Case Studies Illustrating Special Techniques

CCCII comprises ten volumes, of which the last contains only subject indexes. The first two volumes describe the development of new ligands since the 1980s, which complements Volume 2 in CCC. They also include new techniques of synthesis and characterization, with a special emphasis on the burgeoning physical techniques which are increasingly applied to the study of coordination compounds. Developments in theory, computation methods, simulation, and useful software are reported. The volumes conclude with a series of case studies, which illustrate how synthesis, spectroscopy, and other physical techniques have been successfully applied in unravelling some significant problems in coordination chemistry. 

Over the years, quantitative structure/property relationships have been developed by various workers in the polymer research field. Hell known are for example the important contributions made by D.W. van Krevelen in Properties of polymers [3] and by J. Bicerano in Prediction of Polymer Properties [4]. An endeavour is made in chapter seven (and eight) to improve some of such correlations by using consistently measured, reproducible TA data. Chapter nine shows the contribution of TA to the characterisation effort necessary for the technical and commercial development of a new polymer system. Chapter ten finally, provides information about different polymers obtained during special case studies. This book illustrates in this way, applications of a wide variety of thermal analysis techniques. The author hopes that this monograph will be useful especially to those who are going to work in the thermal analysis area in the context of polymer research. 

Photoelectron spectroscopy of zeoHtes is another very interesting technique for zeolite characterization. This is shown by W. Grunert and R. Schlogl in Chapter 6. The authors carefully describe special aspects of the photoelectron experiments with zeoHtes, the information obtainable through the spectra, the accuracy and interpretation of the data and, finally, provide a number of illustrative case studies on, e.g., surface composition, isomorphous substitution, host/guest systems, etc. 

The applications mentioned in Chap. 7 have far reaching implications on sulphona-tion processes to produce complex chemicals, which hitherto have been manufactured by costly processes, involving various time consuming steps and requiring disposal of hazardous chemicals. The subsequent Chap. 9 will illustrate the above by taking up case studies. It is required that considerable amount of research work to be carried out in order to supply similar techniques for other chemicals specially in the detergent, pharmaceutical, dyestuff and specialty chemicals for petroleum refinery. 

When the first edition of Values-Based Safety Process was written in 1993, my goal was to illustrate a proven approach to applying behavioral techniques to improve safety in the workplace. Since that time the field and interest in behavioral safety have greatly expanded, as has our experience. With that in mind, I set out with three primary objectives for the second edition bring the methodology and terminology into alignment with current practice, address a variety of special topics, and provide case studies that more adequately represent current practices and application. 

In 49 the authors have presented a simple technique that allows to limit the error growth in the Ion-term (long-time) numerical integration of perturbed multi-dimensional oscillators, while using highly efficient and accurate special multistep codes. The author has studied theoretically their behaviour. The new technique has been illustrated with some numerical examples, including a case with non-resonant frequencies. 

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