High pressure process technology : fundamentals and applications /

Clear evidence of increasing demands in the processing industry prompted the editors and authors to publish a new book about <IT>High Pressure Process Technology: Fundamentals and Applications</IT>. This book presents the latest knowledge regarding the high pressure processing aspects co...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Bertucco, A. Alberto; Vetter, Gerhard
Published: Elsevier,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; New York :
Publication Dates: 2001.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Series: Industrial chemistry library ; v. 9
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/09269614/9
Summary: Clear evidence of increasing demands in the processing industry prompted the editors and authors to publish a new book about <IT>High Pressure Process Technology: Fundamentals and Applications</IT>. 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, p
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxiv, 659 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780444504982
0444504982
9780080533940
0080533949
Index Number: TP156
CLC: TQ02
Contents: Preface. Contents. List of contributors. Introduction. Thermodynamic properties at high pressure. Kinetic properties at high pressure. Design and construction of high pressure equipment for research and production. Industrial reaction units. Separation operations and equipment. Safety and control in high pressure plant design and operation. Economics of high pressure processes. Applications. Chemical reactions in supercritical solvents (SCFs). Enzymatic reactions. Hydrogenation under supercritical single-stage conditions. Supercritical water oxidation (SCWO). application to industrial wastew