Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the current state-of-the-art in soft magnetic materials and related applications, with particular focus on amorphous and nanocrystalline magnetic wires and ribbons and sensor applications.

This book examines the puzzle of why genetically modified organisms continue to be controversial despite scientific evidence declaring them safe for humans and the environment.

This Brief explores the chemistry and production technology of a cheese precursor: the cow's milk curd.

The book reviews the history, present, and likely future of intellectual property for plant-related inventions.

This book focuses on various types of bioactive compounds, including secondary metabolites, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, flavonoids, peptides/proteins, carotenoid pigments, quinones, terpenes, and polyunsaturated fatty acids, and presents an overview of their nutraceutical activities.

This volume is the first centralized source of technological and policy solutions for sustainable agriculture and food systems resilience in the face of climate change.

Research on the rheological and textural aspects of cheeses has continued to progress, with new measurement methods, and technological and physiochemical insights having been developed since the publication of the first edition over 20 years ago.

This book covers the security and safety of CBRNE assets and management, and illustrates which risks may emerge and how to counter them through an enhanced risk management approach.

This Brief explores the importance of lactic acid and fermentation in the modern food industry.

This is one of the first books fully dedicated to the rapidly advancing and expanding research area of deep eutectic solvents.

This book compiles 15 chapters about the synthesis, characterizations, and application of many kinds of magnetic adsorbents for water treatment.

Features twenty-five chapter contributions from an international array of distinguished academics based in Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, and the USA.

Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Authored by many of the world's leading experts on high-Tc superconductivity, this volume presents a panorama of ongoing research in the field, as well as insights into related multifunctional materials.

Food-borne bacterial pathogens encounter a number of stressors during food processing and preservation.

This book brings together a diverse compilation of inter-disciplinary chapters on fundamental aspects of carbon fiber composite materials and multi-functional composite structures: including synthesis, characterization, and evaluation from the nano-structure to structure meters in length.

This book covers current developments in membrane-based technologies for the successful recovery of food bioactive ingredients and molecules.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the current state of the art in silicon compounds for thermoelectric applications.

Now in its updated second edition, this book describes emerging chiral environmental pollutants and their importance in environmental and human toxicology, as well as enantiomer selective separation and analytical methods.

This textbook introduces the concepts and tools that biomedical and chemical engineering students need to know in order to translate engineering problems into a numerical representation using scientific fundamentals.

This book addresses the shelf life of foods, a key factor in determining how food is distributed and consequently where and when different food products are available for consumption.

Despite food being safer, more affordable and more available than at any time in human history, consumers are increasingly skeptical and critical of today's food system.

This Brief presents a review of new eco-friendly processes, design and applications for novel cellulose-based materials, including regenerated materials, composites, nanocellulose and cellulose derivatives.

The growing importance of glycobiology and carbohydrate chemistry in modern biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry makes accurate carbohydrate analysis indispensable.

This book provides in-depth coverage of smart materials, including electroactive polymers (EAPs), synthetic muscle, pneumatic artificial muscle, soft pneumatics, hydro-muscle, and other cutting-edge transformational smart material technologies.

This book presents selected high-quality research papers submitted to ICNF 2017, the 3rd International Conference on Natural Fibers, which was held in Braga, Portugal, on 21-23 June 2017.

This contributed volume provides a critical review of research in the field of Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis (EPOC).

Now in its 6th Edition, this highly acclaimed textbook provides sanitation information needed to ensure hygienic practices and safe food for food industry personnel as well as students.

Joining Technologies for Composites and Dissimilar Materials, Volume 10 of the Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the tenth volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book emphasizes the latest developments and achievements in AI and related technologies with a special focus on food quality.

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

Based on the lived experiences of incarcerated persons and staff, this book explores the symbolic significance of prison foodways to normalization, autonomy, identity construction, power, group formation and security.

This book aims to describe, though in a quite light way, the social role of plant diseases, letting the reader know the topical importance of plant pathology, as well as the role of plant pathologists in our society.

This book highlights the aspects that need to be considered when designing distillation columns in practice.

-The book demonstrates that food safety is a multidisciplinary scientific discipline thatis specifically designed to prevent foodborne illness to consumers.

This book describes current advances in the research on membranes and applications in industry, groundwater, and desalination processes.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

This book comes out of the 12th Iberoamerican Congress of Food Engineering, which took place at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal in July 2019.

This book provides information on the advances in blanching and its effect on food.

The book covers various topics of heat transfer.

Leading researchers from industry, academy, government and private research institutions across the globe have contributed to this book, which presents all types of rubber blend composites based on biomaterials as well as nanocomposites.

Armorial porcelains comprised the output of most European ceramics factories in the 18th and 19th Centuries in response to the large quantity of armorial porcelain services that were being imported from China bearing the coats of arms and crests of aristocratic families.

This book covers modeling, control and stability aspects of hybrid AC/DC power networks.

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies.

This book describes a detailed multi-scale approach integrating nano- (active site), meso- (porous catalyst architecture) and macroscale (reactor) efforts, to address the challenges of producing a better epoxidation catalyst.

Proteomics, like other post-genomics tools, has been growing at a rapid pace and has important applications in numerous fields of science.

This book presents recent advances made in materials science and engineering within Russian academia, particularly groups working in the Ural Federal University District.

This book covers advanced manufacturing in biological, petroleum, and nanotechnology processing for the development of novel products and systems that incorporate enhanced pollution control and waste management for environmental remediation.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on mechanochemistry including its history, high-energy ball milling process, equipment used and fundamentals behind the observed scientific phenomena.

This volume gives a detailed account into how renewables can be transformed into value-added products via homogeneous catalysis, especially via transiton metal homogeneous catalysis.