Energetic Materials and Munitions - Life Cycle Management, Environmental Impact and Demilitarization
Provides a hands-on approach to demilitarization and environmental aspects of energetic materials and munitions This book gives an overview of the environmental impact of the production, use, and cleanup of energetic materials and munitions. It provides scientists, engineers, environmental specialists, and users with the understanding of environmental issues for munitions and of the ways to improve design and manage potential risks. It covers the various aspects of how chemical properties in...
It is rare for employers outside a few industries (such as the petrochemical industry) to have a credentialed industrial hygienist on staff. Therefore, industrial hygiene responsibilities tend to fall to individuals whose expertise is in some other area of regulatory compliance, like the safety engineer, the human resources manager, or the environmental manager. These individuals are often tasked with addressing industrial hygiene issues that they lack the educational background to understand or...
The Printing Ink Manual
The first edition of the Printing Ink Manual was published by the Society of British Printing Ink Manufacturers in 1961 to fill the need for an authorative textbook on printing technology, which would serve both as a training manual and a reliable reference book for everyday use. The book soon became established as a standard source of information on printing inks and reached its fourth edition by 1988. This, the fifth edition, is being published only five years later, so rapid has been the deve...
Coabsorbent and Thermal Recovery Compression Heat Pumping Technologies (Heat and Mass Transfer)
by Mihail-Dan Staicovici
This book introduces two of the most exciting heat pumping technologies, the coabsorbent and the thermal recovery (mechanical vapor) compression, characterized by a high potential in primary energy savings and environmental protection. New cycles with potential applications of nontruncated, truncated, hybrid truncated, and multi-effect coabsorbent types are introduced in this work. Thermal-to-work recovery compression (TWRC) is the first of two particular methods explored here, including how su...
Flash Reaction Processes (Nato Science Series E:, #282)
Over the past few years there has been a significant growth in the commercial application of a variety of processes which are all essentially based upon the very rapid heat treatment of powdered solid material in dilute gas suspensions. The objective of flash heating is usually to create a desirable product by means of physical and/or chemical transformations in the solid phase, usually with a high degree of control and with lower specific energy consumption than dense phase systems. Examples of...
Metathesis Polymerization of Olefins and Polymerization of Alkynes (NATO Science Series C, #506)
The first NATO Advanced Study Institute on Olefin Metathesis and Polymerization Catalysts was held on September 10-22, 1989 in Akcay, Turkey. Based on the fundamental research of RRSchrock, RGrubbs and K.B.Wagener in the field of ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP), acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) and alkyne polymerization, these areas gained growing interest within the last years. Therefore the second NATO-ASI held on metathesis reactions was on Ring Opening Metathesis Po lymerizati...
Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IFAC Workshop) (IFAC Proceedings Volumes)
The area of intelligent autonomous vehicles or robots has proved to be very active and extensive both in challenging applications as well as in the source of theoretical development. Automation technology is rapidly developing in many areas including: agriculture, mining, traditional manufacturing, automotive industry and space exploration. The 2nd IFAC Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles 1995 provides the forum to exchange ideas and results among the leading researchers and practition...
Ionic Liquids in Flow Assurance (SpringerBriefs in Petroleum Geoscience & Engineering)
by Bhajan Lal, Ali Qasim, and Azmi Mohammad Shariff
This book focuses on the application of ionic liquids in flow assurance in the oil and gas industry. It discusses their physiochemical properties, and considers the role of ionic liquids as gas hydrate inhibitors in offshore pipelines. Gas hydrate occurrence can pose a major threat to pipeline integrity. Therefore, different categories of gas hydrate inhibitors and the main factors influencing ionic liquids during gas hydrate inhibition are examined thoroughly. The use of ionic liquids as corro...
Zeolites in Industrial Separation and Catalysis
by Santi Kulprathipanja
This first book to offer a practical overview of zeolites and their commercial applications provides a practical examination of zeolites in three capacities. Edited by a globally recognized and acclaimed leader in the field with contributions from major industry experts, this handbook and ready reference introduces such novel separators as zeolite membranes and mixed matrix membranes. The first part of the book discusses the history and chemistry of zeolites, while the second section focuses on...
Dynamics of Adsorption at Liquid Interfaces (Studies in Interface Science, #1)
by S S Dukhin, G Kretzschmar, and R Miller
As the first of its kind, this book provides a valuable introduction for scientists and engineers interested in liquid/fluid interfaces and disperse systems to the rapidly developing area of adsorption dynamics. It is the first extensive review available on the subject of dynamics of adsorption and gives a general summary of the current state of adsorption kinetics theory and experiments. Current progress in recently designed set-ups and improved and generalised known methods for studying interf...
From Plant Data to Process Control (Taylor & Francis Systems and Control Book)
by Liuping Wang
Process engineering spans industrial applications in the manufacturing sector from petrochemical to polymer to mineral production. From Plant Data to Process Control covers the modern techniques and algorithms in the area of process identification (PID) and process control, two key components of process engineering, essential for optimizing production systems. It examines both the theoretical advances in process design and control theory, and a wide variety of implementations. A wide variety of...
Molecular Catalysts for Energy Conversion (Springer Series in Materials Science, #111)
by Tatsuhiro Okada and Masao Kaneko
Over the past decade the topic of energy and environment has been ackno- edged among many people as a critical issue to be solved in 21st century since the Kyoto Protocol came into e?ect in 1997. Its political recognition was put forward especially at Heiligendamm in 2007, when the e?ect of carbon dioxide emission and its hazard in global climate were discussed and shared univ- sallyascommonknowledge.Controllingtheglobalwarmingintheeconomical framework of massive development worldwide through th...
This is the remarkable story of an entrepreneurial firm that helped to create the petrochemical industry as we know it today. The author also highlights the important role chemical engineers played in developing and commercializing new technologies based on the conversion of hydrocarbons into petrochemicals, which also led to the transfer of technological dominance from Germany to the United States. These developments are illustrated by the participants' personal histories, in the form of interv...
The fast detection of explosives from the vapor phase would be one way to enhance the protection of society against terrorist attacks. Up to now the problem of detection of explosives, especially the location of explosives whether at large areas e. g. station halls, theaters or hidden in cars, aircraft cargo, baggage or explosives hidden in crowds e. g. suicide bombers or bombs in bags has not been solved. Smelling of explosives like dogs do seems to be a valuable tool for a security chain. In g...
Solving Large-Scale Production Scheduling and Planning in the Process Industries
by Georgios M. Kopanos and Luis Puigjaner
This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process industries. The main content is supplemented by a wealth of illustrations, while case studies on large-scale industrial applications, ranging from continuous to semicontinuous and batch processes, round out the coverage. The book examines a variety of complex, real-world problems, and demonstrates solutions that are applicable to scenarios and countries around the wo...
Mikroorganismen sind eine wichtige Hilfe bei der Herstellung von Industriechemikalien, Lebensmittelprodukten, Brennmaterialien und Arzneimitteln durch Fermentation (Kultivierung). Obwohl dieser grundlegende Prozess bereits seit vielen tausend Jahren genutzt wird, sind in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten immense Fortschritte in der Technologie der Fermentation gemacht worden und eine Vielfalt neuer und verbesserter Produkte hergestellt worden. Das vorliegende Buch gibt eine vollstandige, aktuelle Ein...
Statistical Applications in Process Control (Quality and Reliability)
This work presents significant advances and new methods both in statistical process control and experimental design. It addresses the management of process monitoring and experimental design, discusses the relationship between control charting and hypothesis testing, provides a new index for process capability studies, offers practical guidelines for the design of experiments, and more.
Optimal Control for Chemical Engineers gives a detailed treatment of optimal control theory that enables readers to formulate and solve optimal control problems. With a strong emphasis on problem solving, the book provides all the necessary mathematical analyses and derivations of important results, including multiplier theorems and Pontryagin's principle. The text begins by introducing various examples of optimal control, such as batch distillation and chemotherapy, and the basic concepts of o...