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    • Digital Twins in Manufacturing: Concepts and Methods

      • 1st Edition
      • May 1, 2026
      • Masoud Soroush + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Twins in Manufacturing: Concepts and Methods explores digital twin technologies, providing innovative perspectives and practical insights that transcend traditional coverage. The book addresses the complexities of understanding and applying digital twin concepts in manufacturing environments, where professionals often struggle to bridge the gap between physical and virtual systems. With contributions from worldwide leaders in the field, this book serves as an essential resource for anyone looking to navigate the future of digital twins. The book covers critical areas such as the systems components of digital twins, foundational definitions, modeling and simulation techniques, data integration, and the role of AI and machine learning. Readers will also gain insights into communication technologies, interoperability, security considerations, and the development life cycle of digital twins. Each chapter is designed to equip professionals with the knowledge needed to effectively replicate and monitor real-world assets, ultimately enhancing operational efficiency and driving innovation. Digital Twins in Manufacturing: Concepts and Methods is an invaluable asset for engineers, data scientists, IT professionals, and researchers in manufacturing and industrial engineering. By demystifying complex concepts and providing actionable methodologies, this book empowers readers to leverage digital twins for sustainable growth and improved product design.

    • Digital Twins in Manufacturing: Applications and Case Studies

      • 1st Edition
      • May 1, 2026
      • Masoud Soroush + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Twins in Manufacturing: Applications and Case Studies explores digital twin technologies, demonstrating how digital twins enhance manufacturing processes, optimize efficiency, and facilitate informed decision-making. By bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical implementation, the book equips professionals with the tools needed to leverage digital twins for improved product quality and operational effectiveness. The book covers a wide array of topics, including digital twins for biomanufacturing, polymerization processes, additive manufacturing, and energy industries. Readers will find detailed discussions on predictive maintenance, process optimization, and the integration of AI and IoT strategies. Each chapter presents actionable insights and step-by-step implementation guides, addressing real-world challenges and showcasing successful applications in smart factories and high-risk environments. Digital Twins in Manufacturing: Applications and Case Studies is an essential resource for engineers, manufacturing professionals, data scientists, and business leaders seeking to harness the power of digital twin technology. By providing practical use cases and future trends, this book empowers readers to drive innovation, enhance sustainability, and improve worker safety in their organizations.

    • Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Jingzheng Ren + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      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.

    • Process Plant Design for Chemical Engineers

      • 1st Edition
      • December 5, 2025
      • Peter Mullinger
      • English
      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.

    • Industrial Water Conservation

      • 1st Edition
      • November 28, 2025
      • Dominic Foo + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      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
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      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.

    • Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • October 9, 2025
      • Farooq Sher
      • English
      • Paperback
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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.

    • Machine Learning Tools for Chemical Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • May 15, 2025
      • Francisco Javier López-Flores + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Machine Learning Tools for Chemical Engineering: Methodologies and Applications examines how machine learning (ML) techniques are applied in the field, offering precise, fast, and flexible solutions to address specific challenges.ML techniques and methodologies offer significant advantages (such as accuracy, speed of execution, and flexibility) over traditional modeling and optimization techniques. This book integrates ML techniques to solve problems inherent to chemical engineering, providing practical tools and a theoretical framework combining knowledge modeling, representation, and management, tailored to the chemical engineering field. It provides a precedent for applied Al, but one that goes beyond purely data-centric ML. It is firmly grounded in the philosophies of knowledge modeling, knowledge representation, search and inference, and knowledge extraction and management.Aimed at graduate students, researchers, educators, and industry professionals, this book is an essential resource for those seeking to implement ML in chemical processes, aiming to foster optimization and innovation in the sector.

    • HiGee Chemical Reaction Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • March 4, 2025
      • Jian-Feng Chen
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Higee Chemical Reaction Engineering systematically discusses the fundamentals, principles, and methods of molecular mixing and reaction process intensification. The book demonstrates the implementation approach, process, and effectiveness of Higee chemical reaction engineering through novel industrial case studies that help industrial technicians select reaction intensification technology route more scientifically. Sections cover the innovation and development process of Higee chemical reaction engineering, hydrodynamics behavior in Higee reactors, equipment design principles and methods, multiphase reaction of liquid-liquid, gas-liquid, gas-solid, gas-liquid-solid and reactive crystallization process intensification principles and effectiveness.Higee Chemical Reaction Engineering is a systematic summary of several national award and key projects, such as the State Technological Innovation Award, State Science and Technology Advancement Award, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National key R&D Program of China, National ‘‘863’’ Program of China, National ‘‘973’’ Program of China, and also some international cooperation.

    • Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems

      • 2nd Edition
      • January 24, 2025
      • Swapan Basu
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems serves as a comprehensive guide to the development of safety instrumented system (SIS), outlining the connections between SIS requirements, process hazard analysis, SIS lifecycle, implementation, safety analysis, and realization in control systems. The book also explores the impact of recent advances, such as SIL, SIS, and Fault Tolerance. In line with technological developments, it covers safety in wireless systems as well as in Industrie 4.0 and Digital Transformation.Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems incorporates practical examples throughout the book. It covers safety analysis and realization in control systems, providing up-to-date descriptions of modern concepts like SIL, SIS, and SIF. The inclusion of security issues alongside safety issues is particularly relevant for the programmable systems used in modern plant instrumentation systems. The new chapters in this updated edition address security concernscrucial for programmable systems in modern plants- including topics such as discussion of hazardous atmospheres and their impact on electrical enclosures, the use of IS circuits, and their links to safety considerations in major developmental areas, including IIoT, Cloud computing, wireless safety, Industry 4.0, and digital transformation.This book is a valuable resource for Process Control Engineers, Process Engineers, Instrumentation Engineers, Safety Engineers, and Mechanical/Manufactu... Engineers from various disciplines, helping them understand how instrumentation and controls provide layers of protection for basic process control systems, ultimately increasing overall system reliability. Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems will also be a great guide for researchers, students, and graduate level professionals in process safety disciplines, Electrical and Industrial Engineers specializing in safety and area classifications, as well as plant managers and engineers in the industry.