Biomass Utilization: Conversion Strategies
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031058348 | 379 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 16.3 MB
This book focuses on the technologies developed for the conversion of all three biomass components, i.e. cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, and their constituents, to fuels and high-value products. Both biochemical and thermochemical approaches are reviewed. Additionally, the developed technologies are described in detail and their potential applications as well as their commercial status are discussed.

Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
2022 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0823299503 | PDF | 10 MB
How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin's New Russia. Historically a minority immigrant faith in the United States, Russian Orthodoxy is attracting Americans who look to Russian religion and politics for answers to Western secularism and the loss of traditional family values in the face of accelerating progressivism. This ethnography highlights an intentional community of converts who are exemplary of much broader networks of Russian Orthodox converts in the United States. These converts sought and found a conservatism more authentic than Christian American Republicanism and a nationalism unburdened by the broken promises of American exceptionalism. Ultimately, both converts and the Church that welcomes them deploy the subversive act of adopting the ideals and faith of a foreign power for larger, transnational political ends.Offering insights into this rarely considered religious world, including its far-right political roots that nourish the embrace of Putin's Russia, this ethnography shows how religious conversion is tied to larger issues of social politics, allegiance, (anti)democracy, and citizenship. These conversions offer us a window onto both global politics and foreign affairs, while also allowing us to see how particular U.S. communities are grappling with social transformations in the twenty-first century. With broad implications for our understanding of both conservative Christianity and right-wing politics, as well as contemporary Russian-American relations, this book provides insight in the growing constellations of far-right conservatism. While Russian Orthodox converts are more likely to form the moral minority rather than the moral majority, they are an important gauge for understanding the powerful philosophical shifts occurring in the current political climate in the United States and what they might mean for the future of American values, ideals, and democracy.

Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe) By Jens Herlth (editor), Christian Zehnder (editor)
2015 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 3034315961 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume offers a view of modern Russian intellectual culture as shaped by the dynamic of conversions. The individual contributions examine a rich variety of personal conversions occurring in a culture in which the written word enjoyed a privileged status and, historically, was closely linked to the sacred. However, the essays presented go beyond the original meaning of conversion as a change of religious beliefs. They address shifts in style, aesthetic outlooks, and mindsets, political and ideological transfigurations as well as religious conversions in the true sense of the term. Whether at the level of culture, society or biography, the study of conversions opens the way to profound reflections about questions of identity, cultural ruptures, and continuity. The awareness of former conversions and the possible «convertibility» of one's own ideological, spiritual or social stance has been among the central traits of Russian intellectual culture during the last two centuries.

Roger W. Pryor, "Dimensional Analysis For Unit Conversion Using MATLAB"
English | 2018 | pages: 179 | ASIN: B07HQSFFND | PDF | 12,8 mb
This book and MATLAB app package will accurately convert values from one unit of measure to another using standard conversion factors. It performs conversions from and to the inch-pound system units used in the USA and the International System of Units (SI) as documented in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publications of conversions for general use. There are 1,316 conversion factors available for bidirectional conversion from / to SI units, organized into 44 minor subsections by topic under eight major topical sections. There is also an alphabetical section comprising 445 conversion factors for unidirectional conversion to SI units. It also converts CGS and other "unacceptable" units (conversion factors not for general use, i.e. as in science, engineering, etc.). Companion Files with the software app are available by writing to the publisher with Amazon order number at [email protected].

English | ASIN: B0B6XW5PZY | 2022 | 8 hours and 45 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 241 MB
The new edition of the bestselling book for real estate agents, loan officers, and SaaS and small businesses. In The Conversion Code: Stop Chasing Leads and Start Attracting Clients, Second Edition, digital marketing and lead conversion expert Chris Smith delivers the ultimate exploration of the marketing and advertising tactics that are successfully generating higher-quality leads that are easier for salespeople to convert. Smith researches and tests the latest and most popular platforms, including TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, while also studying the most effective sales techniques, tools, and scripts.

Energy Conversion and Green Energy Storage
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032192062 | 231 Pages | PDF (True) | 17 MB
Energy Conversion and Green Energy Storage presents recent developments in renewable energy conversion and green energy storage. Covering technical expansions in renewable energy and applications, energy storage, and solar photovoltaics, the book features chapters written by global experts in the field.

Soni A Energy Conversion and Green Energy Storage 2023 | 16.56 MB
N/A | 223 Pages

Title: Energy Conversion and Green Energy Storage
Author: Amit Soni
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Jean-Claude Schmitt, Alex J. Novikoff, "The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century"
English | 2012 | pages: 317 | ISBN: 0812222199, 0812242548 | PDF | 2,5 mb
Sometime toward the middle of the twelfth century, it is supposed, an otherwise obscure figure, born a Jew in Cologne and later ordained as a priest in Cappenberg in Westphalia, wrote a Latin account of his conversion to Christianity. Known as the Opusculum, this book purportedly by "Herman, the former Jew" may well be the first autobiography to be written in the West after the Confessions of Saint Augustine. It may also be something else entirely.

Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion By
2013 | 265 Pages | ISBN: 1118344545 | PDF | 10 MB
Polymers are increasingly finding applications in the areas of energy storage and conversion. A number of recent advances in the polymer molecular structure control thereby tuning of the polymer properties have led to these applications. This book assimilates these advances in the form of a comprehensive text which includes the synthesis and properties of a large number of polymer systems for applications in the areas of lithium batteries, photovoltaics, solar cells, etc.Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion describes:PVAc-based polymer blend electrolytes for lithium batteriesThe structure and properties of polymer hydrogel with respect to its applications for low to intermediate temperature polymer electrolyte-based fuel cellsLithium polymer batteries based on ionic liquidsConjugated polymer-inorganic semiconductor compositesThe concept of the solar cell with the organic multiple quantum dots (MQDs)The solvent effects in polymer based organic photovoltaic devicesThe properties of the polymers which factor into their use for solar power both for niche applications as well as for large scale harvestingThe use of macroporous organic polymers as materials for energy gas storage.Content: Chapter 1 High Performance Polymer Hydrogel Based Materials for Fuel Cells (pages 1-25): Yogeshwar Sahai and Jia MaChapter 2 PVAc Based Polymer Blend Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries (pages 27-51): M. Ulaganathan, R. Nithya and S. RajendranChapter 3 Lithium Polymer Batteries Based on Ionic Liquids (pages 53-101): S. Passerini, M. Montanino and G.B. AppetecchiChapter 4 Organic Quantum Dots Grown by Molecular Layer Deposition for Photovoltaics (pages 103-136): Tetsuzo YoshimuraChapter 5 Solvent Effects in Polymer Based Organic Photovoltaics (pages 137-161): Matthias A. Ruderer and Peter Muller?BuschbaumChapter 6 Polymer?Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells (pages 163-197): Ashish Dubey and Qiquan QiaoChapter 7 Semiconducting Polymer?based Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells (pages 199-214): Matthew Schuette White and Niyazi Serdar SariciftciChapter 8 Energy Gas Storage in Porous Polymers (pages 215-248): Joel Fawaz, Kean Wang and Ali Almansoori

Methane and Alkane Conversion Chemistry By M. M. Bhasin, K. D. Campbell (auth.), Madan M. Bhasin, D. W. Slocum (eds.)
1995 | 349 Pages | ISBN: 1461357306 | PDF | 14 MB
Natural gas, an abundant natural energy and chemical resource, is underutilized. Its inherent high energy content is compromised by its volatility. Storage and transportation problems abound for liquified natural gas. Several of the drawbacks of the utilization of natural gas, particularly its high volatility, could be offset by development of an economical and efficient process for coupling and/or further homologation of its principal component, methane. Alternatively, other conversion strategies such as partial oxidation to methanol and syngas, to oxygenates or conversion to such products via the intermediacy of chlorides should also be considered. Given the energy-intensive regimes necessary for the likely activation of methane, it was inevitable that researchers would tum to the use of heterogeneous catalysts. Heterogeneous catalysis is now a relatively mature discipline with numerous and diverse reactions being explored alongside informative studies on surface characterization, mechanism, and theory. Relationships to important related areas such as homogeneous catalysis, organometallic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry have become firmly established within this discipline. The field of methane and alkane activation is now over ten years old. The first decade of investigation produced results plagued by low yields and low-moderate conversions with well-articulated mechanistic limitations. As we begin the second decade of inquiry, novel strategies have brought increasing yields and conversions to such products as ethane, ethylene, methanol, and formaldehyde. These new approaches utilize separation of products via membranes or adsorbents. Moreover, additional mechanistic insight has been forthcoming from theoretical and computational examination as well as experimental investigation.