Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

Advances in Food and Nutrition Research

Advances in Catalysis

Advances in Catalysis

Advances in Catalysis

Advances in Catalysis

Advances in Catalysis

Advances in Catalysis

Compostable Polymer Materials deals with an environmentally important family of polymers designed to be disposed of in industrial and municipal compost facilities after their useful life.

Advances in Sonochemistry

In this book we seek to approach the architecture-energy combination and its relationship to human comfort and the environment .

The progressive dwindling of fossil resources, coupled with the drastic increase in oil prices, have sparked a feverish activity in search of alternatives based on renewable resources for the production of energy.

Nutrigenomics is the rapidly developing field of science that studies nutrient-gene interaction.

In the last couple of decades, high-performance electronic and optoelectronic devices based on semiconductor heterostructures have been required to obtain increasingly strict and well-defined performances, needing a detailed control, at the atomic level, of the structural composition of the buried interfaces.

Process intensification (PI) is a chemical and process design approach that leads to substantially smaller, cleaner, safer and more energy-efficient process technology.

Design, construct and utilize fuel systems using this comprehensive reference work.

Filters are used in most industries, especially the water, sewage, oil, gas, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical industries.

Macromolecules in Solution and Brownian Relativity illustrates the recent picture of statistical physics of polymers and polymer solutions that emerges from some paradigms of contemporary science joint together.

Mycotoxins are toxins produced by aerobic, microscopic fungus under special conditions of moisture and temperature.

Gluten-Free Cereal Products and Beverages is the only book to address gluten-free foods and beverages from a food science perspective.

Dielectric Elastomers as Electromechanical Transducers provides a comprehensive and updated insight into dielectric elastomers; one of the most promising classes of polymer-based smart materials and technologies.

Bottom line: For a holistic view of chemical engineering design, this book provides as much, if not more, than any other book available on the topic.

Adsorption by Carbons covers the most significant aspects of adsorption by carbons, attempting to fill the existing gap between the fields of adsorption and carbonaceous materials.

This book is concerned with providing a fundamental basis for understanding the alloy-gas oxidation and corrosion reactions observed in practice and in the laboratory.

For many biologists, statistics are an anathema; but statistical analysis of quantitative and qualitative data is of considerable importance.

- If our plant catches fire, when should it be allowed to burn down to prevent pollution?

The first book in this rapidly expanding area, Computer Vision Technology for Food Quality Evaluation thoroughly discusses the latest advances in image processing and analysis.

Post harvest biology and technology of citrus fruits is gaining importance as the therapeutic value of citrus fruits is realized and supported by the increase in health awareness among the general public.

Crystallisable polymers represent a large share of the polymers used for manufacturing a wide variety of objects, and consequently have received continuous attention from scientists these past 60 years.

Evaluation of the Effects and Consequences of Major Accidents in Industrial Plants analyzes the different major accidents which can occur in process plants and during the transportation of hazardous materials.

This book will update the original edition published in 1997.

This book offers an overview of the state of the art in the field of DeNOx catalysis in order to focus novel orientations, new technological developments, from laboratory to industrial scale.

Rotary reactors or rotary kilns are the reactors facilitating the chemical reaction between the gas and solid phases usually at high temperatures.

Advances in Food and Nutrition Research recognizes the integral relationship between the food and nutritional sciences and brings together outstanding and comprehensive reviews that highlight this relationship.

Application of Fracture Mechanics to Polymers, Adhesives and Composites

The series Advances in Dendritic Macromolecules aims to cover the synthesis and supramolecular chemistry of dendritic or cascade super-molecules as well as their less perfect hyperbranched cousins.

Natural phenomena consist of simultaneously occurring transport processes and chemical reactions.

This book provides an introduction to understanding combustion, the burning of a substance that produces heat and often light, in microgravity environments-i.

Pharmaceutically active substances are a class of new, so-called "e;emerging"e; contaminants that have raised great concern in recent years.

Properties of nanosilicon in the form of nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, and as porous material are of great interest.

The book provides the most up-to-date information on testing and development of hydroprocessing catalysts with the aim to improve performance of the conventional and modified catalysts as well as to develop novel catalytic formulations.

First published in 1997, Principles of Tissue Engineering is the widely recognized definitive resource in the field.

Fundamental study and industrial application of ion exchange membranes started over half a century ago.

The purpose of this book is to bring together current scientific understanding of wetting behaviour that has been gained from theoretical models and quantitative experimental observations.

This book examines toxic chemicals that may be present in the workplace and--with easy-to-understand, nontechnical language--examines the steps an organization can take to manage them.

Understanding and modeling the kinetics of chemical reactions is crucial to any research and development effort aimed at process optimization and innovation.

In Future Directions in Biocatalysis the important topics within biocatalysis and enzymatic catalysis for organic synthesis are described for both experts and non-experts.

This book describes the recent developments in enzymology in carbohydrate engineering based on modern sciences and technology, collected from recent symposia on agricultural biotechnology.

This title is a greatly expanded and updated second edition of the original volume published by Elsevier in 1986.

Solid Liquid Separation includes important industrial processes used for recovery and processing of solids or purification of liquids.

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