This book features carefully selected articles on emerging technologies for waste valorization and environmental protection. The term "waste valorization" is used particularly in engineering, economics, technology, business, environmental and policy literature to refer to any unit operation or collection of operations targeted at reusing, recycling, composting or converting wastes into useful products or energy sources without harming the environment. The book discusses the rudimentary concept, and describes a range of emerging technologies in the field, including nano, fuel-cell and membrane technologies, as well as membrane bioreactors. It also examines in detail essential and common processes in waste valorization, such as rigorous chemical engineering applications, mathematical modeling and other trans-disciplinary approaches. The chapters present high-quality research papers from the IconSWM 2018 conference.

This book features carefully selected articles on emerging technologies for waste valorization and environmental protection. The term "waste valorization" is used particularly in engineering, economics, technology, business, environmental and policy literature to refer to any unit operation or collection of operations targeted at reusing, recycling, composting or converting wastes into useful products or energy sources without harming the environment. The book discusses the rudimentary concept, and describes a range of emerging technologies in the field, including nano, fuel-cell and membrane technologies, as well as membrane bioreactors. It also examines in detail essential and common processes in waste valorization, such as rigorous chemical engineering applications, mathematical modeling and other trans-disciplinary approaches. The chapters present high-quality research papers from the IconSWM 2018 conference.

Analysis on Symmetric spaces, or more generally, on homogeneous spaces of semisimple Lie groups, is a subject that has undergone a vigorous development in recent years, and has become a central part of contemporary mathematics. This is only to be expected, since homogeneous spaces and group representations arise naturally in diverse contexts ranging from Number theory and Geometry to Particle Physics and Polymer Chemistry. Its explosive growth sometimes makes it difficult to realize that it is actually relatively young as mathematical theories go. The early ideas in the subject (as is the case with many others) go back to Elie Cart an and Hermann Weyl who studied the compact symmetric spaces in the 1930's. However its full development did not begin until the 1950's when Gel'fand and Harish Chandra dared to dream of a theory of representations that included all semisimple Lie groups. Harish-Chandra's theory of spherical functions was essentially complete in the late 1950's, and was to prove to be the forerunner of his monumental work on harmonic analysis on reductive groups that has inspired a whole generation of mathematicians. It is the harmonic analysis of spherical functions on symmetric spaces, that is at the focus of this book. The fundamental questions of harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces involve an interplay of the geometric, analytical, and algebraic aspects of these spaces. They have therefore attracted a great deal of attention, and there have been many excellent expositions of the themes that are characteristic of this subject."

The understanding of signals and systems is a prerequisite to learning digital signal processing and communication systems. This book presents concepts of signals & systems using a large number of well-designed and illustrative solved problems. The book is suitable for a one-semester undergraduate level course in Signals and Systems, for students in Electronics and Communication, Electrical and Electronics and Computer Engineering programs, as well as Information Technology courses. The book is also valuable for post-graduate students and practising engineers for reviewing the basics of signals and systems. It covers topics ranging from introduction to signals and systems, continuous-time (CT) signals and systems, analysis of linear and time-invariant systems, continuous-time Fourier series, continuous-time Fourier transform, sampling, Laplace transform and Z transform. MATLAB codes for all the chapters are given along with a brief introduction. Salient Features: Precise and easy-to-understand presentation of the subject, with the help of a large number of solved problems. Plenty of MATLAB programs included at the end of each chapter Additional exercises at the end of each chapter to allow the students to practice further. Thorough coverage of the subject from the basics to practical aspects. Separate chapters on 'Sampling' & 'Convolution and Correlation'

EMBEDDED REAL TIME SYSTEMS portrays hardware and software not as different domains, but rather as two implementation options along a continuum of options varying in their design metrics such as cost, performance, size, power and flexibility. The main aim of this text is to provide a foundation that supports the multithreaded style of programme in high reliability requirements of Embedded software. Three important trends, Integrated Circuits, Quality Compilers and Synthesis Technology enable the designer to describe the desired functionality in a high level programming language to generate an efficient custom hardware processor implementation.

Thermo-mechanical simulation is a very effective tool to understand the combined effect of heat and deformation on resulting microstructure and properties of steel and other material. Leading experts worldwide engaged in this important area of research have generated a plethora of valuable information. This compendium showcases some of the recent advancements made in this vibrant field of materials’ research. Wide ranging themes covered in this compendium include inter alia recrystallization, precipitation & grain growth; simulation of hot deformation processes; Niobium microalloyed steels; thermo-mechanical controlled processing; hot deformation behaviour of stainless steels; mathematical modelling of metallurgical processes; process optimization & quality improvement; structure-property correlation; emerging steel products; welding process & simulation; and materials processing & characterization. The wealth of information contained in this book will definitely help in steering the future course of research in this highly exciting field, leading to new material development, process optimisation and quality & yield improvement.