Industrial Chemistry Fundamentals

The general scenario of the chemical production in the world is gradually changing under the unavoidable pressure generated in the last twenty years by the need to produce in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way. The natural targets of the book are the basic and advanced courses in industrial chemistry, but it can also serve as a basis to treat only basic aspects or specific topics. The text is divided into two parts: the first defines the basic principles of industrial chemistry (from gas properties to catalysis, to energy and mass balances, to reactor design) with a focus on sustainability. The second part of the book analyses a selection of processes in all their aspects. Rather than giving a general overview of chemical processes, for which there are valuable encyclopedias that are regularly updated, it is of greater educational interest to focus the attention on a few specific cases, illustrative of the principles presented in the first part.