Download or read book Dictionary of Building and Civil Engineering written by Don Montague and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dual-language dictionary lists over 20,000 specialist terms in both French and English, covering architecture, building, engineering and property terms. It meets the needs of all building professionals working on projects overseas. It has been comprehensively researched and compiled to provide an invaluable reference source in an increasingly European marketplace.

Download or read book Faecal Sludge Management written by Linda Strande and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is estimated that literally billions of residents in urban and peri-urban areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America are served by onsite sanitation systems (e.g. various types of latrines and septic tanks). Until recently, the management of faecal sludge from these onsite systems has been grossly neglected, partially as a result of them being considered temporary solutions until sewer-based systems could be implemented. However, the perception of onsite or decentralized sanitation technologies for urban areas is gradually changing, and is increasingly being considered as long-term, sustainable options in urban areas, especially in low- and middle-income countries that lack sewer infrastructures. This is the first book dedicated to faecal sludge management. It compiles the current state of knowledge of the rapidly evolving field of faecal sludge management, and presents an integrated approach that includes technology, management, and planning based on Sandecs 20 years of experience in the field. Faecal Sludge Management: Systems Approach for Implementation and Operation addresses the organization of the entire faecal sludge management service chain, from the collection and transport of sludge, and the current state of knowledge of treatment options, to the final end use or disposal of treated sludge. The book also presents important factors to consider when evaluating and upscaling new treatment technology options. The book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students, and engineers and practitioners in the field who have some basic knowledge of environmental and/or wastewater engineering.

Download or read book How to Design Wastewater Systems for Local Conditions in Developing Countries written by David M. Robbins and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical handbook providing a step-by-step approach to the techniques used for characterizing wastewater sources and investigating sites where collection, treatment and reuse/disposal technologies will be installed. It is intended to help enable local implementation of on-site and decentralized wastewater management system (DWMS)for wide scale use in development settings. How to Design Wastewater Systems for Local Conditions in Developing Countries helps local service providers and regulatory officials make informed decisions through the use of tools, checklists and case studies. It includes a link to a web based community of on-site and decentralized wastewater professionals, which contains related tools and case studies. This handbook serves as a reference for training classes, certification programs, and higher education programs in civil and sanitary engineering. There is an increasing interest on the part of local government officials and private sector service providers to implement wastewater treatment systems to solve sanitation problems. The model presented in this handbook promotes activities that first generate data related to source and site conditions that represent critical inputs, and then applies this information to the technology selection process. Matching the most appropriate technologies to the specific needs of the wastewater project is the key that leads to long term sustainability. How to Design Wastewater Systems for Local Conditions in Developing Countries is an invaluable resource for public sector decision makers and private sector service providers in developing countries. It is also a useful text for students at engineering colleges in developing countries interested in taking a class that teaches the methods of decentralized wastewater management system (DWMS) development.

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Download or read book Earth Surface Processes Landforms and Sediment Deposits written by John Bridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, advanced textbook combining sedimentology and geomorphology in a comprehensive and integrated way.

Download or read book A Guide To Soil Mechanics written by Malcolm D Bolton and published by Universities Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers all the soil mechanics and foundation engineering topics that are commonly included in civil engineering degree courses, and provides a number of springboards into related advanced topics. Although it is intended principally to satisfy the needs of student civil engineers, this guide should also prove useful to those practicing engineers who are unaware of the powerful and elegant reconstruction of the subject which has been made possible by the recent concepts of plasticity, dilatancy and critical states.

Download or read book Cities at Risk written by Helene Joffe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the major growth of the world’s population over the past century, as well as rapid urbanisation, people increasingly live in crowded cities. This trend is often accompanied by proliferation of poorly built housing, uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments and overstretched services. When a natural hazard strikes such a city many people are vulnerable to loss of life and property. This book explores what these people think and feel about the threats that they face. How do they live with perils ranging from earthquakes to monsoons, from floods to hurricanes, in the 21st century? The authors are drawn from a large range of disciplines: Psychology, Engineering, Geography, Anthropology and Urban Planning. They also reflect on how perils are represented in multiple cultures: the United States, Japan, Turkey, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. The book therefore not only brings to light the ways that different cultures represent natural hazards but also the different ways in which various disciplines write about living with perils in the 21st century. The book is addressed both to researchers and to organizations involved with risk management and risk mitigation.

Download or read book Land Ocean Interaction written by D. Huntley and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK Land-Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) provided a major opportunity to measure and model the processes controlling the fluxes of materials between river basins and coastal seas. The main programme of research took place between 1992 and 1998, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council, and involved approximately 360 coastal researchers contributing to more than 70 collaborative projects. This book presents accessible summaries of key results of this research. The ten chapters of the book are written by leading contributors to the programme, and cover aspects of the physical, sedimentological, chemical and biological processes controlling fluxes between river catchments and coastal seas in temporate environments. Major overarching themes for all of the chapters include the persistence, storage, degradation and transport of pollutants from catchment to coastal sea, and an emphasis on the relevance of research for river and coastal water quality management. The chapters also describe a number of important technological advances in the measurement of processes and longer term monitoring of the fluvial, estuarine and coastal environments. Approaches to monitoring were also transferred between disciplines, in many cases for the first time. The rivers and coastal programme of LOIS was unique in its scale and inter-disciplinarity and its results are of lasting value. This book provides a useful and important summary of many of its results and an effective introduction to the research for those who want to delve more deeply into the data and published papers. It will be of interest to scientists, environmental managers and scientific policy makers. Contents Background and Context of the Programme River and Estuary Management Issues in the Humber Catchment Suspended Sediment Fluxes from River Basins River Chemistry Modelling of Large-Scale River Basins Tidal Reaches Estuarine Sediments The Intertidal Zone The Holderness Coast Estuarine Chemistry

Download or read book Gestion et valorisation du stockage de l nergie dans les r seaux lectriques written by Benoît Robyns and published by ISTE Group. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’essor des énergies renouvelables et le besoin de moyens de transport décarbonnés donnent un nouvel intérêt pour le stockage de l’énergie devenu désormais un élément clé du développement durable. Gestion et valorisation du stockage de l’énergie dans les réseaux électriques présente et compare les différentes technologies de stockage mises en œuvre à l’heure actuelle. Dans une perspective de développement durable, il étudie plus particulièrement l’importance de la gestion énergétique de systèmes associant source d’énergie à base de ressources renouvelables et unités de stockage, pour leur intégration harmonieuse au sein des réseaux électriques intelligents (smart grids). Pédagogique, cet ouvrage propose également des outils méthodologiques et des exemples concrets permettant la mise en place d’un système de gestion énergétique du stockage.

Download or read book Gestion et valorisation du stockage de l nergie lectrique dans les syst mes de transport written by Benoît Robyns and published by ISTE Group. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les technologies modernes de stockage de l’énergie électrique sont un élément clé du développement durable. Elles permettent désormais d’envisager le déploiement de véhicules électriques aux performances acceptables et une électrification croissante de certains systèmes de transport tels que les aéronefs. Cet ouvrage met en évidence l’importance du stockage de l’énergie électrique dans un contexte de déploiement de réseaux électriques intelligents appelés smart-grids. Ces réseaux interagissent de façon croissante avec certains systèmes de transport tels que les véhicules électriques et hybrides rechargeables, les trains, métros, trams et bus électriques. Dans une démarche pédagogique, cet ouvrage présente les outils méthodologiques pour construire un système de gestion énergétique du stockage. Ces outils basés sur de l’intelligence artificielle et des techniques d’optimisation explicite sont analysés à travers des études de cas concrets. Gestion et valorisation du stockage de l’énergie électrique dans les systèmes de transport expose diverses applications intégrant des technologies modernes de stockage – les réseaux embarqués en aéronautique, l’intégration des véhicules électriques dans le réseau électrique, les véhicules hybrides ou encore la traction ferroviaire hybride et ses installations.

Download or read book Construction Dictionary written by Nawic Education Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive listing of the terms and phrases used in construction. Included are many that are encountered daily on the jobsite or in the construction office.

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Download or read book Stockage d nergie lectrique pour les b timents au sein de r seaux intelligents written by Benoît Robyns and published by ISTE Group. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les développements actuels dans le domaine des énergies renouvelables, ainsi que la tendance à l’autoproduction et à l’autoconsommation d’énergie, ont suscité un intérêt accru pour les moyens de stockage de l’énergie électrique, devenus un élément clé du développement durable. En mettant particulièrement l’accent sur leur gestion et leur valorisation, cet ouvrage analyse le potentiel offert par le stockage de l’électricité dans le cadre des bâtiments, îlots de bâtiments et quartiers intégrés dans un large réseau électrique intelligent (ou smart grid) ou formant un microréseau électrique intelligent (ou micro grid). Il montre les nombreux services que le stockage peut apporter et examine les facteurs socio-économiques importants liés à l’émergence de bâtiments intelligents et de réseaux intelligents. Enfin, il présente les outils méthodologiques nécessaires à la mise en place d’un système de gestion de l’énergie de ces technologies de stockage, illustrés par des exemples concrets et pédagogiques.

Download or read book Les nergies renouvelables written by Philippe Poggi and published by Omniscriptum. This book was released on 2011 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce document retrace les travaux de recherches orient s vers les syst mes de production d' nergie sources renouvelables et plus particuli rement vers l'analyse et la mod lisation de l'intrant nerg tique (rayonnement solaire et vitesse de vent) et vers la mod lisation des syst mes nerg tiques et leur int gration dans les r seaux lectriques insulaires. Il est abord l' tude des ressources nerg tiques ( tude statistique, d veloppement de corr lation et de mod le, pr diction) et la production d' nergie grande chelle partir de sources renouvelables connect s au r seau lectrique. Cette production pose des probl mes du fait de sa forte variabilit qui perturbe le fonctionnement du r seau de distribution ( tude des interactions dynamiques entre l'offre et la demande, analyse de l'intervention de plusieurs facteurs: centralisation ou distribution des syst mes de production, stockage d' nergie, taille du r seau, .... pour pr server la stabilit du r seau). Les syst mes de production multisources - hybrides - sont trait s: syst mes couplant olien, photovolta que et autres sources, m thodes de dimensionnement: optimisation de la gestion de l' nergie et du co t.

Download or read book Gestion optimale des syst mes multisources d nergies renouvelables written by Mohsen Ben Ammar and published by Presses Academiques Francophones. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La crise energetique declaree depuis des decennies a aujourd'hui oblige le monde a s'orienter vers la conception et le pilotage optimaux des systemes de conversion des energies renouvelables. Dans ce contexte, cet ouvrage presente une contribution a l'optimisation de la gestion des systemes multisources a energies renouvelables. D'abord, une evaluation des performances energetiques d'un site a travers la modelisation de ses parametres climatiques est etablie puis validee. Par suite, en vue d'optimiser la gestion energetique du RHAER, un algorithme qui considere toutes les puissances produites par les generateurs PV et eolien, l'autonomie du parc des batteries et l'appoint en puissance par le groupe electrogene est developpe. La validation de l'algorithme est effectuee pour deux cas d'installations: La planification d'energie d'un PPV domestique integre dans un batiment connecte au reseau electrique public et la gestion d'un RHAER selon de criteres d'optimisation technico-economiques.