Li Zhou

Comprehensive and technically detailed approach to addressing environmental and energy challenges through the advance of adsorption theory and techniques Supercritical Adsorption for Cleaner Energy and the Environment delves into the novel theory of supercritical adsorption and its practical applications in energy and environmental management issues. The book addresses critical topics such as supercritical adsorption and sustainable energy solutions, provides a deep understanding of advanced theories and techniques of supercritical adsorption, and addresses innovative methods for fuel desulfurization, natural gas storage, hydrogen energy, and emission-free coal power generation in the energy industry. The book is divided into two parts. The first part provides a comprehensive theory of supercritical adsorption, illustrated with examples that showcase significant progress in both applied and theoretical research due to recent advancements. Building on this theoretical foundation, the second part demonstrates how supercritical adsorption theory can address research questions in the fields of energy and environmental science. Supercritical Adsorption for Cleaner Energy and the Environment includes information on: Solutions for theoretical problems of supercritical adsorption, such as determination of absolute adsorption and the volume or density of the adsorbed phase Adsorptive technology to enhance natural gas storage, and methane enrichment from low-quality gas Ideas, chemical reactions, and materials and adsorbents used in supercritical adsorption research with the potential to transform approaches in environmental challenges Efficient and feasible strategies for achieving carbon circulation within the energy consumption and generation cycle Supercritical Adsorption for Cleaner Energy and the Environment is an essential forward-thinking reference for practitioners and researchers in the fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, energy, and environmental science.

Radiated noise is an important index for evaluating the operational performance and ability of survive of submarines, and also the main factor to destroy the acoustic stealth performance. Prediction of the vibration and sound radiation of underwater structures is an important basis of vibration and noise reduction designing. Prediction of the vibration and sound radiation of underwater structures is an important basis of vibration and noise reduction designing. Therefore, improving the computational efficiency of sound and vibration prediction of large underwater structures without losing accuracy is of great significance for the development of submarine acoustic stealth technology.

This book systematically reviews the experiences and problems encountered in the development of China’s rural areas over the past three decades since the start of the country’s economic reform. As such, it addresses the most important aspects in terms of China’s rural communities, farmers and agriculture from the perspective of development, such as the agricultural management system, rural land tenure system, rural fiscal and taxation system, financial system, science and technology system, rural governance structure, poverty alleviation, environmental protection, etc. The approach employed combines essential theories, laws, and policy strategies with rural development practice in order to analyze the success stories and lingering problems, to explore the causes of both, and to offer an outlook on the future of rural development.

Although climate change is reducing the extent of sea ice extent in the polar region, it also enlarges the operation time window and enables more ships to choose routes where ice is prevalent. Global increases in maritime trade additionally factor into this. The number of polar ships is on the increase and the total exposure to sea ice is growing significantly. Ships sailing through ice-covered regions need to be powerful enough to overcome the additional resistance and strong enough to bear impact with ice. The methodology of designing polar ships, therefore, differs from that for open-water ships. This book is the first undergraduate and graduate textbook to introduce this topic, ideally for courses on polar ship technology or winter navigation. It sets out the formation process of sea ice, and its physical and mechanical properties, then describes the interaction process between ships and ice for estimating ice load. It introduces methods to evaluate ship performance in ice, including attainable speed and maneuverability, then establishes reliable polar ship rules, especially requirements for ice-strengthening. It sets out experimental methods, both model-scale and full-scale tests, and numerical simulation of ice loading and ship performance.