Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering Books

Contents - Preface to the English edition - Preface to the German edition - Introduction -CHAPTER I. - The basic materials of concrete - A) Cements and their resistance to corrosion -1. The composition of cements -2. The hydration of cement -3. The...

This practical book provides instruction on how to conduct several "hands-on" experiments for laboratory demonstration in the teaching of heat transfer and fluid dynamics. It is an ideal resource for chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and...

CONTENTS - PREFACE - 1. MODERN BOILERS - Classification of Boilers, Fire-tube or Shell Type Boilers, LancashireBoiler, Economic Boiler, Vertical Fire-tube Boiler, Packaged Boiler,Water-tube Boilers, Comparison of Fire-tube and Water-tube Boilers,Waste...

Contents - Acknowledgements - Foreword - Illustrations -Chapter 1. About this book - Chapter 2. The handling of fish at sea - Chapter 3. The handling and distribution of fish on land - Chapter 4. The smoking of fish - Chapter 5. Salt curing - Chapter 6...

Geologic Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste examines the fundamental knowledge and conditions to be considered and applied by planners and other professionals when establishing national repository concepts, and constructing repositories for the...

Carbon Nanomaterials: Modeling, Design, and Applications provides an in-depth review and analysis of the most popular carbon nanomaterials, including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphene and novel carbon nanomaterial-based membranes and thin films,...

One of the greatest challenges facing package manufacturers is to develop reliable fine pitch thin packages with high leadcounts, capable of dissipating heat, and deliver them in volume to the market in a very short space of...

Environmental Systems Engineering explains how to use new computerized tools to tackle problems in systems engineering. This book covers: expert systems, fuzzy logic, networks, process dynamics, control and statistical...

This easy-to-follow guide is a step by step workbook intended to enhance students' understanding of complicated concepts in food engineering. It also gives them hands-on practice in solving food engineering problems. The book...

This book provides a fundamental understanding of physical properties of foods. It is the first textbook in this area and combines engineering concepts and physical chemistry. Basic definitions and principles of physical...

Wastewater Treatment by Reverse Osmosis Process provides a one-stop-shop for reverse osmosis (RO), outlining its scope and limitations for the removal of organic compounds from wastewater. This book covers the state-of-the-art on RO processes and...

Pressure vessels are prone to explosion while in operation, due to possible errors in material selection, design and other engineering activities. Addressing issues at hand for a working professional, this book covers material selection, testing and...

Cereals, pulses, roots, and tubers are major food sources worldwide and make a substantial contribution to the intake of carbohydrates, protein, and fiber, as well as vitamin E and B. The Handbook of Cereals, Pulses, Roots, and Tubers: Functionality,...

Often associated with artificial hearts, ventricular assist devices (VADs) are blood pumps that can provide circulatory assistance to the left ventricle, the right ventricle, or both. Bioengineering and Biomaterials in Ventricular Assist Devices reviews...

Drying processes are among the most energy-consuming operations in industry. Flame spray drying (FSD) is a novel approach to reduce the energy supply needed for the spray drying process. Flame Spray Drying: Equipment, Mechanism, and Perspectives...

Considering the deleterious impacts of fossil fuels on the environmental and natural ecosystems, it has become imperative to make a paradigm shift toward renewable fuels, chemicals, and materials. The exhaustive everyday usage of fossil fuels and...

This textbook entitled Fundamentals of Perovskite Oxides: Synthesis, Structure, Properties and Applications summarizes the structure, synthesis routes, and potential applications of perovskite oxide materials. Since these perovskite-type ceramic...

There is an important overlap between science and design. The most significant technological developments cannot be produced without designers to conceptualize them. By the same token, designers cannot do their job properly without a good understanding...

The food and beverage industry is vital to the global economy, but in a society increasingly concerned with sustainable development, it is facing new challenges. This book explores corporate sustainability management in the food and beverage industry,...

In the field of organic chemistry, the use of alcohols as catalysts for C-N bond activation and alkylation reactions has garnered significant attention in recent years. Jagannath Rana, a renowned chemist, has contributed greatly to this area of research...

Community pharmacy and Management is an indispensable guide for students and educators of Diploma in Pharmacy, who seek a comprehensive understanding of the Indian Health care system. With the recent surge in public awareness concerning Health care...

This book "Physical Pharmaceutics - II" a complement of "Physical Pharmaceutics - I" comprises Colloidal dispersions, Rheology, Coarse dispersions, Micromeritics, and Kinetics to meet the needs of students undergoing B. Pharmacy course and to help in...

This volume (the 14th of a series of 19) contains 21 letters written between August 1701 and March 1704. At least half of these letters were addressed to Fellows of the Royal Society in London. Every volume in the series contains the texts in the...

Advancements in nanotechnology for material processing via combustionsynthesis have spurred the development of superalloys that provide improvedprotective properties. Nano-scale reactant particles offer increased homogeneitythat improve the...

Ontology modeling lacks standard methodology and sufficient literatures.There are very few books available in the market place that talks aboutontology modeling methodology and its application and almost none in thearea of product and process design...

In our modern world, more than 2 billion people still have no access to modernenergy services. Without considerably improving the energy situation indeveloping countries the central Millennium Development Goal of halvingglobal poverty by 2015 will not be...

Pectina é um polissacarídeo estrutural da parede celular de vegetais, amplamente utilizado como agente geleificante, estabilizante e espessante na indústria de alimentos e cuja extração industrial é realizada por processos com ácidos como clorídrico e...

Improved fermentation processes using immobilized systems for the synthesis of vitamin compounds are gaining importance because their recovery and purification from suspended systems remains highly complex. Problems with mass transfer are common in...

Drug repurposing, or drug repositioning, or reprofiling, has emerged as a valid approach in modern drug discovery. The book describes tools and techniques for identifying new therapeutic potentials for existing drugs and covers the repurposing of drugs...

Process integration and intensification are means to improve the sustainability metrics of the industrial processes, balancing the pillars of economy, environment, and social demand. The book covers a sequential framework for the design and operation of...

An indispensable guide for statistical programmers in the pharmaceutical industry.Statistical programmers in the pharmaceutical industry need to create standardized clinical data using rules created and governed by the Clinical Data Interchange Standards...

This book surveys four thousand years of pottery production and presents totally unexpected fresh information, using technical and analytical methods. It provides a study of ancient pottery of Jerusalem, from the earliest settlement to the medieval city...

This collection reviews the wide range of research on preventing microbial contamination of fresh fruit and vegetables, from understanding key pathogens to ways of detecting and preventing contamination across the supply chain.

This book unravels the recent studies in the field of food science and nutrition. Food science is the study of food, its deterioration, processing, and its production and consumption pattern. It uses the methods of engineering to analyze food. Similarly,...

Food engineering studies the nature of food and processes related to the production of food. It helps in the development of new processed food products and new techniques of manufacturing these products. Some of the disciplines related to this subject...

The process of converting raw materials into edible items is known as food processing. These processes can be chemical or physical in nature. Some of the popular techniques of food processing include pasteurization, mining, preservation, liquefaction...

Food science studies the nature, processing, and composition of food. The process of food processing is related to principles of food chemistry, food microbiology, food preservation, molecular gastronomy, etc. Food science helps in the effectual...

Proteins are chains of amino acids and molecules which are connected by peptide bonds. Proteins that are found in milk and associated dairy products are called milk proteins. Milk contains all the nine essential amino acids required by the human body. It...

Polymers are large chains of molecules that consist of many repeating sub-units called monomers. On the basis of their structure, these can be classified into linear polymers, branched chain polymers and cross-linked polymers. The branch of chemistry...

Food processing is a value addition process which transforms any raw product of dairy, agriculture, animal husbandry, meat, fishing or poultry. The finished product has commercial value and is suitable for human or animal consumption. Food processing can...

Food security can be understood as a measure to make food available and accessible to human beings. It involves physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and healthy food to all the people while meeting their food preferences and...

Ceramic engineering is a branch of engineering which deals with creation of objects from non-metallic and inorganic materials, called ceramics. It finds its application in various industries such as aerospace, electronics, automotive, etc. Earthenware,...

The availability of food that is nourishing, diverse and balanced to sustain the food consumption of individuals is known as food security. It is concerned with the accessibility that individuals have to nutritious food to fulfil their dietary needs to...

The branch of engineering which focuses on the operational techniques, design processes and methods to increase production efficiency is known as chemical engineering. It draws on the principles of physics, mathematics, chemistry, economics and biology...

The branch of biology which deals with the microorganisms responsible for inhibiting, creating and contaminating food is called food microbiology. It focuses on the microbes and pathogens responsible for food spoilage, diseases, and production of...