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Books in Chemical engineering

The Chemical Engineering collection offers content that combines research with foundational knowledge, practical information, methods and case studies, in a variety of areas, including biochemical engineering, catalysis, filtration & separation, colloids & surface chemistry, electrochemical engineering, energy & transport processes, materials chemistry, metallurgy, process engineering, safety & reliability, sustainable & environmental, to help chemical engineers address the challenges we face today, including climate change, global warming, health and nutrition, and alternative energy.

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    • Life Cycle Assessment of Waste and Water Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2027
      • Siming You
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Life Cycle Assessment of Waste and Water Systems covers all essential information for the environmental accounting of major waste, water and hydrogen systems using the approach of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The book helps you to quickly learn, understand and apply the standardized approach with major issues related to LCA. By focusing on major waste and water, it allows you to get familiar with LCAs of the most commonly encountered systems and technologies for circular economy development. This book provides systematic and representative databases on the energy, materials and emissions of the technologies, and serves as a one-stop source to facilitate conducting preliminary LCA studies. The practical implementation and systematic presentation of LCA principles followed by comparative illustrations makes the book an indispensable source for academics, students, scientists, engineers, technicians, investors, and policymakers.

    • Solar-Driven Photothermal Membrane Distillation

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Manoj Kumar Sharma + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Solar-driven Photothermal Membrane Distillation: Assessment, Advances, and Challenges explores the intersection of renewable energy, water treatment, membrane technology, and sustainable development. It focuses on membrane distillation, a promising technology for desalination and water purification, and specifically examines the use of solar energy to drive the distillation process. The book addresses challenges and provides practical solutions for implementing and optimizing solar-driven photothermal membrane distillation systems, emphasizing the importance of sustainable water treatment technologies in ensuring water security and environmental conservation. Solar-driven Photothermal Membrane Distillation: Assessment, Advances, and Challenges is a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, practitioners, policymakers, and educators interested in advancing knowledge and promoting the adoption of solar-driven membrane distillation for sustainable water treatment.

    • 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 serves as an essential guide for chemical process design, simulation, optimization, and sustainability assessment within waste volarization. This book equips readers with updated knowledge on circular economy principles applied to waste valorization. It covers chemical process design, simulation, optimization, sustainability assessment, decision-making processes, Industry 4.0 technology applications, and circular supply chain design. Additionally, it delves into advanced waste valorization technologies for various waste types, including industrial, municipal, medical, plastic, agricultural, and food waste. There is an increasing demand for waste valorization underscores the need for advanced resources on waste management and eco-friendly valorization. Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy: Chemical Process Design and Simulation compiles up-to-date resources for industry professionals, researchers, academics, and students to understand circular process design and its real-life implementation, contributing to a more sustainable and circular future. This book includes learning objectives, case studies, step-by-step methodologies and review exercises in each chapter to help students and researchers alike deepen and test their understanding of crucial aspects of sustainable waste valorization. This book is suitable for a very broad audience, including chemical engineering professionals such as professors, researchers, chemical engineers, and industry experts, particularly those engaged in process systems engineering, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent process control, advanced waste management, and renewable energy. This book will also be a valuable resource for environmental and energy consultants specializing in promoting sustainable development through advanced waste valorization. Additionally, administrators responsible for waste management in various capacities and undergraduate/gradua... students majoring in energy and environmental engineering, chemical engineering, or specializing in renewable energy engineering will find this book valuable as a textbook.

    • Bioreactors for Health and Sustainability

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Joaquim M.S. Cabral + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Bioreactors for Health and Sustainability describes the basic concepts of chemical and biochemical kinetics, chemical reaction engineering, reactors design, ideal reactors, homogeneous and heterogeneous reactors. The book brings together in a single source the most significant types of reactors that use molecular (enzymes) and cells biocatalysts for biological applications, which range from enzyme reactors, microbial reactors, plant cell culture and reactors, photobioreactors, cell reactors, reactors for stem cell culture, reactors for tissue and organ engineering, microbioreactors, reactors for cellular agriculture products, to bioreactors for waste-water treatment. It elaborates on bioreactors from molecular level enzymes, to microbial, plant, animal and human cells and tissue and organs, and provides sustainable applications in industrial, environmental and health sectors. As such the book bridges the gap between the Engineering Sciences and Technology and Health Sciences areas. Bioreactors for Health and Sustainability brings a novel contribution to biotechnology that is based on the upstream of a biological process, which makes it of broad interest for professionals, researchers, and students in biological/biochemic... engineering and bioengineering.

    • Developments in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes: Microbiome in Ecosystem

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Maulin P. Shah + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Microbiome in Ecosystem: A Sustainable Approach for Wastewater Treatment: Developments in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes delves deeply into the pioneering use of microbiome for the sustainable treatment of waste water. The book examines the biochemical, physicochemical, and molecular pathways of microbes involved in waste water treatment processes, elucidating their indispensable contributions to environmental preservation and sustainable development. From the exploration of microbiome-generated nanoparticles to the discourse on bioengineering methodologies and the synthesis of bioactive metabolites and enzymes, the book provides a thorough analysis of state-of-the-art techniques and advancements in the field. The book reveals invaluable insights into the microbiome of diverse ecosystems, including their multifaceted functions, interactions, and the underlying molecular, genetic, and biochemical processes relevant to waste water treatment. Emphasizing global challenges and offering forward-looking perspectives, the book serves as an essential reference for students, researchers, scientists, and professionals across various disciplines such as biotechnology, microbiology, environmental science, and waste treatment engineering.

    • Artificial Neural Networks in Chemical Engineering Processes

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Ahad Ghaemi + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      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.

    • Modern Energy Storage

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Huaiguang Jiang
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Modern Energy Storage: The Key to Energy System Transformation is a unique reference designed to give students and researchers the most advanced information on technologies in energy storage systems. Compiled by global experts and considering latest advances related to full recyclable process, second use, pollution reduction, and low-carbon industry & economy, this book addresses the current challenges of energy storage technologies and potential solutions. It includes comprehensive information on algorithms, methods, and programs as a technical-encycloped... for energy-storage-relat... areas such as Electric vehicles, Intelligent Transportation, Environment, and smart cities.Designed to inform, advise, and create discussion about the energy transition, climate, low carbon power and economy, the book's contributors provide abundant and valuable materials and references for students, researchers, engineers, and professors in energy, engineering, and environmental areas.

    • Piezocatalysis as a Sustainable Solution for Microbial Eradication and Wastewater Treatment

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Souravi Bardhan + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Piezocatalysis as a Sustainable Solution for Microbial Eradication and Wastewater Treatment: Developments in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes comprehensively elucidates insights into the principles and applications of piezocatalysis. The book explains in detail the mechanism of the process and explores various approaches and the latest breakthroughs in material synthesis and designing for piezocatalysis. It explains how piezocatalysis offers a unique advantage by simultaneously degrading pollutants and controlling microbial populations, and that this dual action streamlines the wastewater treatment process and enhances overall efficiency. Along with providing practical insights into how piezocatalysis is being employed to tackle wastewater issues, this book focuses on the recent developments, outlining their challenges and future opportunities. Piezocatalysis as a Sustainable Solution for Microbial Eradication and Wastewater Treatment: Developments in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes helps researchers in academia and industry to learn about the implementation of piezocatalysis for wastewater remediation. The book provides versatile solutions that are capable of degrading a wide range of pollutants, including recalcitrant organic compounds and microbial contaminants and as such enabling the degradation of various water pollutants and removal of pathogenic microbes.

    • Ultrasonic Treatment of Water and Wastewater

      • 1st Edition
      • February 20, 2026
      • Mohammad Hadi Dehghani + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Ultrasonic Treatment of Water and Wastewater: Removal of Biological and Chemical Pollutants and Combined Processes is a comprehensive guide to understanding and utilizing the innovative technology of sonochemistry in the field of water and wastewater treatment. The book provides a detailed overview of the fundamental principles of sonochemistry, the different types of sonochemical reactors and their applications, and the advantages and limitations of sonochemical treatment. The book focuses on the practical applications of sonochemistry in the treatment of water and wastewater, making it an extremely useful resource for professionals and researchers working in the field. The book also provides a thorough discussion of the environmental benefits of sonochemical treatment, such as reducing the amount of hazardous chemicals used and reducing energy consumption.Ultrason... Treatment of Water and Wastewater: Removal of Biological and Chemical Pollutants and Combined Processes has an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from fields such as chemistry, physics, and environmental science. This makes it a valuable resource for professionals and students from a variety of backgrounds.

    • Advanced Hydrocyclone Technology for Liquid-Solid Separation

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Wang Hualin
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advanced Hydrocyclone Technology for Liquid-Solid Separation comprehensively and systematically provides the basic theory, experimental research, test analysis, simulation calculations, and engineering applications, reflecting the current trends and characteristics in this field. The book offers a new detection method for the liquid-solid hydrocyclone separation process, launches a liquid-solid micro-hydorcyclone parallel amplification engineering design model, as well as a new technology for enhanced liquid-solid hydrocyclone separation based on particle high speed self-rotation, particle sorting, and particle filtration. It constructs process flows and engineering equipment of methanol-to-olefin reaction wastewater treatment using liquid-solid hydrocyclone separation as the core, liquid-solid on-line separation of fluidized bed hydrogenation, resource utilization of fluidized bed efflux catalyst and wastewater deep treatment.The relevant achievements covered in this book formed the industry standard "Technical Conditions for Liquid-Solid Hydrocyclone Separator" (HG/T 4380-2012), in which the "Coke Cooling Water Closed Cycle Treatment Process" was approved by the national environmental protection industry standard "Clean Production in Petroleum Refining Industry" (HG/T 125-2013)

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