Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

The Drug Discovery Handbook gives professionals a tool to facilitate drug discovery by bringing together, for the first time in one resource, a compendium of methods and techniques that need to be considered when developing new drugs.

An integrated and insightful look at successful drug synthesis in today's drug discovery market The pharmaceutical industry is unquestionably vibrant today, with drug synthesis making a vital contribution.

The Second Edition of the Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities provides chemists, technicians, and engineers with a thorough, lightening-quick resource to use during experimental preparation and in the event of an emergency.

Expert coverage of the state of the art in plastics coloring This latest edition of Coloring of Plastics: Fundamentals offers an updated introduction to color as a science while also providing the foundation for many additional technological subjects.

THE FIRST BOOK OF ITS KIND ON DISTILLATION TECHNOLOGY The last half-century of research on distillation has tremendously improved our understanding and design of industrial distillation equipment and systems.

The new edition of the cornerstone text on electrochemistry Spans all the areas of electrochemistry, from the basics of thermodynamics and electrode kinetics to transport phenomena in electrolytes, metals, and semiconductors.

Asymmetric synthesis remains a challenge to practicing scientists as the need for enantiomerically pure or enriched compounds continues to increase.

Validation describes the procedures used to analyze pharmaceutical products so that the data generated will comply with the requirements of regulatory bodies of the US, Canada, Europe and Japan.

Studies of thermodynamics often fail to demonstrate how the mathematical intricacies of the subject relate to practical laboratory applications.

Breakthroughs in combinatorial chemistry and molecular biology, as well as an overall industry trend toward accelerated development, mean the rate of sample generation now far exceeds the rate of sample analysis in the pursuit of producing new and better pharmaceuticals.

Automated Continuous Process Control pulls together in one compact and practical volume the essentials for understanding, designing, and operating process control systems.

Plastics Materials and Processes: A Concise Encyclopedia is a resource for anyone with an interest in plastic materials and processes, from seasoned professionals to laypeople.

Behavior-Based Safety, based on the work of B.

Over the last few years the technologies employed in the production of dry pasta and semolina have changed dramatically.

The book will provide an overview of the important issues in food safety, which shows no sign of diminishing as a topic of huge concern from industry to consumer.

The book addresses the latest technical developments in the chlorine industry with emphasis on operational improvements.

Human illness attributed to foodborne pathogenic microorganisms has been prominent in the mass media in recent years.

Over the past two decades the benefits of label-free biosensor analysis have begun to make an impact in the market, and systems are beginning to be used as mainstream research tools in many drug discovery laboratories.

Lipids and essential oils have strong antimicrobial properties they kill or inhibit the growth of microbes such as bacteria, fungi, or viruses.

Lipids and essential oils have strong antimicrobial properties they kill or inhibit the growth of microbes such as bacteria, fungi, or viruses.

A membrane reactor is a device for simultaneously performing a reaction and a membrane-based separation in the same physical device.

A membrane reactor is a device for simultaneously performing a reaction and a membrane-based separation in the same physical device.

In order to successfully compete as a sustainable energy source, the value of biomass must be maximized through the production of valuable co-products in the biorefinery.

A key component of the overall quality of a pharmaceutical is control of impurities, as their presence, even in small amounts, may affect drug safety and efficacy.

Natural and synthetic water soluble polymers are used in a wide range of familiar industrial and consumer products, including coatings and inks, papers, adhesives, cosmetics and personal care products.

Fluidization is a technique that enables solid particles to take on some of the properties of a fluid.

The food industry has utilized automated control systems for over a quarter of a century.

The food industry has utilized automated control systems for over a quarter of a century.

Now updated - the authoritative reference on one of the most exciting and challenging areas of the modern chemical industry This highly readable and informative reference continues to take a comprehensive, in-depth view of the products, markets, and technology of the fine chemicals industry and business.

This volume is a compilation of papers presented in the Mechanical Behavior and Performance of Ceramics & Composites symposium during the 34th International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC) held January 24-29, 2010, in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Contributions from three symposia that were part of the 34th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC), inDaytona Beach,FL, January 24-29, 2010 are presented in this volume.

This issue contains 25 invited and contributed papers, all peer reviewed according to the American Ceramic Society Review Process.

The Armor Ceramics Symposium was held January 25-27, 2010 in Daytona Beach, FL as part of the 34th International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites.

The Seventh International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC): Materials, Science, and Technology was held during the 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites in Daytona Beach, FL, January 24 to 29, 2010.

The present volume contains sixteen contributed papers from the symposium, with topics including advanced coating processing, advanced coating for wear, corrosion, and oxidation resistance, and thermal and mechanical properties, highlighting the state-of-the-art ceramic coatings technologies for various critical engineering applications.

This book helps advance process safety in a key area of interest.

This Guidelines book provides technical information on how to conduct a consequence analysis to satisfy your company's needs and the EPA rules.

At last, a book that covers safety procedures and standards with information that is rarely available outside of proprietary materials.

The process industry has developed integrated process safety management programs to reduce or eliminate incidents and major consequences, such as injury, loss of life, property damage, environmental harm, and business interruption.

Prevention, preparedness, response and recovery--the key components of emergency planning--form the major sections of this work.

This book contributes to more reliable and realistic predictions by focusing on sampling times from a few seconds to a few hours.

This book serves as a training tool for individuals in industry and academia involved with heat transfer applications.

Layer of Protection Analysis: Simplified Process Risk Assessment Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) is a recently developed, simplified method of risk assessment that provides the much-needed middle ground between a qualitative process hazard analysis and a traditional, expensive quantitative risk analysis.

This book presents an approach termed MERITT (Maximizing EHS Returns by Integrating Tools and Talents) for enhancing process development through better integration of environmental, health, and safety evaluations.

In today s competitive economy, companies often augment in-house production by outsourcing chemical reaction processes and distillation, drying, formulating, blending, and packaging operations.

Quantitative Risk Analysis is a powerful tool used to help manage risk and improve safety.

Written by Laurence Britton, who has over 20 years' experience in the fields of static ignition and process fire and explosion hazards research, this resource addresses an area not extensively covered in process safety standards or literature: understanding and reducing potential hazards associated with static electricity.

Batch reaction systems pose unique challenges to process safety managers because they do not operate in a steady state.

Over the years, companies have developed independent systems for managing process safety, environment, health, safety, and quality.

This book puts together a body of very recent information never before presented in one volume on the design of post-release mitigation systems.