Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

The second edition of Wine Science: Principles, Practice, Perception updates the reader with current processes and methods of wine science, including an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of various new grape cultivar clones, wine yeast strains, and malolactic bacteria.

In recent years chemical engineers have become increasingly involved in the design and synthesis of new materials and products as well as the development of biological processes and biomaterials.

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.

Surface Area and Porosity Determinations by Physisorption is a practical guide for industry or academics to the measurement of surface area and pore size using the tool of physical adsorption.

More sulfuric acid is produced every year than any other chemical.

The only book of its kind on the market, this book is the companion to our Valve Selection Handbook, by the same author.

Nanocomposite Structures and Dispersions summarizes the fundamentals and mechanistic approaches in preparation and characterization of colloidal nanoparticles and dispersions, providing the readers a systematic and coherent picture of the field.

This second edition of An Introduction to Predictive Maintenance helps plant, process, maintenance and reliability managers and engineers to develop and implement a comprehensive maintenance management program, providing proven strategies for regularly monitoring critical process equipment and systems, predicting machine failures, and scheduling maintenance accordingly.

Food Industry Wastes: Assessment and Recuperation of Commodities presents emerging techniques and opportunities for the treatment of food wastes, the reduction of water footprint, and creating sustainable food systems.

The Handbook of Chemical Technology and Pollution Control, Third Edition provides a detailed review of the chemistry and operating conditions of many of the present large-scale chemical processes important to our economy and high standards of living.

Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes contains the technical detail necessary to understand the engineering principles that govern renewable energy application at many different levels.

Polyolefins are the most widely used commercial polymers and their functionalization has been a long standing scientific challenge and an industrially important area.

Gives insight into eliminating specific classes of hazards, while providing real case histories with valuable messages.

Comprehensive and practical guide to the selection and design of a wide range of chemical process equipment.

You can't really imagine Korea without kimchi.

This handbook explores the applications of polymer foams, and the properties that make them suitable for so many applications, in the detail required by postgraduate students, researchers and the many industrial engineers and designers who work with polymer foam in industry.

Analysis of Cosmetic Products advises the reader from an analytical chemistry perspective on the choice of suitable analytical methods for production monitoring and quality control of cosmetic products.

Complete Ceramics marries modern appeal with an age-old craft.

Because of the increasing need for ever better performing materials endowed with specific properties, macromolecular engineering has become a useful tool for designing well-architectured polymers (telomers, telechelics, stars, dendrimers, alternating, block- and graftcopolymers).

Deep connections are emerging in the physics of non-thermal systems,such as granular media, and other "e;complex systems"e; such as glass formers, spin glasses, colloids or gels.

The hydrostatic approach to ship stability aims to balance idealized ship weight against buoyancy forces.

The enjoyment of products is closely related to the senses, and in the case of food - mainly taste, aroma and texture.

The definitive practical guide to choosing the optimum manufacturing process, written for students and engineers.

The Pneumatic Conveying Design Guide will be of use to both designers and users of pneumatic conveying systems.

Energy: Engine of Evolution describes the importance of energy in the evolution of nature and culture on Earth.

This book presents six visionary essays on the past, present and future of the chemical and process industries, together with a critical commentary.

In recent decades, cosmetic science has found new high-potency, bioactive ingredients that produce visibly superior skin benefits to the consumer.

Work-related injuries, such as back injuries and carpal tunnel syndrome, are the most prevalent, most EXPENSIVE, and most preventable workplace injuries, accounting for more than 647,000 lost days of work annually (according to OSHA estimates).

High Temperature Coatings demonstrates how to counteract the thermal effects of the rapid corrosion and degradation of exposed materials and equipment that can occur under high operating temperatures.

Industrial Applications of Batteries looks at both the applications and the batteries and covers the relevant scientific and technological features.

The increasing importance of nonwoven filter media is due in part to their versatility: they are used in the pre-filtration of liquids, protection of membrane filters, gaseous filtration, the automotive industry, air purification, wet filtration and many household uses.

Handbook of Flotation Reagents: Chemistry, Theory and Practice is a condensed form of the fundamental knowledge of chemical reagents commonly used in flotation and is addressed to the researchers and plant metallurgists who employ these reagents.

Extensive application of bioprocesses has generated an expansion in biotechnological knowledge, generated by the application of biochemical engineering to biotechnology.

Ion Exchange Materials: Properties and Applications fills a "e;two-dimensional"e; gap in books currently available on the subject.

In this volume, the third in a set specifically written for the industrial process and chemical engineer, the authors provide the detailed information on filtration equipment and media which allows the reader to then consider the pre-treatment of suspensions, selection of the most appropriate equipment for the task, data analysis and the subsequent design of the processes involved for particular separations.

Since UV curing (light induced polymerisation of multifunctional oligomers) is a very ecoefficient and energy saving curing method, the growth rates of UV curable coatings are in the range of 10% per year.

The objective of this book is to acquaint the reader with a novel class of photochemical oxidants and polymerization initiators that have become widely accepted in industry.

Theoretical Aspects of Chemical Reactivity provides a broad overview of recent theoretical and computational advancements in the field of chemical reactivity.

Chemical Product Design: Towards a Perspective through Case Studies provides a framework for chemical product design problems which are clearly defined together with different solution approaches.

The theme of the present volume of Advances in Chemical Engineering is Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and aims to show the state-of-the-art of the application of CFD in chemical engineering.

In the last 10 years organic dyes, traditionally used for coloring textiles and other materials, have become increasingly important in the hi-tech industries of electronics and optoelectronics.

The topic of this book is Cold Spray technology.

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.

Waste Engine Oils presents a complete description of the field of engine used oils, widely collected in the networks of services-stations and garages.

The MBR Book

More stringent quality standards and environmental/safety regulations as well as new process and chemical technology have changed industrial cleaning from a "e;wet and wipe application to a valued and demanding process operation.

The First Asian Polyolefin Workshop introduces the recent developments and the research activities on polyolefin technology in Asia, which is becoming one of the important places in technology as well as in economy.

Industrial and domestic piping is increasingly made from various plastics and composites, and these materials withstand heavy use over long periods.

Adsorption, Ion Exchange and Catalysis is essentially a mixture of environmental science and chemical reactor engineering.

Catalysis is the acceleration of a chemical reaction by a catalyst, a substance that notably affects the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being consumed or altered.