Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

Chemical Resistance of Commodity Thermoplastics provides a comprehensive, cross-referenced compilation of chemical resistance data that explains the effect of thousands of reagents, the environment and other exposure media on the properties and characteristics of thermosets- plastics which are used in a range of applications.

A collection of papers from the below symposia held during the 10th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology (PacRim10), June 2-7, 2013, in Coronado, California 2012: Advances in Biomineralized Ceramics, Bioceramics, and Bioinspired Designs Nanostructured Bioceramics and Ceramics for Biomedical Applications

This book summarizes the research that resulted in aspartame's approval as a food additive as well as related topics regarding its function as a potential sweetening agent.

Currently the field of nanocatalysis is undergoing many exciting developments and the design of silica-based organic-inorganic hybrid nanocatalysts is a key focus of the researchers working in this field.

Advanced modeling techniques are a necessary tool in order to design and manage manufacturing systems effectively.

This book covers the recent research on nanomaterials and nanotechnology based on the hybridization of graphene with other nanoparticles.

Nutraceuticals: Sources, Processing Methods, Properties, and Applications explores the impact of nutraceutical compounds on human health and their main pharmacological contributions.

Because of unique water properties, humidity affects materials and many living organisms, including humans.

This book discusses recent developments in renewable and sustainable materials from a green technology perspective and how these materials interact with the environment.

Fabulous Food from Every Small Garden shows how to grow food at home in even the smallest of spaces.

Microspheres and microcapsules have very broad applications in various fields, especially in those of biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals, as targeting drug-delivery carriers, separation media for protein, peptide, DNA, and so forth.

Based on the proceedings of the eleventh international Cellucon conference held in Tsukuba, Japan, this book offers a comprehensive overview of important research undertaken into all aspects of environmentally compatible polymers.

Protecting our environment has never been more important than it is today in the wake of climate change and the ever-increasing demand on natural resources due to the expanding world population.

Soft Drinks and Fruit Juice Problems Solved, Second Edition, follows the innovative question and answer format of the first edition, presenting a quick problem-solving reference.

Emerging Innovative Trends in the Application of Biological Processes for Industrial Wastewater Treatment discusses new and emerging innovative trends in the application of biological processes in industrial wastewater treatment.

This revised, new edition retains its class-tested coverage of how metals behave in water while updating and expanding information about metals processing methods.

This book analyzes the effect of hydrogen on the atomic-level interactions in metals, detailing the corresponding changes in the physical properties of crystal lattice defects, diffusion, and phase transformations in metallic materials as a result of hydrogen loading.

Get to grips with the craft beer revolution, with this stylish and in-depth guide to the many complex terms and techniques, equipment and varieties that go into creating the perfect beer.

Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology, Fourth Edition provides definitions of terms, abbreviations, and trade names related to nutrition and food technology.

The magnificent Himalayan Mountains, the highest in the world and home to the famed Mount Everest and K2, are also imbued with a rich diversity of ethnic fermented foods.

Today, young cosmetics researchers who have completed their graduate studies and have entered a cosmetics company are put through several years of training before they become qualified to design cosmetics formulations themselves.

Valorization of Biomass to Bioproducts: Organic Acids and Biofuels focuses on recent technological developments and related challenges surrounding the bioprocessing of biomass for important organic acids and biofuels (waste to energy) for industrial applications.

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 proceedings contains 21 papers from the Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology symposium held during the 104th Annual Meeting of The American Ceramic Society, April 28-May 1, 2003, St.

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

This book (Volume 5) presents several hundred advanced cleaning product formulations for household, industrial and automotive applications.

Actively Caring for Safety: The Psychological Science of Injury Prevention outlines proactive applications of applied behavioural science and humanism (i.

Transport Phenomena in Membranes illustrates many aspects of mass transport in different membranes used in separation processes, along with their advantages when compared with other types of separation methods.

This book examines the development and utilization of alternative fuels in order to reduce or control the environmental impact of internal combustion engine exhaust gases.

Bioprocess Engineering for a Green Environment examines numerous bioprocesses that are crucial to our day-to-day life, specifically the major issues surrounding the production of energy relating to biofuels and waste management.

With the convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the traditional methods of farming are undergoing transformation.

Post Genomics Drug Discovery and Research explores and discusses some of the most important topics in post-genomics life and biopharmaceutical sciences.

Advanced Functional Solid Catalysts for Biomass Valorization presents the basic concepts in catalysis (homogeneous, heterogeneous, and enzymatic) and the properties of various kinds of heterogeneous solid catalysts, including their structure, porosity, particle size, BET surface area, acid-base, and redox properties.

This book examines biomass mixture modeling and optimization.

Ebenso praxisorientiertes wie theoretisch fundiertes Lehrbuch zur Modellierung, Gestaltung und dem Betrieb chemischer Reaktoren.

Vitamin C holds a unique place in scientific and cultural history.

Improved technologies for the encapsulation, protection, release and enhanced bioavailability of food ingredients and nutraceutical components are vital to the development of future foods.

The creation of new and more efficient therapies for improving human health greatly depends on drug delivery systems.

This book gives a comprehensive account on the manufacturing techniques to synchronize the desired properties of both traditional and advanced ceramics.

This volume covers many new trends and developments in food science, including preparation, characterization, morphology, properties, and recyclability.

This volume details preparations, separations, identification, analysis of postbiotics types and mechanism, uses of postbiotics in health, pharma, aquacultures, and the food industry.

Delivering Safety Excellence Discover how to overcome a culture of inadequately addressing risk and thereby achieve safe working practices from a leader in the fieldDelivering Safety Excellence: Engagement Culture At Every Level provides an in-depth and practical overview of how to energize frontline employees, supervisors, managers, and leaders to overcome and solve regularly occurring safety concerns.

Gasströme aus Produktions- und Verbrennungsprozessen sind oft erheblich mit Schadstoffen belastet.

Historically batch control systems were designed individually to match a specific arrangement of plant equipment.

Computer techniques have made online measurements available at every sampling period in a chemical process.

Purple sweet potato (PSP) is a special type of sweet potato with high concentration of anthocyanin pigment in the root.

Nine years have elapsed since I wrote the first English edition of this book, and progress in hair science has made a second edition necessary.

This book focuses on quality of produce by addressing its various aspects.

The breadth of the pharmaceutical medicine can be daunting, but this book is designed to navigate a path through the speciality.

Established in 1960, Advances in Hetrocyclic Chemistry is the definitive serial in the area-one of great importance to organic chemists, polymer chemists, and many biological scientists.