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Books in Process chemistry and technology

Our selection includes titles on chemical reaction engineering, process intensification, and process optimization. Featuring innovative research and practical case studies, this collection supports chemists and engineers in developing efficient, sustainable chemical processes. Addressing safety, scale-up, and environmental impact, these resources foster technological advancements that improve process performance and industrial sustainability.

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    • Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Jingzheng Ren + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 4 0 1 6
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 4 0 2 3
      Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy: Chemical Process Design and Simulation is a comprehensive resource designed to advance knowledge in chemical process design, simulation, and sustainability assessment focused on waste valorization. The book emphasizes circular economy principles and provides practical guidance for optimizing waste management strategies. Covering a broad spectrum of waste types such as industrial, municipal, medical, plastic, agricultural, and food waste, it equips readers with the latest methodologies, including simulation and decision-making processes, and explores Industry 4.0 technologies and circular supply chain design. This guide supports professionals, researchers, and students committed to building a sustainable future.In addition, the book offers learning objectives, case studies, and review exercises in every chapter to deepen understanding and support skill development. It is tailored for a wide audience, including chemical engineering professors, researchers, industry experts in process systems engineering and renewable energy, as well as environmental consultants and administrators involved in waste management. Undergraduate and graduate students specializing in energy, environmental, or chemical engineering will find it an invaluable textbook for mastering sustainable waste valorization and circular process design.

    • Ionic Liquids in Biomass Processing

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Harish K. Chopra + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 4 4 7 4
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 4 4 8 1
      Ionic Liquids in Biomass Processing: Green Protocols serves as a comprehensive guide to all aspects of ionic liquids and their applications within biomass processing. In addition to this fundamental knowledge, this book also walks the reader through the practical aspects of ionic liquids, from synthesis through to methodology and experimental design in real world industrial case studies. This book covers various industries and applications of ionic liquids for multiple types of biomasses; each chapter covers a specific type of biomass or provides an overview of how effective ionic liquid can be in various industrial sectors and research areas. The book provides real world examples and case studies, coupled with the latest research and economic and environmental insights into ionic liquids and biomass conversion technologies. Ionic Liquids in Biomass Processing: Green Protocols will be a valuable resource to anyone investigating, or working with, sustainable and alternative energy sources and chemical processes. This book will be used primarily be researchers, academics, students and industry experts in green chemical engineering and chemistry, or any related scientific discipline involving alternative energy and green synthesis of value-added products.

    • Artificial Neural Networks in Chemical Engineering Processes

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Ahad Ghaemi + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 2 8 3 2 9
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 2 8 3 3 6
      Artificial Neural Networks in Chemical Engineering Processes: From Theory to Applications serves as a comprehensive resource on artificial neural networks within chemical engineering, including understanding the fundamental principles, learning about relevant algorithms and architectures, and exploring practical case studies. This book covers theoretical principles, relevant algorithms, and practical case studies, this book covers artificial neural network concepts, architectures, and algorithms, with a focus on applications in chemical engineering processes. This book also addressed common challenges by providing practical guidance through successful case studies, offering insights on data pre-processing, model selection, training strategies, and performance evaluation. The book serves as a valuable tool for bridging the gap between neural networks and their practical implementation in chemical engineering. This book will be an invaluable resource for chemical Engineers, particularly researchers and industry professionals working in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. It will also be a very useful guide for Graduate and Postgraduate Students in Chemical Engineering and machine learning. Artificial Neural Networks in Chemical Engineering will also be a valuable resource for anyone working with artificial neural networks in other industries, particularly data scientists and analysts.

    • Process Plant Design for Chemical Engineers

      • 1st Edition
      • December 5, 2025
      • Peter Mullinger
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 5 2 2 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 5 2 3 5
      Process Plant Design for Chemical Engineers: Guide to Practical Aspects of Engineering Decision Making offers a comprehensive and accessible resource for chemical engineers seeking to make informed decisions throughout the design process of a plant. The book emphasizes evidence-based decision making, aiming to help professionals avoid costly mistakes, injuries, and risks associated with poor choices. Drawing on real-world examples across various industries, it demonstrates how the use of available information can significantly impact outcomes. This guide is essential for both students and practicing engineers, providing practical strategies to ensure safety, efficiency, and successful results in process plant design.Beyond its focus on decision making, the book delivers in-depth analysis of real applications, showing both good and bad examples and the consequences of each. It discusses the importance of risk management and illustrates lessons learned to help engineers recognize and address potential hazards. The guidance provided is especially valuable for those scaling up processes from laboratory research to commercial production. Additionally, the book is useful for professionals across diverse sectors—including minerals processing, food and wine, and energy engineering.

    • Advances in Green Engineering for Sustainable Industrial Developments

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Divya Bajpai Tripathy + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 6 3 7 9
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 6 3 8 6
      Advances in Green Engineering for Sustainable Industrial Developments offers a comprehensive exploration of the principles and real-world applications of green engineering in modern industries. The book blends theoretical foundations with practical case studies, demonstrating effective strategies for transitioning toward more sustainable practices. Readers are introduced to efficient synthesis methods, renewable feedstocks, and approaches for minimizing environmental impacts. This guide is essential for researchers, academics, and professionals working to enhance industrial processes. In addition, it provides valuable insights into sustainable development across diverse industrial sectors.Trhe book also thoroughly examines lifecycle assessment, economic advantages, and regulatory considerations, helping readers understand the full scope of sustainable industrial practices. Case studies illustrate successful implementations, while dedicated sections address cost-effective solutions, compliance with evolving standards, and risk management strategies.

    • Industrial Water Conservation

      • 1st Edition
      • November 28, 2025
      • Dominic Foo + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 2 9 1 9
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 2 9 0 2
      Industrial Water Conservation: Systematic Design Tools and Case Studies offers fundamental knowledge of various established process integration tools for water conservation, including water pinch analysis and mathematical programming techniques. The book provides a demonstration of water conservation tools on various industrial case studies, enabling readers to learn how these methods can be implemented in actual industrial settings. Part A provides various systematic methods on water recovery system design based on process integration techniques, whereas Part B provides various industrial case studies covering the success stories of the implementation of the methods covered in Part A.This is an indispensable resource for practitioners in various industrial sectors – chemicals and petrochemicals, pulp and paper, food and beverage, textile, etc., consultants in water-related industries, as well as (post)-graduate students in chemical engineering.

    • Industrial Chemical Process Analysis and Design

      • 2nd Edition
      • November 28, 2025
      • Mariano Martín Martín
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 6 4 2 0 4
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 6 4 2 1 1
      Industrial Chemical Process Analysis and Design, Second Edition uses chemical engineering principles to explain the transformation of basic raw materials into major chemical products. The book discusses traditional processes to create products like nitric acid, sulphuric acid, ammonia, and methanol, as well as more novel products like bioethanol and biodiesel.In addition to providing full code and datasets for download, detailed discussion of advanced in technology, this edition also contains three new chapters. Firstly, covering polymers, including H and L D PE, PMMA, PC, biobased and full analysis of each, including full code for modelling across popular software. Secondly , evaluating phosphoric acid production and fertilizers, and Finally, the third new chapter focuses on blast furnaces – outlining not only the traditional technologies using C as reducing agent, but also analysis of novel technologies using hydrogen. This book will be a comprehensive guide to students and academics working with the latest techniques in process optimization at graduate level and above, including some upper undergraduate researchers. This book will also be very valuable for academics looking to teach or lecture in chemical process engineering. This books will also be a very useful resource for anyone within the process industry - to introduce the analysis of novel technologies as well as the modelling examples including recent software such as python, gProms or even Excel or Matlab to solve reactor modelling and units operation but also process simulators applied to typical chemical processes.

    • Process Safety Management

      • 1st Edition
      • November 10, 2025
      • Ian Sutton
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 0 2 7 7
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 0 2 8 4
      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.

    • Integrated Strategies for Developing Sustainable Energy Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • October 21, 2025
      • Esbeydi Villicaña-García + 5 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 2 8 6 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 2 8 7 5
      Integrated Strategies for Developing Sustainable Energy Systems: From Carbon Capture to Energy System Optimization brings together insights into sustainable energy production and carbon capture technologies, as well as strategies for more sustainable chemical processes, from all aspects from process design and optimization strategies, through to effective implementation. This book equips readers with the knowledge and tools to implement sustainable chemical processes, providing them with the knowledge and tools needed to advance sustainability and energy optimization in their respective fields. The content combines a strong theoretical foundation, methodology details, real-world case studies and calculations to offer detailed process design theory and methodology, integrated strategies, carbon-capture technologies and eco-friendly energy system designs. This is a valuable resource for all those with an interest in sustainable energy systems and related practices, including researchers, faculty, industry professionals, policy makers, decision makers, and environmental advocacy groups.

    • Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • October 9, 2025
      • Farooq Sher
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 0 7 7 2
      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.

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