By
A. Bertucco, Università di Padova, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Via F. Marzolo 9, I-35131 Padova PD, Italy
G. Vetter, Universität Erlangen-Nürenberg, Lehrstuhl für Apparatetechnik und Chemiemaschinenbau Gauerstrasse 4, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
Description
Clear evidence of increasing demands in the processing industry prompted the editors and authors to publish a new book about
High
Pressure Process Technology: Fundamentals and Applications.
This book presents the latest knowledge regarding the high pressure
processing aspects combined with that about the modeling, the design and the operation of safe and reliable high pressure plants and
equipment. This treatment and selection of the subjects is stimulating and unique. Consisting of nine chapters, each subdivided into
several sections, the book addresses the high pressure aspects, providing well selected correlated information connected with a comprehensive
overview together with a large number of references.
The main body of the first eight chapters refers to subjects like
high pressure in general, the thermodynamics and kinetics of the fluids involved, the design of high pressure equipment, the modeling
and design of reactors, separation and fractionation units, the safety aspects, the control and economics.
In the extended last
chapter, examples of promising high pressure applications are explained, such as chemical and enzymatic reactions in supercritical solvents,
hydrogenation under supercritical conditions, supercritical water oxidation, polymerization with metallocene catalysts, supercritical
extraction, fractionation and precipitation, supercritical pharma processing, ultra-high pressure sterilization and supercritical dry-cleaning.
Included in series
Industrial Chemistry Library
Audience:
For all those interested in high pressure process technology, including chemical engineers, process engineers, pharmaceutical technologists, food technologists and bio-technologists.
