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

Wastewater Treatment with Biochar

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan + 1 more
English
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Wastewater Treatment with Biochar: From Fundamental Research to Technical Developments and Applications provides an overview of challenges and opportunities for biochar as adsorbents to contribute to carbon neutrality. The book offers new perspectives on how to strengthen wastewater treatment through CE and resource recovery. It also explores how biochar can contribute to carbon neutrality in the framework of the CE. By identifying existing knowledge gap, the book uncovers new research directions for further development in closing the loops by implementing the circularity of the biochar. Wastewater Treatment with Biochar: From Fundamental Research to Technical Developments and Applications meets the need of societies, university students and policy makers on scientific/engineering approaches to deal with water pollution problems. The book disseminates knowledge on how to contribute to emerging understanding in the biochar with respect to the relationship between materials’ structure and adsorption performance that paves the ways for a new direction of water technology in the future for wastewater treatment.

Corrosion Atlas Case Studies

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Fuad Khoshnaw
English
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Corrosion Atlas Case Studies: 2025 Edition gives engineers expedient corrosion solutions for common industrial equipment, no matter the industry. Providing a purely operational level view, this reference is designed as concise case studies categorized by material. It includes content surrounding the phenomenon, equipment appearance (supported by a color image), time of service, conditions where the corrosion occurred, cause, and suggested remedies within each case study. Rounding out with an introductory, foundational layer of corrosion principles, this book delivers what is needed to solve equipment corrosion problems. Finally, additional reference listings for deeper understanding beyond the practical elements are also included.

Aquatic Resource Biorefineries

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Meisam Tabatabaei + 3 more
English

Aquatic Resource Biorefineries: Harnessing Aquatic Resources for Sustainable Production takes a pioneering approach by comprehensively addressing the multifaceted challenges within the field of aquatic biorefinery. The book bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical expertise by promoting collaboration between academia and the fermentation industry, and shedding light on the pragmatic aspects of aquatic biorefineries, encompassing the latest research and industrial advancements. The book addresses contentious questions: (1) Optimal Resource Utilization: The central issue of the book is maximizing the utilization of aquatic resources, including crustacean waste, seaweed, wastewater, and algae, to produce valuable products. It provides practical strategies and insights for enhancing resource efficiency and minimizing waste in biorefinery processes. (2) Chitin and Chitosan Extraction Efficiency: The book explores and aims to improve the efficiency of chitin and chitosan extraction methods, addressing issues related to extraction yield, cost-effectiveness, and environmental impact. It presents solutions to optimize these processes for enhanced sustainability and commercial viability. (3) Biohydrogen Production and Viability: The book delves into the production and applications of bioplastics, particularly polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), from aquatic feedstocks, offering insights into the potential for replacing conventional plastics with sustainable alternatives and address issues of scalability and cost-effectiveness. (5) Fermentation Process Optimization: The book provides a comprehensive understanding of fermentation processes, including strain development and process design, for improved efficiency and product yields. (6) Environmental Impact Assessment: The book provides a basis for estimating and interpreting environmental indicators and, in turn, guiding sustainable decision-making in biorefinery operations. (7) Market Size and Commercialization Potential: The book explores the current and anticipated market size for products derived from aquatic resources, such as chitosan, carotenoids, and bioplastics. Aquatic Resource Biorefineries serves as a bridge between theory and practice, enabling readers to harness aquatic resources for sustainable biofuel production and stay updated with the ever-evolving field of biorefinery platforms.

Membrane and Coating-Based Built Environmental Control Technologies

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Li-Zhi Zhang + 3 more
English
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Membrane and Coating-Based Built Environmental Control Technologies addresses the urgent need for energy-saving and low-carbon solutions in the HVAC industry. With air conditioning accounting for a significant portion of energy consumption, this book explores technologies such as total heat recovery, air dehumidification, PM2.5 purification, and anti-frosting and anti-dewing. The utilization of membranes and coatings in these technologies has shown promising results in efficiency and indoor environment control. It provides a comprehensive overview of these advancements, including principles, material fabrications, performance analysis methods, and design guidelines.The book fills the gap in the market by offering an up-to-date reference that covers traditional and novel applications of membranes and coatings. It includes applications in areas like total heat recovery, air humidification and dehumidification, PM2.5 filtration, anti-frosting, and self-cleaning. It also provides mathematical models and numerical schemes to address heat and mass transfer challenges. Overall, it serves as a valuable resource for professionals, researchers, and students in the field of built environmental control technologies.

Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceutical Wastewater

1st Edition
Volume 65
September 1, 2025
Mihir Kumar Purkait + 2 more
English

Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceutical Wastewater, Volume 65 in the Advances in Chemical Engineering series highlights new advances in the field, with this volume presenting insightful chapters on topics such as global occurrences, physicochemical properties, and ecotoxic effects of pharmaceuticals; conventional treatment techniques for pharmaceutical-contaminated water; advancements in photocatalysis, including classifications, controlling parameters, and synthesis techniques; physicochemical characterizations of photocatalysts; and enhanced photocatalytic degradation mechanisms for various pharmaceuticals.Additionally, this volume explores kinetic modeling and reaction rates, the integration of photocatalytic systems with other advanced treatment techniques, economic aspects of photocatalytic degradation, and case studies from different countries, offering a comprehensive perspective on the future of sustainable pharmaceutical wastewater treatment.

Physicochemical Properties of Chitosan-Based Materials in Multiple Phases

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Emilia Szymańska + 1 more
English
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Physicochemical Properties of Chitosan-Based Materials in Multiple Phases: From Fundamentals to Biomedical, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Applications provides a comprehensive overview of structure diversity and versatile properties of chitosan while also summarizing the latest advancements and current applications of chitosan-based materials that are suitable for various purposes within pharmaceutics, biomedicine, chemical engineering, and environmental sciences. The book explores the complex nature between chitosan structure and its biological activity and describes strategies of polymer modification in order to tailor its physicochemical and mechanical properties.The utilization potential of chitosan for the fabrication of functional biomaterials in either liquid, semi-solid, or solid-state different phases (aqueous mixtures, hydrogels, solid films) is also covered. Finally, the key factors important to obtain chitosan materials suitable for biomedical applications and the characteristics of hybrid materials formed by chitosan and other components, including surfactants, polyelectrolytes, inorganic nanoparticles, are discussed.

Elementary Kinetic Modelling in Catalytic Reaction Engineering

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Joris W. Thybaut + 5 more
English
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Elementary Kinetic Modelling in Catalytic Reaction Engineering is a practical focused text that brings together the relevant basics for reaction engineering and shows their applications to a wide variety of examples, whilst looking at the intrinsic kinetics data acquisition, reaction mechanism elucidation, elementary step-based modelling and model-based design and optimization involved.The book aims at spanning the entire process from acquisition of the relevant data in dedicated experimental set-ups, over the proper treatment of the data and the corresponding interpretation up to the quantification of the gained understanding in a model. The latter aspect allows the reader to challenge the interpretation made of the data and design subsequent experiments or improve the interpretation/model formulation. The coverage is not just limited to the generic (theoretical) principles but will also carefully consider and explain their application to a variety of real-life applications including gas- and liquid-phase reactions, heterogeneously catalyzed reactions involving adsorption either in the Henry regime or at full saturation of the catalyst or combined homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions.Elementary Kinetic Modelling in Catalytic Reaction Engineering is written primarily for graduate students and postdoc researchers in chemical engineering or applied industrial chemistry studying chemical reaction engineering and catalysis, as well as physical chemists studying kinetics.

Advanced Fibrous Composite Materials for Ballistic Protection

2nd Edition
August 1, 2025
Adrian P Mouritz + 8 more
English
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Advanced Fibrous Composite Materials for Ballistic Protection, Second Edition provides the latest information on ballistic protection, a topic that remains an important issue in modern times due to ever increasing threats coming from regional conflicts, terrorism, and anti-social behavior. The basic requirements for ballistic protection equipment are, first and foremost, to prevent the projectile from perforating the armor, and to reduce blunt trauma to the human body caused by ballistic impact. The equipment also needs to be thermal and provide moisture comfort, and lightweight and flexible to guarantee the wearer’s mobility.The main aim of this fully updated edition is to present some of the most recent research developments in the design and engineering of woven fabrics and their use as layering materials to form composite structures for ballistic personal protection. This book will be a valuable reference for materials scientists and textile technologists, ballistic scientists, manufacturers, engineers, and all those working in ballistics technology.

Sustainable Processes in the Circular Economy

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Alexandre Chagnes
English
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Sustainable Processes in the Circular Economy: From Virgin to Recycled Raw Materials addresses the different challenges in sustainable management of resources, the sustainable development of processes to extract raw materials, recycle spent materials, and more generally, the circular economy, including social aspects in mining, recycling, the geopolitics of primary and secondary materials, and different business models. The book focuses on the place of chemical processes in the circular economy, and on the notion that circularity reflects the desire to develop a global approach that cares about the environment.In addition, it explores eco-design approaches and tools so that the value chain can reduce the environmental and societal impact of human activity while still creating value. Additional comments discuss and illustrate the link between the economic model and the environmental and societal model.

Progress in Hydrogen Production via Sonolysis Processes

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Slimane Merouani + 2 more
English
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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.

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