Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

Oilseeds offer a plethora of opportunities for the food and feed industry, thanks to their high oil and protein content .

Millets are small-grained, annual, warm weather cereal.

This volume discusses recent advancements to the age old practice of using microbial enzymes in the preparation of food.

This book provides the latest developments on safety practices utilized in composite manufacturing facilities for students, workers, engineers, and other participants.

This book offers effective and competitive food supply chains that are the consequence of technological innovation, collaboration, small agri-food business cases, entrepreneurial opportunities, cold chain technology management, disruptive technologies, and performance assessment through empirical analysis, case studies, and multimethod research in the food industry.

The aim of the book is to report the recent research development of ancient glass and glazing technology and the historical-cultural exchange of the East and West along the Silk and Steppe Roads.

This book provides an overview of plasticizers, from the latest global research developments to the laws and regulations applied to their use.

This fourth volume in the series presents various sustainable approaches in the textile and fashion sector with a focus on manufacturing processes and chemicals.

This book is a collection of research focusing on the anthropological aspects of how food is made in modern society from both global and local perspectives.

This book comprises selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (ICMME 2019).

The book is a practical guide for the various steps in the post-harvest technology of frozen shrimps.

Mycotoxins are increasingly attracting attention at thegovernmental, public and academic level worldwide, due to more frequent and serious contaminations of food and feedstuffs, which pose a serious threat to human health and animal production.

This book focuses on in vitro techniques and challenges of producing nutraceutical compounds  from plant cells.

This book presents select proceedings of the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON-2021) under the theme "e;Sustainable Utilization of Resources for Chemical Mineral Sectors"e;.

Some geographic regions around the globe that are rich in terms of modern agriculture technologies, face a dilemma when it comes to storing excess produce, such as grains and even seasonal fruits and vegetable.

The book provides an overview of the current knowledge on cellulolytic enzymes and their applications.

This volume covers all aspects of furniture manufacturing from a production engineering perspective.

This book provides an overview of biocomposite chemistry, chemical modifications, characterization and applications in biomedicine, with emphasis on recent advances in the field.

This book presents select proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational and Experimental Methods in Mechanical Engineering (ICCEMME 2021).

This book introduces the physical principles behind levitation with superconductors, and includes many examples of practical magnetic levitation demonstrations using superconducting phenomena.

This book focuses on the vibration behavior of ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs), including (1) vibration natural frequency of intact and damaged CMCs; (2) vibration damping of CMCs considering fibers debonding and fracture; (3) temperature-dependent vibration damping of CMCs; (4) time-dependent vibration damping of CMCs; and (5) cyclic-dependent vibration damping of CMCs.

This is the very first book that offers an up-to-date and comprehensive overview on deuteride.

This book focuses on the nutrients and nutraceuticals that promote active and healthy ageing - recently defined by the WHO as the process of development and maintenance of functional capacity that allows well-being at an advanced stage of life.

The book highlights the importance of prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics in the signalling mechanism between gut microbiota and brain, also referred to as the gut-brain axis.

This book introduces readers to essential advances in the application of physical processing technology in food processing that have been made in recent years.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial and Manufacturing Systems (CIMS 2020).

This book focuses on advanced research and technologies in dairy processing, one of the most important branches of the food industry.

This proceedings volume gathers selected papers presented at the Chinese Materials Conference 2017 (CMC2017), held in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, China, on July 06-12, 2017.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the Fourth International Technical Symposium on Deepwater Oil and Gas Engineering & The Third International Youth Forum on Gas Hydrate, held in Qingdao, China in December 2021.

This book commemorates the "e;Nobel Laureate Professor Suzuki Special Symposium"e; at the International Union of Material Research Society-International Conference on Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICAM2017), which was held at Kyoto University, Japan, in 2017.

This book presents fundamental and practical information on food chemistry.

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (ELCA)  that was developed about three decades ago demands a broadening of its scope to include lifecycle costing and social aspects of life cycle assessment as well, drawing on the three-pillar or 'triple bottom line' model of sustainability, which is the result of the development of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA).

The book focuses on the current research of the relation between protein phosphorylation and meat quality, reviews the influence mechanism of protein phosphorylation on meat quality, and summarizes the improvement of meat quality by regulating protein phosphorylation.

Packaging plays a major role in the environmental footprints of products from any industrial sector, and thus is important to address the sustainability issues of packaging.

This book addresses energy footprints in the food and textile sectors.

This book compiles the latest research on food-derived opioid peptides, particularly those derived from milk.

The book summarizes the latest research on starch structures and how these structures occur during food processing and storage.

Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic researchers and industrial practitioners, this book provides comprehensive case studies on numerical computing of industrial processes and step-by-step procedures for conducting industrial computing.

This book discusses financial, managerial and engineering aspects associated with project engineering.

Optimization plays a key role in the design, planning and operation of chemical and related processes for several decades.

This book covers the basic principle and challenges of structural health monitoring system for natural fibre and the hybrid composites structural materials in industrial applications, such as building, automotive, aerospace and wind turbine.

This book systematically covers immunoassays for food, presenting detailed approaches such as antigen design, food matrix pre-treatment and detection format optimization for 9 classes of food hazards and nutrition constituents.

This edited book serves as a vital resource on the contributions of microorganisms to advances in nanotechnology, establishing their applications in diverse areas of biomedicine, environment, biocatalysis, food and nutrition, and renewable energy.

This book presents the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Bioprocess Engineering and Technology (ICABET 2020).

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Materials Research (ICAMR 2019).

This book provides a broad overview of the chemicals in food that have the potential to induce adverse health effects.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Materials, Metallurgy and Manufacturing (ICEMMM 2018), and covers topics regarding both the characterization of materials and their applications across engineering domains.

The book highlights the recent research developments in biocomposite design, mechanical performance and utility.

This book presents the select proceedings of the National Conference on Research and Developments in Material Processing, Modelling and Characterization (RDMPMC 2020).

This book introduces readers to basic studies on and applied techniques involving lactic acid bacteria, including their bioengineering and industrial applications.