New Books about Process Engineering
Some interesting titles have just been published by Elsevier in the series “Scecience and Tehnology Book”. Here we report a description of their contents.
PVT Property Correlations: Selection and Estimation
by Ahmed El-Banbi, Ahmed Alzahabi and Ahmed El-Maraghi
This book discusses techniques to properly calculate PVT properties from limited information. It covers how to prepare PVT properties for dry gases, wet gases, gas condensates, volatile oils, black oils, and low gas-oil ratio oils. It also explains the use of artificial neural network models in generating PVT properties. It presents numerous examples to explain step-by-step procedures in using techniques designed to deliver the most accurate PVT properties from correlations. Complementary to this book is PVT correlation calculator software. Many of the techniques discussed in this book are available with the software. It shows the importance of PVT data, provides practical tools to calculate PVT properties and helps engineers select PVT correlations so they can model, optimize and forecast their assets.
Waste Biorefinery: Potential and Perspectives
by Thallada Bhaskar, Ashok Pandey, S.Venkata Mohan, Duu-Jong Lee and Samir Kumar Khanal
This book offers data-based information on the most cutting-edge processes for the utilization of biogenic waste to produce biofuels, energy products, and biochemicals – a critical aspect of a biorefinery. It explores recent developments in biochemical and thermochemical methods of conversion and the potential generated by different kinds of biomass in more decentralized biorefineries. Additionally, it discusses the move from 200 years of raw fossil materials to renewable resources and how this shift is accompanied by fundamental changes in industrial manufacturing technologies (from chemistry to biochemistry) and in logistics and manufacturing concepts (from petrochemical refineries to biorefineries).
Bridging Scales in Modelling and Simulating Reacting Flows: Part 1
by Alessandro Parente and Juray De Wilde
Volume 52 of the Advances in Chemical Engineering series presents key methods to bridge scales in the simulation of reacting single phase flows. New sections in the updated release include topics such as quadrature-based moment methods for multiphase chemically reacting flows, the collaboration of experiments and simulations for the development of predictive models, a simulation of turbulent coalescence and breakage of bubbles and droplets in the presence of surfactants, a section on salts and contaminants, and information on the numerical simulation of reactive flows.
Carbon-Based Polymer Nanocomposites for Environmental and Energy Applications
by Ahmad Ismail and Pei Goh
This book provides the fundamental physicochemical characterizations of recently explored carbon-based polymer nanocomposites, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene and its derivatives, nanodiamond, fullerenes and other nano-sized carbon allotropes. It also covers the applications of carbon-based polymer nanocomposite in the environmental and energy fields. Topics range from the various approaches that have been explored and developed for the fabrication of carbon-based polymer nanocomposite, to their applications in tackling environmental and energy-related issues. It includes computational and experimental studies of the physical and chemical properties of carbon-based polymer nanocomposites.
