This book focuses on gasoline compression ignition (GCI) which offers the prospect of engines with high efficiency and low exhaust emissions at a lower cost. A GCI engine is a compression ignition (CI) engine which is run on gasoline-like fuels (even on low-octane gasoline), making it significantly easier to control particulates and NOx but with high efficiency. The state of the art development to make GCI combustion feasible on practical vehicles is highlighted, e.g., on overcoming proble...

Objective of this study is to do a statistical comparison of operational and financial parameters of public and private sector banks operating in India. Public sector banks in India include all the nationalized banks as well as State Bank of India and its associates. Private sector banks include all the other scheduled commercial banks as well as all the foreign banks operating in India.

Microfinance has been defined as the provision of financial services to low-income population for whom traditional banking services are not accessible. Microfinance has proved as a reliable vehicle in alleviating poverty by providing credit facility especially in the rural and semi-urban areas. Microfinance has been described as ‘philanthropy through industry’ on account of its social dimension and has anecdotally helped the poor better their lives by kick-starting economic activity and in...

Petroleum Production Engineering, A Computer-Assisted Approach provides handy guidelines to designing, analyzing and optimizing petroleum production systems. Broken into four parts, this book covers the full scope of petroleum production engineering, featuring stepwise calculations and computer-based spreadsheet programs. Part one contains discussions of petroleum production engineering fundamentals, empirical models for production decline analysis, and the performance of oil and natural g...

With this guide, you will be able to make even your first trade like a pro.My team and I evaluate that Bitcoin, which tested the $13440 level on the date of the book's publication in October 2020, gaining about 30% compared to last month, is now only showing us the trailer and is on the brink of a major rally. With the stock markets gradually recovering from the pandemic effect, it is very likely that there will be a bull market for cryptocurrencies that will last ...

The demand for energy consumption is increasing rapidly. To avoid the impending energy crunch, more producers are switching from oil to natural gas. While natural gas engineering is well documented through many sources, the computer applications that provide a crucial role in engineering design and analysis are not well published, and emerging technologies, such as shale gas drilling, are generating more advanced applications for engineers to utilize on the job. To keep producers updated, ...

Taxmann's flagship publication for Students on Income Tax & GST Law(s) has been designed to bridge the gap between theory and application. This book is written in simple language, explaining the provision of the law in a step-by-step manner – with the help of suitable illustrations, without resorting to paraphrasing of sections and legal jargons.This book is an authentic, up to date & amended textbook on Income Tax & GST for students of CA Intermediate (May/Nov. 22), CS Exe...

This book provides details on various micro and precision manufacturing and finishing operations performed by conventional and advanced processes, including micro-manufacturing of micro-tools and precision finishing of engineered components. It describes the process mechanism, principles and parameters while performing micro-fabrication and precision finishing operations. The text provides the readers with knowledge of micro and precision manufacturing and encourages them to explore the fu...

Underground pipelines transporting liquid petroleum products and natural gas are critical components of civil infrastructure, making corrosion prevention an essential part of asset-protection strategy. Underground Pipeline Corrosion provides a basic understanding of the problems associated with corrosion detection and mitigation, and of the state of the art in corrosion prevention. The topics covered in part one include: basic principles for corrosion in underground pipelines, AC-induced c...

Whilst inkjet technology is well-established on home and small office desktops and is now having increasing impact in commercial printing, it can also be used to deposit materials other than ink as individual droplets at a microscopic scale. This allows metals, ceramics, polymers and biological materials (including living cells) to be patterned on to substrates under precise digital control. This approach offers huge potential advantages for manufacturing, since inkjet methods can be used ...

This book focuses on clean transport and mobility essential to the modern world. It discusses internal combustion engines (ICEs) and alternatives like battery electric vehicles (BEVs) which are growing fast. Alternatives to ICEs start from a very low base and face formidable environmental, material availability, and economic challenges to unlimited and rapid growth. Hence ICEs will continue to be the main power source for transport for decades to come and have to be continuously improved t...

Welding of Metallic Materials: Methods, Metallurgy and Performance looks at technical welding methods used based on different principles and sources, such as heat, with or without pressure, electrical, plasma, laser and cold-based welding. The metallurgical aspects associated with the welding processes, specifically those associated with metallic alloys, are explained, alongside the advantages and welding features that are associated with specific welding processes. In addition, the perfor...