Böcker av Rose Marie O. Mendoza

This book delivers a detailed overview of the essentials of cold and ultracold chemistry for advanced graduate students. Beginning with descriptions of cold and ultracold temperatures in chemistry, the chapters of the book then take the students through the fundamentals of scattering theory, light-matter interaction, reaction dynamics and interactions of cold molecules and atoms. The author focusses on the fruitfulness of the topic while inspiring readers to comprehend the basics of these fascinating reactions and their underlying interactions. This book essentially includes the material which was formerly available in special review articles. This book offers readers, working in the arenas of ultracold gases, physical chemistry and chemical physics, the tools they require to submerge themselves in the world of cold and ultracold chemistry. This book unlocks the exhilarating chemical laws governing chemistry at a low temperature.

The book introduces Natural Products in the most comprehensive and practical manner. Ranging from the historical development to modern preparation, synthesis and application, this book presents a detailed account of the nature of natural products, its classification as well as the major categories of compounds in natural products, and the processes employed to obtain the natural product itself, the active ingredient or the specific bioactive material. These processes included but is not to limited isolation, extraction, fractionation, structure elucidation and determination of pharmacological characteristics and its interaction with other compounds. The chapters are carefully crafted to serve as a quick reference for Natural Products. This book will be beneficial to both students and academicians from diverse scientific fields including chemistry, biology, and allied biomedicine disciplines as well as to those with industrial background such as environmentalists, engineers and manufacturing practitioners in the government and private institutions.

Explores the various kinds of molecules in organic chemistry and the reactions that take place in them, mainly highlighting the manner in which they occur and the structure in which they can be found to exist.

Takes the readers through the various aspects related to the areas in which thermodynamics finds its application in the field of chemistry. The book deals with the heat related aspects of the various chemical processes and finds the ways in which these processes can be applied for good and constructive use in the industry.

Explores spectroscopy techniques that can be used to analyse certain physical characteristics of organic compounds. The book also discusses ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, raman spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, mass and infrared spectrometry and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

Introduces the concept of thermodynamics, including history, laws, chemical thermodynamics and its origin and principles. The book provides insights in to thermodynamics equilibrium, the thermodynamics of chemical mixtures and the biological systems with respect to chemical thermodynamics.

Clean unpolluted water is essential for our ecosystems. Plants and animals react to changes in their environment caused by changes in chemical water quality and physical disturbance of their habitat. Biochemical ecology is presented in the context of water pollution.

Provides a detailed description of what exactly water sustainability and sanitation sustainability is and how rain water harvesting could help in conserving water. The book provides the reader with insights into various informal settlements contributing towards water and sanitation sustainability.

Studies various aspects of waste management including an extensive overview of industrial waste management and related issues. The book includes definitions of waste management and industrial wastes, and provides insights into industrial waste management so as to develop strategies which can help in efficient management.

Rapid urbanization and the growing world population significantly deteriorates the drainage system day by day. By the year 2025, an increase of 2.6 billion from the projected world population is expected and more than 65% of it will come from the urban areas. As the population increases, the demand for an efficient drainage system also increases. Therefore, without initiative to solve various issues on water management and drainage systems in most parts of the world, it is expected that more than half of the current world population will have no access to effective and efficient ways of wastewater disposal in the future.In most parts of the world, poor management and maintenance of various drainage systems by the responsible authorities has really affected the efficiency and effectiveness of these systems. Population re-densification in various urban areas and inappropriate use of various components of drainage systems has led to different issues of poor drainage systems such as overflowing manholes and sewers in major cities across the street areas that mainly results in the degradation of the surroundings and eventual destruction of the water flow paths in the cities. The purpose of this book is to offer important insights and provide basic reference about various aspects of drainage systems. This book incorporates all the relevant information that can be used by students and educators (in different fields such as science in civil and construction engineering, environmental planning and management, urban and regional planning, and quantity surveying among other courses), as well as public and private environmental management sector. This book comprises ten chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the present state of management of drainage systems in most parts of the world. One of the key topic that is mainly discussed in this chapter are the various types of water drainage systems (such as surface drainage system, subsurface drainage system, slope drainage system, and gutter drainage system) and how they relate with other elements of drainage systems. Chapter 2 discusses on matter concerning evaluation of inappropriate discharges on drainage systems. An important topic discussed entirely in this chapter is the assessment of stormwater drainage system. Chapter 3 looks at the management of stormwater drainage system and Chapter 4 explores the irrigation and drainage system. Chapter 5 tackles management of highway and pavement drainage systems. In this chapter, the impacts identification of poor highways and pavement drainage system is discussed in detail. Chapter 6 talks about the challenges of poor drainage system in slum residences. There are several steps discussed towards the end of the chapter that touches on approaches in solving drainage system problems of grey water and stormwater in slums areas. Chapter 7 provides an overview management of sewage drainage systems. Other chapters, chapter 8, chapter 9, and chapter 10 explore on the flooding and drainage systems, planning and design of surface drainage system, and the trend of wastewater management and drainage systems in developing countries (Africa), respectively. The collection of efforts that was put in preparation of this book may not serve as a complete picture of the myriad dimensions on management of drainage system, but rather reflects on some of the difficulties and tensions faced by science and technology in accommodating the idea of drainage systems (based on principles, perspectives, and practice), especially while navigating in the various economic, political, social, and environmental demands and concerns for scarce and usually highly variable services.

Aiming to provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of the safety and security of water supply systems, this book identifies advances in detection, monitoring and modeling, analytical methods, and research and development opportunities that will enable the water supply industry to further reduce risks associated with drinking water.