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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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Nutrients and Colored Compounds in Wastewater

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Abu Zahrim Yaser + 3 more
  • English
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Research and development advancements in the treatment and recovery of nutrients and colored compounds in wastewater, including green remediation, membrane separation, adsorption, and advanced chemical reaction.Nutrients and Colored Compounds in Wastewater: Treatment and Recovery reviews and highlights recent advances in nutrients and colored compounds in terms of their treatments, recovery processes, advanced systems, and new materials. This book comprehensively covers topics in wastewater management including phytoremediation, phycoremediation, microbial fuel cell process, membrane hybrid system, membrane distillation, forward osmosis, adsorption, electrocatalytic, photocatalytic, and organic metal framework reaction. It provides a useful agenda to help take advantage of the latest research conducted in this rapidly advancing field of wastewater treatment enabling you to develop and commercialize your own products quickly and more successfully.

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics

  • 5th Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Yasar Demirel + 1 more
  • English
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This fully updated and revised fifth edition of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems emphasizes the unifying role of thermodynamics and their use in transport processes and chemical reactions in physical, chemical, and biological systems. This reorganized new edition provides thermodynamical approaches for foundational understanding of natural phenomena with multiscale chemical, physical, and biological systems, consisting of interactive processes leading to self-organized dissipative structures, fluctuations, and instabilities. This edition also emphasizes thermodynamic approaches, tools, and techniques, including energy analysis, process intensification, and artificial intelligence, for undertaking sustainable engineering.This book will be an excellent resource for graduate students and researchers in the fields of engineering, chemistry, physics, energy, biotechnology, and biology, as well as those whose work involves understanding the evolution of nonequilibrium systems, information theory, stochastic processes, and sustainable engineering. This may also be useful to professionals working in irreversibility, dissipative structures, process exergy analysis and thermoeconomics, digitalization in manufacturing, and data processing.

Advances in Process Control with Real Applications

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Ch. Venkateswarlu
  • English
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Advances in Process Control with Real Applications presents various advanced models for the control of nonlinear complex processes, including first principle, data driven and artificial intelligence type of models as well as inferential state estimation & stochastic and evolutionary optimization techniques. The book highlights the significance and importance of advanced controllers with several real applications concerning chemical and biochemical processes. It presents control approaches such as generalized predictive control (GPC) with and without constraints, linear & nonlinear model predictive control (MPC), dynamic matrix control (DMC), nonlinear control such as generic model control (GMC), globally linearizing control (GLC) and nonlinear internal model control (NIMC), optimal & optimizing control, inferential control, intelligent control based on fuzzy reasoning, neural network, machine learning and evolutionary computation.

Engineered Biocomposites for Dye Adsorption

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Ahmad Hussaini Jagaba + 3 more
  • English
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Engineered Biocomposites for Dye Adsorption compiles and discusses applications, mechanisms, and performance evaluation of various biocomposites during dye adsorption. The book analyzes the techno-economic and life-cycle assessment of biocomposites for dye adsorption. It highlights different adsorbent materials for dye degradation and resource recovery ranging from but not limited to activated carbon, biochar, hydrochar, pyrochar, waste fruits, waste industrial sludge, geological materials, graphene, carbon nanotubes, MXene, polymers, metals, nanomaterials, and metal–organic frameworks.The book shows how combining materials such as biocomposites significantly yields better dye adsorption than a single material and addresses conventional issues with adsorption such as adsorbent cost, effectiveness, regeneration, and sustainability and provides insights into the preparation and use of new adsorbent materials for dye removal from aqueous solutions. The information contained in this book will increase readers’ fundamental knowledge, guide future researchers, and can be incorporated into future works on experimental studies on dye adsorption. As such it serves as an indispensable resource and reference work for engineers, wastewater specialists, biotechnologists, chemists, microbiologists, researchers, and students studying industrial effluents, biomass, bioproducts, and adsorption processes.

Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems

  • 2nd Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Swapan Basu
  • English
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Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems, Second Edition serves as a comprehensive guide to the development of safety instrumented systems (SISs), 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 addition, it facilitates the linkage between SIS requirements and process hazard analysis for the completion of SIS lifecycle implementation. The author, drawing from over 35 years of industrial experience, incorporates practical examples throughout the book. Other sections cover safety analysis and realization in control systems, providing up-to-date descriptions of modern concepts like SIL, SIS, and SIF. Additionally, the book delves into discussions on cost impact, basics of statistics, and reliability. The impact of hazardous atmospheres on electrical enclosures is extensively discussed, especially in light of Atex. Finally, new chapters in this updated edition address security concerns crucial for programmable systems in modern plants. Topics include the 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 much more.

Optical Properties of Semiconducting Nanostructures for Photocatalysis

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Ramin Yousefi
  • English
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Optical Properties of Semiconducting Nanostructures for Photocatalysis: Fundamentals, Materials Design, and Applications investigates the most important factors in improving the photocatalytic process of nanostructures. The book focuses on the key parameters that define the effective factors in the photocatalytic process by a nanostructured semiconductor: bandgap energy, structural defects, morphology, size, lifetime of the electron-hole pair created in the semiconductor by photon radiation, quantum efficiency of the nanostructured semiconductor, and surface porosity.Photocatalytic materials explored include metal-oxide and metal-chalcogenide based materials, graphene, graphite carbon nitride (g-C3N4) as a metal-free semiconductor, carbon/semiconductor nanocomposites, inorganic/organic nanocomposites, and noble metals to increase the efficiency of photocatalytic properties. This variety of semiconductor materials ensures it will be essential reading for researchers and students in the field of photocatalysis.

Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials

  • 1st Edition
  • December 2, 2024
  • Elham H. Fini + 1 more
  • English
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Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials explores the role of materials in carbon management, performance enhancement, and supply chain management in pavement construction. It presents various production techniques, experimental characterization methods, applications, numerical modeling, and simulation approaches for bio-based and bio-inspired pavement construction materials. The book demonstrates how bio-based and bio-inspired materials can be used in pavements to solve problems related to sustainability while simultaneously enhancing the mechanical properties of materials. Supply chain management, life-cycle analysis, and environmental assessment of using these materials are all covered in this volume as well.

Mechanics of Bonded and Adhesively Bonded Joints

  • 1st Edition
  • December 1, 2024
  • Xiang-fa Wu
  • English
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Mechanics of Bonded and Adhesively Bonded Joints provides an overview of the most effective analytical solutions for common bonded and adhesively bonded joints. In each type of joint analyzed, the analytical stress solution is formulated and final numerical results are provided for easy use and self-learning. Analytical and high-efficiency semianalytical methods for interfacial stress and fracture analysis of various bonded and adhesively bonded joints are provided as are related joint design insights and advanced applications in structures and devices. Fundamentals of elasticity, fracture mechanics, and viscoelasticity are also introduced.The book starts by introducing different kinds of joining technology and how joints are classified, followed by chapters looking at the fundamentals of elasticity and fracture mechanics. From there the book explores various analytical solutions to interfacial stresses, strength and toughness of bonded joints, and the viscoelastic mechanics of adhesives and concludes with a chapter covering the applications of these joining theories, exploring their use in smart materials, microelectronics packaging, surface coatings, laminated composite materials, and more.

Natural Fiber-Reinforced PLA Composites

  • 1st Edition
  • December 1, 2024
  • Chandrasekar Muthukumar + 3 more
  • English
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Amongst thermoplastic biodegradable polymers, polylactic acid (PLA) has been widely used in many different applications but it still has limited use in various industrial sectors such as medical, packaging, textile, water, and wastewater treatment. To increase the use of these materials more information is needed on their properties, characterization, processing, safety, and sustainability. Natural Fibre-Reinforced PLA Composites: Processing, Characterization and Applications reviews the thermal, physico-chemical, fire retardant, mechanical, tribological, biodegradable and anti-microbial properties of these materials. Fabrication of PLA biocomposites using advanced fabrication techniques like additive manufacturing and electrospinning are also discussed in detail. The book will be a valuable reference for academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers working in the development of polymers, bioplastics, polymer composites and biocomposites as well as industrial manufacturers.

Advances in Separation Sciences

  • 1st Edition
  • December 1, 2024
  • Pravin G Ingole + 1 more
  • English
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Advances in Separation Sciences: Sustainable Processes and Technologies discusses the different separation technologies and their applications in a variety of industrial processes. The book lists the pros and cons of the various processes for specialized application and outlines selection criteria to provide readers with the knowledge they need to develop processes and technologies themselves. Divided into eight parts, chapters cover sustainable perspectives and developments, theory and mechanisms of various separation processes, advances in sample preparation techniques, advances in chromatography, advances in membrane technology, advances in microfluidics, green and sustainable separation sciences, and challenges and commercialization. In-depth and step-by-step descriptions of the various processes and technologies, explanations of their inclusion in modern industry, and scales for both experimental and theoretical models are also included.

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