international meeting, GEOMON, which was held in Prague in 1987.
Both sym posia provided a forum for the discussion of ideas on
environmental problems in western and eastern Europe, with
important contributions from the American continent. With the
dramatic collapse of the iron curtain, it was our hope that more so
than GEOMON, BIOGEOMON would provide opportunities for the free
exchange of ideas, fostering the development of research
collaborations between its participants. With international
openness comes the increasing realization that every indus
trialized nation has its own legacy of environmental degradation.
Anthropogenic impacts differ in severity and scale; air and water
transport of pollutants transform local impacts into regional and
global ones, ignoring political boundaries and eco nomic
differences. Environmental consequences of anthropogenic activities
often are detectable at the ecosystem level. Thus, the challenge of
ecosystem science, and to the individuals who practice it, is to
develop a comprehensive understanding of ecosystem function in the
past and at present, and to apply such understanding toward
minimizing future insults to the local, regional, and global
environment.
Here is a collection of papers from BIOGEOMON, The Fourth
International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior. The contributions
address a wider-than-ever range of concerns: aspects of catchment
monitoring and modeling; nitrogen transformations and processes;
stable and radiogenic isotopes; biogeochemistry of restored
ecosystems; and the dynamics of such chemicals as mercury and
phosphorous, among many other topics.
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Biogeochemical Investigations at Watershed, Landscape, and Regional Scales - Refereed papers from BIOGEOMON, The Third International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior; Co-Sponsored by Villanova University and the Czech Geological Survey; held at Villanova University, Villanova Pennsylvania, USA, June 21-25, 1997 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
R. Kelman Wieder, Martin Novak, Jiri Cerny
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This Special Issue of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution offers
original contributions from BIOGEOMON, The Third International
Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior, which was held on the campus
ofVillanova University from June 21-25, 1997. Previous meetings
were held in Prague in 1987 and again in 1993. The BIOGEOMON series
was initiated in 1987 when a group of researchers from the Czech
Geological Survey organized a conference called GEOMON, Geochemical
Monitoring in Representative Basins. GEOMON was fairly narrowly
focused on monitoring of element pools and fluxes on a small
watershed scale. As signalled by the change in name to BIOGEOMON,
the second conference explicitly recognized that assessment of
anthropogenic effects on ecosystem processes requires a combination
of geochemical monitoring with other approaches, including
watershed-level manipulations, use of radioactive and stable
isotopic tracers, and both empirical and process modeling. The 1997
BIOGEOMON conference was the largest, with over 240 participants
from 28 countries on five continents in attendance, and broadest in
scope. The conference featured a plenary speaker, six keynote
speakers, 35 invited speakers, over 60 oral contributed
presentations, and over 75 poster presentations.
Here is a collection of papers from BIOGEOMON, The Fourth
International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior. The contributions
address a wider-than-ever range of concerns: aspects of catchment
monitoring and modeling; nitrogen transformations and processes;
stable and radiogenic isotopes; biogeochemistry of restored
ecosystems; and the dynamics of such chemicals as mercury and
phosphorous, among many other topics.
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Biogeochemical Investigations at Watershed, Landscape, and Regional Scales - Refereed papers from BIOGEOMON, The Third International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior; Co-Sponsored by Villanova University and the Czech Geological Survey; held at Villanova University, Villanova Pennsylvania, USA, June 21-25, 1997 (Hardcover, Reprinted from WATER, AIR, AND SOIL POLLUTION, 105:1-2, 1998)
R. Kelman Wieder, Martin Novak, Jiri Cerny
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R6,084
Discovery Miles 60 840
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This Special Issue of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution offers
original contributions from BIOGEOMON, The Third International
Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior, which was held on the campus
ofVillanova University from June 21-25, 1997. Previous meetings
were held in Prague in 1987 and again in 1993. The BIOGEOMON series
was initiated in 1987 when a group of researchers from the Czech
Geological Survey organized a conference called GEOMON, Geochemical
Monitoring in Representative Basins. GEOMON was fairly narrowly
focused on monitoring of element pools and fluxes on a small
watershed scale. As signalled by the change in name to BIOGEOMON,
the second conference explicitly recognized that assessment of
anthropogenic effects on ecosystem processes requires a combination
of geochemical monitoring with other approaches, including
watershed-level manipulations, use of radioactive and stable
isotopic tracers, and both empirical and process modeling. The 1997
BIOGEOMON conference was the largest, with over 240 participants
from 28 countries on five continents in attendance, and broadest in
scope. The conference featured a plenary speaker, six keynote
speakers, 35 invited speakers, over 60 oral contributed
presentations, and over 75 poster presentations.
The BIOGEOMON conference, held in Prague, September 1993, was
dedicated to the use of geochemistry and biology in the elucidation
of biogeochemical processes in the context of research on small
catchments, which are natural systems that lend themselves to the
study of environmental problems at the ecosystem level.
Biogeochemical Monitoring in Small Catchments, which contains
reviewed papers from the conference, includes long-term studies of
nutrient cycling in forested catchments, effects of anthropogenic
action on streamwater chemistry, stable isotope studies for tracing
biogeochemical processes, determination of the process rates, and
mathematical modelling of ecosystem behaviour and mass fluxes. For
research scientists and students of ecology, biology, hydrology and
geochemistry as well as professionals in natural resources
management.
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