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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.

  • Techniques in Discrete-Time Stochastic Control Systems

    Advances in Theory and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 73
    • September 25, 1995
    • English
    Praise for Previous Volumes"This book will be a useful reference to control engineers and researchers. The papers contained cover well the recent advances in the field of modern control theory."-IEEE GROUP CORRESPONDANCE"This book will help all those researchers who valiantly try to keep abreast of what is new in the theory and practice of optimal control."-CONTROL
  • Discrete-Time Control System Implementation Techniques

    Advances in Theory and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 72
    • September 19, 1995
    • English
    These papers cover the recent advances in the field of control theory and are designed for electrical engineers in digital signal processing.
  • Zeolites: A Refined Tool for Designing Catalytic Sites

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 97
    • September 8, 1995
    • L. Bonneviot + 1 more
    • English
    Formerly, the catalytic use of zeolites was exclusive to the field of acid catalysis. Nowadays, zeolites also find applications as catalysts in a wide array of chemical reactions such as; base catalyzed reactions, Redox reactions and catalytic reactions on transition metals and their complexes in confined environments. The concepts of Brønsted or Lewis acid-base pairs are adequately illustrated in the literature and well-understood in terms of structural and electronic properties of zeolites. By contrast, properties of chemically modified silicates, aluminosilicates and aluminophosphates have not yet been fully explored. The list of oxydo-reduction reactions performed in the presence of these new materials is growing as demonstrated by the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides or the numerous oxidations employing hydrogen peroxide. Much effort is currently being made to get a better insight into the nature of the sites involved. The zeolite lattice may also be used as a host for encapsulated complexes or metallic clusters allowing the control of nuclearity of these active species and the steric constraints imposed on the reactants. Molecular sieve and shape selectivity effects have also constituted fascinating aspects of zeolite properties. Recent developments leading to increasingly large pore sizes with VPI-5, cloverite and more recently mesoporous molecular sieves have broadened the spectrum of these applications. Indeed, larger and larger reactant and product molecules can be accommodated in these lattices. These new adsorbant/adsorbate systems create additional needs for experimental data and theoretical descriptions of transport properties, in particular of mono- and multi-components diffusion coefficients in the zeolite pore lattice.All these themes, representing the forefront and current trends in zeolite research, were discussed in the submitted papers to the symposium and are widely represented in the selected papers contained in this volume. A feature common to most of these contributions is the combined use of a variety of analytical techniques. Some of these techniques are at the frontier of the latest analytical developments such as multiple scattering EXAFS and bidimensional MAS-NMR.
  • Coal Science

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24
    • August 29, 1995
    • J.A. Pajares + 1 more
    • English
    This volume contains papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Coal Science, held in Oviedo, Spain, September 10-15, 1995. Volume I contains papers dealing with Fundamentals and General Aspects, Combustion and Gasification and Pyrolysis and Carbonization. Volume II covers papers discussing Liquefaction and Hydropyrolysis and Coal and the Environment.The scope of topics covered will give the reader a state-of-the-art impression of coal characterization and depolymerization, coal-derived carbons, coal carbonization and liquefaction, and the progress towards making coal an environmentally acceptable fuel during its combustion in electricity production. The use of modern physicochemical characterization techniques has advanced knowledge of coal composition and structure enormously in the last twenty years, and it is hoped that coal will enter into the next millenium as a clean and efficient fuel.
  • Rural Safety: Machinery, Stock and General Hazards

    • 1st Edition
    • August 18, 1995
    • I. Brown
    • English
    This text explains how to minimise risks and cope with problems, with the help of many clear illustrations. This book is useful for students of agriculture as well as managers of rural businesses.
  • Modeling Axisymmetric Flows

    Dynamics of Films, Jets, and Drops
    • 1st Edition
    • August 14, 1995
    • Stanley Middleman
    • English
    This concise book is intended to fulfill two purposes: to provide an important supplement to classic texts by carrying fluid dynamics students on into the realm of free boundary flows; and to demonstrate the art of mathematical modeling based on knowledge, intuition, and observation. In the authors words, the overall goal is make the complex simple, without losing the essence--the virtue--of the complexity.Modeling Axisymmetric Flows: Dynamics of Films, Jets, and Drops is the first book to cover the topics of axisymmetric laminar flows; free-boundary flows; and dynamics of drops, jets, and films. The text also features comparisons of models to experiments, and it includes a large selection of problems at the end of each chapter.
  • Process Tomography

    Principles, Techniques and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • July 5, 1995
    • M S Beck + 1 more
    • English
    Written by international experts in this field, the book describes the principles of, and presents case studies for, the wide range of tomographic imaging techniques that can be used in the process industries. It includes sufficient introductory materialto this multi-disciplinary subject in order that readers from a variety of backgrounds will be able to fully understand the fundamental principles and features of the sensors and image reconstruction techniques needed for process tomography.
  • Catalysis by Microporous Materials

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 94
    • May 19, 1995
    • H.K. Beyer + 3 more
    • English
    ZEOCAT '95 is the eleventh in the series of symposia devoted to special fields of zeolite chemistry. Six plenary lectures, forty oral and forty-two poster presentations were included in the program. The accepted papers cover every aspect of catalysis on microporous materials. A significant number of the contributions describe the synthesis, modification, instrumental and chemical characterisation of zeolites and other micro- and mesoporous materials. Catalytic reactions involve hydrocarbon cracking, nucleophilic aromatic substitution, methanol to hydrocarbon conversion, hydration of acetylene, various alkylation reactions, redox transformations, Claisen rearrangement, etc.
  • Characterization and Chemical Modification of the Silica Surface

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 93
    • April 25, 1995
    • E.F. Vansant + 2 more
    • English
    Oxide surface materials are widely used in many applications, in particular where chemically modified oxide surfaces are involved. Indeed, in disciplines such as separation, catalysis, bioengineering, electronics, ceramics, etc., modified oxide surfaces are very important. In all cases, the knowledge of their chemical and surface characteristics is of great importance for the understanding and eventual improvement of their performances. This book reviews the latest techniques and procedures in the characterization and chemical modification of the silica surface, presenting a unified and state-of-the-art approach to the relevant analysis techniques and modification procedures, covering 1000 references integrated into one clear concept.
  • Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis:

    Process Optimization by Energy and Resource Analysis
    • 1st Edition
    • April 19, 1995
    • DR. Uday V. Shenoy Ph.D.
    • English
    Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis provides engineers, designers, and industrial practitioners with a how-to manual for understanding the methodology for conserving energy through process integration.