Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

This book reviews and characterises promising single-compound solvents, solvent blends and advanced solvent systems suitable for CO2 capture applications using gas-liquid absorption.

This book describes and illustrates metal spray and spray deposition from the process engineering, metallurgical, and application viewpoints.

This brief describes a novel approach to overcome the disadvantages of hemp fibres in cementitious composites.

This book uses experimental and computational methods to rationalize and predict for the first time the relative impact sensitivities of a range of energetic materials.

This volume introduces the fundamentals of adsorption heat pumps, beginning with the simplest cycle and building to the most complex.

This book discusses different fruit crops and provides first-hand information on the nutritional composition of commercially important, as well as unexplored fruits, which are grown in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.

This book reports on topics at the interface between mechanical and chemical engineering, emphasizing design, simulation, and manufacturing.

This book describes the newest developments in the creation of concrete using smart additives and supplementary cementitious materials as well as methods, technology and novel admixtures to monitor, evaluate and control steel corrosion in reinforced concrete.

This book summarizes the authors' extensive experience and interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate how acquiring and integrating data using a variety of analytical equipment can provide better insights into unconventional shale reservoir rocks and their constituent components.

This book analyzes the evolution of Italian viticulture and winemaking from the 1860s to the new Millennium.

Sustainable development has become a great concern in modern society.

This collection presents fundamentals and the current status of friction stir welding (FSW) and solid-state friction stir processing of materials, and provides researchers and engineers with an opportunity to review the current status of the friction stir related processes and discuss the future possibilities.

This book discusses how much other countries reflect the EU chemical regulation REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, Restriction of Chemicals), in the context of Europeanization theory.

This textbook on fire dynamics provides a comprehensive description of fuels involved in fires, definitions related to fire, thermodynamics for fire calculations, basics of transport processes and fundamental aspects of combustion related to fire, physical descriptions of premixed and non-premixed flames, detailed analysis of the characteristics of fires from solid and liquid fuels, including ignition, spread and burning rates and physical aspects of fire plumes, compartment fires and dust fires.

This singular text aims to strengthen the scientific understanding of food product design and engineering, and to stimulate and accelerate the development of innovative, complex and highly structured products and suitable production processes.

This book is intended for use both in the industry and the academia.

This edited volume builds on existing alternative food initiatives and food movements research to explore how a systems approach can bring about health and well-being through enhanced collaboration.

This book paints a wide canvas of the immense global economic potential of ten most important cash generating crops spread over Asia, Africa and Latin America, namely, Arecanut, Cashew Nut, Coconut, Cinchona, Cocoa, Coffee, Tea, Oil Palm, Rubber and Wattle.

This book introduces the concept, design and application of green biocomposites, with a specific focus on the current demand for green biocomposites for automotive and aerospace components.

Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the following questions: What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening?

This book offers a complete introduction for novices to understand key concepts of biocatalysis and how to produce in-house enzymes that can be used for low-cost biofuels production.

This book captures the author's 35+ years of learning & experience in the semiconductor chip industry to provide a proven roadmap for successful, new product introduction process, tailored specifically to the semiconductor industry.

While continuing the tradition of expansive coverage, Fundamentals of Food Process Engineering, Fourth Edition, has been updated and revised.

The book presents a collection of chapters on the current problems associated with hydrogen damage.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the main electrical technologies for process heating, which tend to be treated separately in specialized books.

This book summarizes the recent advances in carbon-related materials.

Cereal-Based Foodstuffs: The Backbone of the Mediterranean provides an overview of cereal-based products in the Mediterranean region, illustrating the spectrum of products from past to present and their various processing methods.

This book addresses the impact of soil and water quality on food production, and explores soil and water conservation measures to be applied at farm level for agricultural sustainability.

This volume covers various aspects of the fundamentals, synthesis, analysis, design, monitoring, and control of metals, materials, and metallurgical processes and phenomena.

This book review series presents current trends in modern biotechnology.

The creation of plant-based foods is one of the most rapidly advancing areas in the modern food industry.

The book covers the taxonomy, diversity, bioactivity, and nanotechnology involved in the study of the genus Phoma.

This book considers all aspects of black pepper from its growth, as a flowering vine, to how the dried fruit (peppercorn) is used as a spice and traded as a commodity.

Chocolate is consumed by people of all ages in all segments of society throughout the world.

The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and the Canadian Arctic, Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries in the history of modern science.

This book presents various dynamic processes in non-uniform piezoceramic cylindrical and spherical bodies based on numerical methods.

Introduction to Agricultural Engineering Technology: A problem Solving Approach is an invaluable text for agriculture students at the introductory level.

This book covers the most recent advances in the deformation and fracture behaviour of polymer material.

This book presents a design-driven investigation into smart materials developed by chemists, physicists, materials and chemical engineers, and applied by designers to consumer products, buildings, interfaces, or textiles.

This brief addresses important aspects of food additives.

This book is designed to give students an understanding of the role of microorganisms in food processing and preservation; the relation of microorganisms to food spoilage, foodborne illness, and intoxication; general food processing and quality control; the role of microorganisms in health promotion; and federal food processing regulations.

This book describes nanomaterials used and existing in the environment, food industry and packaging, health care products and cosmetics, housekeeping, nanomaterials for cleaning purposes, architectural building products, medicine, clothing and textile, smart electronics and sensors.

This book explains theoretical and technological aspects of amorphous drug formulations.

This update to a classic reference text provides practising engineers and scientists with accurate thermophysical property data for cryogenic fluids.

Engineered Biocomposites for Dye Adsorption compiles and discusses applications, mechanisms, and performance evaluation of various biocomposites during dye adsorption.

This volume identifies gaps in the assessment, management, and communication of food allergen risks.

This book presents experimental and numerical methods that have been developed during six years of targeted research within the DFG priority program SPP 1740, elucidating the interaction between hydrodynamics, mass transfer and transport as well as chemical reactions in bubbly flows.

This volume explores the latest developments in the area of polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) used for high-temperature fuel cells.

This volume provides expert coverage of the state-of-the-art in sol-gel materials for functional applications in energy, environment and electronics.