Full Description
Here, the innovative, cross--functional approach highlights how advances in some technological and engineering areas are applicable and beneficial to others, serving to transfer specialized knowledge from one field to another. The book deals with such hot topics as plasmas, cavitation, self--assembly, ionic liquids, and fuel cells, and shows interesting application and combination perspectives. This interdisciplinary approach stimulates readers' creativity and invites them to think across boundaries and thus gain a wider perspective of application potentials, such as a better understanding of missiles as flying chemical factories, or living cells as nanobioreactors. For process engineers, materials scientists, biotechnologists, electrochemists, apparatus construction engineers, materials and chemical institutes.
Contents
REACTORS Chemical Reactors Multi--Phase Reactors High Pressure and High Temperature Reactors Bio--Reactors and Membrane Bio--Reactors Nano--Bioreactors: Living Cells Membrane Reactors and Catalytic Membrane Reactors Electro--Chemical Reactors Magnetic Confinement Reactors Micro--Structures in Macro--Reactors Closed versus Open Reactors Materials for Reactors PROCESSES High Temperature High Pressure Microwave Plasma Laser and Strong--Field Technology Cavitation Membranes (Separation, Catalysis, Reactions) Electric, Magnetic, Electro--Magnetic Fields Electro--Catalysis and Electro--Metallurgy Pressure Hydrometallurgy Reactive Extraction, Distillation, Chromatography Super--Adiabatic Combustion Transmutation Crystallization Self--Assembly REACTION MEDIA Liquid, Gas, Multi--Phase Plasma Molten Salt Ionic Liquids Solids and Condensed Matter DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING (DSP) AND PURIFICATION Solvent Extraction Membranes Chromatography Crystallization Recycling Isotope Separation INTEGRATED REACTOR--PROCESS SYSTEMS Reaction Engineering Systems Engineering Fuel Cell ITM (Ion--Transfer--Membrane)--Technology Laser Chemistry and Adaptive Lasers Nuclear Reactors Chemical Propulsion Technology Nuclear Propulsion Technology Plasma Propulsion High Pressure--High Temperature Crystallization Reactor High Power Microwave--Reactor Jet Engine, Scramjet, Missile Engines Electro--Chemical Reactors MHD (Magneto--Hydro--Dynamics) Integration Reaction--Heat Exchange (Endothermic Fuels) SELECTED SYSTEMS Syngas FT (Fischer--Tropsch) Metals and Alloys Polymers Chiral Compounds Artificial Elements Nuclear Isomers Nanomaterials and Nanosystems Quantum Dots Crystals DESIGN AND ENGINEERING OF PROCESSES AND REACTORS FOR EXTREME REACTIONS Kinetics, Thermodynamics, Catalysis Process and System Simulation Energy--Utilization and --Optimization Element--Utilization and --Optimization Selectivity and Specificity Target Parameters Process Intensification Process Control, Sensors, Automation Computer--Aided--Design/ Computer--Aided--Engineering (CAD/CAE)
