1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557298703321

Autore

Martínez Justino

Titolo

Ten Years of Remote Sensing at Barcelona Expert Center

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Soggetti

Geography

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the Barcelona Expert Center by presenting recent contributions related to the topics on which the team has been working during these years. The Barcelona Expert Center expertise covers a wide variety of remote sensing fields, but the main focus of the research is on the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) data processing and its ocean, land, and ice applications. This book contains 14 scientific papers addressing topics that range from the description of the new data processing algorithms that are implemented in the last version of the operational SMOS Level 1 processor, to scientific applications derived from SMOS: results on the sea surface salinity assimilation in coastal models; synergies of the sea surface salinity with temperature and chlorophyll, and their impact on the better retrieval of ocean surface currents; quality assessment of SMOS derived sea ice thickness; sea surface salinity; and soil moisture products, among others. Moreover, one of the papers verifies the potential of the future CIMR mission within the CMEMS SSS operational production after the SMOS era.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910590061203321

Autore

Sudalyandi Kaliappan

Titolo

Biofuel Production Using Anaerobic Digestion / / by Kaliappan Sudalyandi, Rajeshbanu Jeyakumar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

981-19-3743-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 pages)

Collana

Green Energy and Technology, , 1865-3537

Disciplina

662.88

Soggetti

Energy policy

Biochemical engineering

Cogeneration of electric power and heat

Fossil fuels

Energy Policy, Economics and Management

Bioprocess Engineering

Fossil Fuel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Biomass for biofuel generation -- Enhancement of Hydrolysis -- Trends in Hydrolysis and assessment -- Kinetics and modeling of Hydrolysis -- Fermentation -- Biofuel generation process -- Single stage anaerobic digestion -- Two stage anaerobic digest -- Biofuel production.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides lucid and instructive information about waste biomass, its potential, and the methods employed in energy generation. Topics covered include the basic principles, applications, recent advances, and the technical and economic considerations of waste-to-energy (WTE) technology. It highlights and elucidates essential concepts, mechanisms, applications, and useful outcomes of WTE technologies. In addition, it also provides a few example problems with design data for energy generation from waste biomass which will help the readers to understand the basics of WTE technologies. The book is structured with an overview at the start of each chapter presenting an outline of its content and a list of relevant discussions targeted toward readers. To illustrate the types of waste biomass,



principles, and process of various thermal and biochemical process technologies, over 90 illustrations including graphs, diagrams, and photographs are provided. To help the readers improve their knowledge of the subject and to increase the utility of this book, the characteristics of waste biomass, operation conditions of different processes, and global status of WTE technologies are provided in tabular format. For that purpose, over 50 tables are provided. Selected references are also provided for this book. This book is primarily intended for researchers and professionals working in the area of bioenergy. It can also be used as a primary or secondary text for graduate courses and professional training programs.