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Summary
Summary
The chemical industry is changing, going beyond commodity chemicals to a palette of higher value added products. This groundbreaking book, now revised and expanded, documents this change and shows how to meet the challenges implied. Presenting a four-step design process - needs, ideas, selection, manufacture - the authors supply readers with a simple design template that can be applied to a wide variety of products. Four new chapters on commodities, devices, molecules/drugs and microstructures show how this template can be applied to products including oxygen for emphysema patients, pharmaceuticals like taxol, dietary supplements like lutein, and beverages which are more satisfying. For different groups of products the authors supply both strategies for design and summaries of relevant science. Economic analysis is expanded, emphasizing the importance of speed-to-market, selling ideas to investors and an expectation of limited time in the market. Extra examples, homework problems and a solutions manual are available.
Author Notes
E.L. Cussler is Distinguished Institute Professor at the University of Minnesota. The author of the text Diffusion, he has received the Colburn and Lewis Awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
G.D. Moggridge is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He has taught chemical product design since 1998, receiving the Entec Medal and Frank Morton Prize from the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Pilkington Teaching Prize.
Reviews 1
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Custer (Univ. of Minnesota) and Moggridge (Univ. of Cambridge, UK) have made the first attempt to add product design to the formalized disciplines of chemical engineering. Currently, product design is considered as a process unique to each product and industry, and therefore part of the art acquired by practice. The authors divide the product design procedure into four steps: needs assessment, idea generation, selection, and manufacture. Each of these steps is discussed separately with the use of a wide range of examples. The subject is generally treated without using mathematics, though decisions are made quantitatively where possible. After an introduction and chapters on each of the procedural steps, a chapter emphasizes the difference between specialty chemical manufacture and the manufacture of commodity chemicals, and a final chapter focuses on economic concerns. The writing is clear, and the examples are interesting. Problems suitable for each chapter are collected at the end. Topics and products are indexed separately. Recommended for libraries serving the specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, food and detergent industries and their technicians. General readers; upper-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students. L. A. Wenzel Lehigh University
Table of Contents
| List ofSymbols | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xv |
| 1 An Introduction to Chemical Product Design | p. 1 |
| 1.1 What is Chemical Product Design | p. 2 |
| 1.2 Why Chemical Product Design is Important | p. 3 |
| 1.3 Changes in Corporate Culture | p. 7 |
| 1.4 The Product Design Procedure | p. 9 |
| 1.5 Categories of Chemical Products | p. 12 |
| 1.6 Conclusions | p. 15 |
| 2 Needs | p. 17 |
| 2.1 Customer Needs | p. 17 |
| 2.2 Consumer Products | p. 28 |
| 2.3 Converting Needs to Specifications | p. 36 |
| 2.4 Revising Product Specifications | p. 47 |
| 2.5 Conclusions and the First Gate | p. 59 |
| 3 Ideas | p. 64 |
| 3.1 Human Ideas | p. 65 |
| 3.2 Chemical Ideas | p. 70 |
| 3.3 Sorting the Ideas | p. 83 |
| 3.4 Screening the Ideas | p. 91 |
| 3.5 Conclusions and the Second Gate | p. 102 |
| 4 Selection | p. 111 |
| 4.1 Selection Using Thermodyamics | p. 112 |
| 4.2 Selection Using Kinetics | p. 119 |
| 4.3 Less Objective Criteria | p. 127 |
| 4.4 Risk in Product Selection | p. 139 |
| 4.5 Conclusions and the Third Gate | p. 151 |
| 5 Product Manufature | p. 161 |
| 5.1 Preparation for Manufacture | p. 163 |
| 5.2 Final Specifications | p. 181 |
| 5.3 Scale-Up/Scale-Down | p. 193 |
| 5.4 Economic Considerations | p. 203 |
| 5.5 Conclusions and the Fourth Gate | p. 226 |
| 6 Commodity Products | p. 237 |
| 6.1 Characteristics of Chemical Commodities | p. 239 |
| 6.2 Getting Started | p. 241 |
| 6.3 The Commodity Toolbox: Reactors | p. 245 |
| 6.4 The Commodity Toolbox: Separations | p. 251 |
| 6.5 Using the Commodity Toolbox | p. 260 |
| 6.6 Conclusions for Commodity Products | p. 265 |
| 7 Devices | p. 267 |
| 7.1 Properties of Devices | p. 268 |
| 7.2 Getting Started | p. 269 |
| 7.3 The Device Toolbox: Chemical Reactors | p. 274 |
| 7.4 The Device Toolbox: Separations | p. 281 |
| 7.5 Using the Devices Toolbox | p. 290 |
| 7.6 Conclusions for Chemical Devices | p. 304 |
| 8 Molecular Products | p. 311 |
| 8.1 Characteristics of Molecular Products | p. 313 |
| 8.2 Getting Started | p. 318 |
| 8.3 The Molecular Toolbox: Chemical Reactors | p. 331 |
| 8.4 The Molecular Toolbox: Separations | p. 336 |
| 8.5 Using the Molecular Toolbox | p. 347 |
| 8.6 Conclusions for Molecular Product Design | p. 356 |
| 9 Microstructures | p. 363 |
| 9.1 Properties of Microstructures | p. 365 |
| 9.2 Getting Started | p. 369 |
| 9.3 The Microstructure Toolbox: Reactions | p. 378 |
| 9.4 The Microstructure Toolbox: Unit Operations | p. 390 |
| 9.5 Using the Microstructure Toolbox | p. 398 |
| 9.6 Conclusions for Microstructured Products | p. 410 |
| 10 A Plan for the Future | p. 417 |
| 10.1 Using the Design Template | p. 418 |
| 10.2 Specific Types of Products | p. 422 |
| 10.3 Conclusions | p. 426 |
| Product Index | p. 428 |
| Subject Index | p. 430 |
