Scale-up in Chemical Engineering
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Published: March 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9783527314218
Subjects: Chemistry; Science; Science/Mathematics; Chemistry - Industrial & Technical; Science / Chemistry / Technical & Industrial
First sentence: A chemical engineer is generally concerned with the industrial implementation of processes in which the chemical or microbiological conversion of material takes place in conjunction with the transfer of mass, heat, and momentum.
Description: Covering the important task of the scale-up of processes from the laboratory to the production scale, this easily comprehensible and transparent book is divided into two sections. The first part details the theoretical principles, introducing the subject for readers without a profound prior knowledge of mathematics. It discusses the fundamentals of dimensional analysis, the treatment of temperature-dependent and rheological material properties and scale-up where model systems are not available or only partial similarity is obtainable. All this is illustrated by 20 real-world examples, while 25 exercises plus solutions new to this edition practice and monitor learning. The second part presents the individual basic operations and covers the fields of mechanical, thermal, and chemical process engineering with respect to dimensional analysis and scale-up. The rules for scale-up are given and discussed for each operation. Other additions to this second edition are dimensional analysis of tableting processes, and a historical overview of dimensional analysis and modeling, while all the chapters have been updated to take the latest literature into account. -- from back cover.