Books in Chemical engineering general

Chemical Looping Processes

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Nader Mahinpey
English

Chemical Looping Processes: Fundamentals, Current Status, and Future Perspectives is a comprehensive reference for researchers involved in chemical looping processes. The book provides a systematic grasp of the fundamental principles underlying chemical looping and its various applications in conversion and emissions control. It presents recent advancements in chemical looping technologies, current emerging trends, and future outlooks to address the challenges for technology commercialization. Each chapter displays the principles of the specific process, describing its thermodynamics, kinetics, oxygen carrier development, and reactor specifications and design.Finally, application details and benefits are shown, along with faced challenges such as process optimization and how they are addressed. Future trends round out this edition.

Machine Learning for Membrane Separation Applications

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Mashallah Rezakazemi + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Machine Learning for Membrane Separation Applications covers the importance of polymeric membranes in separation processes and explains how machine learning is taking these processes to the next level. As polymeric membranes can be used for both gas and liquid separations, along with several other applications, they provide a bypass route to separation due to several fold benefits over traditional techniques. Sections cover the role of Machine Learning in membranes design and development, fouling mitigation, and filtration systems. Machine Learning in a wide variety of polymeric membranes, such as nanocomposite membranes, MOF based membranes, and disinfecting membranes are also covered.This book will serve as a useful tool for researchers in academia and industry, but will also be an ideal reference for students and teachers in membrane science and technology who are looking for new ways to develop state-of-the-art membranes and membrane technologies for liquid and gas separations, such as wastewater treatment and CO2 mitigation.

Lignin-driven Advanced Materials

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Meysam Madadi + 3 more
English

Lignin-driven Advanced Materials: The State-of-the-Art offers a pioneering approach to address the multifaceted challenges in the production of lignin-derived materials. This comprehensive book covers the creation of value-added products such as carbon materials, nanoparticles, energy storage materials, and bioplastics. It promotes collaboration between academia and industry, bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical expertise. Featuring advanced lignin isolation techniques, tools for lignin characterization, and pragmatic aspects of lignin-based materials, the book incorporates the latest research and industrial advancements.Additio... the book addresses the contentious questions surrounding lignin isolation techniques, providing advanced strategies that have the potential to replace conventional methods in the industry. It serves as a comprehensive resource for analytical tools for lignin characterization and presents solutions for more in-depth knowledge. Furthermore, it aims to improve economic viability and sustainability in lignocellulosic biomass utilization, and guides sustainable decision-making with environmental and economic assessments. This book is a vital resource for those exploring advancements in lignin-based materials.

Process Safety Management

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Ian Sutton
English

Process Safety Management offers comprehensive and practical guidance for developing and implementing process safety in design, operations, and maintenance of existing facilities by the concepts of process safety management (PSM) through detailed definitions, examples, historic perspectives and case-studies related to process safety. This book is the natural successor to Sutton's Process Risk and Reliability Management to offer updates and a deep dive into the crucial aspects of process safety. Across Twenty-Five Chapters, Process Safety Management provides guidance is provided for process safety elements, encompassing hazards analysis, incident investigation, operating procedures, training, and audits. The book outlines how to enhance safety but also emphasizes the improvement of operational integrity, equipment reliability, and system availability, with a focus on the integration of a process safety program into overall operational excellence. This book includes an overview of process safety regulations and standards, along with information on proposed updates to process safety standards by regulatory bodies such as OSHA and the EPA, while exploring how generative AI such as Chat GPT can be applied to PSM. Finally, this book includes discussion on net-zero initiatives and how process safety measures can be implemented to help work towards sustainable processes. This book will be a valuable resource for graduate students taking courses on process safety and risk engineering, such as courses are offered by Chemical Engineering; Industrial Engineering; and Process Engineering Disciplines. The book is also contains experimental guidance and will be very useful for practicing engineers in design house, consultancy, and operation. Process Safety Management will serve as reference book to develop, evaluate, and improve process safety management practices across multiple industries, and provide guidance to the members of regulatory agencies such as CSB, OSHA, API, NFPA, US EPA, and others.

Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Farooq Sher
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into various facets of chemical engineering. The book introduces historical information, highlights current state and trends in AI applications, and discusses challenges and opportunities within the field. Foundational principles of AI and machine learning are thoroughly covered, giving readers a solid understanding of basic AI principles, machine learning algorithms, and the crucial processes of model training and validation. The book then delves into the critical phase of data acquisition and preprocessing for AI models, addressing strategies for data collection, ensuring data quality, and techniques for feature engineering and selection.Subsequent chapters cover a wide spectrum of AI applications in chemical engineering. From supervised and unsupervised learning for process modeling to the advanced realm of deep learning applications, this book explores neural networks, convolutional and recurrent architectures, and their real-world applications in process optimization and analysis.

Advances in Treatment Methods Towards Emerging Contaminants

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Nabisab Mujawar Mubarak + 3 more
English

Advances in Treatment Methods Towards Emerging Contaminants: Sources, Occurrences and Health Effects is a vital resource for understanding the detection, monitoring, analysis, and remediation of emerging contaminants. This comprehensive guide offers both theoretical insights and practical instructions, making it indispensable for researchers and industry experts. By exploring fundamental aspects such as transformations and toxicology, the book provides a thorough understanding of emerging pollutants and contaminants. In addition to recent advancements in detection techniques, this book features case studies on new remediation strategies, including the use of green technology and nanotechnology.It is an essential reference for policymakers, graduate students, and professionals working in environmental monitoring and waste treatment.

Microbial Cell Factories in Food Waste Biorefinery

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Sanjeet Mehariya + 3 more
English

Microbial Cell Factories in Food Waste Biorefinery offers a thorough exploration of using food waste for both commercial and environmental purposes. The book delves into greener fuel production, biofertilizers to replace synthetic agro-chemicals, and high-value bioproducts to enhance waste-based biorefinery. It fosters innovation in food waste bio-refineries and provides insights into current research, limitations, and future trends. As reference material, it helps understand, practice, and promote sustainable systems to protect the environment. In addition to its comprehensive knowledge of food waste valorization via microorganisms like fungi, bacteria, and microalgae, the book discusses the integration of related technologies for additional economic benefits.Sustainabil... of microbial systems for waste transformation, food-water-energy security perspectives, latest developments, innovations, challenges, and guidance to implement waste biorefinery processes are thoroughly assessed.

Current Advances in Solid-State Fermentation

2nd Edition
September 1, 2025
Ashok Pandey + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Current Advances in Solid-State Fermentation: Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Second Edition offers a detailed examination of the latest advancements in solid-state fermentation. This comprehensive overview covers scientific, technological, and engineering progress within the bioprocessing field. Key topics include bioreactor designs, fermentation processes, genetically modified microbes, process modeling and optimization, extraction techniques, and media preparation. The book's historical perspective, coupled with its discussion on bioprocess systems and kinetics, sets the stage for understanding the fundamentals and applications of solid-state fermentation.Additio... the book emphasizes the integration of modern technologies such as artificial intelligence-based modeling and intelligent control systems to meet industry demands and foster future advancements. It serves as an essential resource for researchers and students, providing a single point of reference from laboratory to industrial applications. The text also highlights the importance of key principles for analysis, optimization, and design, ensuring it remains a valuable reference in the field.

Method of Process Systems in Energy Systems: Emerging Energy Systems Part II

1st Edition
Volume 9
September 1, 2025
Faisal Khan + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Method of Process Systems in Energy Systems: Emerging Energy Systems, Part II, Volume Nine, the latest release in the Methods in Chemical Process Safety series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Cybersecurity of Energy Systems, Risk-based alarm design and management, Data Fusion and Machine Learning in Fault Detection & Diagnosis, Resilience of Emerging Energy System, Identifying Cyber Risks in Energy Systems: Challenges and Strategies, Numerical risk-based models for optimizing renewable energy systems, and more.Other sections cover Advancing Operational Risk Assessment in emerging Energy Systems: Methods and Applications, From Process Design to Control: Advancing Instrumented Energy System for Sustainable and Efficient Operations, Approaches for sustainability assessment in the design of energy systems, Reliability-Informed Economic Assessment of Blue Hydrogen Production Design in a Low-Carbon Energy System, Cyber-Secure and Safe Operation of Renewable Energy Distribution Systems, and more.

Corrosion Atlas Case Studies

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Fuad Khoshnaw
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Corrosion Atlas Case Studies: 2025 Edition gives engineers expedient corrosion solutions for common industrial equipment, no matter the industry. Providing a purely operational level view, this reference is designed as concise case studies categorized by material. It includes content surrounding the phenomenon, equipment appearance (supported by a color image), time of service, conditions where the corrosion occurred, cause, and suggested remedies within each case study. Rounding out with an introductory, foundational layer of corrosion principles, this book delivers what is needed to solve equipment corrosion problems. Finally, additional reference listings for deeper understanding beyond the practical elements are also included.

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