Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

This book explores the potential of advanced microwave techniques, specifically microwave-assisted pyrolysis, for the production, adsorption, and regeneration of activated carbon (AC) as a promising solution to address wastewater pollution caused by dyes.

This book addresses special lipids produced by chemical and enzymatic interesterification and explores the interesterification process and its crucial role in the modification of oils for various applications.

This book focuses on pulverized coal particle devolatilization, ignition, alkali metal release behavior, and burnout temperature using several novel optic diagnostic methods on a Hencken multi-flat flame burner.

This book gathers selected papers from the Chinese Materials Conference 2018 (CMC2018) held in Xiamen City, Fujian, China, on July 12-16, 2018.

This book introduces a comprehensive and sustainable project delivery framework tailored for managing the Water, Energy and Food (WEF) nexus in developing economies.

This book is presented on biofuel production which includes different technologies developed and adopted to synthesize green renewable fuel alternatives for sustainable development.

This book presents the knowledge on the sea buckthorn chemistry and nutrition, including the identification, analysis and application of bioactive chemical components of sea buckthorn, the functional characteristics of sea buckthorn, and the commercial products from Sea buckthorn.

This book offers an easy-to-understand introduction to the computational mass transfer (CMT) method.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 17th International Conference on Alkali-Aggregate Reaction in Concrete (ICAAR), held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on May 19-24, 2024.

This book examines biomass mixture modeling and optimization.

This book overviews honey and herbs that profoundly affect human metabolism when mixed in a balanced ratio.

This book summarizes recent efforts and advances in the roll bonding of metal laminates to reveal the potential mechanism.

This textbook introduces readers to a comprehensive framework for the application of deterministic optimization strategies in the field of chemical processes, with a strong emphasis on sustainability.

The sustainability of food packaging is a key priority in the food industry, as plastic waste and littering have become global concerns.

This proceedings book contains the full papers of the 10th edition of the International Conference on Energy and Environment Research, ICEER 2023, that took place in Madrid, Spain during October 7-9, 2023.

This book highlights current efforts and research on sustainable solutions for the palm oil industry, including production and waste management.

This book introduces the laser hybrid additive manufacturing technology (LHAM) with alternately thermal and mechanical effects for the high-performance manufacturing of key components.

This book discusses topics such as solar energy, heat transfer, solar cell and photovoltaic module, greenhouse-integrated semi-transparent photovoltaic thermal (GiSPVT) system for agriculture and aquaculture, GiSPVT solar dryer, and PVT water and air collector for water heating, air heating, biogas heating and swimming pool heating, etc.

Food is contaminated in the production chain and is the point of concern among the consumers and industries.

This proposed book chapter is expected to provide the readers with wide aspects of green technologies for industrial waste remediation.

This book provides an introduction to the unique and fascinating properties of alloys and composites from novel commercialized thermosetting resins based on polybenzoxazines.

This book describes a simplified approach to the modelling and process design of a fixed bed hybrid bioreactor for wastewater treatment.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of ductile mode cutting of brittle materials, covering a range of topics from the fundamental physics to engineering practices.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies (WC2015).

Dry fish is an excellent and cheap source of protein and fat in both developed and developing nations, especially for vulnerable populations.

This Brief highlights different approaches used to create stable cellulase and its use in different fields.

The book covers the topic of geopolymers, in particular it highlights the relationship between structural differences as a result of variations during the geopolymer synthesis and its physical and chemical properties.

The book gives an overview of environmental friendly gaseous and vapour, refrigerated compressed gas, solid lubricant, mist lubrication, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) and vegetable oils that can be used as lubricants and additives in industrial machining applications.

This book covers the different aspects of tropical natural fibre composites in areas such as properties, design and analysis, manufacturing techniques, material selection of kenaf, oil palm, sugar palm, pineapple leaf, coconut, sugarcane and banana based fibre composites.

This book describes the development of two kinds of continuous-flow transformation using heterogeneous catalysts, and explains how they can be applied in the multistep synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

This book focuses on the effect of minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) on the mechanical and thermal history, which will mainly determine the quality of the machined components.

This book introduces the basic analysis methods in signal processing, principles of various sensors and the concept of measurement system.

The book covers different techniques and methodologies involved in the nutritional quality analysis of forages.

This book presents various useful processing techniques and applications of glasses and glass-ceramics.

This book covers different aspects of biodegradable packaging, such as their sourcing and application in food industries.

Food is contaminated in the production chain and is the point of concern among the consumers and industries.

This book describes the various techniques for nondestructive quality assessment of fruits and vegetables.

The book provides an integrated energy/exergy analysis method to identify the energy utilization issues and systematically propose the cost-effective energy-saving and CO2 mitigation/capture solution.

This book features selected papers presented at the 20th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy.

The book compiles the latest advances in food chemistry.

This book deliberates on the various aspects of plant-based nutrition.

This book serves as a great reference for engineering technicians and researchers in a wide range of fields, including emergency management, public safety science, risk management, emergency communication, and transportation optimization.

This book covers the details of computer-aided tools & techniques for improving work culture and minimizing accidents.

This book focuses on the basic physical process and chemical reaction of plasma spraying particle melting, flight and deposition.

This book examines the background of fourth-generation biofuel production, use of genetically modified microalgae for production of fourth-generation biofuels; cultivation and harvesting of genetically modified microalgae; residue from biofuel extraction; health and environmental concerns of fourth-generation biofuels; regulations on cultivation and processing of the genetically modified algae; carbon dioxide sequestration; water footprint and current status and key challenges.

This is a fully rewritten and extended version of the successful first edition of a textbook which focuses on consumer-driven food product innovation using a systems-oriented approach.

This book highlights current efforts and research in Malaysia on conversion of bio-resources to renewable energy of biofuel as an alternative way of producing energy from fossil-based fuels.

This book presents the fundamentals of the reservoir and interfacial engineering.

This book focuses on the properties of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) and recent advances in their application in lignocellulosic biomass processing.

This book describes crucial aspects related to the additive and subtractive manufacturing of different composites.