This book offers a clear overview of how digital technologies and numerical methods are transforming modern energy systems. With rising demand for sustainable solutions, industries face challenges such as optimizing energy use, improving system reliability, and enhancing the performance of electric vehicles, microgrids, and energy storage systems. This book shows how tools like numerical analysis, deep learning, machine learning, and real-time simulation are being used to address these iss...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how digital transformation can revolutionize maritime infrastructure for enhanced energy management and emission reduction. As global industries strive to meet stringent environmental regulations and sustainability goals, the maritime sector faces significant challenges in reducing its carbon footprint and optimizing energy consumption. Through a systematic analysis of digital technologies such as IoT, artificial intelligence, and digital twi...

How the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past twenty-five years, often reinventing itself and shifting the basis for global competitive advantage.For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors, particularly the microchips essential to most electronic devices, have transformed computing, communications, entertainment, and industry. In Chips and Change, Clair Brow...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to strategically manage the movement and storage of products or materials from any point in the manufacturing process to customer fulfillment. Topics covered include important tools for strategic decision making, transport, packaging, warehousing, retailing, customer services and future trends. - An introduction to logistics - Provides practical applications - Discusses trends and new strategies in major parts of the logistic industry

There is currently significant interest in the development of small modular reactors (SMRs) for the generation of both electricity and process heat. SMRs offer potential benefits in terms of better affordability and enhanced safety, and can also be sited more flexibly than traditional nuclear plants. Small Modular Reactors: Nuclear Power Fad or Future? reviews SMR features, promises, and problems, also discussing what lies ahead for reactors of this type. The book is organized into three m...

How to build innovation and industrial ecosystems in the US that support global leadership in priority technologies of the future.A new world order is emerging, and within it, US priorities are shifting. A reconfiguration of global supply chains. The redrawing of geopolitical lines and alliances with increasing threats of conflict. A rise in weather-related disasters. And the emergence of transformative technologies. All these factors are converging to create an en...

This book serves as an in-depth exploration of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and their transformative potential in the modern energy landscape. It is designed to provide a thorough understanding of SMRs, from their technological foundations to their practical applications in power generation. Beginning with an overview of the evolution of nuclear technology, it delves into the unique benefits that SMRs offer over traditional nuclear reactors, such as enhanced safety features, modular const...

The manufacturing world is undergoing a massive digital transformation. Smart and connected infrastructures powered by artificial intelligence are bringing about yet another industrial revolution. Data based innovation is creating unprecedented opportunities for optimizing processes and gaining competitive advantage through new business models.In this book, we follow the magnificent story of the first three industrial revolutions in the tracks of great scientists, engineers and ind...

Renewable Energy Integration is a ground-breaking new resource - the first to offer a distilled examination of the intricacies of integrating renewables into the power grid and electricity markets. It offers informed perspectives from internationally renowned experts on the challenges to be met and solutions based on demonstrated best practices developed by operators around the world. The book's focus on practical implementation of strategies provides real-world context for theoretical und...

Advances and Innovations in Nuclear Decommissioning is an essential resource for industry professionals and academics interested in acquiring the most up-to-date information on the current state of nuclear decommissioning. Written and edited by the world's leading experts, this book considers lessons learned and new innovations in the field. Edited by Dr. Laraia, it is the perfect companion to his 2012 book, Nuclear Decommissioning, which critically reviews the nuclear decommissioning proc...

This book provides a coherent and systematic view of the key concepts, principles, and techniques in maritime container transport and logistics chains including all the main segments: international maritime trade and logistics, freight logistics, container logistics, vessel logistics, port and terminal management, and sustainability issues in maritime transport.Container Logistics and Maritime Transport emphasizes analytical methods and current optimization models to tackle challen...

This volume focuses on the broad scope of systems engineering and recent energy technology developments as they relate to the oil and gas industry, which remains a lifeline to communities around the world. In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to, among other things, curtail the catastrophe that will befall the world from the increasing menace of global warming and climate change. The best way to achieve most or all the goals is to use a comprehens...