Chemical Product Design

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.

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.