Authors Jerry Tracy, Jack J. Murphy and James J. Murtagh invite fire chiefs, fire officers, firefighters, fire protection engineers, building management and the greater fire community to explore High-Rise Buildings: Understanding the Vertical Challenges as a foundation for coordination and control of high-rise building operations. Features: - Learn about cognitive command from many invaluable high-rise fire case histories - Manage and respond to all-hazards events within the high-rise environment for generations to come - A guideline and reference for fire professionals, building owners and system engineers, the building construction community, property managers What others are saying: "High-Rise Buildings: Understanding the Vertical Challenges is literally a "bible" for high-rise buildings, protection from fire, and the challenges they present to firefighters." --Paul Grimwood, Kent (UK) Fire and Rescue Service, Ph.D., Principal, Fire Protection Engineer "High-Rise Buildings: Understanding the Vertical Challenges fills an important void in high-rise firefighting and is an important asset to fire officers." --Glenn P. Corbett, Fire Engineering Magazine, Technical Editor

This EM 385-1-1, Safety and Occupational Health (SOH) Requirements Manual March 2024 version, supersedes the EM 385-1-1 November 2014. The manual describes safety and health requirements for all Corps of Engineers activities and operations, including Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) construction contracts. Following this manual will help all contractors working on DoD projects to meet all of the necessary safety requirements to ensure success on any current and future Federal projects.

This Guide provides information on special topics that affect the fire safety performance of very tall buildings, their occupants and first responders during a fire. This Guide addresses these topics as part of the overall building design process using performance-based fire protection engineering concepts as described in the SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance Based Fire Protection. This Guide is not intended to be a recommended practice or a document that is suitable for adoption as a code. The Guide pertains to “super tall,” “very tall” and “tall” buildings. Throughout this Guide, all such buildings are called “very tall buildings.” These buildings are characterized by heights that impose fire protection challenges; they require special attention beyond the protection features typically provided by traditional fire protection methods. This Guide does not establish a definition of buildings that fall within the scope of this document.

This handbook serves as a guide to deploying battery energy storage technologies, specifically for distributed energy resources and flexibility resources. Battery energy storage technology is the most promising, rapidly developed technology as it provides higher efficiency and ease of control. With energy transition through decarbonization and decentralization, energy storage plays a significant role to enhance grid efficiency by alleviating volatility from demand and supply. Energy storage also contributes to the grid integration of renewable energy and promotion of microgrid.

This Code of Practice is an excellent reference for practitioners on the safe, effective and competent application of electrical energy storage systems. It provides detailed information on the specification, design, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of an electrical energy storage system.

Valves are the components in a fluid flow or pressure system that regulate either the flow or the pressure of the fluid. They are used extensively in the process industries, especially petrochemical. Though there are only four basic types of valves, there is an enormous number of different kinds of valves within each category, each one used for a specific purpose. No other book on the market analyzes the use, construction, and selection of valves in such a comprehensive manner. - Covers new environmentally-conscious equipment and practices, the most important hot-button issue in the petrochemical industry today - Details new generations of valves for offshore projects, the oil industry's fastest-growing segment - Includes numerous new products that have never before been written about in the mainstream literature

"This book is primarily for undergraduates, graduates and research scholars working in the field of energy storage systems. The book details the mathematical and experimental analysis of energy storage systems and can be referenced by different engineering sectors, including: mechanical, chemical, civil and energy engineering, and is equally important for scholars of physics and chemistry. Various aspects of thermal energy storage systems are described, such as lithium-ion batteries, nuclear reactors, latent heat storage with PCM embedded porous media, CCHP with TESS, PCM in solar collectors, and grain dryers. Chapter one provides an overview of the development of various kinds of cathodes and anodes. In short, this chapter is an outline of the development stages of Li-ion battery electrochemistry, discussing the commercial success and current challenges in the field with mitigation strategies, as well as the future of Li-ion batteries. In the system described in chapter two, a high-nuclear high-temperature reactor supplies constant power to the thermal energy storage unit of molten lithium chloride salt, which provides the required thermal energy for a closed energy conversion system of the Bryton cycle. During regular operation, the thermal energy storage unit stores heat overnight for use during peak demand periods in the day. In this case, the nuclear reactor remains at a constant level of thermal capacity. A detail of energy storage in PCM embedded with porous media is presented in chapter three, and the applications of such systems are presented in chapter four. PCM has gained the attention of researchers due to longer thermal recycling and chemical stablity. Moreover, high latent heat copacity is one of the most significant aspects contributing to the polularity of PCMs, and the low thermal conductivity of PCMs limits their usage in many thermal applications and can be improved by using porous media as an embedded material. Chapter five delineates the optimal working point of a system consisting of several independent units capable of trading electricity based on the consumption of various fuels. The utilization of a heat storage tank was determined using a genetic algorithm, and the modeling accuracy was compared. Chapters six and seven present a clear understanding of the working and investigation procedures of natural convection grain dryers. This book will be helpful for understanding the fundamentals of thermal energy storage systems"--

Lithium-Ion Batteries Hazard and Use Assessment examines the usage of lithium-ion batteries and cells within consumer, industrial and transportation products, and analyzes the potential hazards associated with their prolonged use. This book also surveys the applicable codes and standards for lithium-ion technology. Lithium-Ion Batteries Hazard and Use Assessment is designed for practitioners as a reference guide for lithium-ion batteries and cells. Researchers working in a related field will also find the book valuable.