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.

Books Journals

Progress in Hydrogen Production via Sonolysis Processes

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Slimane Merouani + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Progress in Hydrogen Production via Sonolysis Processes highlights recent developments in numerical and experimental hydrogen production by ultrasound (sonolysis). The book serves as a comprehensive and quick reference with a high-level historical review of the technology, detailed technical descriptions, and the latest experimental and numerical achievements. It reviews hydrogen production technologies, sonolysis, and ultrasound-assisted processes and examines numerical acoustic cavitation (bubble sonochemistry) for hydrogen sono-production. Other sections cover cutting-edge computational research and its benefits for understanding multiple issues related to the use of ultrasound as an innovative clean technology for hydrogen production.Issues covered range from the mechanism of sonochemical production, the factors and phenomena that influence it, intensification techniques, and the active bubble population (number and size) in sonicated water.

Biotechnology Engineering

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Mohammad Hadi Dehghani + 4 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Biotechnology Engineering: A Practical Approach on Bioprocess Development from Lab to Industrial Scale comprehensively provides consolidated content related to biotechnology engineering that supports R&D to manufacture commercial products on an industrial scale to meet the market's requirements. The book's structured chapters, practical approach, and real-world case studies effectively fulfil knowledge and information needs in the bioprocessing and biotechnology field. The chapters cover a broad diversity of topics ranging from the basics of bioprocessing, scalable solutions, bioprocess optimization, collaboration opportunities with experts, and crucial information on regulatory compliance. As such the book bridges the gap between theory and real-world applications in the bioprocessing field. Biotechnology Engineering: A Practical Approach on Bioprocess Development from Lab to Industrial Scale serves as a desktop reference for academics, scientist, engineers and professionals working on bioprocess development, discussing bioprocess development with calculations and case studies, and highlighting modern bioreactors and software tools adopted in the bioprocess industry.

Thermally Coupled Distillation Columns

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Thermally Coupled Distillation Columns: Sustainable and Bio-applications offers a comprehensive examination of thermal couplings' role in enhancing energy efficiency and sustainability in distillation processes. The book provides a detailed theoretical overview, covering foundations, energy problems in distillation, and practical implementations, providing insights into optimizing distillation columns. It also explores the motivation, physical implications, and operational benefits of thermal couplings alongside diverse case studies that demonstrate their efficacy across industries. Additionally, the book discusses innovations such as artificial intelligence applications and Industry 4.0 strategies for process optimization.It concludes with an exploration of challenges, opportunities, and future directions in improving complex divided wall column arrangements. This book will serve as an excellent resource for professionals in chemical engineering, environmental science, and sustainability, offering actionable strategies to drive efficiency and sustainability in distillation processes, contributing to broader sustainability objectives in the industrial sector.

Unlocking the Future of Renewable Energy and Chemistry through Catalysis

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Vasile I. Parvulescu + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Unlocking the Future of Renewable Energy and Chemistry through Catalysis provides a broad view of the gaps and opportunities related to the ongoing energy and chemistry transition, particularly in the science and technology, as well as complementary aspects, including societal ones, needed to unlock the future of renewable energy and chemistry through catalysis. It provides background and complementary aspects that are needed to understand the future scenarios to identify priorities and missing aspects in technologies and scientific background, and to create an open mind approach in science and technology to unlock the renewable energy and chemistry future.The book focuses on catalysis and complements the review articles currently available in the literature. It provides general knowledge, allowing the reader to understand the fast-evolving scenario better and, in turn, identify opportunities and needs.

BiOX-based Photocatalysts for Dual Applications

1st Edition
July 23, 2025
Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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BiOX-based Photocatalysts for Dual Applications: Water Treatment and Energy Storage presents opportunities for finding balance between the progress in semiconductor materials and their seminal applications in cutting-edge areas of water treatment and energy storage, which mitigate environmental impact. This book provides an understanding of BiOX with respect to the relationship between materials’ structure and photoreaction performance, paving the way for a new direction of photocatalysis technology for the future of water treatment. Subsequently, the development of the next generation of BiOX would allow an efficient collection of sunlight to catalyze chemical reactions, promoting solar energy utilization as the cleanest and most sustainable energy source in the long-term. To reflect this novelty, the works presented in this book focuses on BiOX applications not only for water treatment, but also for energy storage and conversion.Written by world-class experts in their respective fields, this book will be an excellent resource for postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers and academics in chemical engineering, chemistry, physics, and environmental science doing research on advanced oxidation process (AOP); technicians working in research and development on different uses of BiOX-based material for photocatalytic applications; and waste specialists in the waste and energy industries.

Carbon Capture and Storage

1st Edition
July 2, 2025
Simon Roussanaly + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Carbon Capture and Storage: A Comprehensive Guide is a comprehensive presentation of the latest advances in research and technology on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Given the urgency of scale-up and implementation of CCS to meet worldwide climate goals, this book addresses and engages all key stakeholders covering technical, economic, environmental, and legal aspects of CCS. This team of expert authors offer lessons learned to aid readers working on advancing CCS technologies and applications, considering a variety of relevant industries.This book will guide students and researchers through the latest research on CCS enabling them to identify new research topics to advance the field further. Professionals responsible for implementing advanced CCS to help reach climate goals will use this book as a guide to inform their activity and they will gain invaluable insight from lessons learned and best practices included.

Microchemical Engineering and Technology

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Guangsheng Luo + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Microchemical Engineering and Technology focuses on the development, basic principles, characteristics, and advantages of micro chemical technology. The book summarizes the basic laws of micro-scale single-phase flow, the micro-scale mixing process, and the enhancement of micro-scale mixing performance. It introduces gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, and gas-liquid-liquid micro-dispersion equipment and dispersion law, micro-scale heat/mass transfer performance, as well as homogeneous and heterogeneous micro-scale reactions, micro-scale absorption, extraction, and reaction processes enhancement technology.For the application of microchemical technology in the area of material interpretation, nano material preparation technology, fiber material preparation technology and special structure material preparation technology are introduced. Final content describes typical cases of industrial applications of gas-liquid absorption micro chemical equipment, liquid-liquid extraction micro chemical equipment, and chemical synthesis micro chemical equipment.

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

1st Edition
Volume 9
July 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.

Microinterfacial Mass Transfer Intensification

1st Edition
June 27, 2025
Zhibing Zhang
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Microinterfacial Mass Transfer Intensification provides new and updated technical information, along with basic theory. The book covers several representative industrial application cases and can be used as a reference for scholars, engineers, students, and technicians in oil refining, petrochemical, fine chemical, coal chemical, chemical and biochemical pharmacy, food processing, waste gas and wastewater treatment, and other pan-chemical manufacturing.

Photocatalytic Perovskite Materials

1st Edition
June 16, 2025
Tariq Altalhi + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Photocatalytic Perovskite Materials: Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science (GSPCEES) contains up-to-date information on hot topics concerning perovskite-based photocatalysts. The book gives readers an in-depth glance at photocatalysis via perovskite semiconductors and their applications in a diverse range of industries. It provides an overview of the historical development of conventional catalysis and (perovskite) photocatalysis, its challenges, strategies for improvement, and methods for synthesis and selectivity enhancement. Users will find applications for solar hydrogen production, solar-driven fuel generation, volatile organic compounds, CO2 reduction, environmental remediation, degrading organic pollutants from wastewater, and organic reactions.In addition, the book deals with photocatalytic behavior of inorganic halide perovskites, organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite photocatalysts, organic-organic composite perovskite for photocatalysis, metal halide perovskite quantum dots, perovskite-based oxynitrides for photocatalysis, visible light active perovskites based photocatalysts, surface modification of perovskite materials to improve photocatalytic activity, and charge separation in perovskite nanostructures.

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