Current Trends In Chemical Engineering

by J.M.P.Q. Delgado

Overview

In 1910, H.P. Gillette wrote : Engineering is the conscious application of science to the problems of economic production. Chemical engineering largely involves the design, improvement and maintenance of processes related to chemical or biological transformations in order to be applied to large-scale manufacture. Chemical engineers ensure the process are operating safely, sustainably and economically. Chemical engineers in this branch are usually employed under the title of process engineers. The field of chemical engineering was conveniently divided into two large categories : the unit operations that involve physical transformations and unit process that involve chemical changes. However, over the last twenty years we have assisted to an expansion of the chemical engineer action to new fields of science, in particular related with production and synthesis of new materials, not only at macroscopical scale but also at nanometric scale, being more than expectable that the chemical engineering will have a decisive role in the development of new emerging areas of knowledge. On that arises repeatedly is diversification and increased specialization we are now undergoing. A wide variety of problems and issues are considered in this book. Current Trends in Chemical Engineering is an d essential reading for postgraduates, PhD students and academic researchers working in chemical or process engineering, especially in the areas of fluid mechanics, particle science and biotechnology, food chemistry, nanotechnology, fuel cells, transport phenomena and computational fluid dynamics. The information presented in the book is also useful for the continuous education of professional engineers working in industries involving chemical process. Unlike extensive major reference works or handbooks. Current Trends in Chemical Engineering provides readers with a ready-reference to latest developments about important research in some selected areas of chemical engineering. The book is divided in eleven chapters that intend to be a short monograph in which the authors summarize the current state of knowledge for benefit of professional colleagues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626993501
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	357
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

J.M.P.Q. Delgado obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2002 from Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal, where he was Researcher in the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics /Mass and Heat Transfer/Combustion, at the department of Chemical Engineering. Between 2002 and 2005, he was Pos-Doc researcher, at FEUP, in the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management. Since 2007 he is Auxiliar Investigator in Building Physics Laboratory in the department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal. Since 2002, he is Assistant Professor of different mathematics subjects, Transport Phenomena, Separation Processes and Air Quality and Noise Pollution. J.M.P.Q. Delgado is been during the last year’s organizer of international conferences such as the 5th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids (DSL-2009), the 3rd Conference on Building Pathology and Rehabilitation (PATORREB-2009); member of the scientific committee of international symposiums as the International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids (DSL-2007, DSL-2008) and 20th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena (ISTP-20); organizer and Chairman of special sessions in different international scientific conferences and invited to present various invited lectures. He was co-supervisor of 1 PhD-student and author of 52 publications in reviewed international journals, 3 book chapters and more than 50 other published papers in international conferences.