Continuous Process Dynamics, Stability, Control and Automation

Author: Kal Renganathan Sharma
Affiliation: Adjunct Professor, Natural Sciences, San Jacinto College District, Houston, TX
Physics, College of Science and Technology, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
Place of Birth: Madurai, Tamil Nadu State, India; October 8th 1963, Naturalized USA Citizen: April, 1998
Biography: Kal Renganathan Sharma has received his B.Tech., M.S. and Ph.D degrees in chemical engineering and has underwent post doctoral training. He is a prolific author with 740 publications: 14 Books, 7 Book-Chapters, 555 Conference Papers, 51 Journal Articles and 113 other presentations. He has instructed 2930 students at HBCUs, deemed universities in India and universities. His work has been cited in the Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, Wikipedia in Portuguese amongst 330 citations. He is a Fellow of Indian Chemical Society and is a member of the editorial board of seven journals. His articles in Journal of Encapsulation and Adsorption Sciences has been downloaded more than 3383 times. He has held high level positions in academia and has industrial experience.
Audience: AIChE, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, NY recently celebrated their centennial or 100th anniversary in 2008.  Both the chemical process industry and the industrial controls market size are increasing. Process Control  as a required course in the chemical engineering degree plan in a number of US universities came out in the late 60s or 70s. I instruct CHEG 4033 Process Dynamics and Control, MCEG 3073 Automatic Controls and MCEG 3193 Introduction to Robotics, CHEG 3043 Equilibrium Staged Separations, ELMT 2043 Industrial Electronics etc.   I have served as the chairman of Continuous Mass Club: Technical Community of Monstanto Minichapter between 1990-1993. This book is a natural outgrowth of these scholarly and research activities.  A modern textbook is proposed that keeps pace with the progress in personal computing resources available to the student these days. Emphasis is placed on industrial application over  rosy predictions.  For instance, ideal PID control, proportional integral derivative control is not physically realizable. The competition of this book has a entire chapter devoted to PID control. Filters have to be added and then it is longer PID, it becomes FPID, filtered PID control!  Discussions on overshoot is in excess of its occurrence in real applications.  A careful scrutiny of overshoot can lead to the conclusion that it is more a mathematical artifact and less a engineering possibility It can be shown that overshoot per se violates second law of thermodynamics..  This book is more focused on the applications rather than on tuning and elloborate algebra. Calculus, Laplace transforms and other mathematical methods are used when necessary. A entire chapter is devoted to pharmacokinetic studies. Discussions on life systems draws the student attention more than hypothetical mathematical exercises.  A entire chapter is devoted to control of robots. Advances made in nanorobots are also discussed in a separate chapter. Separate Chapters are devoted to mathematical models and process dynamics.

​Diagnostics of Electrical Equipment Faults and Power Overhead Transmission Line Condition by Monitoring Systems (Smart Grid): Short-Circuit Testing Of Power Transformers

Author: Alexander Yu. Khrennikov
Affiliation: Ph.D., Doctor of Science (Electrical Engineering); Scientific Secretary of S&T Center of Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System, Russia
Birthplace: May 5, 1964; Bratsk (former USSR); citizen of the Russian Federation
Biography: Alexander Yu. Khrennikov was born in Bratsk, Russia, in 1964. He received Philosophy Doctor Degree in Electrical Engineering from Samara City University of Technology in 2009 in the field of diagnostic modeling of technical parameters of power transformer-reactor electrical equipment. Now, he works as Scientific Secretary of S&T Center of Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System, Russia. The author has more than 200 scientific and technical publications. His main research interests concentrate in the field of Transformer Short-circuit testing, Transformer winding fault diagnostic, Frequency Response Analysis, Smart Grid and Information-measuring systems. He is CIGRE member and Prof. of Moscow Energy Institute, Russia.
Audience: Book is intended for the leaders and the specialists of the technical service enterprises of electrical and distribution networks and electrical stations, students of higher educational institutions, students of the courses of an increase in the qualification of power engineers, researchers & scientists in the field of electrical engineering. It will be for the specialists of electric railway transport, gas & oil industry, nuclear power stations, hydro electric power stations, electric metallurgy and other.

Low Power High Speed CMOS Multiplexer Design

Authors: Shyam Akashe and Khushboo Mishra
Affiliation:
Shyam Akashe: Associate Professor, Electronics of Communication Engineering, ITM University, Gwalior, India
Khushboo Mishra: Assistant Professor, Electronics of Communication Engineering, ITM University, Gwalior, India
Birthplace: Gwalior, India,  22nd May 2014, Citizenship: Indian
Biography: Dr. Shyam Akashe is born in “Achalpur” a city in Maharashtra, India on 22nd May 1976. He did M.Tech in Communication Technology & Management from Institute of Technology & Management, Gwalior, (M.P.), India in the year 2006. He received Ph.D from Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India in the year 2013. The title of Ph.D thesis topic is Low Power Memory Cell Design. His major fields of study are low power VLSI Design, VLSI signals processing, FPGA Design and Communication System. Dr. Shyam Akashe worked as Associate Professor at Electronics and Communication Engineering Department of ITM University, Gwalior, MP, India. Dr. Shyam Akashe has authored/co-authored more than 150 research papers in peer reviewed international/national journals and conferences.
Audience: UG and PG Engineering Students of Branches like Computer science, Electronics & Communication, Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering.

Recent Advances on Energetic Materials

Author: Gurdip Singh
Affiliation: Chemistry Department, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India
Birthplace: Amritsar (Punjab), 14-03-1946, Indian
Biography: Professor Gurdip Singh retired in 2008 from DDU Gorakhpur University and worked as an Emeritus Scientist (CSIR), Emeritus Fellow (UGC) during 2008-2013. Presently he is working as Emeritus Scientist (DST). His major research fields are: Nanomaterials, High Energetic Materials, Essential Oils & Oleoresins and Solid State Sulfonation. He has published three books, more than 250 research papers and 21 review articles. He has one paten. Dr. Singh is a life member of HEMSI, ITAS, CSI, ISCA, EOAI, ISCB and AFST. He is a recipient of Dr. Dhingra Award (1991) and NETZSCH-ITAS award (2004). Twenty two students have already been awarded Ph. D. degree under his guidance.
Audience: This book is written for everyone involved with energetic materials irrespective of their background; Universities, Institutes, R&D laboratories, Quality assurance, Production agencies, Forensic laboratories, Armed forces (Army, Navy and Air Force), Homeland securities, Chemical Industries etc. It is hoped that this presentation will serve to stimulate more research interest in high energetic, nanoenegetic and nanomaterials. Professional people, groups or institutions related to energetic materials will find it useful in their work. Those industries which produce explosives for various purposes, this book will also help them.

Reversible Logic Circuit

Authors: Ri-Gui Zhou and Naihuan Jing
Affiliation:
Ri-Gui Zhou: College of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, China
Naihuan Jing: Center of Quantum Algebra, South China University of Technology, China and Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, USA
Birthplace:
Ri-Gui Zhou: Jiangxi,China; March 2, 1973; Chinese
Naihuan Jing:  Jing: Wuhan, China on January 18, 1962, Citizen: USA
Biography:
Rigui Zhou was born on Mar.2, 1973. He received his B.S. degree (June, 1997) from the Shan Dong university,China, M.S.degree(May, 2003) in the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Nanchang Hangkong University,China. And PhD. in the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronauts (November, 2007), China. From 2008 to 2010, as a Post Doctoral fellow in the Tsinghua University,China. From 2010 to 2011, also as a Postdoc of  Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. From 2014 to 2015, As a visiting  Scholar 0f North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. Currently he is a Professor of College of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, China. He is a member of China Computer Federation(CCF) and IEEE. His research interests include quantum reversible logic, quantum image processing and quantum genetic algorithm, et al.

Naihuan Jing, Ph.D. from Yale, has worked at the IAS in Princeton, University of Michigan and University of Kansas before joining  North Carolina  State University, where he is a Professor. He was a recipient of Fulbright Scholarship, Humboldt Research Award and Cheung Kong Chair Professorship. He was Distinguished Chair Professor at South China University of Technology, and visiting professors to MSRI Berkeley, Max-Planck Institute of Mathematics in Bonn and Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. His main research areas are quantum groups, representation theory, and quantum computation.

Stainless Steel: Microstructure, Mechanical Properties and Methods of Application

Editors: Alokesh Pramanik and Animesh Kumar Basak
Affiliation:
Alokesh Pramanik: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia
Animesh Kumar Basa: Adelaide Microscopy, Medical School North, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Birthplace:
Alokesh Pramanik: Bangladesh, 1974, Citizenship: Australia
Animesh Kumar Basak: Bangladesh, 1974, Citizenship: Australia
Biography: Dr. Animesh Basak has graduated in 2002 with a B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh with honours. Upon completion of Masters and PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering, from Katholieke Universeteit Leuven (KULeuven), Belgium, he started working in different Australian universities. Dr. Basak’s research interests include nanostructured materials, high resolution electron microscopy and probe analysis, nano-scale fabrication of materials, deformation mechanisms novel materials, nano-mechanics, tribology and tribo-corrosion, electrochemistry and electrochemical measurement techniques.