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As global demands for energy and lower carbon emissions rise,
developing systems of energy conversion and storage becomes
necessary. This book explores how Electrochemical Energy Storage
and Conversion (EESC) devices are promising advanced power systems
that can directly convert chemical energy in fuel into power, and
thereby aid in proposing a solution to the global energy crisis.
The book focuses on high-temperature electrochemical devices that
have a wide variety of existing and potential applications,
including the creation of fuel cells for power generation,
production of high-purity hydrogen by electrolysis, high-purity
oxygen by membrane separation, and various high-temperature
batteries. High-Temperature Electrochemical Energy Conversion and
Storage: Fundamentals and Applications provides a comprehensive
view of the new technologies in high-temperature electrochemistry.
Written in a clear and detailed manner, it is suitable for
developers, researchers, or students of any level.
This study examines the Chinese model of modern development,
reflecting on the historical experience of China's reform and
highlighting theoretical issues that are crucial for understanding
the reform in its historical and global contexts. Bringing together
articles from scholars, including designers of and active
participants in the reform, opinion setters in the current debates
on the nature and future of the reform, and Western scholars whose
ideas have had great impact on Chinese intellectuals, the book
considers the goals of China's reforms and the ways in which these
goals may be achieved, the most urgent issues now facing China, and
globalization and its impact on China.
This book examines the Chinese model of modern development,
reflecting on the historical experience of China's reform, and
highlighting theoretical issues that are crucial for understanding
the reform in its historical and global contexts. The book brings
together scholars, who were either designers of, and active
participants in, the reform, or opinion setters in the current
debates on the nature and future of the reform, or western scholars
whose ideas have had great impact on Chinese intellectuals.
Throughout the book considers the goals of China's reforms and the
ways in which these goals may be achieved, the most urgent issues
now facing China, and globalisation and its impact on China.
As global demands for energy and lower carbon emissions rise,
developing systems of energy conversion and storage becomes
necessary. This book explores how Electrochemical Energy Storage
and Conversion (EESC) devices are promising advanced power systems
that can directly convert chemical energy in fuel into power, and
thereby aid in proposing a solution to the global energy crisis.
The book focuses on high-temperature electrochemical devices that
have a wide variety of existing and potential applications,
including the creation of fuel cells for power generation,
production of high-purity hydrogen by electrolysis, high-purity
oxygen by membrane separation, and various high-temperature
batteries. High-Temperature Electrochemical Energy Conversion and
Storage: Fundamentals and Applications provides a comprehensive
view of the new technologies in high-temperature electrochemistry.
Written in a clear and detailed manner, it is suitable for
developers, researchers, or students of any level.
This new edition of Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field
Theories explores the conceptual foundations and historical roots
of fundamental field theories. It also uncovers the underlying
issues, logic and dynamics in fundamental physics. In response to
new advances in the field over the past twenty years, the sections
on gauge theory and quantum field theory have been thoroughly
revised and elaborated. The chapter on ontological synthesis and
scientific realism has also been reconsidered, now suggesting a new
approach that goes beyond structuralism and historicism. Providing
an integrated picture of the physical world, it is a valuable
resource for theoretical physicists and philosophers of science
with an interest in the development of twentieth century
mathematical physics. It also provides professional historians and
sociologists of science with a basis for further historical,
cultural and sociological analysis of the theories discussed.
The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was
one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This
book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of
QCD, placing them in historical context against the background of
debates that were ongoing between the bootstrap approach and
composite modeling, and between mathematical and realistic
conceptions of quarks. It explains the origins of QCD in current
algebra and its development through high-energy experiments,
model-building, mathematical analysis and conceptual synthesis.
Addressing a range of complex physical, philosophical and
historiographical issues in detail, this book will interest
graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and
philosophy of science.
Quantum field theory is a powerful language for the description of
the subatomic constituents of the physical world and the laws and
principles that govern them. This book contains up-to-date in-depth
analyses, by a group of eminent physicists and philosophers of
science, of our present understanding of its conceptual
foundations, of the reasons why this understanding has to be
revised so that the theory can go further, and of possible
directions in which revisions may be promising and productive.
These analyses will be of interest to graduate students and
research workers in physics who want to know about the foundational
problems of their subject. The book will also be of interest to
professional philosophers, historians and sociologists of science,
because it contains much material for metaphysical and
methodological reflections, for historical and cultural analyses,
and for sociological analyses of the way in which various factors
contribute to the way the foundations are revised.
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