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Increasing demands on the output performance, exhaust emissions, and fuel consumption necessitate the development of a new generation of automotive engine functionality. This monograph is written by a long year developmental automotive engineer and offers a wide coverage of automotive engine control and estimation problems and its solutions. It addresses idle speed control, cylinder flow estimation, engine torque and friction estimation, engine misfire and CAM profile switching diagnostics, as well as engine knock detection. The book provides a wide and well structured collection of tools and new techniques useful for automotive engine control and estimation problems such as input estimation, composite adaptation, threshold detection adaptation, real-time algorithms, as well as the very important statistical techniques. It demonstrates the statistical detection of engine problems such as misfire or knock events and how it can be used to build a new generation of robust engine functionality. This book will be useful for practising automotive engineers, black belts working in the automotive industry as well as for lecturers and students since it provides a wide coverage of engine control and estimation problems, detailed and well structured descriptions of useful techniques in automotive applications and future trends and challenges in engine functionality.

Automobiles --Motors --Technological innovations. --- Automobiles --Motors. --- Automobiles --- Automotive Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Motors --- Technological innovations --- Automatic control. --- Motors. --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Automobile engines --- Engineering. --- System theory. --- Electric power production. --- Automotive engineering. --- Control engineering. --- Robotics. --- Mechatronics. --- Power electronics. --- Automotive Engineering. --- Control. --- Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks. --- Control, Robotics, Mechatronics. --- Energy Technology. --- Systems Theory, Control. --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Automation --- Programmable controllers --- Internal combustion engines --- Power trains --- Production of electric energy or. --- Systems theory. --- Control and Systems Theory. --- Energy Systems. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Energy systems. --- Systems, Theory of --- Systems science --- Science --- Mechanical engineering --- Microelectronics --- Microelectromechanical systems --- Machine theory --- Electronics, Power --- Electric power --- Electronics --- Philosophy

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The proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion (FBC) collect 9 plenary lectures and 175 peer-reviewed technical papers presented in the conference held in Xi'an China in May 18-21,2009. The conference was the 20th conference in a series, covering the latest fundamental research results, as well as the application experience from pilot plants, demonstrations and industrial units regarding to the FBC science and technology. It was co-hosted by Tsinghua University, Southeast University, Zhejiang University, China Electricity Council and Chinese Machinery Industry Federation. A particular feature of the proceedings is the balance between the papers submitted by experts from industry and the papers submitted by academic researchers, aiming to bring academic knowledge to application as well as to define new areas for research. The authors of the proceedings are the most active researchers, technology developers, experienced and representative facility operators and manufacturers. They presented the latest research results, state-of-the-art development and projects, and the useful experience. The proceedings are divided into following sections: • CFB Boiler Technology, Operation and Design • Fundamental Research on Fluidization and Fluidized Combustion • C02 Capture and Chemical Looping • Gasification • Modeling and Simulation on FBC Technology • Environments and Pollutant Control • Sustainable Fuels The proceedings can be served as idea references for researchers, engineers, academia and graduate students, plant operators, boiler manufacturers, component suppliers, and technical managers who work on FBC fundamental research, technology development and industrial application.

Fluidized-bed combustion --- Chemistry. --- Chemical engineering. --- Electric power production. --- Mechanical engineering. --- Industrial engineering. --- Production engineering. --- Environmental engineering. --- Biotechnology. --- Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Mechanical Engineering. --- Energy Technology. --- Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology. --- Combustion --- Fluidized-bed furnaces --- Energy Systems. --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering --- Machinery --- Steam engineering --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Chemistry, Industrial --- Engineering, Chemical --- Industrial chemistry --- Chemistry, Technical --- Metallurgy --- Energy systems. --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanical engineering --- Environmental control --- Environmental effects --- Environmental stresses --- Environmental health --- Environmental protection --- Pollution --- Sustainable engineering

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Inter-area Oscillations in Power Systems: A Nonlinear and Nonstationary Perspective deals with the development and application of advanced measurement-based signal processing techniques to the study, characterization, and control of inter-area oscillations in power systems. The material reviews recent advances in understanding, modeling and controlling system oscillations with special emphasis on the analysis and control of complex time-varying (and possibly nonlinear) power system transient processes. The book is organized into eight chapters written by leading researchers who are major contributors in this field. The authors provide techniques that explicitly address the nonlinear and nonstationary aspects of the problem. Efficient methods to generate time-varying system approximations from both measured and simulated data are proposed. Attention is also given to the vital new ideas of dynamic security assessment in real-time implementations and the development of smart, wide-area measurement and control systems incorporating FACTS technologies. Application examples include the analysis of real data collected on grids in western North America, Australia, Italy and Mexico. Inter-area Oscillations in Power Systems: A Nonlinear and Nonstationary Perspective is a comprehensive, systematic account of current analysis methods in power system oscillatory dynamics in both time and frequency domains ranging from parametric and non-parametric signal processing methods, to data-driven time-series models and statistical approaches.

Adaptive control systems. --- Electric power system stability. --- Electric power systems -- Mathematical models. --- Electric power system stability --- Electric power systems --- Oscillations --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Electrical Engineering --- Control --- Oscillations. --- Control. --- Control of electric power systems --- Electric power system control --- Stability of electric power systems --- Engineering. --- Energy systems. --- Electric power production. --- Electronics. --- Microelectronics. --- Energy Technology. --- Signal, Image and Speech Processing. --- Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation. --- Energy Systems. --- Microminiature electronic equipment --- Microminiaturization (Electronics) --- Electronics --- Microtechnology --- Semiconductors --- Miniature electronic equipment --- Electrical engineering --- Physical sciences --- Electric power generation --- Electricity generation --- Power production, Electric --- Electrification --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Cycles --- Fluctuations (Physics) --- Vibration --- Transients (Electricity) --- Signal processing. --- Image processing. --- Speech processing systems. --- Computational linguistics --- Electronic systems --- Information theory --- Modulation theory --- Oral communication --- Speech --- Telecommunication --- Singing voice synthesizers --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Processing, Signal --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication)

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Nuclear engineering plays an important role in various industrial, health care, and energy processes. Modern physics has generated its fundamental principles. A growing number of students and practicing engineers need updated material to access the technical language and content of nuclear principles. Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and illustrative computer applications, Tatjana Jevremovic covers nuclear principles as they relate to: Nuclear power Nuclear imaging Aerospace and propulsion engineering Power production propulsion Electric generators for space applications Diagnostics and treatment in medicine Homeland security Health physics Radiation treatment and imaging Radiation shielding systems "Nuclear Principles in Engineering, Second Edition" is written for students, engineers, physicians and scientists who need up-to-date information in basic nuclear concepts and calculation methods.

Electronic books. -- local. --- Nuclear energy. --- Nuclear engineering. --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear energy --- Electrical Engineering --- Nuclear Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Atomic power engineering --- Engineering. --- Nuclear physics. --- Heavy ions. --- Hadrons. --- Electric power production. --- Mechanical engineering. --- Power electronics. --- Energy Technology. --- Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks. --- Nuclear Engineering. --- Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons. --- Mechanical Engineering. --- Nuclear Energy. --- Force and energy --- Nuclear physics --- Power resources --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear power plants --- Engineering --- Production of electric energy or. --- Energy Systems. --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Machinery --- Steam engineering --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Physics --- Nuclear engineeering. --- Energy systems. --- Ions --- Electronics, Power --- Electric power --- Electronics

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Today, the optimization of production planning processes using IT and quantitative methods is a de-facto standard in the energy industry. The energy problem is challenging and one of the most important political and economical issues in the world. Governments face the problem how to adopt the system of `Cap and Trade.' Especially, energy consuming industries, like steel, power, oil and chemical, are seriously confronted with this problem. The book offers a broad in-depth overview reflecting the requirements, possibilities and limits of mathematical optimization and, especially, stochastic optimization in the energy industry. 22 chapters with world-wide origins illuminate the mathematical requirements based on practical experiences and provide an ideal insight into the energy world -- from integration of wind energy, chain of errors in nuclear power plants and scheduling of hydroelectric power stations, over risk assessment in trading activities to various mathematical approaches.

Energy industries --Mathematical models. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Mathematical optimization --- Energy industries --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Mathematics --- Business & Economics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Industries --- Operations Research --- Economic Theory --- Calculus --- Mathematical models --- Mathematical models. --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Mathematics. --- Energy systems. --- Operations research. --- Decision making. --- Calculus of variations. --- Electric power production. --- Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization. --- Energy Systems. --- Operation Research/Decision Theory. --- Energy Technology. --- Electric power generation --- Electricity generation --- Power production, Electric --- Electric power systems --- Electrification --- Isoperimetrical problems --- Variations, Calculus of --- Maxima and minima --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Math --- Science --- Decision making --- Power resources --- Mathematical analysis --- Operations research --- Simulation methods --- System analysis --- Operations Research/Decision Theory.