Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering : Fundamental Concepts for First-Year Students - Simpson, Ricardo; Sastry, Sudhir K.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Introduction -- Fundamentals of Magnitudes, Units Systems, and Their Applications in Process Engineering -- Fundamentals of Process Control, Communication, and Instrumentation -- Learning from Nature and its Applications in Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering -- Challenging and Solving Problems with Basic Tools, Testing Student's Attitude -- A Glimpse of Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena -- Fundamentals of Material Balances (Non-reactive Systems) -- Fundamentals of Material Balances (Reactive Systems) -- Fundamentals of Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, and Process Control -- Scale Up in Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering -- Optimization and Chemical/Bioprocess Optimization -- Basic Economic Principles and a Glimpse on How to Take a Decision Among Alternatives.
Keywords: Biochemical engineering; Food-Biotechnology.; Thermodynamics; Heat engineering; Heat transfer; Mass transfer; Mathematical models; Biochemical Engineering; Food Science; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics