Industrial chemistry and manufacturing technologies

This book brings together a diverse compilation of inter-disciplinary chapters on fundamental aspects of carbon fiber composite materials and multi-functional composite structures: including synthesis, characterization, and evaluation from the nano-structure to structure meters in length.

This book covers current developments in membrane-based technologies for the successful recovery of food bioactive ingredients and molecules.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the current state of the art in silicon compounds for thermoelectric applications.

Now in its updated second edition, this book describes emerging chiral environmental pollutants and their importance in environmental and human toxicology, as well as enantiomer selective separation and analytical methods.

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 is the first book presenting dynamic responses and failure of polymer composite structures as they interact with internal and/or external fluid media.

This book addresses the shelf life of foods, a key factor in determining how food is distributed and consequently where and when different food products are available for consumption.

Despite food being safer, more affordable and more available than at any time in human history, consumers are increasingly skeptical and critical of today's food system.

This Brief presents a review of new eco-friendly processes, design and applications for novel cellulose-based materials, including regenerated materials, composites, nanocellulose and cellulose derivatives.

The growing importance of glycobiology and carbohydrate chemistry in modern biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry makes accurate carbohydrate analysis indispensable.

This book provides in-depth coverage of smart materials, including electroactive polymers (EAPs), synthetic muscle, pneumatic artificial muscle, soft pneumatics, hydro-muscle, and other cutting-edge transformational smart material technologies.

This book presents selected high-quality research papers submitted to ICNF 2017, the 3rd International Conference on Natural Fibers, which was held in Braga, Portugal, on 21-23 June 2017.

This contributed volume provides a critical review of research in the field of Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis (EPOC).

Now in its 6th Edition, this highly acclaimed textbook provides sanitation information needed to ensure hygienic practices and safe food for food industry personnel as well as students.

Joining Technologies for Composites and Dissimilar Materials, Volume 10 of the Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the tenth volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book emphasizes the latest developments and achievements in AI and related technologies with a special focus on food quality.

This book reports on topics at the interface between mechanical and chemical engineering, emphasizing aspects related to design, simulation, and manufacturing.

Based on the lived experiences of incarcerated persons and staff, this book explores the symbolic significance of prison foodways to normalization, autonomy, identity construction, power, group formation and security.

This book aims to describe, though in a quite light way, the social role of plant diseases, letting the reader know the topical importance of plant pathology, as well as the role of plant pathologists in our society.

This book highlights the aspects that need to be considered when designing distillation columns in practice.

-The book demonstrates that food safety is a multidisciplinary scientific discipline thatis specifically designed to prevent foodborne illness to consumers.

This book describes current advances in the research on membranes and applications in industry, groundwater, and desalination processes.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

This book comes out of the 12th Iberoamerican Congress of Food Engineering, which took place at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal in July 2019.

This reference work compiles and summarizes the available information on epoxy blends.

This book provides information on the advances in blanching and its effect on food.

The book covers various topics of heat transfer.

Leading researchers from industry, academy, government and private research institutions across the globe have contributed to this book, which presents all types of rubber blend composites based on biomaterials as well as nanocomposites.

Armorial porcelains comprised the output of most European ceramics factories in the 18th and 19th Centuries in response to the large quantity of armorial porcelain services that were being imported from China bearing the coats of arms and crests of aristocratic families.

This book covers modeling, control and stability aspects of hybrid AC/DC power networks.

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies.

This book describes a detailed multi-scale approach integrating nano- (active site), meso- (porous catalyst architecture) and macroscale (reactor) efforts, to address the challenges of producing a better epoxidation catalyst.

Proteomics, like other post-genomics tools, has been growing at a rapid pace and has important applications in numerous fields of science.

This book presents recent advances made in materials science and engineering within Russian academia, particularly groups working in the Ural Federal University District.

This book covers advanced manufacturing in biological, petroleum, and nanotechnology processing for the development of novel products and systems that incorporate enhanced pollution control and waste management for environmental remediation.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on mechanochemistry including its history, high-energy ball milling process, equipment used and fundamentals behind the observed scientific phenomena.

This completely updated and expanded second edition stands as a comprehensive knowledgebase on both the fundamentals and applications of this important materials processing method.

This volume gives a detailed account into how renewables can be transformed into value-added products via homogeneous catalysis, especially via transiton metal homogeneous catalysis.

This book introduces and explains all existing dry processing methods, drawing from larges studies about these techniques in both the academia and industrial sectors.

This second edition adds newly established techniques and material properties codified in the past ten years to this authoritative reference.

This book explores the use of recent advanced multiple stage conversion technologies.

This book discusses the role of probiotics and prebiotics in maintaining the health status of a broad range of animal groups used for food production.

This book covers innovations  in starter culture, production of health beneficial fermented food products, technological intervention in beer, wine and spirits production, marketing of alcoholic beverages, modernization of dairy plants for production of fermented dairy products, non-diary probiotics, development of automatic fermenters, and packaging technology.

This collection includes the analysis, development, and operation of high-temperature processes that involve the extraction and processing of material resources, production, and treatment of metals, alloys, and ceramic materials.

Humankind has used a variety of spices to flavor food for centuries.

Meliponini, the stingless bees of the tropics, process and store honey, pollen and plant resins to maintain their colonies.

This book shows how jute waste is collected from industry and used as a cheaper source to extract and use cellulose.

This book focuses on the application of ionic liquids in flow assurance in the oil and gas industry.

This text comprehensively covers the analysis, enzymology, physiology and genetics of valuable natural products used in the food industry that are attractive targets for biotechnological production.

This new volume introduces the applications of microfluidic systems to facilitate biotechnological and biomedical processes.