If someone told you Domino’s Pizza and Tesla might not be all that different through their manufacturing process, would you believe them?In Lean On! Mohit Gupta reinvigorates the power of Lean manufacturing and the importance of adopting optimization in a world of limited resources by sharing stories from well-known companies such as Tesla, Tata, Domino’s, Boeing, Amazon and many successful operations experts and consultants. With interviews from people who work for a wide...

Don\\'t waste your energy thinking about servers; use AWS to build enterprise-grade serverless applications.Key FeaturesLearn how to quickly and easily go serverlessExplore AWS and Lambda: the first building blocks of serverless applications on AWSStudy different approaches to deploy and maintain serverless applicationsBook DescriptionServerless Architecture with AWS begins with an introduction to the serverless model and hel...

If someone told you Domino's Pizza and Tesla might not be all that different through their manufacturing process, would you believe them?In Lean On! Mohit Gupta reinvigorates the power of Lean manufacturing and the importance of adopting optimization in a world of limited resources by sharing stories from well-known companies such as Tesla, Tata, Domino's, Boeing, Amazon and many successful operations experts and consultants. With interviews from people who work for a wide...

This book details the relationships between microstructure, interface roughness, and properties of thermal barrier coatings. The author proposes a method for the reduction of the thermal conductivity of the ceramic layer in order to increase the lifetime of thermal barrier coatings. He includes models for the optimization of ceramic layer microstructure and interface roughness.

Urea-SCR Technology for deNOx After Treatment of Diesel Exhausts presents a complete overview of theselective catalytic reduction of NOx by ammonia/urea. The book starts withan illustration of the technology in the framework of the current context (legislation,market, system configurations), covers the fundamental aspects of the SCR process(catalysts, chemistry, mechanism, kinetics) and analyzes its application to useful topicssuch a...

Combustion Engines Development nowadays is based on simulation, not only of the transient reaction of vehicles or of the complete driveshaft, but also of the highly unsteady processes in the carburation process and the combustion chamber of an engine. Different physical and chemical approaches are described to show the potentials and limits of the models used for simulation.

This SpringerBrief deals with the control and optimization problem in hybrid electric vehicles. Given that there are two (or more) energy sources (i.e., battery and fuel) in hybrid vehicles, it shows the reader how to implement an energy-management strategy that decides how much of the vehicle’s power is provided by each source instant by instant.Hybrid Electric Vehicles:•introduces methods for modeling energy flow in hybrid electric vehicles;•presents a st...

The third generation of solar cells includes those based on semiconductor quantum dots. This sophisticated technology applies nanotechnology and quantum mechanics theory to enhance the performance of ordinary solar cells. Although a practical application of quantum dot solar cells has yet to be achieved, a large number of theoretical calculations and experimental studies have confirmed the potential for meeting the requirement for ultra-high conversion efficiency. In this book, high-profil...

Heat Pipes, Sixth Edition, takes a highly practical approach to the design and selection of heat pipes, making it an essential guide for practicing engineers and an ideal text for postgraduate students.This new edition has been revised to include new information on the underlying theory of heat pipes and heat transfer, and features fully updated applications, new data sections, and updated chapters on design and electronics cooling. The book is a useful reference for those with experience ...

Conjugate Heat and Mass Transfer in Heat Mass Exchanger Ducts bridges the gap between fundamentals and recent discoveries, making it a valuable tool for anyone looking to expand their knowledge of heat exchangers. The first book on the market to cover conjugate heat and mass transfer in heat exchangers, author Li-Zhi Zhang goes beyond the basics to cover recent advancements in equipment for energy use and environmental control (such as heat and moisture recovery ventilators, hollow fiber m...

This book focuses on the use of nanotechnology in several fields of engineering. Among others, the reader will find valuable information as to how nanotechnology can aid in extending the life of component materials exposed to corrosive atmospheres, in thermal fluid energy conversion processes, anti-reflection coatings on photovoltaic cells to yield enhanced output from solar cells, in connection with friction and wear reduction in automobiles, and buoyancy suppression in free convective he...

For the efficient utilization of energy resources and the minimization of environmental damage, thermoelectric materials can play an important role by converting waste heat into electricity directly. Nanostructured thermoelectric materials have received much attention recently due to the potential for enhanced properties associated with size effects and quantum confinement. Nanoscale Thermoelectrics describes the theory underlying these phenomena, as well as vario...