Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

This book reviews the need for increased training in the food industry in order to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western Europe and the USA.

Enrobed and filled confectionery and bakery products, such as praline-style chocolates, confectionery bars and chocolate-coated biscuits and ice-creams, are popular with consumers.

Controlling allergens in food is a matter of increasing importance for the food industry, especially in light of recent legislation.

This book is an excursion into the drug development process, from the initial conception in a chemical or molecular biology lab, via tests in isolated cells and animals, to the stage of clinical trials.

Brewing continues to be one of the most competitive and innovative sectors in the food and drink industry.

New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Recent Advances in Application of Fungi and Fungal Metabolites: Environmental and Industrial Aspects provides a comprehensive overview of recent development and applied aspects of fungi and its metabolites in environmental and industrial settings.

Databook of Blowing and Auxiliary Agents examines the chemical compounds used in the manufacture of blowing and auxiliary agents, and commercial products, with a range of data sources utilized.

Wine was produced in Burgundy and Bordeaux by the Romans and almost certainly by the Celts before them.

Nanotechnology-based therapeutics, operating at scales of billionths of a metre, have great potential for future expansion in altering the scale and methods of drug delivery.

Antibiofouling Membranes for Water and Wastewater Treatment: Principles and Applications covers most recent advances, challenges, and industrial applications of antibiofouling membranes to help in reducing cost and increasing sustainability of long term-filtration performance of membranes in water and wastewater treatment.

The ubiquity of gluten-containing grains, such as barley, wheat, and rye, in modern-day brewing has prevented many potential consumers from fully enjoying the craft beer revolution.

Phase change material (PCM)-based composite heat sinks have attracted great interest in recent decades, especially in the context of thermal management of portable electronic devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, personal digital assistants, and notebooks.

This monograph presents a new analytical approach to the design of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers for linear time-invariant plants.

This book gives an overview of recent developments in the synthesis of macromolecules for water purification applications.

The articles presented in this book deal with the attempts made by the scientists and practitioners to address contemporary issues in geoenvironmental engineering such as characterization of dredged sediments, geomaterials & waste, valorization of waste, sustainability in waste management, and some other geoenvironmental issues that are becoming quite relevant in today's world.

Aimed at students, researchers, nutritionists, and developers in food technology, this research text addresses the nascent field of metabiotics.

This book provides an overview of polymer nanocomposites and hybrid materials with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS).

This unique and timely text is designed to help food science students learn to perform critical analysis of food processing technology and consider the incorporation of elements that touch on contemporary technological developments in the food sector.

This book explores one of the most discussed and investigated novel foods in recent years: edible insects.

This book investigates a wide range of phase equilibrium modelling and calculation problems for compositional thermal simulation.

This book gives the definitive mathematical answer to what thermodynamics really is: a variational calculus applied to probability distributions.

This volume is devoted to compounds in which the spiro centre is part of a pyranoid or furanoid or an iminosugar ring.

This book outlines the methodologies, approaches and tools for modelling chemicals in a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) perspective, and also covers the main advantages and drawbacks of applying LCA to chemical processes.

This book focuses on the development of novel combustion approaches and burner designs for clean power generation in gas turbines.

This book presents an innovative concept for designing a 400 kV double circuit composite tower.

This book discusses the various aspects, from production to marketing of turmeric and ginger, the world's two most important and invaluable medicinal spice crops.

This textbook facilitates students' ability to apply fundamental principles and concepts in classical thermodynamics to solve challenging problems relevant to industry and everyday life.

Research scientists play a pivotal role in society.

This book presents an authoritative review of the most significant findings about all the epigenetic targets (writers, readers, and erasers) and their implication in physiology and pathology.

This book presents a comprehensive review of the latest information on all aspects of the post-combustion carbon capture process.

This book offers a straightforward, informative guide to the chemicals used for gas hydrate formation and inhibition, providing the reader with the latest information on the definition, structure, formation conditions, problems, and applications of gas hydrates.

This book is one of three volumes expanding upon content found in Mycotoxins in Foodstuffs, Second Edition, and focuses on milk and milk products, and meat.

This book covers various multiple-criteria decision making (mcdm) methods for modeling and optimization of advanced manufacturing processes (AMPs).

This book introduces a new and powerful approach based on rigorous process simulations conducted with professional simulators like HYSYS to predict the performance of supersonic separators (SS).

This book provides a new approach to the control of food transformation processes, emphasizing the advantage of considering the system as a multivariable one, and taking a holistic approach to the decision-making process in the plant, considering not only the technical but also the economic implications of these decisions.

This book addresses the developing area of biomass for technological applications.

This book provides an overview of the current state of the art in novel piezo-composites based on ferroelectrics.

This book provides a detailed description of metal-complex functionalized carbon allotrope forms, including classic (such as graphite), rare (such as M- or T-carbon), and nanoforms (such as carbon nanotubes, nanodiamonds, etc.

This volume presents both methodologies and numerical applications for the design of non-conventional unit operations in chemical processes and plants, which are rarely studied in depth at an academic level but have wide applications in the industrial sector.

This book provides information on the generation and the effects of hazardous substances that are produced during welding and allied processes.

This book focuses on both production and extraction aspects of Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) for their commercialization purpose.

This text provides comprehensive coverage of fibers used in food formulations, starting with the understanding of their basic chemical structure and how they are present and organized in the cell wall structure, their physicochemical and functional properties, their impact on the digestive process and their role and preventive action against various chronic diseases including colon cancer.

This book is divided into four parts that outline the use of science and technology for applications pertaining to chemical and bioprocess engineering.

This book explores topics at the interface between mechanical and chemical engineering, with a focus on design, simulation, and manufacturing.

Given the at times confusing new information concerning the human microbiome released over the last few years, this book seeks to put the research field into perspective for non-specialists.

This book highlights the various types of polymer and nanocomposites that can be derived from biorenewable resources.

In the agriculture, forestry, the primary and secondary wood working industry there are considerable resources of raw materials which can only be used in a rational manner for energetic purposes.

This is the remarkable story of an entrepreneurial firm that helped to create the petrochemical industry as we know it today.

Did you know that Vanilla was formerly served as aphrodisiac by Cassanova and Madam Pompadour, and Elizabeth I loved its flavor?

This book is a practical guide to optical, optoelectronic, and semiconductor materials and provides an overview of the topic from its fundamentals to cutting-edge processing routes to groundbreaking technologies for the most recent applications.