Process Design: Synthesis, Intensification, And Integration of Chemical Processes

This book promotes process design strategies and methods to chemical engineering students and encourages experienced engineers to reflect on their daily approach to process design.

This book is among the first to address the novel process intensification technologies for biodiesel production, in particular the integrated reactive separations. It provides a comprehensive overview illustrated with many industrially relevant examples of novel reactive separation processes used in the production of biodiesel (e.g. fatty acid alkyl esters): reactive distillation, reactive absorption, reactive extraction, membrane reactors, and centrifugal contact separators.