This book is largely the result of courses we have given. Its main purposes are to bring alive the concepts forming the basis of the Chemical Process Industry and to give a solid background for innovative process development. We do not treat Chemical Process Technology starting from unifying disciplines like chemical kinetics, physical transport phenomena, and reactor design. Rather, we disc…
Chemicals are part of our everyday lives. The hundreds of chemicals that are manufactured by industrial processes influence what we do and how we do it. This book offers descriptions and process details of the most popular of those chemicals. The manufacture of chemicals involves many facets of chemistry and engineering which are exhaustively treated in a whole series of encyclopedic works…
Fruits and vegetables are consumed as fresh or processed into different type of products. Some of the naturally occurring enzymes in fruits and vegetables have undesirable effects on product quality, and therefore enzyme inactivation is required during fruit and vegetable processing in order to increase the product shelf-life. Commercial enzyme preparations are also used as processing aids…