Publisher's Synopsis
Encyclopaedia of Chemical Processes: Principles and Applications deals with the design and integration of chemical processes, emphasizing the conceptual issues that are fundamental to the creation of the process. In chemical engineering, process design is the design of processes for desired physical and/or chemical transformation of materials. Process design is central to chemical engineering, and it can be considered to be the summit of that field, bringing together all of the field's components. Process design can be the design of new facilities or it can be the modification or expansion of existing facilities. The design starts at a conceptual level and ultimately ends in the form of fabrication and construction plans. First chapter focuses on the nature of the chemical process. The objective of the second chapter is to develop and implement a design analysis of a fluid mixing nozzle using a coupled optimization and probabilistic approach. Third chapter gives an overview for a successful analytical method of the main components of an alkaline texturing bath by titration, HPLC, surface tension and NIR spectrometry. The aim of fourth chapter is to develop an optimization framework designed to determine optimal operating regimes of chemical processes by taking process constraints, desired maximum number (frequency) of constraint violations, and process uncertainties into consideration. The aim of fifth chapter is to evaluate the color levelness quality of fabric dyed with vegetable dyes. Sixth chapter presents the current state of the art on maleic acid synthesis from biomass-derived chemicals over homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysts. In seventh chapter, it is demonstrated that organocatalysts can be tuned to be used in different DES. Ninth chapter presents an overview of the use of biocatalysis as applied to the conversion of biomass into value added products. Biocatalysis is a more sustainable alternative to chemical catalysis. Eighth chapter reports an experimental study on the uncatalysed, thermal conversion of inulin to HMF in aqueous solutions in a batch set-up. In tenth chapter, comparisons are made with the solvent DMSO and an analogous sulfolene solvent-piperylene sulfone. In addition, recycling protocols for butadiene sulfone and piperylene sulfone are also presented. Eleventh chapter report the enzymatic esterification of steric hindered fructose derivative with free fatty acids derived from palm oil refining process (RePO) under continuous flow conditions at concentrations up to 0.5 M, increasing the productivity up to 100 mg. min ?1.g immob. enzyme ?1. Twelfth chapter aims to summarize the recent developments in various barrier films based on nanocellulose with special focus on oxygen and water vapor barrier properties. Thirteenth chapter is aimed to provide an overview of key continuous flow processes developed to date dealing with a series of transformations of platform chemicals including alcohols, furanics, organic acids and polyols using a wide range of heterogeneous catalysts based on supported metals, solid acids and bifunctional (metal + acidic) materials. Last chapter highlights on the microwave assisted chemical pretreatment of miscanthus under different temperature regimes.
