Marek Ochowiak - Practical Aspects of Chemical Engineering: Selected Contributions from PAIC 2019

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In Memoriam of Professor Jerzy Badyga (19502019)

The aim of chemical engineering is to manufacture products of the chemical industry or the wider range of products of the whole processing industries. Its most important task is to describe these processes which is the basis for design, proper exploitation, optimization and control of production installations, and to solve technical problems of process execution. Therefore, it is extremely important to transfer the results of scientific experiments to industrial practice and production of finished goods.

Jerzy Badyga

The book is dedicated, in memoriam, to Professor Jerzy Badyga, a pioneer in chemical engineering in Poland, in Europe, in the world. He opened new paths in the theory and practice of chemical engineering. Professor Jerzy Badyga was the inspiration of the first Seminary on Practical Aspects of Chemical Engineering PAIC 2017.

Chemical engineering is the field of applied science that employs physical, chemical, and biochemical rate processes for the betterment of humanity. This sentence has been the underlying paradigm of chemical engineering and related sciences, e.g. process engineering, chemical technology, and environmental protection engineering for at least a century, through the development of modern chemical and petrochemical, biochemical, and materials processing, and into the twenty-first century as chemical engineers have applied their skills to fundamental problems in pharmaceuticals, medical devices and drug delivery systems, semiconductor manufacturing, nanoscale technology, renewable energy, environmental control, and so on.

The editors of this book hope that it will be a valuable piece of reading for both researches and students of chemical engineering and engineers working in the area of design of chemical processes and equipment. The reader is presumed to have a basic knowledge of chemical equipment design and the theory of chemical engineering.